Le Mans Contest Entry: Jaguar XJR-9LM - Progress

[Hiroboy]

Outstanding work you are doing on this kit.
You got the hang of the lathe fast enough then

[godfather23]

Wants me withdraw. Willimo I feel with you, looking at the details makes me want to start all over again (damn, I wish I was born with tools instead of hands )

[Murray Kish]

This is an awesome build. I'm going to go back through and re-read it from the beginning. Excellent work. Your pics speak volumes!!

Murray

[robrex]

Originally Posted by Hiroboy

Outstanding work you are doing on this kit.
You got the hang of the lathe fast enough then

Thanks Steve, Lathes are good fun aren't they?

I've finally painted the body over the weekend. The Tamiya TS-37 comes out nothing like the Cartograf decals.
I ended up mixing my own colour by adding TS-47 (Chrome Yellow) and TS-8 (Italian Red) with TS-37. So far so good. I'll hopefully polish the paint this week and post some more pics then. My idea of putting the original decals on first, then masking the paint borders worked fantastic.
When I removed the masking tape the old decals peeled off as well leaving a perfect line! I don't know if I'll do it again as it would get pretty expensive buying two decal sheets each time.

I might actually finish this soon?
Thanks
Rob

[rx7king]

i cant believe ive missed this(actually i can, cuz i never remember to check the motor sport section) but that definatly looks like your quality of work

[robrex]

A quick update:
Painting finished and decals are going on.







I got distracted by my TRD 300GT but hopefully this will be finished very soon!

[RallyRaider]

Man, can't wait to see some high res photos of this beauty finished. It's going to be beyond awesome...

[nmsmith]

'scuse the accusation, but is there a reason the dashboard is white? Do you have a decal for that?

Rob this is still looking amazing.

~nick

[Spitfire7]

Wow, nice job.

[robrex]

Originally Posted by nmsmith

'scuse the accusation, but is there a reason the dashboard is white? Do you have a decal for that?

Rob this is still looking amazing.

~nick

Don't worry Nick, It's not finished yet. I've got CF decals but some of my reference photo's suggest that the dash was covered in a carpet like non-reflective material. I was going to flock it and then spray matt clear?

[lotus_man]

Just flicking though my copy of Jaguar XJR Group C & GTP Cars by Ian Bamsley (best book on the subject IMHO, but long out of print). Looks like the dash face is carbon (much smaller, rougher weave than the main tub). The top of the dash is a flat, non-reflective finish, but isn't a flocked finish like alcantara. Looks more like a flat paint to me... at least it would in 1:24.

Very impressed with this build. Looks real nice!

[BullittStang]

Originally Posted by robrex

Don't worry Nick, It's not finished yet. I've got CF decals but some of my reference photo's suggest that the dash was covered in a carpet like non-reflective material. I was going to flock it and then spray matt clear?

Have you considered using SMS's Faux Fabric. I would think using flock would result in the flocking being too big.

[robrex]

Originally Posted by lotus_man

Just flicking though my copy of Jaguar XJR Group C & GTP Cars by Ian Bamsley (best book on the subject IMHO, but long out of print). Looks like the dash face is carbon (much smaller, rougher weave than the main tub). The top of the dash is a flat, non-reflective finish, but isn't a flocked finish like alcantara. Looks more like a flat paint to me... at least it would in 1:24.

Very impressed with this build. Looks real nice!

Thanks for the tip! You don't happen to have a pic of the dash top to see which carbon decal to use??

[BRM]

It's turning into a real beauty. Nice tip on replicating tire wear. Cheers.

[Guido]

truly excellent stuff in here!!