New DC-9 - MD series

[N96HBK]

It looks really great!! I admire your hard work.

[Draco]

Thanks!

Today I'll finish and print the wing fences. The -14 and -15 versions have some differences over the rest of the series, but they are easily done.
I'm drawing the landing gear doors, too, and I'll place them today.
It means that until I do the landing gear, the plane will need to rest upside down to prevent damages (Or inside a flower vase, whatever you have)

[Draco]

Placing the wing fences and landing gear doors.
Now comes some small, milimetric corrections and I'll start with the landing gear. Maybe tomorrow I'll finish the protopype and start with the final details of this livery, the instructions and the cover of the PDF.
Then, a friend of mine is going to assemble the beta test, and meanwhile I'll finish the first liveries.
That first releases are going to be:
YV-977C Laser
N9103 Hugues Airwest
EC-DIR Spantax

[N96HBK]

This is looking extremely awesome!! Love the details on the wings. A very handsome looking model.

[Draco]

Ok, this part is a hard decision to me.
The landing gear is a complex bunch of parts (any plane is a bunch of parts flying in close formation)
The nose landing gear is roughtly 1 cm3 and has 10-14 parts depending if you include the optional parts. I CAN'T make it more complex and still hope that the average modeler can place everything in its place.
So... 10-14 parts. In a few hours I'll do the main landing gear, print it and assemble. And finished.

[Draco]

Well, I finished the design part and I'm doing some retouching to the paint side.
Laser Airlines had an unusual scheme with the scape arrows over the wings. They were not black over white, but inverted. At least the -14 and 31 versions. Later, the Md used the boring normal.
If you are wondering, YV1382 is the same YV-977C Aldebaran, it was just a change in the registration laws, from YV-???C to YV????.
Anyway, I'm printing and assembling the wheels.

[Draco]

The phisical model just needs that I place the main landing gear, and that will be done today. I already gave the PDF to a friend of mine to make the beta test in color, so I hope to have the pictures soon.
I started the second texture today, and it will be ready before Sunday. As I said, I'm going to release five Dc-9-14 and one Dc-9-15 textures before starting to develope the Dc-9-30 model. If you can't wait for the release from ecardmodels, you can send me a message.

[Draco]

Ok, everybody!
Yesterday finished the final prototype!
Now a friend of mine will assemble the beta test in color, and once I have the pictures, I'll publish the Laser and Spantax liverys on ecardmodels! Probably the Finnair and Hughes Airwest too!
Remember, the scale is 1/100 and it's the first model of the series, from this -14 to Md-90 and maybe Boeing 717!

[N96HBK]

This is awesome!! Congratulations, that must have been very hard work, the model looks lovely. People are going to love this.

[Draco]

Thanks!
A friend is assembling the beta test, and meanwhile I'm weathering the plane and adding the exausts marks to the tail cone. And widened half a milimeter the main landing strut.
And working on the Spantax texture, too. Hope to publish both textures this weekend.