Tag: bomb bay

• Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part Four – The Puzzle…

  

  If you did not want me to do it, why did you provide the parts? I address this to the Amodel engineers who moulded a complete interior bomb bay and 250kg bomb load, and then left the fuselage doors moulded shut. Not shut with a line to score and pop out – completely moulded in…

  Dick Stein

  May 4, 2025

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Tools, workflow

  bomb bay, sectioning, X0acto saw

• Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part Three – Stein’s Bomb Dump

  

  And if that title doesn’t get me on an FBI list, nothing will. The explosives you see in the heading page are Soviet 250kg types – roughly equivalent to a British or American 500 pounder…though I don’t know if the fillings had equal explosive power. They will be attached to the bomb bay former and…

  Dick Stein

  May 3, 2025

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Soviet aircraft, subassembly, Ukrainian models

  bomb bay, Petlyakov