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C-9A Nightingale; Aurora (x2)
Topic Started: Aug 19 2015, 04:32 PM (669 Views)
Paul Boyer
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Another major project. Back in 1978, I set about creating a C-9A Nightingale out of the ancient Aurora DC-9 kit. Out of the box, it's a scarcely detailed DC-9 Series 10. The C-9A was a Series 30 with a longer fuselage and extended wing tips. Well, I had two Aurora kits, so I figured out how to cut the fuselages to do the stretch. Now, I could just cut sections from one kit and insert them into the other, but there was a better way. The stretch on the real aircraft is ahead of and behind the wing. Douglas simply inserted more constant-diameter fuselage sections to do the stretch. I could do the same, but that would mean four cuts and seams to clean up on each fuselage half! I cut (!) the work in half by cutting fuselage No. 1 with a long center section (to include the wing root), and cut fuselage No. 2 with long front and rear sections. Then just toss all the short sections and marry the long sections together, resulting in two seams to clean up instead of four. It was also to align three parts instead of five. And of course, we're talking about parts per side here. I drew the construction diagrams and cut the fuselages way back in 1978, then put it away until just a few years ago when I decided to finish it!

I extended the wing tips with sheet styrene splices, and added the fence to the underside of each wing.

The markings are from the spares files and I got DrawDecal to make a digital silk set of DC-9 windows and door outlines (I had filled and sanded smooth the kit windows). I finished the model about 30 years after starting

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RayS
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That is a great build Paul. I am a fan of airliners in military markings.
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philp
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Another one I have wanted to do since I saw Big Bunny done up this way in an old Scale Modeler.

My Dad had a flight on a Nightingale so another reason I wanted to do this.
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