My first decision with the Jag, was to leave the body alone. It's shiny, but not too shiny. This is 7mm scale, and so a cherished car would enjoy a little shine. No need for my standard spray everything with matt varnish here.
Looking at photos, I worked out which bits of the bumpers should be black, I used matt and should have probably gone satin, if I could find the paint, and "chrome". I didn't use chrome of course, I think I picked up a pot of matt aluminum for embelishments, including the screen surround and wing mirrors. Actually, thse were black, until I found a pretty close match to the model and realised they should be silver. Prototype research is always worthwhile.
Inside, the cream plastic has been painted cream, the dash binnacle is black, and the dash face, a sort of woody colour.
My favourite touch is to wash the wheels with black Citadel ink, which has highlighted the spokes nicely. Strictly speaking, some of these could be gold, but I didn't like that look, so left them silver.
The back end is more of a problem as the rear lights are wrong, but painting the brake ones red, and washing the whole lot with the black ink tones it down a bit.
Finally, the numberplates come from an online generator, and are printed to the right size and glued in place.
OK, this isn't the most amazing model, but with an evenings worth of painting, it sits in the scene very nicely. There, but not too gaudy. Good job I didn't buy a red one!
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