On another build of a 32 Ford Coupe I used some of Colin's Mahogany Decal on the dash. It looked great So, I decided I would use some on the Jaguar. I told Colin this and he thought it was a good idea. He also said would be great if I could cover with some clear epoxy so as to give it depth. I agreed but the only problem was I had never used 2 part epoxy. So began the trials. Thanks to Colin he gave me some tips and links to a few video's on it. Got the epoxy and gave it a go. Well..... it did not go too well at first. I thought I had it mixed correctly. Some of the practice pieces it went smoothly and some not so smooth. He is a picture of one of the ones that didn't. I did this about a year ago and parts of it are still tacky.
So, back to the trials. After about two or three more practice runs (pieces of styrene with the decal attached), I finally got it right. Here is my go at Colin's Center Panel and the inner door panels - Colin's decal and tan leather.
This may sound silly, but I have a question for all of you posting, can you tell me how or what you use so as to get the picture smaller in size or even side by side here? I keep trying different things but no luck so far.
G'day Ed,
Nice to see the dash and panels on here.
I've owned 2 Jags in the past, (V12 XJS and a 4 Litre Sovereign), I can say I personally liked the wood trim panels in the Sovereign (always felt like a special place to be with the timbers, leather and lambs-wool carpets). I always felt like Jag could have done a little better in the XJS with the plain black dash panels and tiny wood strips on the doors, so when Ed mentioned he wanted to do something a little different with the E-Type, a kind of upgraded super-luxury version was born.
Very cool to see the resin on the wood decal, always comes up nice but definitely is a learning curve with that stuff.
Am looking forward to this coming together.
I don’t think they had wood grain on the dash, but it certainly looks like a nice upgrade!
For smaller pictures it depends on what equipment you’re using. I’m an Apple user, so I have iPhone, iPad, MacBook etc. For me, I use the Mac and open the photos in Preview (an Apple app). It gives you the opportunity to export in different formats and for jpeg, it lets you pick the file size before you save it. I assume there are similar features in the Microsoft products. But I don’t know.