Latest refurb prep

[tor lives]

Hi folks,
Had some spare caustic soda left over, so I have done the preliminary strip/clean-up prep for yet another refurb project.
This time it is an ancient 1:72 Jet Provost, (have no idea of the manufacturer....perhaps someone recognises it???).
Here is where we are at to this point:




As is the way with all my refurbs....she is going to be wearing a slick civvie scheme, (you look surprised Paul lol)
http://www.airliners.net/photo/BAC-84-J ... fc2a3b9973
TOR

[DesTROYer]

I'll be watching.

[hrtpaul]

Not surprised at all but I do like it

[Adam the Akrodude]

That'll be a little corker!

[kfutter]

Looks Airfix to me.

Kev

[Cap'n Wannabe]

That's what I thought, Kev, but the Airfix kit doesn't have a separate rudder. And where are the rivets??

[F-27pax]

It looks like the old Airfix kit to me. Shuffling back to my boyhood memories I recall being intrigued by the moveable ailerons and rudder so I can't think of anything else it might be. By the time I got my hands on this kit I knew that you needed weight in the nose if it wasn't going to be a tail sitter so I got some of my father's metal putty stuff and put it in the nose. Half an hour later the plastic started to soften and the nose never looked very good again. A lesson that I did not forget for a long time.

Leigh

[modelbear]

It definitely looks like the airfix kit to me. I have one in a very similar state that I had planned to do as the RAAF version but never progressed beyond the disassembly stage. In the Airfix instructions, it definitely has a separate rudder.
Peter

[Cap'n Wannabe]

Maybe it was changed at some stage..
http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/v ... 13&t=23733

[modelbear]

The kit I have is the Jet Provost T. Mk3 which looks like what is in the original post.
http://www.oldmodelkits.com/index.php?d ... darchive=1
The parts breakdown is markedly different (i.e. simpler) than that of the Strikemaster so I think they would have been separate kits. They are very similar aircraft as the Strikemaster was a later version of the Provost.
Peter