Wednesday 22 December 2021

Colombians

In a recent-ish post, I mentioned doing some orders of several Colombian players in their club kits/

Thinking back now, I think there were 2 orders; one of prostar sized figures, and one of micro/soccerstarz.

Here are a few of the smaller ones!






A few 'first time' teams for me! I'd never done any Napoli, Independiente or New York Red Bulls before this order.

Tuesday 21 December 2021

Nantes x3

My yellow and green paints have been getting quite a lot of air time recently; first with the 12 Norwich figures, and now these:




These were another set of figures that were quite the education for me. I had no idea that these 3 played for Nantes before I did them. They must've been a pretty decent side!

Under the advice of the guy that bought these figures, I reduced the number of sponsors, logos etc on these, on the back particularly, where there were 2, above and below the number!

Other comments about these... Karembeu must have the biggest head of any figure Corinthian ever made!

Saturday 11 December 2021

Mount, Chelsea

Way back when, I had this theory, that if I posted a figure on my blog, it jinxed their team that day. Well, I say theory, more a stupid football fan superstition thing. But...

With that in mind here's Chelsea's Mason Mount.


Mason Mount. In Chelsea kit. Chelsea.

So, that's that done...

For those of you here for this to be a proper blog post, and not the ramblings of a lunatic, I had to use a lookalike figure for this one, chosen by the customer. It was quite a simple kit- the Champions League final one, hence, the writing in the middle of the chest.

This season's Chelsea kit would probably prove more difficult!

 

Thursday 9 December 2021

4 Ian Rushes

Strap yourselves in, here are 4 Ian Rush figures!


As you may have guessed, this grey one was a pain in the backside to paint! I think it was worth the effort, though I don't mind that I've not been asked to reproduce it since.


On the flipside, while it is also tecnically pretty difficult to do, I actually quite enjoy doing pinstripes. This one is part of a growing collection of European Cup final players that one guy is doing; one player from each final.


Another complicated kit! But probably not as difficult as it looks. I didn't try to match the kit exactly- just stick to the righ kind of shapes and patterns. It's all you can do with a kit like this, really.


 And finishing off with the 92-93 away kit. Whenever I'm doing this kit template, I do the main colour of the shirt... and then put off doing the adidas shoulder/ shorts section for ages! I don't know why though, the thought of it is always worse than doing it!#

And, there you go. There was a time when I would have put these into chronological order... but I'm sure the fact that I haven't this time hasn't ruined your evening too much. 

Monday 6 December 2021

Sheff Wednesday: 3 different kits

Next 4 Sheffield Wednesday figures.

And look: Magilton's back!!




 4 figures, 3 (slightly) different kits.

Yeah... this is a brief one. I've just finished a 10k!

Saturday 4 December 2021

Magilton, Saints

I'm fairly sure I commented (here or on one of my socials) that I was surprised at having done so many Magilton figures in Sheff Weds kits.

Well... here are 3 more, all for the same guy, all in Southampton colours.

Is Magilton actually a 90s football hero without me realising?!




 I think the home kit is my favourite of these 3. The one that's the biggest ballache to paint is definitely the yellow and blue!!