Sepecat Jaguar Gr1

The kit shows its age, but it should be possible to get something half decent out of it. 

An old Italeri kit in a new box. 

Some modifications done to the cockpit. Mainly bits and pieces of wire and styrene to make it a bit more interesting. The cockpit it self looks like pure fantasy from Italeri. It does not match reference pictures very well, but in this scale it really does not matter a lot. 

Painted and with a grey wash. 

All glued together. Some putty was necessary. I made new seat belte from Tamiya tape. 

It starts to look like a jet fighter.  

First layers of paint. As a base coat I used a 30 year old tin of Humbrol 250. It went on very smooth but also revealed some areas which needs more putty. 

Starting with a base color on the loadout. It will be Sidewinders on the overwing pylons, drop tank on the center line pylon, CBU-87s on left/tight inboard pylons, a AN/ALQ-119 on the outboard left pylon and a Phimat pod on the right. 

Masking and painting 

Soon the Jaguar will be ready for a clear coat, decals and weathering. The landing gear in this kit is terrible, but I decided it was too much work correcting it since this is only a side project. 

Decals are on, they are very good, and I have started some weathering. 

Slowly getting there… 

I used some US crew figures… Hard to see in this scale anyway. 

Finished. 

Not the best kit I have built, but it turned out half decent.