It's Coming Holme

Quick Christmas Eve blog post, why not?!

A quick look through my folder of pics suggests no obvious Christmas puns to be made, so being as it's the season of goodwill, not only will I spare you the terrible jokes, but I'll also post pics of some figures that I did for charity:

I'll keep it at 4 for now, but there are more! In case you are wondering who the heck these people are, they are fitional, regenerated players on the game Football Manager!!

They featured in a youtube series, which I'll link here, where a fella named Kev took Holme FC from tier 8 to Champions League glory, with both of these players featuring pretty much all the way up the divisions!

If you're wondering about the similarities of the kits, during the series, a debate ensued (this is the internet, after all) about whether the kit was green or black, so I did both to see which sold better in its charity auction... it was green, obviously!

Overall, my charity figures raised over £150 this year, with these 4 contributing a fair whack of that. These ones were for the National Autistic Society (a charity associated with the channel), as you may have guessed if you looked closely at the shirt sponsor, but money was also raised for Cancer research by other figures.

I'll post the rest of the Holme Figures soon.

A couple more Gillingham!

How about a couple of Saturday morning Gillingham figures?! Bet no-one's ever been offered that before!

I mentioned these as possibles in the blog post about my only previous Gillingham figure (Steve Bruce) and what would you know, a few months down the line, here they are!

Gotta say I love the kit on the Wallace one!

And while this is a rare post that doesn't start with words to the effect of"I'm tired and going to bed soon, so it's going to be short"... I'm not very well and tired, so that's why this post is short!

Juve Soccerstarz

Feels like every post at the moment starts with: This is just going to be a quick one before I go to bed (tho I can't be bothered verifying that...)

Anyway, looking through my repaints picture folder on my laptop, these seemed a good choice for today:

I don't know if you've seen, but Ronaldo scored a reasonably impressive goal last night. I don't have the exact stats to hand, but he basically jumped about 40 feet into the air to score a header. Not bad, eh?

So that's why I chose the Juve repaints for today. Nice kit to paint, tbf. I enjoyed these. Halved shirts are preferable to stripes! And, in a view that contradicts my opinion in real life, I love a halved shirt that is one colour on the back, for painting purposes!

The Vertonghen collection!

So, that title... it just seemed to sound like a fashion range, so I went with it. Let's move on.

Here are three Vertonghen Soccerstarz, all in away kits:

To be honest, I have no idea if they are in chronological order... I couldn't be bothered to check!

You may have noticed that I hand painted the sponsor on the 2 AIA shirts, tho if you didn't I guess that's good for me. Unless you noticed that I did for a good reason.

I was very pleased with the... shall we call it 'gold' one? The pinstripes especially on such a small figure were pleasing!

And that's it. I'll leave you with an amusing Vertonghen related anecdote;

I was watching a Spurs game once, with a friend who has no real interest in football. Vertonghen must have been having a good, or at least busy game, because he kept on being mentioned; enough at least for my friend to say: "He doesn't really look Tongan."

Me: "What?"

Her: "That guy. He doesn't look like he's from Tonga."

Me: "Probably because he's Belgian."

Her: "Well, why do they keep calling him 'Jan the Tongan'?!"

This story is mainly true.

Liverpool Keepers

Here's a post for the goalkeepers' union; a couple of Liverpool keepers in unreleased kits:

I've gone with chronological order today!

Both enjoyable to paint... and I don't have much more to say! Maybe it's cos I've been catching up with all my figure related social media duties this morning!!

And with that in mind, find me by clicking the right word if you're a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram kind of person.

Or you could click here to find the youtube channel that I hardly ever add videos to!!

Kalvin Phillips Funko Pop

Hi everyone!

I thought I'd use today's post to put up a picture of the Kalvin Phillips Pop Vinyl that I made for the Leeds That Podcast.

In case you missed it, I appeared as a guest on the show to talk all things being a Leeds fan, but also my figure painting... empire!! Click here if you fancy a listen!!

One of the things they do on the show is  ask the guests to provide a prize for a prize bundle, so I made this:

I was delighted with how it turned out, and everyone at the podcast loved it too. 

So did plenty of Leeds fans, as orders for them flooded in! I'm going to be finishing them all today, or that's the plan at least!!

If you fancy one for yourself, register at Leeds That, for your chance to win one! Or if you want one for certain, get me on twitter or facebook! I'm thinking about doing another run in the new year...

Or one of the current run may become available if any of the buyers pull out!