Tamiya 1/24 Jaguar XJR-9 recovery

[Justin Porter]

So, this is an unfinished build from my early 20's. It got shelved when an error in masking the nose meant that the purple area was oversized for the yellow boundary stripes. Whoops! Recently, in an effort to continue clearing out my basement (much like with last year's Mako Shark II build) I stripped the body with some old Testors ELO and set about getting the build up to scratch. There's definitely a LOT I would redo in the engine bay but I don't trust disassembling that region. On the other hand, the interior was only hand-brushed with Tamiya X-18 so I just sanded that back smooth and airbrushed a coat of Mr Color Burnt Iron over instead. I've found that Burnt Iron does a good job of standing in for carbon fiber decals in some instances, like when a curved windshield is going to hide a good deal of what's visible. I did have fun finding a reference picture of the dashboard and painting it to match. Going to order a replacement set of decals from Indycals and looking forward to having this beast on the shelf at LAST!

[Pierre Rivard]

Looks like an interesting salvage operation. What sponsor livery?

[Justin Porter]

3 minutes ago, Pierre Rivard said:

Looks like an interesting salvage operation. What sponsor livery?

Plan is the Silk Cut livery but as the Danny Sullivan/Davy Jones/Price Cobb #21 just because Sullivan was one of several childhood favorite Indy drivers. 

[Justin Porter]

Fresh update on the XJR-9. The body is now primed with AK Microfiller White and ready for its first coats of Tamiya Pure White. I'll be getting in the TS37 Lavender and the Indycals decals next week to move forward from the white step. The barely visible brakes were painted with AK Xtreme Metal dark aluminum, with Vallejo Metal Color magnesium for the rotor hat and Tamiya titanium gold for the calipers. The Tamiya tire markings actually went down without a fuss which made me especially happy. 

[Justin Porter]

Made a bunch of progress on my Tamiya 1/24th Jaguar XJR-9. This is one of the more complex decal exercises I've tackled and, frankly, there's spots where I've made an absolute hash of it. lol No fault at all on the Indycals decals which have been excellent as ever. The Tamiya TS13 clear coat helps mask most of a litany of sins. There's still the sponsorship logos to go and some final detail pieces but soon this will be done after sitting undone on my shelf for nearly 20 years.

[Gramps46]

Looking really good.

[Pierre Rivard]

Very nice revival of this old build. I can understand about the decals. On a first look the livery seems reasonable to do but on a second look I can see it's actually quite complicated. 

Looks very good Justin.

[Funkychiken]

cool build!