For the smaller markings a separate paper sheet shows their locations.

About 40 parts are in the kit including a transparant sprue with two canopy sliding hoods: one #D02 for the closed setting and another one #D04 for a aft slided open setting. The different hood seems a bit wider to avoid interference with aft small transparant section #D03. Nice that Airfix thought about it. The hoods look great 

(NOTE: I later found out that the central hood frame is not on the outside in the glass but runs below the glass). 

The cockpit is small but has good detail. A central console, control sticks and detailed sidewalls. The deeply positioned main instrument panel has a decal for the instruments, good enough. The ejection seats look good with a separate parts for the harness that has raised strap detail. There is an option to install two pilots (supplied in the kit) in which case the harness part is left out. I will replace the seat firing handles with thin yellow coloured sprue. 

The landing gear is small and on this kit can be set lowered or closed with a few extra doors provided. The inner gear doors are moulded closed which is correct for also a parked Jet Provost. But the main gear bays are undeep. The low pressure tyres have flattened areas which I think are a bit overdone but I used these nevertheless. Each main gear leg and outside door is one part but looks fine. 

The 3 tiny trim tab control rods (left side rudder, upper left side elevator, lower right elevator) are moulded on the parts. I elected to shave them off and add later on tiny rods from thin wire.

There is strangely no exhaust pipe in the kit. 

Two paint schemes and decal options are in the kit:
(1) Jet Provost T3 of RAF no.1 flying school at Linton-on-House, 1984 in a grey/red scheme;
(2) Jet Provost T3 of RAF no.2 flying school at Gaydon, year 1967 in a light grey and high visibility bright orange scheme. The decals are spectacular as Airfix provides these bright stripings. More about the decals later on... 

It was decided to make this second scheme as in the kit and do a rather straight forward build. 
 

The new Airfix kit assembly is rather simple and there are not a lot of parts. The main lower wing is a single part which is good as it ensures correct wing dihedral. But before starting assembly, I removed the moulded inner gear bay floors and made the moulded closed inner doors thinner on their insides of the lower wing #B05. In the upper wing halves, at the gear bay roof some lines were inscribed to suggest detail.
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Next, inside the fuselage I blanked off the deep exhaust area and painted it black inside.

The lower wing was set in place (after the bays were deepened, see above). Next the upper wing halves were fitted. But the upper wing-fuselage joints need no filler so nicely the raised detail is kept. 

The single piece horizontal tail plane #B12 needs some carefull alignment, I had to remove a slice of plastic in the slot to get a perfect horizontal fit. Some filler was needed as well at the tailplane joints and at the exhaust section #A14 when installed. Also some filler was strangely needed on the vertical tail leading edge and fillet but may be I should have sanded it smoother inside.
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That about completed the basic airframe in only 2 hours. I finally needed a bit filler / putty on the air intakes, and the lower wing-fuselage joints in the fuselage belly. After drying, the areas were sanded and a grey base coat was airbrushed using Revell "75" Stein grau acrylic.

Here the trim tab control rods are seen removed.
 

Next, I applied the 3 tiny trim tab control rods made from thin metal wire: left side rudder, upper left side elevator, lower right elevator. 

The picked RAF no. 2 flying school scheme is very nice. This required the model to get an overall BSC381C Light aircraft grey 627 coat. I airbrushed Gunze Sangyo #332 acrylic which is the correct colour. 

The anti-glare panel in front of the cockpit has than painted matt black as well as the small tail bumper and the wing tip fuel tank tips. The cockpit tub and interior was now also painted; the cockpit interior is rather dark, being semi-gloss black. I used a mix of dark grey and black with some dry brushing. 

To ensure a good decal application, first the model got a few airbrushed layers with American Johnson FUTURE varnish (with the usual technique).

Next came the big challenge to apply the bright orange/red decals for the colour striping. The Airfix decals look great but the striping decals are rather thick but this was necessary to get a good opaque orange/red  covering. But this means these decals are vulnerable and thick and sturdy. 

I used this technique to get them on to this model:

I started with the upper wing leading edge decals #64 and #65. These are mose "critical'. These decals should be "folded around the wing leading edge", a daring exercise!

I first brushed a coat of FUTURE varnish on the upper and lower wing leading edge (thus not the entire wing!). This coat was left to dry for say 2 minutes.

The first bright decal was set in water and when loose than sliced CAREFULLY on the upper leading edge. The FUTURE below is now a bit sticky and helps to fix the decal on top and keep it in place. (It protrudes as the lower section is not yet fixed).

On the still protruding area of this bright decal, some DACO Decal Softener was set with a brush on top. It will stay there and I waited 2 minutes for the decal to soften; this will help to "bend it around the leading edge"..... 

With the finger the decals was bended starting from the inside to stick on the lower leading area; this areas already had gotten a FUTURE sticky coat so the decal indeed sticked. Ensure the decal does not stick to your finger but to the model....

NOTE THAT THE DECAL TENDS TO BREAK UP IN SOME SPOTS. But I managed to get it done. With the brush stick, the decal was rubbed flat and kept to dry.

The other side of the wing leading edge was done in a similar way. When this was done, the difficult parts have been done. No fears for the rest of the model!

The large nose decals #32, 33 were "cut in" to pursuade them to fit better.

All the other bright decals can be applied without a problem, but be carefull as they are very vulnerable. Some additional decals are for example also on the upper wing forward section but these are simple to apply.

Finally, the stencilling was applied. Airfix provides a separate paper to show their positions. I believe there is an error here: decals #6 behind the cockpit should be #10, the rectangular marking.

The overall decalling was the biggest challenge and took me 3 hours. 

After the decals dried, the model got a final coat of Johnson Clear/ Pledge using the usual technique. Simple hold a piece of paper in front of the mat black anti-glare area when airbrushing the clear coat. 

Final completion could now be done. The semi-black seats as per kit were installed after their harnesses where painted medium brown with also a bit of wash. The ejection handles on top were replaced and made from yellow stretched sprue with a few black stripes.

The wind screen, hood and rear glass section frames were hand painted BSC 627. The glass work fits well and was fixed in place with some white glue. Inside the hood leading edge, I installed 2 very small rear viewing mirrors made from thin foil.

NOTE: I later found out that the raised central hood frame is not on the outside in the glass but runs below the glass. Removing the moulded central frame can be done wat carefull sanding followed by polishing. Finally paint the central frame INSIDE with a paint brush. (this will be done on future Airfix T3 models made). 

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The landing gears were installed. The tyres were painted very dark grey. I also painted the wheel hubs aluminium though Airfix indicates black. The deepened gear bays as well as the legs were painted also aluminium. 

At the nose I added a few silver spots with a tooth pick  for the the landing lights. I had some difficulty to see where the anti-collision lights were situated on the real Jet Provost. There is one at the rear fuselage end but I was unsure about the wing tip lights. None were found on photos. The wing tip fuel tank tips are black and I think these tanks contain no lights themselves. So unclear here. 

The 2 small antennas on top and on the belly colours vary a bit between real aircraft. I kept them grey as per instructions, b/w photos only being available.

Finally some wash was applied at the recesses of the ailerons, elevator and flaps. A very thinned black wash was applied with a tiny brush and excess paint swiped off.
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... and the trim tab control rods added 

That completed the model in just an overall 10 hours. The model looks even greater than anticipated and was a pleasure to build.
 

NOTE: I routinely installed 2 gun sights on the top instrument coaming, but this was wrong. This is not a Strikemaster but the Jet Provost that was an unarmed trainer. (I removed them but in some model photos still seen installed). 

Some "sceneries..." 
On a visit to RAF Woodford... 

and some other "sceneries"...

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