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| 1/72 Matchbox Provost Brian Param |
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| The Percival Provost was the second basic trainer aircraft of the Royal Malaysian Air Force after the D.H Chipmunk. This aircraft holds a special place in the history of the RMAF because it was the first aircraft used by the RMAF flying training to train military pilots locally in Malaysia. The Provost was in service from the sixties to the early seventies when it was replaced by the S.A Bulldog aircraft. The S.A Bulldog took over the role as the primary basic trainer of the RMAF until the early to mid eighties and was replaced by the Pilatus PC-7 and PC-7 Mark II which is the current primary basic trainer of the RMAF. Today there are few Provost?s on display at various air bases and museums in the country. | ||||||||||
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| The Provost is a 1/72 Matchbox kit. The Provost is a basic kit with minimum internal detail present. The external detail however is quite adequate for a kit of this vintage. Fit was very good in my opinion. I had no major problems in constructing this kit. It was build straight out of the box with only the markings custom made and National Insignia taken from spare. The aircraft was finished with Revell based paints. The checked flag motive and serial # were custom printed decal. Final Note :- FM 1045 or my Provost depicted here was registered to then Flt Lft Parameswaran my dad and this model with all other RMAF trainers I have built sits in a glass case on his study table. He and his fellow instructors trained many Malaysian pilots how to fly on the Provost and then later on to the S.A Bulldogs. |
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