Trumpeter SU-15 TM question...

[John Masters]

I recently purchased the Trumpeter SU-15 TM 1/72nd scale kit.  It looks pretty good, but the TM variant arrived too late for me to include it in the upcoming 1960s NATO/WarPact GB.  I would like to build the kit as a standard SU-15.  How easy would this be?  Are the changes from standard to TM internal, therefore less likely to be noticed, or will I have to carve and fill a lot to get the desired result?

[Giorgio N]

The two variants had for sure different shaped radomes, with the TM being ogive-shaped and earlier versions having a conical shape.

The wing on early Su-15s was a pure delta, but this changed during production of the first variant to the more common double delta used on all later variants

[John Masters]

Thanks Giorgio...could you point me in the direction of a visual example of both so I can see what, and if, I might do?

 

Is the radome the pointy nose?  I think you might mean 'olive-shaped'?  And the double delta...?

[John Masters]

Giorgio...I answered my own questions with a simple image search.  It looks like the nose cold be fixed, but not the wing.

 

I guess I'll have to pick up a SU-15...

[Aardvark]

7 hours ago, John D.C. Masters said:

How easy would this be?  Are the changes from standard to TM

It's was so easy, as conversion from Spitfire Mk.24 in

Spitfire Mk.I !!!

General differences Su-15 v.s Su-15TM it's:

- new radome nose cone on Su-15ТМ;

- new canopy with periscope on Su-15TM;

- new nose wheels (2 nose wheels- Su-15TM, 1 nose wheels- Su-15);

- new wing on Su-15TM;

- new engine without air conditioning intake engine on top fuselage....and many little differences.

 

Best easy way for conversion from Su-15TM Trumpeter in Su-15....it's buy Su-15 Trumpeter!

It's economy  time and health for modeller!

 

B.R.

Serge

 

[John Masters]

I agree Serge!