Berna Decals 7274: Sepecat Jaguar A

Berna Decals has produced two nice sheets on desert camouflage Jaguar As. This is the first one and provides five different schemes of four different aircraft. I'm only showing the back sheet with the special scheme on it as the others are basically the same except for codes and serial numbers. Two of the options are the same plane with different units. Four of these are from 1991 and have mission markings from Gulf War I.

The base scheme for all of these is beige and light sand over aluminum. The patterns on all these are very similar, though not exactly the same. All the planes are from EC.11. Note that the paint on the lower rear fuselage tended to wear away as fluids and oil penetrated the paint. Also note that while the patterns look nice here, the initial application of these colors was 'quick and dirty' so wide overspray was not uncommon

The one special scheme plane is from 1992 and represents the disbanding of the squadron. The modeler will need to paint the large green and yellow parts on the nose. Instructions provide paint matches for all the shades in Gunze and Humbrol with Tamiya added for the silver undersides.

Decals are very nicely printed and provide sufficient stencils and insignia for one of the options. If wanting to do more than one option, there are aftermarket decals to help with the insignia or you can use kit decals. There are several Jaguar A kits on the market with Airfix, Italeri, and Hasegawa coming readily to mind.

January 2022

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