2023-10-09 01:43:29
A French sixty-year-old has been devoting himself since 2015 to a fairly ambitious project: reproducing Asterix’s village as faithfully as possible using matches, reports the media Neo.
Alain Vosgien, 65, who lives in Grimaucourt-en-Woëvre, in the north-east of France, embarked on this adventure in January 2015.
On disability since 2011, he was bored and didn’t want to stay glued to the TV all day long.
Having already made matchstick constructions around thirty years previously, Mr. Vosgien then decided to get back into it.
“I always drew Asterix and my grandfather knew I liked it. He bought me books and stuff. I said to myself: “Hey, I’m going to make Asterix’s village,” he says.
The latter began by reproducing Asterix’s house, then those of Panoramix and Obélix. It was then that he convinced himself to remake the entire Gallic village.
Its entire construction is carried out using matches and glue.
Photo taken from Facebook / Alain Vosgien
8 years and 10,400 hours of work later, Alain Vosgien estimates that he still has regarding two years left before completing his imposing project.
“The main thing is patience. There are houses where there are more than 1000 parts to make,” says Mr. Vosgien.
His matchstick village covers an area of 9 square meters.
He devotes approximately 5 hours a day to his project and keeps a logbook in which he notes the time each construction takes him, the number of matches and tubes of glue used as well as all his expenses.
Photo taken from Facebook / Alain Vosgien
“I am a bear. I never go out,” he says.
For example, the bard Assurancetourix’s tree house required some 800 hours of work and exactly 51,025 matches.
Alain Vosgien estimates having invested between 5,000 and 6,000 euros (between 7,200 and 8,650 Canadian dollars) to create his entire model.
Photo taken from Facebook / Alain Vosgien
His passion attracted the attention of several French media, but also the comments of several Internet users.
While most people remain respectful, even admiring, of his work, others sometimes make fun of him.
“The connection to the “Dinner of idiots”, I hear it, not every day, but every time someone sees it: “Ah, François Pignon!” It doesn’t bother me at all,” he says.
Mr. Vosgien dreams of seeing his project exhibited at Parc Astérix, located north of Paris. However, the 65-year-old man does not seem ready to part with his creation for free, since everything, he says, cost him a lot of money.
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