Lucky Luke in 28mm (update 1/02)

[white knight]

A charming little lady who did the best she could raising her four boys by herself. Ma Dalton.

She's really tiny:


Luke's horse, Jolly Jumper:



The vulture, with homemade treestump:


The undertaker's hearse, complete with wreath and coffin:

[Le matou rouge]

 

I'm longing to see a group pic in the paper town 

meow,
Matt

[white knight]

Well, I haven't printed it out yet.

Anyway, the plan is to use the paper town as a template for some real buildings, using wood planking and such.

[dodge]

it just gets better and better, although i'll be sad when it's over i'm eager to see them all in a town too.

well done wk

dodge

[white knight]

Two more, though I'm the least pleased about this. Not very exciting to paint and it shows. Anyway, on to the next.
 
The tenderfoot:



The civilian (repainting has revealed her true age underall the make-up... ) :



Next: a wagon with driver.

[Calimero]

The civilian (repainting has revealed her true age underall the make-up... )

 

Nice work once again! 

[white knight]

It's been over a month since the last update it would seem.
Only a single model this time, but it's a wagon with driver and mules, so it should count.

Still from the Editions Atlas range.

[white knight]

In the Lucky Luke stories, whenever a gambler is caught cheating, he gets a choice: the rope or being covered in feathers and tar and escorted to the border of the town on a piece of rail, never to return. Needless to say, most stick with the second option. This little vignette by Editions Atlas shows one of these unfortunate hustlers. I left out the sheriff's star on the feathered man (although this was taken from an actual story), as to make it a more generic crook (besides,it was badly sculpted and only vaguely resembled a star). The vignette also comes with a bucket of tar (goudron) and a sack of feathers (plumes), which were also repainted...





Before being stripped and repainted, the figures looked like this:

[white knight]

And another one done. Unlike the others, this mounted version of Lucky Luke is not an Editions Atlas mini, but came from the older (and more expensive) Pixi mini range on the same theme. I got this one cheap off ebay because half of the hat and part of an ear was broken off (and missing). Paint came off much easier than with the Atlas brand and after applying some green stuff to repair the hat and ear, it was ready to go.



With the Atlas dismounted version:


The Pixi and Atlas Jolly Jumper models:


With the original (damaged) pixi paintjob:

[Christian]

Hey nice work on these. For some reason the vulture statue looks familiar, but I'm still not sure if I've seen Lucky Luke before... definitely rings a few bells. Keep it up!

[white knight]

Hey nice work on these. For some reason the vulture statue looks familiar, but I'm still not sure if I've seen Lucky Luke before... definitely rings a few bells. Keep it up!

If this doesn't refresh your memory, I don't know what will:

[white knight]

Two more for the town:

The Bartender (who could do without one?)


Original paintjob to the right:


The Preacher (look at him,all serious and stoic)

[Mancha]

You're gonna be so depressed when you finish the last miniature.  This is like a little version of painting one's entire lead pile.  You'll die and we'll never hear from you again.

[white knight]

That's why I'm buying some doubles on ebay to convert into more characters.

Now working on the stagecoach, which I've converted from 2 horses to 4 (cannibalising a second copy of the stagecoach in the process). 

[white knight]

"La diligence", with the famous driver Hank Bully. Another great model (with some work) from the Editions Atlas range. This one required a few modifications prior to repainting to bring it to the next level. Unlike the original comic and the Pixi version of the stagecoach, the Atlas model comes with only two horses (picture at the bottom of this post), which just won't do. So I cannibalised a second model (I kept the bits I didn't need to use in a future chariot conversion) to make room for two more horses. The extra horses themselves got a slight repositioning of the heads so that they wouldn't look identical and some greenstuff to the manes and tails.</p>
The coulour scheme for the coach ended up looking rather different from the Atlas paintjob. It's in fact a cross between the cover of the comic and an image of a real stagecoach I found online.







Pictures of the original Atlas paintjob and comparison (after-before) for the driver: