Tintin Limited Edition 1:12 Scale Model Yellow Ford T (Resin)

This exceptional first model with a multitude of details, is hand painted, numbered, and limited to 999 pieces. Each model has its own certificate of authenticity and comes in a magnificent double-flap box.

The Ford Model T is omnipresent in the crazy chases in the silent films of Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.  Its fun appearance undoubtedly amused Hergé, who discovered it in his local cinema. It is quite logical that in 1930 he chose it to accompany the missionaries in Africa and to develop the railway adventures of Tintin in the Congo

His popularity well established, this is to Africa that Tintin now sets off. The Adventures of Tintin, reporter at Le Petit Vingtième, in the Congo(1931) is a naïve depiction of the colonial times and paternalistic views as they existed in Belgium in the early 1930’s. For this new story, Hergé will improvise. Tintin becomes a sorcerer in the Babaoru’m Kingdom. He will outsmart the traps of the gangsters who want to take control of the diamond production of Congo.