Petlyakov Pe 8 Murph's Models Beta in 1/100 scale

After more than a month working on the bench here comes another model and this is special: It is the Soviet strategic bomber Petlyakov Pe 8. Developed in the mid 30 initially at OKB Tupolev through one of its leaders designers Vladimyr Petlyakov initially called ANT-42 was the response of a VVS's application in 1935 for a strategic bomber that could supplement the Tupolev TB-3. The Pe-8 was a natural extrapolation of the Tupolev SB-2 design but much larger and with advanced features for its time, with no strategic bomber Western plane was in its category (except the Boeing Model 299, the prototype of B- 17), had electric complex system and advanced radio-navigation for the time, and also has an internal extra engine (in this case a Klimov M100) that turbocharging the four V-12 engines Mikulin AM-34. when the prototype flew the Pe-8 was faster than many fighters of that time. Less than 100 units of Pe 8 were produced for several reasons, one was the USSR's invasion in World War II, which forced the Soviets to develop a tactical aviation to push the enemy out of the territory, the other was the complexity of the production of Pe-8. Yet were used for Berlin Bomber still in 1941, and in the final stages of the war with a development of a dedicated bomber only for him, FAB 4000 was used to ban attacks, spraying with this 4T high explosive, troop concentrations, vehicles, railway junctions, oil pipelines, bridges, bunkers. The most interesting feat of Pe-8 occurred in 1942 with the trip of the Minister of the Soviet Foreign Vyacheslav Molotov to the US and Britain to negotiate the Casablanca conference. The nonstop flight from Moscow to Washington was made with a normal production Pe-8 without any adaptation through German airspace occupied in the Arctic, after meeting with Roosevelt, the second leg of Molotov's trip was to England and then again Moscow. An incredible flight for this time. Both the USAAC as RAF personnel was impressed with Pe 8 because the type is a unknow outside of the URSS. After the war the Pe 8 survivors already equipped with ASh-85 radial engines were used in the exploration of the Arctic and Siberia and as flying test bed for the Soviets derived from the German V1 flying bomb. My model the "White 2" is precisely the plane of Molotov trip operated by the 746th Independent Long Range Aircraft Regiment (Russian: Otdel'nyy Avia Polk Dahl'nevo Deystviya-OAPDD). They noted that there is a car along well then this Staff Car leading Molotov and his delegation to the plane at Moscow airport is a GAZ M1, derived from the famous Ford V8 1933 the GAZ M1 was made for Soviet civilian market being the first car produced in the USSR with some comfort, electric ignition and reclining seats, and has X axis in suspention. The suffix "M" stands for Molotov, a tribute that the state did the minister to close in 1939 the non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR, produced from 1938 to 1946 was for a period the only Soviet car, used by authorities and senior officials in their more luxurious versions and as staff car (who saw the film Enemy at the Gates will remember the political officer grating when your GAZ M1 is reached by the German army in Stalingrad. They saw how much history models can tell? models of Murph's Models (Pe 8) and Robotechnik (GAZ M1)



The scale of Pe 8 is 1/65 but I reduce to 1/100 for my standart collection. The GAZ M1 is reduced from 1/50 model.













































Size comparations with other soviet planes of the time...







With Yak-1M







With MiG-3







With MiG-15







With TB-3 Zvesno Aviamatka



In my display on soviet sector ;)







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