Subject: Re: Su-39 submission
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "paulbrown" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 21:53:38 -0700

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: paulbrown 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Cc: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 2:43 AM
  Subject: Su-39 submission

  Dear Steve,
  Here are some photos of my 1/48th scale Su-39 conversion. It uses the OEZ Su-25UTK model with the Su-25 neomega cockpit, main reference from the  4+ Su-25 book and particularly the line drawings of the Su-25TM and sensor pods included. The main changes were adding the large MFD screen to the cockpit and a few other bits here and there. The one piece canopy was cut to make the front seat open and the rear portion to become the humped spine. In photos you could see the shape of the canopy frame with windows replaced by panels so there was no need to sand away completely the detail. The nose had to be enlarged to a thicker and blunter profile with new and larger sensor windows.  The tail had the large IR jammer and smaller sensor pods added as well as the wingtips, IR suppressors in the engine exhausts. The cannon was added, room for it involving repositioning of the main front landing gear further to port, ladder added to gear door. ECM pod on wing and radar pod below added with some Vihkr missiles from a Ka-50 kit. Painting the Bear decals on the intakes was probably the hardest part of a reasonably simple conversion.
  Thanks,
  Paul