karl s
03-15-2008, 12:39 PM
Made by Atlas (in China), here is another series based on a European comic - the previous thread reminded me of these. They are in the style of Herge's drawings, so represent his comic book illustration as well as the real prototype car. Herge was well known for doing a lot of research on each car, plane, boat, etc., that he drew for his Tintin graphic novels (ie, comics or BD in French :o)
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/508/medium/Tintin_1938_Lincoln_Zephyr.jpg
Several websites list and picture the whole series, which I think is now complete and numbers 70 cars and trucks. Here are 2 good ones: first (http://www.aquitaine33.com/atlas/) and second (http://dardel.info/tintin/index.html). They are nice, heavy metal castings, in a blue window box with a color insert on the illustrated and actual car!
If you live in France, you can buy the first one cheap from Atlas (http://www.editionsatlas.fr/p/02118/La-voiture-de-tintin.html) to get you hooked on the series, perhaps? :thumbsup:
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/508/medium/Tintin_1938_Lincoln_Zephyr.jpg
Several websites list and picture the whole series, which I think is now complete and numbers 70 cars and trucks. Here are 2 good ones: first (http://www.aquitaine33.com/atlas/) and second (http://dardel.info/tintin/index.html). They are nice, heavy metal castings, in a blue window box with a color insert on the illustrated and actual car!
If you live in France, you can buy the first one cheap from Atlas (http://www.editionsatlas.fr/p/02118/La-voiture-de-tintin.html) to get you hooked on the series, perhaps? :thumbsup: