Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Scrap Rail Car)
Everything we need should be in here...
Ok... let’s see what we’ve found... some tank wheels, some boxes... bits of styrene...
Wheels glued together and axel holes drilled out.
Some more bits and pieces... coming together...
A bit of paint and we’re ready for assembly.
Uwe guessed it correctly... Tintin’s scrap rail car from “in the land of the Soviets”
Screwed it up a bit while glueing everything in place, but I won’t tell if you don’t.
Hmmm... needs a bit of paint touch up in a couple of spots.
After everything is dry, I’ll add a clear coat and maybe a bit of a wash.
Paint touch ups done... now for a bit of a base.
And there we are. All done!
Commentaires
9 10 January 2019, 08:20
Greg Baker
Since today (January 10, 2019) is Tintin's 90th Birthday, I've decided to try something a little bit different. I'm going to do a 1-(birth)day build... but what it is will remain a bit of surprise until I'm done. To succeed, I'll need to have show the same level on ingenuity and pluck as our intrepid hero... I hope I'm up to it.
To start off, here's a picture of the "kit". Almost everything I need should be in there, somewhere...😉
Since today (January 10, 2019) is Tintin's 90th Birthday, I've decided to try something a little bit different. I'm going to do a 1-(birth)day build... but what it is will remain a bit of surprise until I'm done. To succeed, I'll need to have show the same level on ingenuity and pluck as our intrepid hero... I hope I'm up to it.
To start off, here's a picture of the "kit". Almost everything I need should be in there, somewhere...😉
10 January 2019, 08:25
Martin Oostrom
You're going to blow up a railway track like the Japanese did in Blue Lotus?
You're going to blow up a railway track like the Japanese did in Blue Lotus?
10 January 2019, 11:04
Peter Hardy
Are you sure you two grew up? Sometimes I wonder about my own sanity when I see who I choose as mates!
Are you sure you two grew up? Sometimes I wonder about my own sanity when I see who I choose as mates!
10 January 2019, 11:06
Uwe Kaeding
Ah - the railway cart packed with dynamite from Tintin in America... are you going to do the locomotive as well?
Ah - the railway cart packed with dynamite from Tintin in America... are you going to do the locomotive as well?
10 January 2019, 11:52
Greg Baker
Close... but no cigar yet... new picture should start giving more clues...
Close... but no cigar yet... new picture should start giving more clues...
10 January 2019, 12:10
Greg Baker
I got everything painted last night, but decided not to rush the final assembly. I'm quite pleased with this little build so far. I had to be quite focused to get as far along as I am so quickly. So that achievement is part of the fun!
I got everything painted last night, but decided not to rush the final assembly. I'm quite pleased with this little build so far. I had to be quite focused to get as far along as I am so quickly. So that achievement is part of the fun!
10 January 2019, 23:01
Uwe Kaeding
All right - so the converted rail car from The Land of the Soviets then (the project the album is connected to did give it away when I thought to look...)
All right - so the converted rail car from The Land of the Soviets then (the project the album is connected to did give it away when I thought to look...)
11 January 2019, 06:38
Greg Baker
Bingo! However, truth be told, I didn't attach it to a project until I figured it was becoming fairly obvious. Just a bit of assembly to go and it'll be done.
Bingo! However, truth be told, I didn't attach it to a project until I figured it was becoming fairly obvious. Just a bit of assembly to go and it'll be done.
11 January 2019, 07:12
Greg Baker
Thanks Hergé! Happy Birthday Tintin! Still a few paint touch ups and a clear coat to do, but for a 1 day build cobbled together from the spares box... I'm happy.
Thanks Hergé! Happy Birthday Tintin! Still a few paint touch ups and a clear coat to do, but for a 1 day build cobbled together from the spares box... I'm happy.
11 January 2019, 12:51
Peter Hardy
Your happy? The rest of us are thrilled! Well done Legend! As they say in Australia, " Go you good thing"!
Your happy? The rest of us are thrilled! Well done Legend! As they say in Australia, " Go you good thing"!
11 January 2019, 22:50
Greg Baker
Thanks guys. I'm not sure this is anything that the rest of you, if you were motivated, couldn't accomplish just as well. Anyway, I whipped up a little base as well, so it can join the rest of the collection and take its place on the shelf. Just need to add a clear coat and apply the decal with the title. Conveniently I already hand one standing by.
Thanks guys. I'm not sure this is anything that the rest of you, if you were motivated, couldn't accomplish just as well. Anyway, I whipped up a little base as well, so it can join the rest of the collection and take its place on the shelf. Just need to add a clear coat and apply the decal with the title. Conveniently I already hand one standing by.
12 January 2019, 16:19
Greg Baker
Would've been less if I had rushed the "waiting for paint to dry" time, but I figured there was no real upside to doing that.
Would've been less if I had rushed the "waiting for paint to dry" time, but I figured there was no real upside to doing that.
13 January 2019, 00:48
Album info
Tintin first appeared in French on 10 January 1929 in Le Petit Vingtième (The Little Twentieth), a youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century). That makes 10 January 2019 his 90th birthday. So to celebrate, I have something a little different up my sleeve...
This is the one-(birth)day build album for the Scrap Rail Car that Tintin builds in the album Tintin 01: In the Land of the Soviets. The build, like the car in the adventure, is based is based on whatever I could find in the spares box.