BASIC BUILD
Young modeller Ethan Williams builds the 2019 release of Airfix’s 1/72 Jet Provost with a lovely kit-supplied camouflage scheme.
Hunting Percival’s Jet Provost was a training aircraft used primarily by the Royal Air Force from 1955-93. It was developed from the piston-engined Percival Provost tail-dragger type, and was produced by Hunting Percival for two years until the company merged with many others to form the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). This new firm continued building ‘JPs’ for a further seven years until ceasing production of the jet trainer in 1967.
Being used in service with the RAF for such a wide timespan, the aircraft had many paint schemes applied, including bare metal and Day-Glo orange, camouflage and two-tone grey. Perhaps most striking, a small display team called The Red Pelicans was formed using four scarlet Jet Provost T.4 aircraft, performing displays from 1958-73. This group stopped displaying when the Red Arrows were chosen to represent the RAF worldwide.
Airfix’s 2016-tooled kit of the Jet Provost T.4 has, at the time of writing, been released a total…
