Tag: trainer

• Percival Provost T Mk 1 – Part Three – A Decent Set Of Clothes

  

  The Percival Provost is done – and inside of a week. I am not surprised, as it is a rather simple kit on a mechanical basis. That is as a trainer should be – after all, the student pilot needs all the help he can get and the flying school doesn’t want to do more…

  Dick Stein

  February 9, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Percival, RAF, trainer

• Percival Provost T Mk 1 – Part two – Just Wants A Red Nose

  

  And clown shoes. And a tiny little car to leap out of… I am quite taken with the Percival Provost as a sensible little training aircraft. The idea of putting the student and instructor side by side is excellent, and the fact that it can be done behind a radial engine even better. The landing…

  Dick Stein

  February 8, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  colour scheme, Percival, trainer

• Percival Provost T Mk1 – Part One – The Box In A Box

  

  I was delighted when my friend Warren presented me with this Matchbox Percival Provost – inasmuch as it has passed through three sets of hands for free I hope to make mine the last ones before it becomes an airplane. It was found inside another model box purchased at a secondhand arms and militaria fair…

  Dick Stein

  February 7, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, finances, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Secondhand

  Matchbox, Percival, RAF, trainer