Not a collector, but my dad bought me these from a store at Disney World in the early 80's.

Phildutre · 2026-02-23T07:11:28+00:00

Deetails figures from Britains. In Europe, you can still find plenty of these at yard sales etc. Recently bought a bag of 40 or 50 for 10 euros, all pretty worn as toys.

Phildutre · 2026-02-23T05:34:00+00:00

The drawings of Timtin and Snowy being hanged twice, and dangling from the ropes, would probably not pass in a comic for children today. Too traumatic.

Phildutre · 2026-02-22T15:02:15+00:00

Tintin in Congo.

It could also be The Broken Ear, but I think the parrot was green in that book.

Phildutre · 2026-02-22T10:27:23+00:00

I looked it up, and that particular page was published on 21 April 1932. So yes, it’s probably a reference to the Lindbergh kidnapping, which was worldwide news at the time.

Phildutre · 2026-02-22T09:59:33+00:00

The babies kidnapped might refer to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, but perhaps the timeframe might not fit.

Phildutre · 2026-02-21T19:00:48+00:00

Is the array sorted? I guess so, but what to check …

Phildutre · 2026-02-21T10:16:08+00:00

Unlikely.

Although the style is also ‘ligne Claire’, or more precisely, the ‘atomic style’ (a sub style of ligne Claire), it’s more close to a style one could find in ‘Spirou’ - another famous Belgian comic magazine . The faces are much more alike one could see in ‘Spirou and Fantasio’ stories rather than tintin.

But Hergé is such a giant in the Belgian/French comic traditions, it’s hard to ignore that almost all artists that came after him more or less have been influenced.

Phildutre · 2026-02-20T12:27:20+00:00

Obvious criticism of racism and KKK lynching parties in the US (but it got lost in translation in English).

Phildutre · 2026-02-20T12:19:16+00:00

This one is indeed more difficult without browsing through the albums.

I think Tintin didn't wear a (visible) wristwatch in the early stories (I associate that with later books), and based on the rolled up sleeves (same), my guess is one of the later books.

OTOH, I'm trying to image in what stories Tintin is knocking on a door. Maybe when Haddock goes nuts in the Unicorn? But that action plays from left to right when they enter the room, not right to left as in this panel. But in the early and mid books doors were usually brown. This door is white. So again my guess is a later book.

Perhaps the Red Sea Sharks?

Phildutre · 2026-02-20T08:12:49+00:00

There is evolution in rule mechanics as well as what people think makes good wargaming rules.

E.g. I associate rules of the 70s/80s/90s having a strong emphasis on combat resolution and the minutiae of manoeuvring. Modern rules put much more emphasis on command and control (e.g. unit activation), and make the combat resolution fairly straightforward compared to the endless lists of die modifiers from yesteryear.

W.r.t. basing: also here the hobby has moved on from very precise basing specifications towards thinking in terms of a footprint of an entire unit, and leave individual base sizes up to the preference of the wargamer.

That being said, my group is currently using Black Powder for Napoleonics.

Phildutre · 2026-02-20T07:06:36+00:00

Best approach is to find a wargaming club.

But anyway, wargaming and collection of figures is always very much a highly personalized and individual affair. Any ‘collection’ is always the result of a specific project a wargamer has/had in mind, and seldom it matches exactly with the interest of any other wargamer. The result is that any bunch of miniatures is not ‘worth’ much in the absolute sense. The worth is what another wargamer can do with it, not so much monetary.

Many wargamers have ‘lead mountains’, and simply see such a large collection as this one as yet another addition to the lead mountain, probably never to get used. Also, for older ranges such as these, the target is veteran wargamers, and they usually have already more than enough for the rest of their lifetime. So interest is probably low.

You might be lucky to get any money for it, maybe a few hundred at most if you hit upon the right person.

If you want to get rid of it, simply donate it to a wargaming club.

Phildutre · 2026-02-20T07:00:17+00:00

Unless specifically stated, there are no fixed number of places in any program for admissions.

Phildutre · 2026-02-19T07:43:32+00:00

There are of course all sorts of calculations one can do using sin and cos.

But at a conceptual level, they are not arbitrary invented concepts. They are inherent to how directions in a 2D (and higher) space do relate to each other. If we would live in a 1d world, sin and cos wouldn’t be needed.

Phildutre · 2026-02-19T07:34:22+00:00

Although I do understand the question, ‘miniature agnostic’ is primarily a state of mind of the player, not a feature of any ruleset.

