The Adventures Of Tintin: The Calculus Affair

Nice depiction of the Duex Chevaux (Citroen 2CV) from The Calculus Affair, my favorite Tintin adventure. Thomson and Thompson (with a "P" as in Psychiatry) are some of my favorite characters.

Tintin is relatively unknown in the US, so I wonder how many members will get the reference? I, on the other hand, grew up on Hergé as well as Goscinny and Uderzo. I bought the entire collection of Tintin and Asterix comics for my kids, with the exception of the first episode, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, which I have never seen in an English edition.

Extra points to anyone who can tell the difference between Thomson and Thompson, other than the spelling!

hmmm is it in the moustaches? haha I remember Tintin, very good serise,  have a few of the hardbound combo books, trying to get my hands on the whole collection.

They actually had a cartoon version that came on of of the networks when I was growing up (I'm 20 years old, born and rased in Virginia)

A friend of mine has a dad that grew up in South Africa and he has some really old versions of the comics. Very cool stuff.

LOVE!! what you did with this model, awesome work in the roof and I love how you jacked up the suspention. Very well done! Like the figures too

psstoff995 wrote:

hmmm is it in the moustaches? haha I remember Tintin, very good serise,  have a few of the hardbound combo books, trying to get my hands on the whole collection. They actually had a cartoon version that came on of of the networks when I was growing up (I'm 20 years old, born and rased in Virginia) A friend of mine has a dad that grew up in South Africa and he has some really old versions of the comics. Very cool stuff. LOVE!! what you did with this model, awesome work in the roof and I love how you jacked up the suspention. Very well done! Like the figures too

Very good. Now, try and collect the extra points!

Thanks for your interest. Nice to wake up some memories

I used 1:24 Heller kit: http://www.citroenz.biz/heller-2cv24.jpg

It´s 70-model so I modified it to late 50-style. Seats are made from aluminum MIG-welding wire and paper tissue. Front hood is modified to 50-style. Disc brakes are changed to drum brakes. Allso changed from 12v to 6v. Window from c-pole (is this the right word?) is removed.

Detectives, Dupont and Dupond in finish, are resin copies from old Bully´s figure.

 I like allso very much Tintin, Lucky Luke and Asterix comics. I think we have allmost all Tintin comics. Even Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

First of all I like those two bowler hat shaped bumps in the canvas top!!! I've collected all of them except ...in the land of the Soviets, from when I was a kid. I didn't even know about that one! I am sure it greatly influenced my love of big mechanical things: trains, aircraft, ships, autos, speedboats. Any one who could fly a Bodurian Me-109/ S-199 or whatever that thing was is OK by me!

It's my understanding that a movie based on Red Rackhams Treasure is forthcoming, which of course would need to include The Secret of the Unicorn.

Bgrigg wrote:

Extra points to anyone who can tell the difference between Thomson and Thompson, other than the spelling!

Well, their original names are Dupond and Dupont. If you look at the moustache, the edge of one looks like a D, and the edge of the other character's moustache looks more like a T.

Hope this will help.