{"id":2445,"date":"2015-11-23T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2015-11-23T21:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:59:10","slug":"tintin-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=2445","title":{"rendered":"Tintin On The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tintin, by Herg\u00e9, is a character in a series of comic books from Belgium, beloved the world over. I read them as a kid, and my two favorite ones were a pair of books, in a rare thing for Tintin, a two-parter: &#8220;Destination Moon&#8221; and &#8220;Explorers on the Moon&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tin-tin-moon-books.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tin-tin-moon-books-600x391.jpg\" alt=\"tin-tin-moon-books\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tin-tin-moon-books-600x391.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tin-tin-moon-books-461x300.jpg 461w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tin-tin-moon-books.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year or so I bought a nice die-cast Jeep (the one on the first cover) and I downloaded and 3D printed the rocket, someone put up on Thingiverse.<\/p>\n<p>But not satisfied, I wanted to make a statue of Tintin in his space suit.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12189801_10153071016431105_5607296879127696805_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12189801_10153071016431105_5607296879127696805_n-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"12189801_10153071016431105_5607296879127696805_n\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12189801_10153071016431105_5607296879127696805_n-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12189801_10153071016431105_5607296879127696805_n-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12189801_10153071016431105_5607296879127696805_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12208704_10153071016496105_2524085349619937784_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12208704_10153071016496105_2524085349619937784_n-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"12208704_10153071016496105_2524085349619937784_n\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12208704_10153071016496105_2524085349619937784_n-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12208704_10153071016496105_2524085349619937784_n-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12208704_10153071016496105_2524085349619937784_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12187668_10153071016596105_2605207907898148152_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12187668_10153071016596105_2605207907898148152_n-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"12187668_10153071016596105_2605207907898148152_n\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12187668_10153071016596105_2605207907898148152_n-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12187668_10153071016596105_2605207907898148152_n-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12187668_10153071016596105_2605207907898148152_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/10406440_10153071016551105_2176392486078442578_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/10406440_10153071016551105_2176392486078442578_n-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"10406440_10153071016551105_2176392486078442578_n\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/10406440_10153071016551105_2176392486078442578_n-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/10406440_10153071016551105_2176392486078442578_n-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/10406440_10153071016551105_2176392486078442578_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bubble is a vending machine bubble capsule, which is not terribly transparent, which sucks a little, but it works fairly well.<\/p>\n<p>The figure stands about 8-9 inches in height.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tintin, by Herg\u00e9, is a character in a series of comic books from Belgium, beloved the world over. I read them as a kid, and my two favorite ones were a pair of books, in a rare thing for Tintin, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=2445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}