Axel's corner

Mirror mirror on the car... The mirrors that are provided in this kit don't really resemble the mirrors on the Inspector's car. Actually, I wonder how Tamiya decided which type of mirror to include in this kit. Because looking through the original car's brochure I can't help but notice the absence of any kind of mirror in all of the pictures and drawings. I find it hard to believe that the car would leave the factory without any rear-view mirrors. But apparently it did... And when mirrors were finally mounted on the cars (by the owner or by Jaguar, I don't know), they were mounted all over the front of the car. Some were mounted close to the driver. Others were mounted almost at the front of the hood. Pick one : Luckily I had a few nice pictures (images from an episode) depicting the shape and position of the mirrors on Inspector Morse's car. Sadly I thought I'd have to scratch-build the mirrors... Not my strongest point I'm afraid...

What's the colour of money ? I should know by now. I've spent more than enough of it on the colour for this car. In my previous update I was very optimistic about Tamiya X-8 for this car. But sadly, this colour was also too dark. Next was the runner-up, the Revell yellow. But, you might have guessed it, it was too light... Luckily I had to go to the nearby city of Roermond to pay a local hobby store, who stocks Revell Aqua Color, a visit. Thanks to the mass painting shown above I was running out of semigloss black, so re-stocking was needed. But alas, no semigloss black in stock... But, he did have a spraycan of Tamiya TS-16. Which I bought. One more different tone of yellow wouldn't hurt I thought. And it didn't hurt indeed. Because this was the yellow I've been looking for from the beginning. I really don't understand that Renaissance recommends TS47. That colour is really way too dark. Anyway, I finally got THE colour, so off spraying I went (a...