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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: fairoaks024 on November 06, 2011, 04:35:22 PM

Title: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: fairoaks024 on November 06, 2011, 04:35:22 PM: some pulp figures painted for a commission, the bases aren't finished as the customer bases them himself to fit the rest of his collection.

the 3 most famous belgians...

(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4632/3famousbelgians.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/402/3famousbelgians.jpg/)

regards

jim
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: Skratch on November 06, 2011, 06:59:13 PM: Nice work, Bobby is just lovely :-*

Anyway, who makes these models?
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: fairoaks024 on November 06, 2011, 07:07:18 PM: they're from copplestone castings

regards

jim
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: Steve F on November 06, 2011, 08:07:09 PM: I've been waiting for Copplestone to make an Adolphe Sax and a Plastic Bertrand for ages now.
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: thebinmann on November 07, 2011, 09:43:35 PM: Nice I was thinking chips, waffles and Stella A!
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: 6milPhil on November 08, 2011, 12:19:31 PM: Obviously I recognise the first two, but who's the chap on the right?
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: richarDISNEY on November 08, 2011, 02:59:42 PM: Nick Charles and Asta. A Detective and his dog written by Dashell Hammet. But they were American.
Who's the dude in the blue?
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: Marine0846 on November 08, 2011, 04:17:06 PM: I was going to ask,"Why is the dog famous, did he bite one of the other two?" :D
Nice figures, well painted.
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: Colonel Tubby on November 08, 2011, 06:26:56 PM: Quote from: 6milPhil on November 08, 2011, 12:19:31 PM
Obviously I recognise the first two, but who's the chap on the right?

As there are ONLY 3 famous Belgians the one on the right must be Hurcule Poirot after a crash diet! lol
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: Dolmot on November 08, 2011, 06:53:44 PM: Or maybe some of Van Damme's less known roles?

At least I don't remember that one so it must be less known.
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: achab on November 08, 2011, 07:27:23 PM: Hum, thin Poirot with a gun... Quite unorthodox. Now, Can I have that Plastic Bertrand figure too?
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: Steve F on November 08, 2011, 07:43:51 PM: I assumed it was a young Poirot, but I suppose that Hergé might have drawn the other two while wearing dinner clothes!
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: thebinmann on November 08, 2011, 07:51:39 PM: Quote from: Steve F on November 08, 2011, 07:43:51 PM
I assumed it was a young Poirot, but I suppose that Hergé might have drawn the other two while wearing dinner clothes!

Im sure you are right, look at the button hole

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VZRUe4T0rLs/TZ-jri0OoBI/AAAAAAAABD8/QAKP70vlY2s/s1600/Hercule+Poirot.jpg)

Given to him in a flashback eposide when he worked for the Brussels police
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: fairoaks024 on November 08, 2011, 10:26:06 PM: Yup, thebinman is correct, i think he's young poirot, thats
Why he's got the buttonhole. Quite why he's adventuring
with tintin and snowy will obviously be explained ar some point
:)

Regards

Jim
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: thebinmann on November 08, 2011, 10:36:02 PM: Looking forw to that, is a personal project or for some other lucky person?
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: fairoaks024 on November 08, 2011, 11:12:57 PM: Hi thebinmann,

They're part of a largish commission for a guy in australia,
along with these i'm working through a large batch of
Blacktree Dr. Who figures as well.

Regards

Jim
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: 6milPhil on November 09, 2011, 12:00:32 PM: Quote from: Colonel Tubby on November 08, 2011, 06:26:56 PM
As there are ONLY 3 famous Belgians the one on the right must be Hurcule Poirot after a crash diet! lol

So it's Magritte? Or Audrey Hepburn?

I know it's not Eddy Merckx because he's not on a bicycle...
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: janner on November 09, 2011, 12:28:47 PM: Quote from: 6milPhil on November 09, 2011, 12:00:32 PM
So it's Magritte? Or Audrey Hepburn?

I know it's not Eddy Merckx because he's not on a bicycle...
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and I think Godfrey of Bouillon's suit was made of chainmail
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: Steve F on November 09, 2011, 12:30:04 PM: It's not King Leopold, because there are no severed hands around; and its not Georges Simenon because he's not shagging anyone.
Title: Re: 3 famous Belgians
Post by: Argonor on November 14, 2011, 12:42:16 PM: Quote from: richarDMB on November 08, 2011, 02:59:42 PM
Nick Charles and Asta. A Detective and his dog written by Dashell Hammet. But they were American.
Who's the dude in the blue?

I suppose you mean the young guy, and that the recent blockbuster animated movie by Spielberg has answered your question?

I know that Tintin was quite unknown in the US until now - probably just like many other comic book heroes from the Franco-Belgian tradition.