Olympislavia! That
glorious, short lived former Soviet Republic-ette that was the hated enemy of
Aztekistan. It is unique in the annals of breakaway republics in that it is the
only one that embraced the Olympics so strongly that it bankrupted itself within
3 years.
First, it tried to
use the Olympic Rings as it's symbol, but was sued by the IOC to desist. The
government then proceeded to fund a team for every Olympic sport, instead of
normal infrastructures. So, instead of a fire brigade, they had a weightlifting
team. Instead of a Coast guard, they had a rowing team. Hospitals? Bah!
Sprinters! Road repairs! Phooey! More weightlifters! (Olympislavia is also has
the highest per capita consumption of anabolic steroids)
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So, in the end, the economy
collapsed and Olympislavia was reabsorbed into Russia, but not before it
fought a brief and completely inconclusive skirmish with Aztekistan. The
sole combat aircraft fielded by Olympislavia was the PF-84-7 BoltJet, a
collection of parts and components of various older (re:ancient) aircraft
sold to them by unscrupulous arms dealers. Mating the fuselage of very
tired ex-Luftwaffe F-84s with the wings of P-47s, the JetBolts had engines
from a variety of sources, most positively anemic. Takeoff runs were in
the high 8,000 foot range, even with a lightly loaded aircraft. The
thicker P-47 wing stripped the plane of acceleration and top speed, but
did allow for copious internal fuel storage, which was fortunate, as most
of the missions were spent clawing for altitude at full throttle, burning
fuel at an amazing rate! Oddly, there was no money for maintainence, and
the planes rapidly fell into disrepair.
This one of of the planes
from the "Pegasus" Squadron. Olympislavia used a lot of ancient
Greek symbology in their flags and crests. The roundels are all the
colours of the Olympic rings, arranged in a non-concentric manner to skirt
copyright issues..
Kits that died to
make this plane: Monogram/Revell F-84 and Academy P-47. The camo was inspired by
the "Chocolate Chip" uniform scheme of the US Military. The main
colours were airbrushed on, with the "chips" being hand painted.
Decals were made on a rickety old Lexmark colour printer with Testors Decal
paper.
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