I have two Tintin albums in Vietnamese, “Sao Băng” (The Shooting Star) and “Cây vương trượng của vua Ottokar” (King Ottokar’s Sceptre). They were both published in 1996 by Nhà Xuất Bản Thanh Niên (Youth Publishing House), as part of…
The Black Island (French: L’Île noire) is the seventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children’s supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was…
I have one Tintin album in Greek, “Ο Τεντέν στο Κονγκό” (Tintin in the Congo), which was published in 1997 by Mamouthcomix. It might not have been the right choice for Greece, but sometimes it’s the “right now” choice that…
I have one Tintin album in Italian, “Il Drago Blu” (The Blue Lotus), which was published in 1986 by Gandus. I don’t think there is a “perfect” album for Italy, so when in doubt, go with The Blue Lotus, right?…
I only have one Tintin album in American English, but really, if you already have Tintin in America, what else do you need? I’m not quite sure when my copy was actually published, but the copyright date is 1979, so…
My Tintin album from Singapore came with an interesting decision… what language do you choose? There are four official languages – Malay, English, Tamil, and Singaporean Mandarin. In the end, I chose Mandarin – mainly because a) I already have…
I have a few Chinese language editions, but the Traditional Chinese album I have in my collection that represents my trips to Taiwan is “向日葵教授綁架案” (The Calculus Affair). Translated by Wang Bingdong, it was first published in Taiwan in 2011…
I have a few Chinese language editions, in both Traditional and Simplified, but the album I have in my collection that represents my trips to Northern China is the PERFECT one, “蓝莲花” (The Blue Lotus). Translated by Wang Bingdong, it…
I only have a single Tintin album in Khmer, “ផ្កាឈូកខៀវ.” (The Blue Lotus), but then again, that’s all anyone else has – it’s the only Tintin album officially translated into the language. It was published in 2001 by Casterman, as…
I only have a single Tintin album in Hindi, “तिब्बत टिनटिन में” (Tintin in Tibet), but really, it’s the only one I need. Translated by Puneet Gupta this lovely softcover edition was published in 2013 by Om Books International. It…
I have two Tintin albums in Polish. The first, “Berło Ottokara” (King Ottokar’s Sceptre) was translated by Marek Puszczewicz and published in 2009. The second, “Błękitny Lotos” (The Blue Lotus) was translated from the original French by Daniel Wyszogrodzki and…
I only have one Tintin album in Russian, but it’s the PERFECT one – “Тинтин в стране Советов” (Tintin in the Land of the Soviets). The Russian edition is quite frankly beautiful. Published in 2023 by Bumkniga (бумкнига), it’s more…
I have a single Tintin album in Latvian, “Vienradža noslēpums” (The Secret of the Unicorn), but it is one of the most treasured additions to my foreign language collection. Translated by Inese Pētersone, it was published in 2013 by Zvaigzne…
The finished model: The video The scene: Rocky is back from the dead! After seemingly perishing while playing A Game of Chicken by ramming a T-62 tank with a jeep in Chapter 009 “The Horizon of Anger”, Rocky is found…
The Crab with the Golden Claws (French: Le Crabe aux pinces d’or) is the ninth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in Le Soir Jeunesse, the children’s supplement to…
Tintin Magazine (French: Le Journal de Tintin) was a weekly Belgian comics magazine of the second half of the 20th century. Subtitled “The Magazine for the Youth from 7 to 77”, it was one of the major publications of the Franco-Belgian…
The Secret of the Unicorn (French: Le Secret de La Licorne) is the eleventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised daily in Le Soir, Belgium’s leading francophone newspaper, from…
Prisoners of the Sun (French: Le Temple du Soleil) is the fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in the newly established Tintin magazine from September 1946 to April 1948. Completing an arc begun in The Seven…
Flight 714 to Sydney (French: Vol 714 pour Sydney; originally published in English as Flight 714) is the twenty-second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1966 to November 1967 in Tintin magazine. The…
Tintin and the Thermozero (French: Tintin et le Thermozéro) is an abandoned comics project at one point considered for Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin series, and then, later, for his Jo, Zette and Jocko series. – courtesy of Wikipedia…
LE Mustang P-51 B fit son apparition en Europe en 1942, lorsque les Britanniques, qui venaient d’en être pourvus, l’utilisèrent comme chasseur et avion de reconnaissance photographique. Cet appareil était le P-51 A, à moteur Allison de 1.000 C.V., et…
CET appareil, dû à l’ingénieur Kurt TANK, fut produit en 1941 et mis, en service dans la LUFTWAFFE au cours de la même année. Construit dans treize usines différentes dont les principales se trouvaient à Marienburg, Halberstadt, Wismes, Cassel, Sorau…
The finished model: The video: The scene: The ESCAPE KILLERS! What a name. In the original Viz Area 88 comics there were known as the “Enforcers”, which is a fair translation… but it somehow lacks the punch. There is no…
The finished model: The video The scene: It’s time for the great escape! After spending weeks undercover in occupied neighbouring Brasia, Sera and Kim, with the help of the Brasian resistance movement, is finally ready to attempt a daring move…
The Broken Ear (French: L’Oreille cassée, originally published in English as Tintin and the Broken Ear) is the sixth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children’s supplement Le Petit Vingtième,…
The Blue Lotus (French: Le Lotus bleu) is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for its children’s supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it…
The Castafiore Emerald (French: Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is the twenty-first volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was serialised weekly from July 1961 to September 1962 in Tintin magazine. In contrast to the previous Tintin books,…
The finished model: The video The scene: As the team settles in to their new home at the Area 88 Mountain Base, Mickey and the rest of the American pilots celebrate the Fourth of July. Meanwhile, in New York Kanzaki…
The finished model: The video The scene: In a touching sidebar story, we meet Area 88’s luckiest pilot, Carlyle Benditz on his last day at the base. Despite having survived his 3-year mercenary contract – quite literally without a scratch…
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It’s the Monaco Grand Prix… jewel of the 1991 Formula 1 season. During Free Practice 1 Ferrari’s new (and temporary) Test Driver, a Japanese-American by the name of Man Yao jumps behind the wheel.
Captain Herbert Von Richter, the so-called Black Knight of Berlin, despite being a Luftwaffe ace is also a man of chivalrous knight of old – preferring not to shoot down an already disabled plane.
The finished model: The video The scene: On Kanzaki’s last flight before becoming a full-fledged Yamato Airlines pilot, he’s forced to fly without the use of an auto-pilot. When the B747-200 he’s piloting strays slightly off course, he learns the…
The finished model: The video The scene: During the invasion of Tanduria, Project 4 ground forces “Trapper” call in “Hawkeye” a MiG-21 to swat down a pesky fly… a RA-5C Vigilante recon plane from Area 88 that is getting intel…
The finished model: The video: The scene: Mark III Commander Bosch hunts down Shin and his men, one by one in the jungle forest the south African country of Bamballa, as they try to escape with the President and his…
The finished model: In the manga: After Rishal tries to sabotage the Grand Slam, he’s shot by the Desert Aircraft Carrier forces and left in the desert to die. As luck would have it, Old Man McCoy is returning to…
LE Warhawk dérivait du fameux chasseur Curtiss P-36 Hawk, dont il conservait la voilure et le fuselage. Un nouveau moteur ainsi qu’un capotage-avant entièrement redessiné avaient transformé l’appareil et lui fournissaient une vitesse de pointe supérieure. Il fut commandé en série par la…