The Aviation Workshop Publications LTD

On Target Profiles 10 book

Sepecat Jaguar in Worldwide Service

by Glenn Sands  -- illustrated by Jon Freeman

ISBN # 1-904643-33-7 

Review by Steve Bamford on Sept 15 2006

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This new book from Model Alliance is written by Glenn Sands and illustrated by well known profile artist Jon Freeman.

The book focuses on the Sepecat Jaguar in Worldwide Service and gives modellers a large selection of colour profiles to help expand their reference library. I've scanned a tiny selection of the colour profiles to give you  a small taste to the many colour profiles presented in this book.  In fact there are 103 different Sepecat Jaguar colour profiles featured in this book.  Featured in this book are Sepecat Jaguars in a large variety of paint schemes from the RAF, France's Armee de l'Air, Indian Air Force, Sultan of Oman's Air Force, Nigerian Air Force and the  Ecuador air Force. 

The RAF Jaguars include;

  • some in desert camo and noseart from Operations Granby in 1991 during the Gulf War

  • Operation Grapple - Jaguars at war in the Balkans in 1993

  • Operation Telic in 2003

  • RAF display birds and Anniversary schemes

  • Recent RAF Operational schemes

  • Winter camo schemes

France's Armee de l'Air include;

  • Jaguar M carrier based prototype

  • 2 seater prototype

  • Jaguar from war between Chad and Libya in 1984.

  • Airshow and commemorative schemes.

  • Leopard schemes

  • Gulf War Operation Daguet desert schemes from Jan 1991.

  • Balkens in  the 1990's.

Indian Air Force include;

  • Maritime Jaguars

Sultan of Oman's Air Force

  • Desert camo

Nigerian Air Force

  • 3 tone jungle camo

Ecuadorian Air Force

  • Operation green grey schemes

Included with each colour profile is info on the particular plane as well as information about it's paint scheme.  Above is an example of one of the colour profiles.  Thirty of the profiles also include a top and bottom view and two side profiles  to give an all around view of certain Jaguars included in this book.  Below I've include a tiny selection of some of the pages to give you a taste of the variety of profiles in this book, but out of respect to the artist's copyright, I am not providing larger scans.  

102 different Jaguar colour profiles featured in this book

Also included in the book are photos of various Jaguars during operation service.   

Jaguar Decals for some of the planes featured in this book will be available from the The Aviation Workshop / Model Alliance Group website in the near future.

I'm always impressed with the consistent quality of the books in this series.  Although the cover is a soft cover....it is a heavy weight cardboard cover.  The pages are heavy weight paper....this is a reference book sure to last a long long time.  I'm quite impressed with this new book and I look forward to other additions to this new On Target Profile Series.  I recommend this book to anyone interested in the Jaguar.  The content in this book that caught my eye were the Desert and Winter camo schemes as well as the Gulf War jets.  Special thanks to Jon Freeman for the review sample and bringing this book to my attention.

Steve

You can order this book directly from the The Aviation Workshop / Model Alliance Group website.

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford