Here are a few pics of my finally-completed DC-9-30 airliner, finished in Southern Airways livery circa 1970. It is the ancient Airfix kit paired with long-out-of-production (and badly yellowed) Jet-Set decals, both in 1/144. The biggest lessons I came away with from this build are: 1) Airliners are deceptively hard - not to build, which is dirt simple, but to paint and decal, which can quickly send you to the rubber room, and 2) Anone who can make one of these kits look like the real thing deserves every prize they get at a model show!
The overhead view highlights the two different sizes of Southern logos on the fuselage sides, courtesy of one of the many decal rips and/or disintegrations I endured to get this kit done. The Bare Metal Foil was a lot of fun too. Is it perfect - heck no! But it looks like a DC-9 … when held at arm’s length [:D]