Red Wine Jaguar XJ220

[Serioga]

Hello, dear friends.
I decided to share with you the results of my last project.

It starts couple years before and stuck on the engine for a time.

Now I continued cuting out the doors and making doorway with styrene and putty.


Note Evergreen plastic tube. It will serves as a hinge .

I also have made my own window frames:


Seats improvements:

[MidMazar]

Nice progress, looks like you got a big projects on your hands. Good luck.

[ravan17]

wow man, i cant wait to see how this progresses, looks like a tough project, good luck.

[Serioga]

Thank you for kind coments. Some progress:
I very like the idea of Alex Kustov to make simple door hinge (which he used in one of his Farrari).
This is how I did it:

Plastic tube inside the door is putting on a cooper pin glued to the saddleback board.
To eliminate the gap between interior tub and chassis mounted piece of tunel I glued some pieces of styrene to it:

Scratch built front mudgards:

half-finished product:

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[rx7king]

This is some extensive work, good start. i will be following this thread closely

[Serioga]

Some up date:
Cut out front lid:

Body in prime:

Some work over the tail lights:

[Serioga]

Base coat:



Fireextingusher and fuel filters (?):

This is what fuel filters are made of:

Shaving the tyres :

[Serioga]

Some fuel line fitings (soldered cooper wire):

Painted with Alclad Polished aluminium:

Painted again with clear red and blue. I also used ProTech nuts:

Painted windows:

And trhe body painted with Alclad Polished aluminium over TS-14:



Any questiones?

[Wishieftrottle]

Awesome job Every detail uve done is beautiful!

Great progress.....I have an eye on this.....

[ravan17]

the fuel system accessories look great man, good job.

[Serioga]

Thank you, guys. I hope all the stuff will be assembled witout problems and imperfections. Fingers crossed.

[Serioga]

Sorry for my English because I meant to say "Red Wine Jaguar". Now you can see why I named the project like that. Here is the final body color:


It is Revell's red clear multiple coats. What do you think about it?
By the way, which varnish should I use for finish? How about "Future"? I also have "Humbrol" and TS-13.

[360spider]

Color looks great. Future is fine, as long as you know how to apply it uniformly. It is rather thin and runs easily.

[Serioga]

Alex, how much time should I wait between Future layers?

[Some_Kid]

Be careful with the future, you might want to use Tamiya acrylic clear. The Revell clear red is enamel right?

BTW I like the paint. I've been looking for a paint match for the jaguar jd4 monza red for the longest time. I'm building and xj220 myself. It was driving me insane so now I'm going with tamiya mica silver for the body and dark grey interior. Lol