The Shark submarine from Tintin's "Red Rackham's Treasure" is just as iconic as the red-and-white chequered rocket. The latter is unavailable, the shark sub isn't. It's here somewhere. It's not mine. Scroll and find it. For as long as the files stay up.
This is what I recently made of it, the trestles are of my own design. There is the option of a transparent cockpit and interior available in the kit but I chose to keep it simple this time. The fit is very good, I suggest you cut off the glue tabs and make glue strips yourself to keep the lines as clear as possible. I used clear gloss varnish on the canopy. Someone once wrote "In Hergé's universe nothing is shiny". That might very well be but I am not a supporter of that quote. Canopies are shiny. Rackham's treasure was shiny. I just think Hergé wanted to keep the drawings clean and clear. Nothing to do whether stuff was shiny or not. The Shark, well, it might have been very shiny all over. Maybe even Tintin's little quiff was shiny, full of hairspray lacquer. Maybe Haddock had a shiny nose. Who knows.
Up next will be something cold and far away in space.
Stay tuned.
--PK
