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Hello Eurobricks!

These are my first custom minfigures which I have devoted to Tintin, first of all I would like to say a huge thanks to: Hound Knight-for inspiring me, and by suppling decals for Tintin, Capt. Haddock and Calculus.- Second to (Dutch) -who spent countless hours making me decals :)- and finally to JopieK and his team at ministickers.nl for printing me these great decals (buy them here! http://ministickers.nl/shop/shop/minifigs-2/tintin-minifigs/)

Enough talking!

Here's the buckling reporter himself!

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Tintin by SandMirror38, on Flickr

Decal by Hound Knight, whilst I myself made the hairpiece using games workshop's 'green stuff'

*Edit* -Added Haddock and Calculus-

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Captain Haddock by SandMirror38, on Flickr

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Professor Calculus by SandMirror38, on Flickr

More minifigures coming soon!

*UPDATE 2!*

WIP Nestor!

13796953544_ae247c7e5f.jpgWIP Nestor -Front- by SandMirror38, on Flickr

13796620893_aa6102da05.jpgWIP Nestor -Back- by SandMkr

*FINAL UPDATE*

Woah, long time no see!!! (Admin'll probably hate me for bumping this... :grin:)

So after a long process of anything and everything to do with getting these minifigures made they are FINALLY done and I am happy to present my custom printed Tintin minifigures!!

16763527150_515662bd8d_b.jpgCustom Tintin minifigures. by SandMirror38, on Flickr

Which ones are YOUR favorite?

I'd be happy to answer any questions you have :)

Kind Regards,

SandMirror38

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Very nice, but we can't possibly have him without Snowy!

Too true, I've been trying to find a old mould of a white dog, which (with some customising) would be perfect for Snowy. Although I can't find the mould on BL :(

Hopefully I can finish up and upload another character today or tomorrow

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So hopefully someone here can help me, I found the dog a while ago in LDD and here is a picture of it.

https://www.flickr.c...15/10075084563/

On the right, it is possible someone could look into this and find the dog for me on BL?

Don't know if you saw my comment. You can buy a Snowy-looking dog here: http://www.firestart...g-~-White-.html

Your link is broken so I don't know if it's the same one.

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Don't know if you saw my comment. You can buy a Snowy-looking dog here: http://www.firestart...g-~-White-.html

Your link is broken so I don't know if it's the same one.

Oops, Would you be able to get a picture of that dog next to a minifigure for sense of scale? I brought the Stephanie soccer friends set and am customising that dog. Though your one looks great!

Captain Haddock should be up late today -NO PROMISES!- I need to finish off the cap and hair

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Looking at this picture it seems like the one I was thinking of will be too big. Oh well.

Yea, thought that might be the case. Oh well thanks for looking into it.

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with a 3D-Printer. There are some companies like Shape-Ways where you can print your 3d-models.

Or maybe there´s someone in the community that has a 3D-Printer whom you could ask.

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@kingpixels - I know of some that have good results taking a printed part and soaking it briefly in a solvent like acetate or something. It smooths the edges out remarkably.

@Sandmirror - Great job, I like the decal - I'd almost argue for making his hair even bigger...

I can't say I read much of Tin Tin as a child, though as an adult I'm always envious of how amazing the art style is - of the detailed backgrounds working with the crisp lines of the characters. Very interesting comic. Didn't they just make a movie about this? OR it's in the works? I can't imagine anyone can "get it right." I anticipate a disaster...but that's just me.

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^ Ha ha. Thanks. I thought the same myself about the hair...

As for the movie it's been out for 2 years and is bloody amazing! They're onto the 2nd one and I've seen the first 48 times.... :blush:

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As for the movie it's been out for 2 years and is bloody amazing! They're onto the 2nd one and I've seen the first 48 times.... :blush:

Really, no offence intended, but I refuse to see the movie. I really loved the comics as a kid, and the cartoons were cool aswell, since they are almost 100 % identical to the comics. But a Holywood production about one of my childhood hero's, I prefer not to see that. I can only be disapointed, even if the movie looks great..

Have you red the comics?

To get back on topic, that is why I like it that your custom looks like the comic version ;)

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^ Each to their own

The tintin books were actually the first books i read by myself and I still absolutely love them!

I am basing majority of my minifigures off the comics, although it is hard to find comic looking faces as I don't want to use decals...

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The wait was worth it!

Look at the first post for Professor Calculus and Capt. Haddock. I am really happy with how these two turned out

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