1/48 Monogram SU-25 Frogfoot, Aztekistan Version

Gallery Article by Alvis 3.1 on Jan 1 2010

Silly Week 2010

 

One of the lesser known breakaway states from the former Soviet Union was "Aztekistan". Following the fall of communism there, the local leaders decided rather than follow capitalistic, democratic or regional religious concepts for their country, they would adopt the ways of the ancient Aztecs...sun worship, human sacrifices and pyramid building, all backed up by some rusty nukes they found laying about in an old Soviet 1950s era bunker. It was not highly recommended as a tourist destination. 

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The faithful SU-25 was chosen as their main Air Force aircraft. Here we see a typical load  out consisting of one standard PTB-800 Fuel Tank, two B-8Mi rocket pods, two 200kg bombs circa 1943 (Hey, Aztekistan is poor, they use whatever they find laying around! You should see when they used to drop goats from pylons 3 and 5!) and a 15 Kiloton Nuclear Device, of unknown reliability. This plane is from their most famous squadron, the Quetzalcoatl Squadron (A flying Feathered Snake worshipped by the ancient Aztecs). 

The SU-25s were often seen in use during the brief and completely inconclusive border dispute with "Olympislavia", their hated neighboring breakaway state. Both countries were eventually reabsorbed into Russia in the late 1990s after suffering complete economic collapse.

The kit used is the reissue of the Monogram 1/48 SU-25. The kit was built stock from the box, with weapons added from the kit and the the spares bin, The nuke actually comes from the 1/48 Monogram/Revell F-84. Decals were custom printed on my trusty but weird inkjet printer.

Alvis 3.1

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