Hawker Hart 1/72 - Tintin decals

[Charlie Delta Foxtrot]

That’s a cool little keep! great project!

[Neil Merryweather]

Loving this!
I seem to remember a bowler hatted figure in the old Airfix Civilians set....if you can find one these days :thinking:

[Charlie Delta Foxtrot]

As it goes, this was a ‘baddies’ plane. I’m not sure I have the Thomson Twins decals so at the moment, no urgency :-) I wondered if they could be 3D printed…

[Guest]

There must be bowler-hatted tin wargames figures in 25 mm … Maybe some suitable ones here?

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/victorians-edwardians

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/victorian-bystanders

[Tim Marlow]

Trouble is Jakko, those are 28mm figures, so about 1/56 in scale…..

[Tim Marlow]

Like these?

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/art/tintin-dupont-and-dupond-3d-figure-the-thompson-twins

[Tim Marlow]

28’s are easier Jakko…

https://1stcorps.co.uk/product/nosy-youth-companions/

Still no Thompson and Thomson though….

[Guest]

IIRC, Wargames Foundry figures aren’t on the big side? That’s why I pointed to them, anyway. Or am I confusing manufacturers here?

[Tim Marlow]

I think the early Perry sculpts are relatively small for 28s, but I have some from way back and they still dwarf Minifigs true 25s. Remember the Vercingetorix I did a while back, he was Foundry and was around thirty mil high…..

[Guest]

Hmm … scratch this idea, then

Maybe the solution is just to chop the tops of the heads off some plastic 1:72 scale figures, glue on a disc of thin plastic card that has been rolled a bit to make it curved, and then add the dome of the hat from either some plastic rod filed into shape, or a half-ball of epoxy putty.

[Tim Marlow]

I must admit I find it strange that there are so few bowler hatted figures in the OO model railway field. They were a very common part of the UK commuter “uniform“ through the forties to the seventies. I suppose the fact that they were mostly marketed as OO/HO is a factor. The bowler is not really a common continental hat style, and HO outline railways are pretty much universally continental. How a 4mm/foot figure is supposed to fit in to a 3.5mm/foot world is altogether another question :tongue-out3: