Land of Black Gold (French: Tintin au pays de l’or noir) is the fifteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle for…
Tintin in the Congo (French: Tintin au Congo) is the second 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 serialised weekly from May 1930 to…
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 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 need to…
The finished model: 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 on the…
The finished model: 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 family. When…
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…
The finished model: In the manga: After Shin is discharged from Area 88, he lands in Paris and spends a few days in the city, seeing the sights. After a chance meeting with a group of Japanese tourists, the three…