Cole, Celtic

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OK, so not exactly a Celtic legend, but one for the completist collector! I know understand him wanting to have this painted; I have a Michael Ricketts figure in my Leeds collection!!

I like how this ended up, and it was nice to be able to do Celtic's traditional home colours; considering how many Bhoys figures I've done, I've not done the famous green and white hoops many times.

Carlton Cole appreciated the figure too, well, enough to like and retweet it on Twitter, anyway.

Hinchcliffe, Man City

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You learn things doing repaints! I never knew that Andy Hinchcliffe played for City until I was asked to do this!

It was a fairly straightforward kit to paint, but I think it ended up looking pretty effective.

... and that's about all I have to say for this one!

Here's Hinchcliffe in the kit:

500th Post!

So, I've made it to 500 blog posts!

I thought I'd use this one to look back at some of my first figures, as a way of looking at how far I've come on my repainting journey!

Here we go:

First Prostar:

First Microstar:

First Soccerstarz:

First Fan Fave:

While looking back, I think I always acquitted myself pretty well with new figures, I think I have come a long way!! I can definitely see the improvement, anyway!

At very least, I take clearer photos now!!

I'd just like to thank everyone for all the support and encouragement, whether that's buying a figure, making a positive comment, or even just clicking 'like' on Facebook. It means a lot!

PNE Soccerstarz

Here are two more PNE figures, which I actually finished painting quite a while ago.

I give you Clarke and Gallagher:

Two key players in Preston's promotion and consolidation in the Championship. As you may have expected, lookalike figures had to be used!

This isn't the case with all my Preston repaints tho, as Lindegaard was a soccerstarz release, and let's not forget the prestigious names in North End's past including a young David Beckham and of course the legendary Sir Tom Finney!

EDIT: Almost forgot, Gally had this to say about the figure of himself on Twitter:

Concise!

Leeds Subbuteo tracksuits part 2

I'm on a roll!

I started posting the Leeds tracksuit top XL Subbuteo figures a while back, stating that there were plans for a whole team. Well, here are the next 3!

Apparently it was between numbers 4 and five that I got bored of taking the side on pics to show the sock tags!

Aside from doing different names, I also had to change the hair colour on all 3 of these ones; it starts as a sort of general mid-brown colour on all the XL Subbuteo figures.

Popescu, Spurs

OK, so it's Christmas day, and maybe updating this is a little loserish... but my family are watching call the midwife, and I'm not interested in the slightest!

As you may know, I love the chance to paint a different kind of figure, and here's another of my 'first times'!

This Popescu is a Bandai figure, and started life in a Barcelona kit. I can't tell you much about Bandai figures, to be honest.

This one was fairly similar to a Corinthian Prostar, but was slightly bigger and heavier.

As for the figure itself, well, I've done this kit quite a few times now. I love having the exact right font now! And the slightly bigger figure made for a slightly easier time on the detail painting.

Here's Popescu in his Spurs days:

Japan figures

Well, it has been a while since I've been here, hasn't it?! Very busy time at work, soon to start a new job, performing in a Pantomime, Christmas shopping... and of course painting figures!

Anyway, here are a couple I finished a while back:

A Kagawa Soccerstarz figure, and a Takahara Microstar repainted into Japan kits!

I don't have much else to say about them, I guess I'm out of practice with the blog posts! 

I'll try to do a few more before the year is out!