White Knight
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This project started back in 2008, when I learned Atlas were doing a 28/30mm Lucky Luke collection in prepainted lead (with some resin accessories).
For the uninitiated, Lucky Luke is a humorous comics series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946. The series takes place in the American Old West and features the titular Lucky Luke, a cowboy known as the "man who shoots faster than his shadow", accompanied by his horse Jolly Jumper. Lucky Luke is charged with restoring justice to the Old West by chasing down bandits, the most famous of whom are the Dalton Brothers. The stories are filled with humorous elements parodying the Western genre and feature many famous personalities of the period.
Having learned of these figures, I immediately went to the Editions Atlas site, but alas, it seemed the collection was only available in France. So I went the ebay route and found an auction that had a nice selection of miniatures from the range and figured I'd get these now and depending on how enthused I remained about the project, would subscribe to the collection when it became available over here.
Basically the collection consists (miniatures wise, it also comes with DVD's of the cartoon version) of 50-ish characters, some resin buildingfronts and some metal and/or resin accessories. Now, as is the case with the oop Pixi ranges, Atlas miniatures tend to be smothered in several layers of badly applied thick paint, obliterating all the details. To give you an idea, here are the figures lined up (click to enlarge).
After stripping, repainting turned out to yield some much better looking characterful figures, so I tracked down the rest of the Atlas range, with some spares for conversions, and complemented them with some choice sets from the fully compatible similar Pixi range (although partly OOP and more pricey).
The titular character Lucky Luke and his horse Jolly Jumper:
The repaint next to the original:
And the less than bright companion dog Rantanplan:
And the main baddies, the Dalton brothers:
I have many more from this collection, but I thought I'd post just a few first and see if there's any interest to see more.
For the uninitiated, Lucky Luke is a humorous comics series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946. The series takes place in the American Old West and features the titular Lucky Luke, a cowboy known as the "man who shoots faster than his shadow", accompanied by his horse Jolly Jumper. Lucky Luke is charged with restoring justice to the Old West by chasing down bandits, the most famous of whom are the Dalton Brothers. The stories are filled with humorous elements parodying the Western genre and feature many famous personalities of the period.
Having learned of these figures, I immediately went to the Editions Atlas site, but alas, it seemed the collection was only available in France. So I went the ebay route and found an auction that had a nice selection of miniatures from the range and figured I'd get these now and depending on how enthused I remained about the project, would subscribe to the collection when it became available over here.
Basically the collection consists (miniatures wise, it also comes with DVD's of the cartoon version) of 50-ish characters, some resin buildingfronts and some metal and/or resin accessories. Now, as is the case with the oop Pixi ranges, Atlas miniatures tend to be smothered in several layers of badly applied thick paint, obliterating all the details. To give you an idea, here are the figures lined up (click to enlarge).
After stripping, repainting turned out to yield some much better looking characterful figures, so I tracked down the rest of the Atlas range, with some spares for conversions, and complemented them with some choice sets from the fully compatible similar Pixi range (although partly OOP and more pricey).
The titular character Lucky Luke and his horse Jolly Jumper:
The repaint next to the original:
And the less than bright companion dog Rantanplan:
And the main baddies, the Dalton brothers:
I have many more from this collection, but I thought I'd post just a few first and see if there's any interest to see more.
. I would love to see more. The characters are brilliant. It is all new to me but your excellent photos made me smile especially the baddie brothers who couldn't look less like brothers if they tried.
