Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Scrap Rail Car)
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8 10 January 2019, 08:20
Greg BakerSince 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 OostromYou're going to blow up a railway track like the Japanese did in Blue Lotus?
10 January 2019, 11:04
Peter HardyAre 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 KaedingAh - 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 BakerClose... but no cigar yet... new picture should start giving more clues...
10 January 2019, 12:10
Greg BakerI 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 KaedingAll 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 BakerBingo! 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 BakerThanks 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 HardyYour 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 BakerThanks 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 BakerWould'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.
