#tiny tintins

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Tintin has travelled a lot since the last post! My work friends have even taken Haddock to Japan. The first incredible photo was taken by my friend @tenderlyhands at Wroughton, an off-site museum archive!

If you're enjoying my stuff, please consider sending some help to my friend @cryptid-phoenix , when switching jobs they lost their health insurance while they needed urgent dental care. We've been very worried about them and I want to help in any way I can, every little helps!

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It's been only half a year and my custom Tintin doll has been through so much! @tenderlyhands and I have been taking him travelling, and last week they've taken him to Athens!

He's acquired some friends - Haddock is a Made to Move Ken and Chang is a slim Ken Fashionista with joints stolen from a bootleg doll. Haddock and Chang are also traveling - Haddock is currently in Japan and Chang is currently in Romania.

He's even gotten plenty of new outfits. So far I've made his Scottish outfit from The Black Island and his yellow shirt he wears in the earlier comics. A friend from work wants to take him diving - perhaps his diving suit would be a good thing to make next...

If you want to follow along on his adventures check out my Instagram @professorcalculusstanacc - I post more doll content there while keeping my blog more for comics and longer form stuff!

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

have fun on your trip!!

Thank you, I'll try!

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I made a custom Tintin doll! I used a Chat Noir doll as a base because that's the one petit male doll I could find that was articulated and still affordable. The amazing @bubblekidaesthetics photographed him as seen above!

Details about my process below. Warning for weird doll photos.

His jumper is made out of a pair of baby socks, his plus fours are made from an old tablecloth, his shoes are made from cardstock, his socks from some trainer socks and his trench is made from a pillow case I found on offer during a sale! The shirt is the one item I didn't make, it's a Ken shirt but as a result it's a bit too big for him.

I had to hack Chat Noir's head down with a box cutter because I found the vinyl too tough to pull off, then I sculpted over the remaining head stump with tin foil and a mixture of milliput and green stuff.

I painted him with acrylics for that vintage doll feeling rather than using pastels and MSC - he's orange in the second picture above because I was colour correcting the green putty.

Snowy was made with a My Little Pony, armature wire, tin foil and hot glue!

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

Hi, I recently found your account on Instagram and it took me to your blog here, I just wanted to say that I immediately LOVED your art style and how you take the characters and capture their essence to put them into different situations. Also, the placement of under-used characters is something that personally appreciate a lot. Your animations are AWESOME, they feel organic and made with tons of love for the franchise, keep doing AMAZING work :)

Thank you very very much! Everyone on Instagram has been lovely too, if I have to be honest I still prefer posting to Tumblr just because the platform lets me go so much more in depth with the context.

The Instagram page is live at professorcalculusstanacc, I'm still working on original content for this blog as usual but I have been posting silly stories with @tenderlyhands - go follow the page if you'd like!