Cold War- Airfix Jet Provost.

[pourquoi61]

I bought this model as a quick build just for me and as the kit had a nice brush and a nice price I purchased it from my local model shop.
Then I realised that it would fit the cold war GB.








This will be an out of the box build but I have sent for some decals for the model so I guess that makes it a not out the box?

[pourquoi61]

As you can see on the last entry I had given the spues a light coat of white paint as the original plan was to paint the aircraft O.T.B, as white would have been a good undercoat for the red.
I then followed the instruction stages 1-3 gluing and painting as per the guide.
The aircraft side walls were painted as per guide, but for the seat harness and padding I used Citadel Paints shown below.

The Elysian green for the seat padding.
Graveyard Earth for the Headrest.
Bleached bone for the harness.

I used a 10mm nut for weight, stuck in place with super glue.
MAKE SURE THE NUT IS IN THE MIDDLE allowing the fuselage halves to close tight.

As you can see the instrument panel was painted Tamiya XF-19 Sky Grey, once dry the decal was added.
A wash of Citadel Seraphim Sepia given to the harness and padding once the seat were assembled and glued in place.

Then following stages 7 and 8 the parts were glued together.

Stage 9, glue and peg the fuselage parts to each other and let dry.

Then I moved to stage 13 and 14 gluing the wing bottom to the plane and then the wing tops.

The air intakes have been glued on as per 15-18.

The canopy was dipped in Johnsons Kleer and left to dry.

Once dry they are masked with Tamiya tape and glued on with Airfix Clearfix.

The blobs of blue-tac are what I use to hold the parts while gluing into position.
Thanks for dropping by.

[pourquoi61]

Another up date.
I spray the canopy frame black and also do some light pre-shading.



My decals have arrived.

I am doing the bottom plane two tone grey with yellow bands.


On with the yellow paint, I mixed a 50-50% paint Isopropyl alcohol.
YOU MUST WEAR A MASK WHEN SPRAYING THIS STUFF.


Once dry a coat of Tamiya clear the mask and paint the grey.
Paint the wheels silver.

Thanks for dropping by.

[pourquoi61]

On with the build.

Time to mask the yellow using Tamiya tape.


I arrive at a problem for the next part of the painting process as the instructions say Barley Grey for the underside of the plane.
I went to Vallejo for the paint and they say Barley Grey, FS36173 71.051 which is supposed to be Neutral Grey and Barley Grey.
I buy it, spray it and it is too DARK!


So I turn to Tamiya and pick two greys.

Light Grey and Medium Sea Grey.

I over spray the Vallejo paint with XF-66 Light Grey.

Once dry I mask the bottom of the plane.

Then spray XF-83 Medium Sea Grey over the top of the plane.

This is a much better colour combination.
Once dry she is sprayed Tamiya clear.


When dry I will apply the decals.
Thanks for dropping by.

[alextheblue]

That's looking mighty fine!

[pourquoi61]

That's looking mighty fine!

Thank you, a fun and quick build.

[DBMiller]

That's a cute little spud of a plane! A very fast build as well!

[pourquoi61]

That's a cute little spud of a plane! A very fast build as well!

Thank you, yes she is cute and a good contender for a 24 hour build.

[pourquoi61]

Here are the last two pictures of the Jet Provost in build thread.
The planes wheels are glued in place.


I will place the decals and just add a small amount of weathering and she will be done.
Thanks for dropping by.

[warpedcrisis]

Cool little plane.
Nice work there

[pourquoi61]

Ccool little plane.
Nice work there

Yes she is and thank you.

[pourquoi61]

Sorry not my last post, Decals on and a coat of Tamiya Clear X-22.




Thanks for dropping by.

[pourquoi61]

On the last leg now so the model was given a clay wash of dark dirt.


Once dry it was removed using damp kitchen roll.



The model will get a semi gloss cover tomorrow and she will be done.
I painted the exhaust Citadel Mithril Silver.
Thanks for dropping by.

[gaz45]

Very nice little build there mate