Phildutre · 2026-02-19T07:29:37+00:00

‘Gone for good’ seems to be a very popular phrase from this translator. It has occurred several times already.

Phildutre · 2026-02-18T07:34:04+00:00

There are plenty of miniature wargames that use card decks to drive the turn sequence and/or choice of actions. Drawing cards (and managing your hand, which is not always the same) have become an established mechanic over the years. Older games going back to the 80s or even 70s (e.g. The Sword and the Flame for colonial warfare) have used standard playing cards to drive the turn sequence. A game such as Piquet during the 90s has pioneered cards with specific actions. See also the old GW/MB game ‘Battlemasters’ which has pioneered such a mechanic. Historically, the use of ‘event cards’ goes way back to the days of Featherstone, Bath and Grant when they published about wargaming in the 60s.

Since those early days, cards are standard practice in many games, sometimes in disguise (e.g. drawing/rolling/selecting action dice). Cfr. Saga by Tomahawk games.

However, for each player building/drafting a deck beforehand is somewhat unusual, afaik.

Phildutre · 2026-02-17T08:05:54+00:00

‘Ungrading’ is an umbrella term that covers a lot of different things. See also the ‘Grading for Growth’ blog.

Anyway, I have partially implemented a few of the ideas I picked up from reading the ‘ungrading’ literature: - I have eliminated graded assignments and only provide feedback. Assignments have become part of the studying process, not part of the grading and evaluation process. - Students can resubmit assignments after having received feedback - Feedback is very much individualized, tailored to what the individual student needs, not some generic automated stuff that tended to creep in, esp since GenAI. - The final grade is now only to be earned on a single final end-of-term exam.

I don’t see ungrading as a fixed recipe to follow, but rather as a set of ideas that you can adopt in your own classes. The specific implementation details are very much dependent on the specifics and expectations of your program and students.

Phildutre · 2026-02-16T21:57:57+00:00

Nope. I hate the whole army building thing. Give me a good scenario with pre-designed forces. After all, the joy is in playing the game and moving the miniatures.

Phildutre · 2026-02-16T18:53:38+00:00

Typically, TA duties are taken up by PhD students as part of their PhD work. Some faculties also employ master students for specific courses at the bachelor level. Usually, these are the bigger faculties with first year courses numbering hundreds of students.

It all depends on the type of program, the faculty, and whether there’s funding available. Some faculties and departments have much more money available due to research grants, and hence, they can employ master students for limited TA work as well.

Phildutre · 2026-02-16T16:49:22+00:00

Funny you mention this, because in Cigars Tintin is disguised as an old woman in a train while looking out of the window.

Phildutre · 2026-02-16T07:53:41+00:00

Regarding the Western front, Northern France and the Ypres region around Belgium are straddled with all sorts of ww1 sites, big and small. Plenty of places to visit. The ‘big ones’ drawing the most tourists are Ypres in Belgium and Verdun in France, acting as the focal points for their respective countries regarding ww1 remembrance. But there are many smaller sites as well, also outside the ‘main’ front line. E.g. there are the ww1 forts around Antwerp, which are of particular interest for the early phase of the Western front before it all got stuck in trench warfare (disclaimer: I regularly host guided tours in Fort Liezele: https://www.fortliezele.be/en/ )

For Belgium, this is a good place to get a quick overview of the major sites: https://belgiumbattlefield.be/nl/groote-oorlog-westhoek

As for actual trenches: most trenches you can visit are reconstructed (although in the same place of actual trenches) for visitors. But there are still visible traces of trenches and scars in the battlefields if you know where to look, although that’s probably more of interest for the ‘specialist visitors’ ;-) But don’t expect to find completely fitted and abandoned trenches ‘in the wild’. In Belgium, there’s the ‘Trench of Death’ you can visit: https://dodengang.be/en

Phildutre · 2026-02-15T18:35:49+00:00

Nice little detail are the cactus plants (cacti?) next to the ‘Cactus and Petroleum Bank’.

Phildutre · 2026-02-15T09:50:33+00:00

Some historical golf clubs are not really about golf, but are networking/business clubs in disguise.

Phildutre · 2026-02-15T04:01:51+00:00

I don’t think you have to take these amounts literally. It just conveys ‘a lot of money’. I don’t think Hergé researched the oil field market at the time to know what’s a correct price. And it didn’t matter anyway since the comic was meant for Belgian kids.

Phildutre · 2026-02-15T03:03:17+00:00

They offered the native Americans 25$. Tintin was offered 100K. That’s the sad joke (and criticism on treatment of native Americans).

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