Just one change I'd make. Your photo of the Jaguar alone is titled MORSE. Shouldn't that raised voice be saved for "Lewis!"
Looks sweet indeed,
Charles Fox snipped-for-privacy@gte.net
In article , William
> Davies writes
> >
> >> My wife and I were great fans
> >> of the British detective 'Morse'
> >> (Robert Thaw)
>
> John Thaw actually, who came to fame as a much louder detective - Regan
> in 'The Sweeney' much earlier in the 70s, then - after Morse - as
> Kavanagh QC. He unfortunately died in February 2002.
>
> >television series.
> >> His blood red Jag? What model
> >> was it and is there a 'proper'**
> >> model of that car still available?
> >
> >Hi Mike,
> > The car is a Mk2 Jaguar Saloon - there is an excellent 1:24th scale
> >model by Tamiya. I've not built the kit, but I have a couple ready for > >future use,
> > Cheers,
> > Bill.
> >
>
> Unfortunately the Tamiya kit doesn't quite fit the bill as it has wire
> wheels, while Morse's car has steel wheels, so these would have to be
> sourced. (And the Tamiya kit hasn't been listed since 2001.)
>
> My conversion used the 1:24 scale Small Wheels white-metal kit (now
> obsolete - I think I had the last one many years ago? - but which DID
> have steel wheels) featured on the cover of my Automodelling Masterclass
> book (see Web Site - URL below) - with the Tamiya kit as companion. The
> black vinyl roof had to be added to either kit. Colour used was Testors
> Dark Red which seems to match the real car pretty closely. Number plates
> (248 RPA) were scratched from an etched 'letters and numbers' set, and
> wing mirrors and radio antenna added.
>
> Otherwise there is the Corgi 1:43 die cast! (The first issue had the
> wrong interior colour - corrected in the recent issue.)
>
> Incidentally if you read the original Colin Dexter books, Morse drove a
> Lancia. It was the TV series that moved him to a Jaguar, so Dexter did
> the same in subsequent novels. He also 'back-dated' the Jag in new
> editions of the earlier books - the only change he made.
>
>
>
> mat
>
> MAT IRVINE
>
> "Ten years in the making.." (let's not exaggerate, only nine..)
> my space book - 'Creating Space' - is now OUT.
>
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