TinTin ships

**redwolf28386** · #1 06-05-2023, 08:16 PM

Does anyone know if paper models of the freighter and sailing ship from the Tin Tin movie are available? I thought that I had seen them in post some time ago. Thanks in advance!

**Paper Kosmonaut** · #2 06-06-2023, 10:52 AM

Close to anything that even only vaguely smells of Tintin, you will find the jackal lawyers of Moulinsart, sharpening their knifes to slice you up.

About a decade ago, Jason Sutton, a very avid model designer, once created a very good looking Tintin rocket which he offered online for free and immediately got a cease and desist letter from the bloodhounds of Moulinsart law department.
So in short: No, there is hardly anything to be found of Tintin paper models. No figurines, no vehicles, no ships, no rockets, no planes.
The best you might do for yourself is to take a ship that more or less resembles the one from the movie and change the name, the other smaller details and keep it offline because really, you don't want to have these lawyers breathing in your neck.

**Dancooper** · #3 06-06-2023, 12:31 PM

But what ship in particular are asking about ? Is it one from the books, from the older cartoons or from the silverscreen movie ?
If it's the Karaboudjan from the comic books than I would think the Schwan II (from HMV at scale 1/200) has the right shape, it's an early 20th century freight steamer.

**Dancooper** · #4 06-06-2023, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Paper Kosmonaut

Close to anything that even only vaguely smells of Tintin, you will find the jackal lawyers of Moulinsart, sharpening their knifes to slice you up.

About a decade ago, Jason Sutton, a very avid model designer, once created a very good looking Tintin rocket which he offered online for free and immediately got a cease and desist letter from the bloodhounds of Moulinsart law department.

The law works in strange ways, if Jason would have published his moonrocket in let's say blue-and-white instead of red-and-white and hadn't mentioned the name of Tin-Tin, there would have been no problem at all.

**redwolf28386** · #5 06-06-2023, 08:00 PM

I was hoping for something from the newer movie, was hoping to make a display with the two ships.