FranckenJag, total disregard for purist's, I done gone this one MY way, he he he.

WOW a lot of work gone it to it.

Thanks Allan, yeah I kinda get a bit carried away plus I'm redesigning on the fly too. Just got some pics of the winglets and spoilers, which of course are now going to make painting a son of a bi...
Michael.

So you going for a road racer cool.
Had one of these but moved it on.

G'day Allan, thanks for the encouragement, and what did you have that you moved on.

Michael.

I had the jag kit too and had no were to put it once it was built, Had two large Pontiac's too but gone.

Well I 'spose that's a one eighth scale bugga.

M.

Yes it was and so was the Firebird it went to someone in WA, mate at Rutherford still got the Jag kit, I got 1/24-25 trucks waiting to be built but no were to put them once built.

FrankenJag, a 1/8 scale model as a version of something I saw in my head one dark stormy night, Mwahaha.

Ok so this is the fourth post on my saga I call the FrankenJag. I’m almost finished building this weird contraption but I’m not sure I want to post any more pics as it’s not turning out anything like my vision and I’m having soo much trouble with it I sometimes just wanna smash it to bits or take it outside and just set the bastard thing on fire. I’ve repainted it four times, which involves re sanding, re masking, (geez masking up is tedious and takes so long, being 1/8 scale), and painting again, and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but it just keeps coming out rubbish, so I’ve just flat out given up and the paint is now just gunna have to stay as is which is pretty crap. This model was the first time I’ve eva tried to paint a model in two colours so that was interesting to say the least, some of this colour came out reasonable so I’m not touching that either. I knew I would have to be very careful masking up to do the second colour and found the centre line on each panel or part and very carefully marked the lines for the masking and checked that the lines matched perfectly from panel to panel. Yeah well even that didn’t work, one edge of one of the panels is 3mm too &$#%cn narrow, which is 24mm (1in for us old fart’s), in full scale, I was so surprized, disappointed, pissed off and just totally bewildered how I managed to do it when I was so careful, like measure twice cut once kinda thing but still stuffed it, and I’m not doing it again, it’s just getting too hard and I can’t afford to just keep buying paint, masking tape and such. The reasoning for the two colours is I was trying to make it look a bit like the Gulf Racing colour scheme which I really like, I think it’s a very striking colour scheme and really stands out on the race track. OK so I have decided to put the pics up anyway so you can at least see what I was trying to build.              Kind regards, Michael.

Hi Michael, that is some very impressive work there. Don't be too hard on yourself. Good job.
Regards Stu.

Thanks gentlemen, for the praise and for just looking, I appreciate it.

Michael.

That is just an awesome conversion and scratch building effort Michael, super work mate!

Cheers, Damian

WOW lot of work going into this one.