Mexican La-250

[anthonyp]

(Herb Albert and The Tijuana Brass blares off a boom box in the background...  This is all best read aloud in a Ricardo Montalban voice)

ARIBA, CAMARADAS!!!

It is I, Antonio, reporting from where the snow can not decide if it wishes to leave or not.

Pictured below is a page of history from the Fuerza de Mexicana!  This plane came to us in the late 50's, from the brilliant mind of a man named Lavochkin, a brilliant aircraft designer from the cold north, via warm Cuba!

Why does the audience, how you say, "snicker" whenever I am revealing the Fuerza de Mexicana's proud heritage?

In any case, this is the La-250 Lanza long range interceptor.  Why, you ask, did the Fuerza de Mexicana need a long range interceptor?  Simply this, camaradas:  To keep long range bombers from Canada at bay.  Yes, our ancient nemesis denies they ever had long range bombers, but I tell you this now, they did!  They would say to us "Such fantasy does not even merit a response!"  Oh, but it did.  Emblazoned with "Air Canada" on the side, they brazenly entered our airspace regularly.  The La-250 made them think twice on more than one occasion.

The American and Canadian NORAD code-named the Lanza the "Taco Stand" for some reason, and the missiles "Chalupas."  We have no idea why they would name them such, jus that they may have been hungry and eating at a fine restaurant serving those dishes.

VIVA MEXICO!!!!

(Comrades, I, Anatoly, must interject.  We sent Comrade Lavochkin to Cuba for some "rest" and "destressing," but he disappeared from the People's Workers' Paradise and ended up in a cabana in Cozumel.  We still have no idea how that happened, and if the Mexican Air Force wants to think we "gifted" them such a "brilliant" designer and his "misunderstood" and "underappreciated" designs, we will let them.  More tequilla and tacos for Rodina!!!  Ah, the wonders of tequilla and tacos, such a misunderstood food combination in the decadent and fearful West.  Yes, they fear such a powerful combination of food...)

This is a 1/72 Amodel La-250 Anaconda, possibly the worst kit I've ever built.  I mean, I like the subject as it's weird and sorta neat looking, but the kit itself was not fun.  Oddly shaped parts, unnumbered, and just weird.  The instructions would have been helpful had the parts been numbered, or even etched with some sort of guide or something.

This kit, along with the Ka-58 and the Venezualan Su-47, were Christmas gifts from my friend Charles in Florida.

[Tophe]

the worst kit I've ever built.

With such a great result from the worst, I am shivering while trying to imagine the result from the best... Above Heaven? What-if...  

[lancer]

What a great looking Latin Lavochkin. She looks beautiful in that cammo scheme.

Comrade Anatoly, I have since discivered that comrade designer Lavochkin was actually kidnapped by the dastardly Mexican secret police and subsequently drugged and brainwashed ionto working for them. Measures have been take to deal with the operative's that took him and the KGB trainers of this organisation have been reassigned to counting trees in Siberia - Lancerov, Colonel GRU

[gooberliberation]

You made that gem out of an Amodel kit?!?!?!

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