Lucky Luke collection (30mm) (1 Viewer)

[White Knight]

I like the standard base you are using for all your conversions. No doubt about you are improving the figures appearances. A real nice collection. Robin.

It also helps to seemlessly blend the irregular oval-ish Atlas bases with the rectangular Pixi bases. The characters are all on 20mm round bases.

 

[White Knight]

Almost getting near the end of the ones I have finished painting.

Prospector with donkey:

The rope was a scratchbuilt addition as the original figure doesn't have any.

Chinese Laundry set:

Man, there's a bit of a racial steretype going here.

The customer:

Another robber:

Sleeping Mexican:

Another random civilian:

 

[White Knight]

The Indian is one of the more fun figures in the later releases of the Editions Atlas Lucky Luke figures. I've strayed a bit from the official paintjob and I'm quite happy with the result.

The grocery store. All the models are from Editions Atlas, except for the stack of 5 small barrels which are Mega Minis. When I get around to building the actual shop (when all the figures are painted), I'll add some more goods from various sources.

I quite like the wood grain I painted on these. At actual size it looks quite good.

Another wagon for the wagon train. All repainted Atlas stock items, only the base was added. Well, that and I changed the patches on the cover so they wouldn't be identical to the last one.

 

[villagehorse]

I can see a small Western town layout here. The General store you are building, a saloon, Sheriff's office, railway station and undertaker. That should accommodate most of your figures and accessories.I see a wagon train about to set out from the Main Street between these buildings. With all this fantastic work and effort, they deserve a permanent diorama. No pressure, but if you don't, I will just have to buy it all from you and do it myself^&grin. Keep the photos coming please. Robin.
The building facades that are available need a small open roof room behind each to set out the accessories like saloon chairs, piano etc.

 

[marco55]

Wonderful little range beautifully painted.Very unique and different.
Mark

 

[White Knight]

I can see a small Western town layout here. The General store you are building, a saloon, Sheriff's office, railway station and undertaker. That should accommodate most of your figures and accessories.I see a wagon train about to set out from the Main Street between these buildings. With all this fantastic work and effort, they deserve a permanent diorama. No pressure, but if you don't, I will just have to buy it all from you and do it myself^&grin. Keep the photos coming please. Robin.
The building facades that are available need a small open roof room behind each to set out the accessories like saloon chairs, piano etc.

I do have the facades that came with this range too, with some doubles for conversion purposes. I would like to expand them into full buildings, though I'm still unsure how easy it will be to make the interior accessible (should be feasable, I reckon, with lift off roofs). From memory, there's an undertaker, sheriff's office, prison, chinese laundry, saloon, hotel, school, farmhouse, editor, telegrapher, stagecoach office, Indian affairs office, church, general store, so that should give me some things to work with. I will also try to add a railway station as I already converted a "chef de gare" for it and found a suitable train. I will probably run out of space, but would like to expand the town with a small Chinese quarter and a mexican quarter (converting up some more chinese and mexicans to add to the streets) and perhaps a larger prison as it is shown in the comics (already converting some more prisoners for it).

 

[White Knight]

Getting to the last of my repaints so far.

Refuting the saying "the only good Dalton is a Dalton behind bars", Marcel Dalton is considered the black sheep of the family because he's the only honest Dalton. What's even worse, he's a (Swiss) banker. Brother to Ma Dalton, his existence came as a bit of a surprise to Joe, Jack, William and Averell when he visited them in prison...This one is a conversion of a spare Averell miniature (by Editions Atlas). Greenstuff was used to turn the prison outfit in to a suit, add a hat, a suitcase, a cigar and resculpt the right arm. I think the conversions was succesful and he makes a worthy addition to the collection.

The next one is an extensive conversion based on the Tenderfoot model. The character is Scat, an incorrigable gambler. The conversion involved shortening the legs, modifying the face and resculpting the jacket and arms, including the rather challenging cigarette holding hand. Painting the yellow vest with the card colours was quite a fun change.

Next to the base model:

Another extensive conversion for a character that wasn't officially produced. This one is the station master (chef de gare). The base for this one was the telegrapher model, as his outfit was the closest match. His arms were resculpted as well as his face and cap.

 

[villagehorse]

Goodness I have complete confidence in your ability to make anything that is required. There is a lot more buildings than I thought, but this many will make an excellent town. What a great project. Really hope you consider proceeding down this road. You have no shortage of figures that's for sure. Keep the photos flowing please. Robin.

 

[White Knight]

These are the last that I have done until now (more to paint when it's not so hot). The third wagon in my Lucky Luke wagon train is, like the first two, a repainted Editions Atlas model. The driver is an extensive conversion of a spare copy of the stagecoach driver.

All three together:

And the driver next to the original:

An overview of the lot so far (I need to work on a proper setup)...

 

[White Knight]

Goodness I have complete confidence in your ability to make anything that is required. There is a lot more buildings than I thought, but this many will make an excellent town. What a great project. Really hope you consider proceeding down this road. You have no shortage of figures that's for sure. Keep the photos flowing please. Robin.

Thank you for the vote of confidence. The smaller size of these figures (30mm) and the fact that the buildings are deliberately undersized in a cartoony way make this a more viable option, in terms of space.

I already picked up a small train to go with my station master. It's slightly undersized in the same way the Atlas wagons and buildings are, so should work well. The set will be converted and repainted.

 

[villagehorse]

I found your blog also on these. When I win the lottery I am going to make you an offer to buy that you cannot resist^&grin, Robin.

 

[White Knight]

That would be interesting to see.

Since you found the blog, you'll already have seen the last entry regarding this project, the repurposing of a Lemax riverboat. I've since converted some figures to go with it, but they haven't been painted yet.

The Lemax christmas ornament "River Belle" has a (barely) 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 can be put back in.

So here's where we are now. Another look of the stripped down Belle with some Atlas Lucky Luke figures. Since this picture was taken, I've filled in all the gaps, including the ones in the upper deck planking where I removed the benches.

 

[villagehorse]

Just an amazing project yet again. This too will be a real treat after you have finished i am sure. Robin.

 

[White Knight]

Just an amazing project yet again. This too will be a real treat after you have finished i am sure. Robin.

It's going to be a lot less colourfull though, the Daisy Belle is mostly white and grey, with light brown deck. Hopefully the crew and passengers will add some much needed colour.