Mido x2, Spurs

I'm on a bit of a roll with the blog posts at the moment, so thought i'd keep it going with a couple of Spurs figures- still probably the club that I have most ' unblogged' photos of. (It's a competition with Leeds!)

It's a couple of Midos today!

 Evidently they are from different seasons, as they have different squad numbers and sponsors.

I did the away kit quite a while ago, whereas the home white kit is a fairly recent one. Other than that, I don't have much to say about them!

A couple of Kodotos

 Does what it says in the title, this post:

It was nice to do a couple of different kits- I'd only done one Marseilles before, and zero Porto, if I remember correctly.

The only problem with these is the moving arms. Absolute pain to paint around...

A few more Bradford

After that first McCall repaint, I was discovered by Bradford fans on twitter, resulting in a fair few more!

I already did a blog post about  some of their Premier League players; here are a few from their time in the EFL.

Lee Sharpe played on load for Bradford in their promotion season... I think. And I also think this is the kit from that spell!

The stripes are thinner on this one than their Premier League kit, and I was particularly pleased with how good the numbering on the back came out. 

In case you wondered, for white numbers on striped kits, I usually print them on one colour. For this one, I chose the maroon-y colour, then painted the yellow as close as possible to the number. Hope that technical info is interesting to someone out there!

Here's Hendrie; a player I didn't know played for Bradford, in a kit I didn't remember!

With both of these two, I prefer the later sculpts to be honest, and think they were better likenesses.

 Speaking of likenesses, this one is a 'lookalike' figure. I was pleased with how he kit turned out- as you may know, I'm not a big fan of doing hoops! At least it was only the front on this one!

This figure also has these weird sort of sideburn things!! I filed them down, then painted a skin tone over the top.

It would have probably been easier if he'd picked the Danny Mills he was considering for this figure!!

Leeds number 9s, Past and Present

It's Funko Friday! 

And to mark the occasion, here are 2 Leeds United number 9s with very different qualities, but that are both top scorers in promotion seasons nonetheless! 

This Beckford figure is the first Funko that I've put a captain's band onto. Other than that, it was a nice easy one!

Jermaine liked it too!

More on that as it develops!

And here's this season's top scorer, Pat Bamford.

I had a harder time choosing the figure for this one, but I think I got it right! Hair colour that I would describe as 'blond-ish' are always a bit of a pain to do, so I was pretty pleased with how this turned out.

It also means that I have done nearly all of the regular starting XI of the promotion side now (although they've not all made it to this blog yet!)

If you check my instagram and facebook pages, you'll see most of the others!

3 Sheff United figures

Here are 3 more Sheffield United figures.

 It's funny that, while it doesn't seem that long since I did these, I can see things about them that I think I would improve if I were to do them now, which is a good thing, I guess!

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When I post pics of figures that I haven't done recently (as in, in the last 2 months) I can't remember anything interesting to say about them!!

Ekoku, Sheffield Wednesday x2

I haven't posted any Sheffield Wednesday pictures for a while, so, here are 2:

 

Without checking, I've assumed these are in chronological order, assuming he got number 22 after arriving mid season, before moving up to number 9.

I don't have much more to say about these!

Erm... I had zero memory of Ekoku playing for Sheffield Wednesday before painting these. That's about it!

Everton 1999-2000, part 4!

 OK, so as far as I know, this is it for this kit, as far as upcoming blogposts go.

(I mean, you never know, but these are the last of these that I currently have saved!)

So here we go:

Not much more to say about this kit at this stage... tho as an interesting piece of miscellany, while I was doing these (and the ones in part 3) I did 3 in a row, in the same body pose! Jeffers, Weir and... another one.

Just felt a bit strange to do 3 like that all at once. Not sure whether it made me even more precise than usual, or just more paranoid about said precision!

More Sheffield Wednesday Funkos

I've not done too many Funko Pops in kits aside from Leeds, so these were a bit of a change of pace.

They were also head swaps, but the customer provided me with both of the new heads, so I don't know which figures they came from originally!

 

Obviously, this season's Leeds kits haven't given me any practice of doing stripes on funkos before, but at least it was only one side of the shirt!

