Petlyakov Pe-8 Ideas and Inspiration

[ysi_maniac]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petlyakov_Pe-8

[ysi_maniac]

What is this? Is this a whif? Was it built? A paper project?
That fifth engine ... 

[apophenia]

What is this? Is this a whif? Was it built? A paper project?
That fifth engine ... 

Engine testbed conversion for the Shvetsov ASh-2TK radial (shown) or the multi-bank Dobrynin VD-3TK/VD-4K.

[GTX_Admin]

Photos of real aircraft:




I wish someone would release a 1/48 kit of the Pe-8.

[ysi_maniac]

Thanks Greg!

Has any of you got this kit? In many reviews I see pics with the car, but I did not find the car in sprues. Is the car there in kit?

http://modelingmadness.com/scott/allies/previews/zvezda/7280.htm

[GTX_Admin]

Thanks Greg!

Has any of you got this kit? In many reviews I see pics with the car, but I did not find the car in sprues. Is the car there in kit?

http://modelingmadness.com/scott/allies/previews/zvezda/7280.htm

I believe the car is not in the kit but that the figures are.

[ysi_maniac]

Are there pieces for both kind of engines, inline and radials?
Or TB-7 is just a different model?

[The Big Gimper]

I wish someone would release a 1/48 kit of the Pe-8.

Ping the folks over at Sanger?

[The Big Gimper]

Thanks Greg!

Has any of you got this kit? In many reviews I see pics with the car, but I did not find the car in sprues. Is the car there in kit?

http://modelingmadness.com/scott/allies/previews/zvezda/7280.htm

I believe the car is not in the kit but that the figures are.

I always thought about buying a Pe-8. It is cute in its own ugly way.

[The Big Gimper]

Are there pieces for both kind of engines, inline and radials?
Or TB-7 is just a different model?

From the Interweb: Originally designated the TB-7, the aircraft was renamed the Pe-8 after its primary designer, Vladimir Petlyakov, died in a plane crash in 1942.
 
You can see photos of the TB-7 sprues here at Super-Hobby.
You can see photos of the Pe-8 sprues here at Model-Making. The car is not included.

[ysi_maniac]

Thanks a lot! Big 

[ysi_maniac]

Airliner based in Pe-8 along with its ancestor (Ant-42)

[elmayerle]

For airliner, are sets in inboard engine nacelles first class or coach?  Pardon, comrade, are those seats designated for senior party members or are they set aside for the workers?

[GTX_Admin]

Some useful info and images on this page

[GTX_Admin]

I'd be very tempted to do one in RAF scheme asa compliment to the Stirlings etc. Maybe either reverse lend lease or perhaps a Soviet deployment to assist with the bombing...or something else re back story.  Either way, get Pe-8 in this scheme: