The Adventures of Tintin: The Land of Black Gold

One of my favorite comic book series ever is The Adventures of Tintin, by the French author Herge. The story lines for each book are always very intriguing, the characters are funny, and the drawings show Herge's true talent as an artist. I have spent many a night reading Tintin comics with my brothers in our "man cave," and always enjoy doing so.

Out of all 22 Tintin books, The Land of Black Gold is definitely one of my favorites. In the book, the silly Thom(p)son twins spend a lot of their time riding around the desert in a red jeep. So I came up with the idea of building a model based off this jeep. In The Land of Black Gold, as many of you probably know, the twins also swallow Professor Mueller's Formula 14, and their hair automatically starts to grow rapidly and keeps changing colors! So I also included the crazy-haired Thom(p)sons in minifigure form, along with their bowler hats.

Although my model may look simple, I put a great bit of effort into making it resemble the characters and their jeep as much as possible. I included many details on the jeep which can be found in the real version if you look through The Land of Black Gold. Some of these features are the spare tire, license plate and gas can on the back, the slick black tires, the side view mirror, and the windshield.

Anyways, I hope you like my idea as much as I do! If you do, don't forget to hit the support button to get it to 10k, and leave a comment too if you like. Lastly, please check out my profile to see all my other ideas which I have submitted.

Happy building!