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Kenneth Oppel - Airship Aurora Paper Model

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Kenneth Oppel's Airborn has always held a special place in my heart...reading it in elementary school the book whisked me away to an alternate world where the sky was populated with great flying ships...where there was a whole world hidden within the skies themselves, where pirates, airmen, and native creatures roamed in freedom, skittering above the blue waves, visiting lands unknown and uncharted.

As much as I like to credit Star Trek for inspiring me to become a sailor, I feel that Oppel's Airborn planted the seeds of that wanderlust, that desire to see those far-flung landscapes the Earth hid away from those stuck to the land...and, well, although the journey has been tough, like on the seas I shall brave the storms and hold fast.

This model is my own little tribute to Oppel and that book which started it all for me.
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That was a great book...