Chelsea, 2003 Repaints

Here we have 3 players in a kit from the early days of the Abramovich era! (in shirt number order, of course!)

Desailly, Bridge, and the billion pound goalscorer Gronkjaer!

In case anyone is wondering, these figures have been remodelled (well, "head-swapped") but not by me!!

Gudjohnsen, Bolton

So, my blog posts may be a bit shorter recently, and infrequent... sorry about that!

Since I started teaching again, I just don't have the same amount of time to dedicate to my figures!

I figured (ha!) that it's better to get the pics up with less detailed posts and links than to not get them up at all.

With that in mind, here's Gudjohnsen, in his first Bolton spell.

Nainggolan and Dzeko , 'Blood' kit

... I don't know if 'blood kit' is how this was marketed in Italy, it's just how the guy who bought these described it in our messages!

Anyway... here're Nainggolan and Dzeko in... it.

Sheringham away set!

Spurs 1991-94 yellow away kit was pretty memorable. It certainly is for me now, as I have painted it onto several different figures, not least 3 different varieties of Sheringham figure!

You can find the first here (along with Razor Ruddock)

Here are the next 2:

The first of these was my first ever Corinthian XL repaint, while if you follow my blog or Facebook page, you'll see I've had plenty of practice with the Vivid Imaginations figures!

I enjoy painting the larger figures! While the area takes a bit longer to cover, some aspects of the detail work are actually easier to do, because of the size! 

Sheffield United Soccerstarz

Here are my first Sheffield United Soccerstarz repaints:

They both now belong to a customer who originally just asked for a Brian Deane figure. I looked through my spare figures to see if I had any other players I thought he might be interested in, and these were the first 2!

Funnily enough, I only had them both due to their brief spells at Swansea, and the fact that I had bought myself a Swansea box set, just to get Garry Monk... seems hardly worth the effort now!

While I think the repaints ended up well (striped shirts can be tricky on Soccerstarz) the customer's comments are the most memorable thing about this deal, particularly his thoughts on Britton. He described the figure as 'a novelty', as 'bringing back painful memories' and also used the phrase 'pinched a living'!

I do genuinely enjoy the conversations these figures inspire with my buyers!!

As it turns out, he's become pretty hooked on collecting Blades figures, so more to come!