Antoine de Saint-Exupery's F-5A Lightning Alghero
1944 Alghero (Italy) airbase

Subject:: Lockheed F-5A Lightning
Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres (Free French Air Force 1940-1945)
GR 2/33 80 Jeanne (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
May 1944 World War 2 - Alghere, Sardinia
Scale:: 1:72
Status:: Completed
Started:: November 1, 2017
Completed:: May 15, 2018
Time spent:: 5 months

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.