Allegheny DC-9-50 conversion

Hello All!

I refinished a DC-9-50 conversion I made over 40 years ago. The bird was in pieces, paint yellowed, and just an overall mess. First off, this was the product of two Aurora Hughes Airwest kits - mainly for the fuselages. Plugs were put into the primary fuselage and wings were extended 6 scale feet at the wing root area. Vortilons were also scratch built and applied.

Paints are all Tamiya. 4 shades of red needed to be custom mixed until they agreed with an old Allegheny ticket envelope that I have. That part was tedious. The base is a round piece of pine wood with 3/8" acrylic rods made into a support cradle. Airline base logo created using Oracle vinyl via my Silhoutte Cameo vinyl cutting machine. In fact, templates were made for the “Allegheny” and the “N-Number” and airbrushed on. Window decals from Authentic-Airliners.

Enjoy

IMG_8302 by Fuzznoggin, on Flickr

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IMG_8308 by Fuzznoggin, on Flickr

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Hi,

That’s a nice looking conversion. I always liked DC-9 aircraft and its variants.

Pat

Fantastic. Love the cockpit detail, you’ll have to share how you did that and the canopy glass.

Super! Decals for the glass? Whose?

The window decals were purchased from www.authentic-airliner-decals.de The orginal windscreen was lost over the years, so I framed it out and paneled it with styrene stock. Then I puttied over it and smoothed it out for the decals.

Well;

Don’t that beat all! That is one beautiful Bird!

Thanks!

That’s a real beauty, love the various shades of red on the stripes.

Thanks Gil. Was definitely a chore mixing paints to achieve the different shades.

very nice! the mixing of the red paints paid off. looks great