Beardsley, Hartlepool

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One of those 'for the sake of it' figures, to be honest. 

I had a Beardsley in my big box, and so just got on with it.

I also tweeted it to Jeff Stelling to try and get some heat for the blog, but no response!

I don't think it's one of my better ones, tbh, maybe because I was painting it, just for the sake of it.

Even still... I couldn't resist going back to it and evening up the front stripes a bit after this photo was taken! (Couldn't be bothered photographing again... sorry!) 

This was the only pic of Bearsley in Hartlepool colours I could find!

Matteo, Leeds 2000-01

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DOM MATTEOOOOOOOO,
SCORED A *VERY* GREAT GOOOOOAAAL
IN THE SAN SIROOOOOOO...

In fairness to Corinthian, Leeds had a lot of good players at the time Matteo played for us, but I still found it quite surprising that there weren't any figures of him in Leeds colours.

This sculpt, which, lets be honest, doesn't look much like him, began life in Liverpool kit.

I was thinking of doing it in our 03-04 dark blue kit (just because I fancy painting something different) but then thought, it has to be the 2000-01 home kit, as worn in his finest hour:

Adjustments

To make this Charlton figure match the rest of the Revie repaints, I added LUFC script to the chest, and numbered sock tags.

Lampard, Swansea

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I can't remember the exact details, but a while back, I came across a youtube video of a teenage Frank Lampard making his debut on loan for Swansea City.

While a normal person would have just thought "Oh, that's interesting," I immediately decided that I needed to paint a Corinthian of it!

And the above was the result.

There's something great about mid 90s lower league kits! I enjoyed painting this one!

Here's a fresh-faced Frank:

(EDIT- This figure was one of my first to be 'ebayed', with encouraging results!)

Tony Yeboah, Leeds Away

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Here's another repaint which was part of an order dominated by Yeboahs!

This one depicts Leeds 1994-96 away kit which *urban myth warning* apparently had to be changed because the players found it difficult to see Yeboah in evening games!

This one features the number 8 shirt, as opposed to Tony's customary number 21, to replicate Yeboah on the night of his European hat trick vs Monaco, where Leeds wore shirts numbered 1-11.

I liked this repaint so much that I did one for myself too! I chose the 21 shirt for my own version:

Both figures also feature Yeboah's favoured Puma boots.

In case you are unfamiliar with the kit:

'John Colby': Escape to Victory

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Being as he sneaked into the last post, here's John Colby (aka Michael Caine) of West Ham United and England.

Here he is as the Captain and manager of the Allies, in Escape to Victory.

This is the last figure I plan on painting in my Escape to Victory Series, tho I will post a picture of them all together soon.

The figure chosen to best portray Caine's marvellously unkempt curly side-parting was Scott Gemmill

Rodney Jack, Torquay United

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Unfortunately, this is the only picture I have of this repaint, as I finished it when I was away from home, and didn't have my camera with me.

Tho it's a little sketchy here, in the end, I was very happy with the neatness of the stripes, considering how thin they are.

The Torquay badges show up nicely, and the back has a number nine, but no name, as was the style at the time!

Note a few Le Tisses looking on, as well as a sneak preview of John Colby, and another unfinished repaint that you'll see soon!

Here's a pic of the kit, for comparison:

(Kit picture is from the excellent Historicalkits.co.uk)