4 Versions of Gary Speed!

First post of the new year! Hope you're all keeping well, and are ready for 4 very different iterations of Gary Speed!

First up, Funko Gary Speed. I'm not sure if I've written about it at any length before (and I don't really intend to now!) but Funko figures are much easier to use as 'lookalikes' than corinthians! Essentially, if the hair is the right style, its good to go. 

Added bonus is the eyebrows are right!! They can change the character of a figure considerably!

Anyway, the 1991-92 kit was chosen for Speed on a Twitter poll... also because I wanted to do it, and thought it would be easier to sell on afterwards!!

A somewhat unusual one next, but one that I like a lot. In case you can't tell, this is the training top in which Leeds were presented the League trophy in 1991-92. I've only done it a couple of times before, and this was the first time on a microstar.

Love this kit. I still own it, with 11 and Speed on the back, no less. This was the first time I've done it on a Speed figure, having done it on Yeboah a few times before.

 Last but not least, a Vivid Imaginations figure. Not the best 'lookalike' for my  money, but it's what the buyer wanted. I was happy with how the kit ended up looking anyway! I've done Vivid Imaginations repaints of Speed before, but from his floppy, boyband hair era, using a figure of another Welshman...

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.

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!

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!

 

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.