The Chinese Vase (The Blue Lotus)

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…

Cowboy Tintin (Tintin in America)

Tintin in America (French: Tintin en Amérique) is the third 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 September 1931 to…

Ford Model-T (Tintin in the Congo)

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…

Monaco FP1 (Gentle Man)

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.

A Close Save (Area 88)

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…