The 'E' Type Forum

Something I did for a friend of mine down the road who loves his Jaguars and has an impressive memorabilia collection. His pride and joy is his show-winning X-Type, which he manages to keep even cleaner than my Colt!



He wanted the Corgi 1:18 model stripping and finishing to match his car, so I had a go. He wanted a go at painting the body himself with the correct Jaguar Pacific blue, but didn't have the patience to strip it and paint everything else.







I didn't tell him I was going to re-paint the entire interior to match and he was quite surprised with the result. And it only took me a morning!



























He managed to source some miniature versions of his wheels so it's even more like the real thing now!

I can pretty much tell that countless hours were dedicated to making this. Great job, man.

No conversion to RHD?

Thank you, Tom, I do enjoy the mini projects and I was surprised how quickly this came together. Then again, 1:18 scale is a lovely scale to work on - you can do plenty but it doesn't take you ages like maybe 1:8 does.

Chris - the shape of the dashboard makes it quite challenging, if it were a little simpler in shape (like with the E) I would have given it a go. I also didn't fany ruining the only dash panel I had for it! He seems pleased with the result, but if I could have another go at some point with a spare dash, that would be a challenge..

lovely Job................... and capturing all the excitement of Refurbishing a Jag for a lot less ££

Thank you It was certainly a refreshing break from my main E-type model project. I'd happily do another car of that scale!