Lucky Luke in 28mm (update 1/02)

[Roger Guy]

This is a very fine!!!!!
 

[Galloping Major]

exemplary devotion and endurance for the project, WK, the result is truly awesome.

I'll second that 


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[white knight]

Wow, that's a bit of threadomancy, but I prefer to keep the project in a single thread. First of, I put all the pictures from the project in a new blog (among other things), as I see some of the picture links in this thread are broken anyway. The new blog is: http://bd-wars.blogspot.be/search/label/All%20Lucky%20Luke

The next addition to the Lucky Luke project was quite unplanned. I accidentally found the Lemax christmas ornament "River Belle" and thought it could work with the project. As an added bonus, it has a passing resemblance to the Daysy Belle from the "Boat race on the Mississippi" album. Not quite the same, but close enough.



Here it is straight out of the box with the christmas lights still attached and a couple (to be stripped) Atlas Lucky Luke figures for scale. As can be seen, the ship has the same undersized but with exagerated details thing going as the vehicles and houses in the Lucky Luke range, which gives it the right cartoony feel.



The main downside of these Lemax pieces is the material. The body is made from a type of ceramic that holds reasonable detail, but can't really be modified much and weighs a bit more than your average resin piece.

I went to town on it and started stripping the christmas lights (and the inside batteries ans stuff). I also noticed that the plastic railings and resin details were glued on with heavy handed doses of hot glue, so those had to come off too, to be cleaned and reattached after painting. I couldn't get the steering cabin loose from the main body, despite using liberal doses of Aceton on the glue, so had to pry out the pilot and will have to make sure the replacement I make for him is not too big and can be put back in.



The detail bits. I'll leave off the benches and passengers. These are actually perfect 28mm scale for once (most of the time, the Lemax figures are 40mm and up), so they will be put away for later use in IHMN/EOTD Victorian games.



So here's where we are now. Another look of the stripped down Belle with some Atlas Lucky Luke figures. Next step will be to do something about those christmas wreaths attached to the sides (although the material being so hard to work with, I may just paint them as they aren't too conspicuous) and fill in the gaps in the upper deck planking where I removed the benches. Also need to remove the moulded "River" and replace with "Daisy" for the name.



I'll also need to convert me a Captain Barrows to go with it too.

[Admiral Benbow]

Great to see your collection again! The ship might be a nice addition when you finished it.

Do you know these quite new figures from Stronghold Terrain?






Perhaps great additions for your collection ...

[white knight]

I have that Lucky Luke on order. I like the figures, but they're... odd... not quite as full on cartoony as the ones I'm using, but more cartoony than can reasonably be mixed with regular 28mm. 

[white knight]

Very little progress made on the boat. Screwed off the waterwheel so it will be easier to paint, cleaned up the detail pieces and filled some holes with greenstuff.

Some progress made on converting the captain and pilot, based on the ones from the "Boatrace on the Mississippi" story, but they aren't finished yet. 

[white knight]

Been stripping more spare models and converting up new characters (or variants of characters), so hopefully will have some more updates here soon.

One of the goals is to do mounted versions of the armed characters, so I have mounted and dismounted versions of the same.