1/48 KoPro Sukhoi Su-9

Gallery Article by Armin Knes on Feb 15 2010

 

I did it again: I build a Soviet Jet.  At the first look nothing special, but there is no kit of a Sukhoi Su-9 in 1/48, so I took a KoPro Su-7 BKL fuselage, some drawings and 150 hours later...here we go!!

Here are my references: 

http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw2/su9_z.html

http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/su9.html

http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/f/704/1/0/1_b1

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I cleaned up the fuselage,  cut the new covers and removed the wing basis, put the tailerons in the correct position, build the complete wings, the four RS-2US plus pylons, the exhaust pipe, the maingear, wheels and gearbays, the cockpit and the seat, the air intake and reworked the vertical fin. The fuel tanks were taken from an old Trumpeter Su-15TM.

Hope you enjoy it...

I'm waiting hard for the new Su-24Trumpeter kit which will be released this month. With this kit my Sukhoi-jet collection will be complete...but there are many Sukhoi Prototyps to do....

http://www.arcair.com/Gal10/9001-9100/gal9032-Su-7-Knes/00.shtm

http://www.arcair.com/Gal9/8801-8900/gal8833-T-58-Knes/00.shtm

Armin Knes

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Photos and text © by Armin Knes