ARCTICCAT
Two-part Magic Sculp was blended together to make the Adour engine exhausts covers.
Standard wing strakes were my option for the model. It is much easier to leave them as they came in the box; i.e. complete with Sidewinder/Matra AAM rails.
had been prepped and re-filled ready for the painting stage I had made up my mind to indulge myself and finish the model as a No 41 Squadron machine, XX732/A, in the winter exercise 'Arctic Specialist' scheme. Checking references you find out that they alternated the pattern from green/white to grey/white on occasions. This scheme was also prevalent on Harrier and later Tornado GR.1/4 aircraft.
Mounted on the centreline is the Paragon Resin VINTEN recce pod. Painting the tanks in two different schemes adds more interest.
reconnaissance pod and two 1200 litre drop tanks (264 imperial gallon). They are all usable, but there are other options are out there to choose from.
Out of all of the above
weapons, a decision was made to replace the VINTEN pod with a better defined Paragon
(4838) cast resin item but I stuck with the kit’s wing tanks and
pylons.The original old style 'noddy-cap' brake chute cone was retained (and painted Lifecolor LC02 matt black), but to make a later aircraft this will need modifying. At the same time a small hole was drilled out to take a new fuel dump mast made from a length of Albion Alloy steel rod.
Seek and Destroy
By the time every part of the Jaguar
Once Alclad's grey primer
base-coat had settled, a fine HB pencil sketched out the complex wrap-around scheme. Every modeller has their own way of painting, but my idea was to go with a mix of Alclad metallic's first for the jet pipes (Paragon items), tailhook arm and Titanium heat shield. Stage 2 was painting zinc chromate yellow US23 from Colourcoats into the wheel bays and door interiors, dry brushed with Lifecolor UA134 zinc chromate acrylic that is a slightly lighter shade.
With these all
masked up with dampened tissue and fine cuts of tape, attention was turned to the washable white acrylic-based distemper Alkaline Removable Temporary Finish (ARTF) first. Matt white LC01 from Lifecolor was built up over the course of an afternoon (using their own brand of thinners) to start with and then put aside to dry overnight. This was followed next day by Colourcoats enamel (BS241) RAF Dark Green and taking extra care not to cause any bad overspray as most things sprayed are freehand! One point of note will be to mask out all the leading edges the fin, tailplanes, fin cap and wings to represent the thick black plastic strip which prevents heavy erosion caused by many hours of high speed flight.
As mentioned earlier, black
looks too stark so Colourcoats British Army (BS987C)
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