Jaguar E-Type

[Ira]

GREAT PAINT!!!

[sportandmiah]

If the glue on the windshield is bothering you, take some 1000 grit sand paper and sand it away. Then use a cotton ball or qtip with Sctatch-X...aafter about 5 minutes of polishing you will never know the glue was there.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Very nice. Old and ill-fitting kit maybe, but still the best-proportioned of all the E-types available. Yours looks great.

[sjordan2]

It's a very nice build (the paint is metallic, so it's not "British Racing Green," which includes a broad range of non-metallic shades). But I don't know why no kit manufacturer has ever figured out how to avoid the body seam above the rocker panels, in any scale - most obviously in the 1/8. If you want a fully accurate body, you have to putty over it, and if you want metallic paint, you pretty much have to give the model a body-on paint job.

This Gunze kit looks great, but for the money, why couldn't they do it without the seams? You'll also note that there's no metallic gauge panel, and that's because it's a 1965 4.2 version, not the older Series I 3.8 of the other kits.

Edited September 13, 2012 by sjordan2

[martinfan5]

Thanks guys for all the kind words, and thanks for the input on how to remove the glue from the windshield, one day, I might try to remove it. There were a lot of things I could of done differently or more correct , but I lost interest in it with all the problems I was having, I really just wanted to get it done and off the bench , out of my sight

I know BRG is not a metallic, I had this shade of green on hand, it looks close BRG, so thats what I went with, it still fits the car. I should of done a lot more research then what I had already did. I did not know that about the seats, and I think a lot of the time , I was using the wrong year for reference too.

Its a shame that such a beautiful car gets the worst tooled up kits of it, I really feel this car deserves to have proper fitting kit tooled up

[Danno]

Its a shame that such a beautiful car gets the worst tooled up kits of it, I really feel this car deserves to have proper fitting kit tooled up

True dat.

But remember, the worst tooled kit of an XKE is better than no kit at all.

You still did a very good job with it ~ ~ ~ despite the kit's limitations.