The yellow was a spray bomb of gloss, and the wings were a metallic silver paint from a spray bomb as well.
Thank you all for looking in, comments are welcome.
The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
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Duke Maddog
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The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
After some time, I found all I needed to finish this one model. It's the ancient Aurora kit of the 1/72 scale DC-9 in Hughes Airwest markings:
The yellow was a spray bomb of gloss, and the wings were a metallic silver paint from a spray bomb as well.
Thank you all for looking in, comments are welcome.
The yellow was a spray bomb of gloss, and the wings were a metallic silver paint from a spray bomb as well.
Thank you all for looking in, comments are welcome.
The Duke
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
Wow…. She’s yellow. Never heard of Hughes Airwest. 
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
Nice work Duke. I must say you sure build quite the variety of subjects
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
Nice. I really like doing the occasional commercial bird. I don't have a DC-9 in my collection 
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
Nice work Mark! You do have a knack for these old airline kits and making them look good.
Tom, Hughes Air West was a regional airline that operated in the Western US. I think that they closed up shop sometime in the 80’s. I vaguely remember one of their TV commercial jingles having a phrase “Hughes Air West, Top Banana in the West…”
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
That's a nice yellow finish, Mark. Atlantis did a repop of this kit and I got one of those, I hear it is the best of the Aurora jetliner kits.
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
Thank you Blacksheep! Carlos explained the company above. And yes, I love how the yellow turned out.
Thank you Cbaltrin! Yes, I do tend to do a variety, it keeps things fresh for me.
Thank you John! I also love doing airliners now and then. I just keep them in 1/72 scale. I just wish more companies released 1/72 scale airliners. As John Eaton mentioned, Atlantis re-released this DC-9 kit with both Hughes Airwest and TWA markings.
Thank you Carlos! I do enjoy doing them; I just need to keep practicing on the white and metallic ones.... Thanks also for the information for Blacksheep.
Thank you John Eaton! I'm still amazed at how well that yellow turned out. I also have the Atlantis re-pop that I've started already too. I'm gonna make that one a TWA bird. It is a great and easy kit to build.
Thank you Cbaltrin! Yes, I do tend to do a variety, it keeps things fresh for me.
Thank you John! I also love doing airliners now and then. I just keep them in 1/72 scale. I just wish more companies released 1/72 scale airliners. As John Eaton mentioned, Atlantis re-released this DC-9 kit with both Hughes Airwest and TWA markings.
Thank you Carlos! I do enjoy doing them; I just need to keep practicing on the white and metallic ones.... Thanks also for the information for Blacksheep.
Thank you John Eaton! I'm still amazed at how well that yellow turned out. I also have the Atlantis re-pop that I've started already too. I'm gonna make that one a TWA bird. It is a great and easy kit to build.
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
Very cool! It's so.......yellow!
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
Thank you Mike! Yes it is!
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We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
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Re: The Duke Finishes an Aircraft in October
Duke! Duke! Duke! Congratulations on your 10/31/24 finish of this wonderful Aurora kit!!! Spray paint is good, brother. You can get a lot done with a good spray job and looks like here that was the perfect solution for such a wide swath of color!! Bravo!
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