Antoine de Saint-Exupery's F 5A Lightning - Alghero base
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11 27 July 2018, 09:10
Christian BruerIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Very nice and interesting personal story behind that work and a nice remembrance. Very well done 👍
27 July 2018, 12:05
Alec KI agree with Christian's sentiments. Great photomontage also. Too bad about the RS kit: sounds like the market is ripe for a new mainstream P-38 kit.
27 July 2018, 12:53
Łukasz GlińskiWow, what a cool project! And that camo, quite exotic for a Lightning... 👍
27 July 2018, 13:07
Gordon SørensenGreat looking Lightning, Cristian! I remember reading about the discovery of his aircraft some years ago...
nytimes.com/2004/04/..e-is-discovered.html
You have done a great job on that RS kit!
27 July 2018, 16:52
Cristian BordinaThank you very much Lukasz and Gordon... and thank you Gordon too for the link 😉
28 July 2018, 07:12
Alex KIt's July 31st, today - and I just thought it would be nice for this to appear again on the newsfeed - congratulations on this build, Cristian! 👍
31 July 2021, 14:19
Moreno BaruffiniBravissimo Cristian!
I agree with Christian: very interesting personal story and a nice tribute to lot of sentiments.
31 July 2021, 15:08
Thomas TWell done, Cristian, nice build in memory of a sublime writer and and grand human being
31 July 2021, 15:23
Cristian BordinaThank you very much mates. Oh if someone of you decide to spend your holiday in the wonderful town of Alghero in Sardinia, now in an ancient Saracen tower close to the villa where Antoine stayed in those summer months (now it's a hotel) there is a little but charming museum dedicated to our loving writer. One more reason to visit the wonderful sea of this italian island full of ancient and modern history
1 August 2021, 05:36
Album info
This is from the horrible RS-Model kit, where no one parts match with the others. There is more putty in my model than plastic. I've spent 3 months working at this plane, but I love Antoine de Saint Exupery and when I discovered that he was on active duty from may to june 1944 at Aghero airport, in the italian island of Sardinia, I decided to not stop me in front of any difficulty. Since when I was one-year old, I spend all my summer vacancy at Alghero, so it was a great surprise to discover that from the same airstrip, me and Antoine take off and landing. In this pictures there is a photoshop with the Alghero airstrip, a little tribute to me at one of the greatest story tellers of all the times.
