I come with some good news! I finished school this very last December, and managed to earn a long-awaited vacation after 4.5 years in Engineering school. I took this opportunity to finish the pending project of renovating the D-9. Since my last update, I managed to break both landing gear legs (too much handling led to the plastic failing at the joints). The model was put aside indefinitely, until a few weeks ago.
The final refurbishing steps included closing the landing gear legs and covers, adding the wheels inside, to make sure that the closed landing gear position looked as accurate as possible. I filled in the little gaps between the landing gear covers and wings. I painted all luftwaffe crosses, re-touched the camo scheme a bit here and there, added some more scratches. I also managed to re-apply the JV44 emblem decal. Finally, I added a steel spring to the antenna wire, which I made from scratch (fine wire split from electrical wire).
All in all, I believe I managed to salvage the plane from all the misfortunes I passed it through.
Its aerodynamics surely make it look different in my cabinet now
Tudor Gh got a reaction from Martinnfb in Renovating the D-9 Build
Tudor Gh got a reaction from mpk in 1/32 MUG-29A (9-12) (from Revell to Trumpeter)