The Blue Lotus (The Chinese Vase)

Greg Baker
I decided to branch out on my Tintin collection to include small... appetizer projects. The Blue Lotus is my favourite Tintin album, so this one seemed like a no-brainer. I decided to stick to my theme of using images from the interior panels and not the cover. Not much to show from a build perspective. All designed in 3D and printed out. The trickiest part was trying to re-produce the decal to go around the vase. I had to use images from several sources/perspectives and manipulate them into one unified image. Luckily 1/72 scale can be a bit forgiving. 😉

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Greg Baker
I just noticed looking at the pics that Tintin has one black eye - I might need to heal that...

Matthew A
Great work on producing the decals. I'd forgotten what the vase looked like and thought you had bought one

Greg Baker
That decal took a lot of photoshop skills to re-create. Stitching together several random pics off the internet, with different light sources drove me crazy. I was also worried that it wouldn't wrap properly around the geometry, but I cut the decal as close as I dared to the artwork, and low and behold, it basically went on on the first try. Phew!

Robert Podkoński
Cool!

Spanjaard
wow, excellent !

Greg Baker
Updated my final pics. Nothing much changed, but I couldn't stand the "Tintin with one black eye" look. So I carefully re-did his eyes so that they're now the same size.