WWII 4 engines bomber project - identification?

Martin Decarli

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I have been making and collecting 1/200 scale models (like reconnaissance war models - WIKING) for about 30 years. Among many dozens of models I found this XB bomber. It is definitely a project, but I really can't find what type it was
Don't know? Thank you
Martin
 

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I have been making and collecting 1/200 scale models (like reconnaissance war models - WIKING) for about 30 years. Among many dozens of models I found this XB bomber. It is definitely a project, but I really can't find what type it was
Don't know? Thank you
Martin
Hi,
maybe Bolkhovitinov DB-A.
Bolchovitinov DB-A_0.jpg
 
To give an idea of the decoration in color :

 
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It's better not to do so. This livery is purely fictitious. Levanevsky's raidplane wasn't painted this way, it had dark blue fuselage and orange-red wings, like this model:
http://scalemodels.ru/articles/12588-samodel-1-144-n-209---samoljot-iz-legendy.html
And surely it could not carry a Red Star on the tailfin, as it didn't belong to the VVS.
Not being a historian and even less specialist of the Soviet aviation I will be well careful to contradict you! But also to approve anything in the absence of a photo of the time allowing to certify the colors of the livery of a unique copy (unless reliable testimonies exist?). In the same way, and despite the multiplicity and variety of documents from the time, it is already difficult to certify the colors of the French camouflages of 1940, and as we saw once in a subject of the Fana, We had great surprises on the colors of German planes of the same time ... However, I emailed Aeropinakes to ask for the source of their all-red profile. We will see if they answer me ... In any case these posts exchange us a little more about this machine I find of the most interesting !
 
Not being a historian and even less specialist of the Soviet aviation I will be well careful to contradict you! But also to approve anything in the absence of a photo of the time allowing to certify the colors of the livery of a unique copy (unless reliable testimonies exist?).
There was a publication in Leningradskaya Pravda newspaper from August 14, 1937, in which the aircraft colors were described:
... Not far from us on a red ruler, stands a four-engine N-209 beauty. It has wide red-orange wings and dark blue fuselage. Coloring has two purposes: one - to collect solar heat, to maintain sufficient temperature inside the machine during the flight, and the second - decorative and identification role. It is proven that, in the white expanses of the Arctic, orange color is the most conspicuous.
 

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