Author Topic: Show your painted Corto ... (Read 50207 times)

gamer Mac · « **Reply #30 on:** February 13, 2020, 01:32:13 AM »

nice

Poiter50 · « **Reply #31 on:** February 13, 2020, 01:54:56 AM »

That's not standard, that's gorgeous.

Hammers · « **Reply #32 on:** February 13, 2020, 05:53:25 AM »

A thing of beauty. I should post mine to, painted it some time ago.

Elk101 · « **Reply #33 on:** February 13, 2020, 06:21:54 AM »

Yeah, hardly standard, that's excellent work.

Overlord · « **Reply #34 on:** February 13, 2020, 09:45:25 AM »

Thanks for the comments.

By standard I meant the 'standard' colour choices for Corto (Just to keep Plynkes happy

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Hammers · « **Reply #35 on:** February 13, 2020, 10:00:20 AM »

Quote from: Overlord on February 13, 2020, 09:45:25 AM

By standard I meant the 'standard' colour choices for Corto (Just to keep Plynkes happy )

Good luck with that...

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #36 on:** February 13, 2020, 10:04:00 AM »

Looks great Paul

Captain Blood · « **Reply #37 on:** February 13, 2020, 11:59:39 AM »

Oh, very nice

Malamute · « **Reply #38 on:** February 13, 2020, 12:26:40 PM »

Lovely job

Bugsda · « **Reply #39 on:** February 13, 2020, 01:21:54 PM »

Top job, better late than never

Plynkes · « **Reply #40 on:** August 28, 2020, 10:46:17 PM »

This came today...

Newly published edition. So after over twenty five years of being a fan, I finally have all the Hugo Pratt Corto stories. For most of that time many of them haven't been available in English, but thanks to some nice American publishing house, with the release of this one you can now get them all.

Anyway, I think to celebrate the completion of my collection I really ought to paint this bloody figure I've had sitting on my desk for the past two years or so, don't you?

I'll get right on it.

syrinx0 · « **Reply #41 on:** August 29, 2020, 04:29:14 AM »

Quote from: Plynkes on August 28, 2020, 10:46:17 PM

Anyway, I think to celebrate the completion of my collection I really ought to paint this bloody figure I've had sitting on my desk for the past two years or so, don't you?

I'll get right on it.

Two years isn't bad really. Not compared to some on my table...

Is this a new print release that is still available?

Plynkes · « **Reply #42 on:** August 29, 2020, 10:54:55 AM »

Yes, it's a brand-new edition, came out this week, I've had it on pre-order for about six months. When I first started collecting Corto Maltese there wasn't anything in print in English. I bought my first one from a bargain bin in a comic shop, and got quite a few second-hand a little later on from the internet.

But for the last few years Euro Comics (an American outfit, despite the name) have been releasing the entire saga, with a new one coming out every six months or so. They've finally finished the job and so currently the entire run is available in English at the same time. So a good time to be an English-speaking Corto fan.

They seem to be making a bit of a song and dance about it being a new translation from the Italian, too. Not sure I'm all that impressed with it, though. The dialogue is sometimes a bit stilted and strange, but for all I know the original Italian was like that too. I also spotted something of a blooper. One story, set in the 1920s mentions the company "British Telecom." Yeah, a company that didn't exist until 1984. Would have still been the GPO back then, I think. No idea what it said in the original, it came out in 1988 originally, so the mistake may have been Pratt's rather than the translators'.

But I can let that slide for the sake of finally having a complete collection, even if they are in several different editions (though I do kind of hate that - my Flashmans (Flashmen?) are like that too - they don't bloody match on the book shelf - at least my Patrick O'Briens are all from the same batch).

Hammers · « **Reply #43 on:** August 29, 2020, 03:42:18 PM »

A ruddy good read, I an sure.

anch_io · « **Reply #44 on:** August 29, 2020, 06:44:32 PM »

Quote from: Plynkes on August 29, 2020, 10:54:55 AM

The dialogue is sometimes a bit stilted and strange, but for all I know the original Italian was like that too.

It is, but it is also part of the comic's charm.

Oh, and a bit late, but my Corto for the topic...

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