The other difference was having to check the sizes for the sponsors, logos etc. I've got this year's Leeds ones down to exact measurements in fractions of millimetres after doing them so many times! I think I got these ones right tho!

2 Newcastle legends

Here are a couple of figures that, considering their popularity, it's a bit of a surprise that I have never painted in Newcastle kit before.

Keegan and Gazza:

 

I enjoyed both of these. The most difficult areas were the collars!

I also took a little bit of license with the badges- if I recall correctly, the badges are entirely contained within the stripes on the original shirts, so I just made them a little bigger so they showed up well.

Hope you like them! 

David Batty through the ages! (Leeds only!!)

After just one photo on yesterday's post, I thought I'd treat you on today's... especially if you're a Leeds fan!

Here are some David Batty repaints in kits spanning from 1987- 2000... I think.

I mean, how beautiful is that?! What a kit!!

Unusual to see David Batty in the number 8 shirt, but he often wore it in his early days at Leeds.

Getting on to a couple of more familiar repaints now. I've done both of the 1992 kits several times, for my own collection and for other people.

David Batty's enduring popularity with Leeds fans and the fact that the Batty figures are fairly cheap and easy to come by makes it unsurprising that it's him I've done most times in the League winning kits!

 

And finally, the beautiful 1999-2000 change strip, with Batty wearing the 23 shirt he chose o his return to the club. This was the first time I'd done this kit in years... then I was asked to do it again within days!

You'll have already seen it on Danny Mills if you follow my Facebook page.

Gordon III Funko Pop

Just one picture on today's post! 

My second ever American Football custom Funko... tho now I think about it. I'm pretty sure I haven't posted the first one here yet!

Anyway, here's Melvin Gordon III:

 I've done Denver Broncos Corinthians before, so had some fonts and logos already saved... not that you can even see his name and number on the back of the shirt with that hair!

Bradford, Premier League era

 When I did my first Bradford City blog post, I said it wouldn't stay the only one for long. I've done Stuart McCall twice again since, and a few more Bradford players too, with a good chance of more on the way. of more on the way.

Here are a couple in Premier League kits:

I've done Beagrie in Sheffield United kit previously, but was very pleased with how this one looks... even if he did score against Leeds in this kit! 

We still won tho!

Big Nev made his only Bradford appearance in the same game. I think he was on the coaching staff, and they had an injury crisis! He was north of 40 by then, and could've been renamed Very Big Nev!!

This one could've been a contender for a stomach remodel!! Well, maybe an all over remodel, really. google "Southall Bradford", and you'll see what I mean!

As I recall, he didn't disgrace himself, by any means. The final score was 2-1, anyway.

And, for good measure, here's another McCall!

Dalmat, Spurs x3

Been a while since I posted any Spurs figures, so:

3 Stephane Dalmat figures, in the 3 kits he wore when he played for Spurs. I remember thinking he was going to be great... this was probably almost entirely based on a management game I was playing at the time...

In case you were wondering, these aren't Corinthian figures. I googled, and the first few results just say "Marseilles- Club released figures", so I guess Marseilles just made them themselves.

My opinion of the quality of the figures; they aren't great. Very light weight and the likeness isn't great, is it?!

At least it has a decent paint job now!

Forest Batch, part 2

I'm gonna be honest... I feel I should make a blog post, as I haven't in a few days... but I'd also quite like to go to bed.

So with that in mind, I thought I'd post the next in a batch of Forest figures I did.

And if you want to know my thoughts about this kit... just read what I put in part one!

Here they are:

Couple of quick points:

1. It always surprises me how much the original Keane figure is transformed by taking off the beard!

2. Literally no idea who Phillips is.

3 Bolton Veterans!

Scrolling thro the repaint album showed I have a few Bolton figures still to post, so here are the first 3.

Today's link: all players that had reached... erm... a certain vintage by the time they played for Bolton!

Funnily enough, despite how good they were at  the peak of their careers, I'd guess it's Wilbraham that's remembered most fondly by Bolton fans for his part in The Great Escape.

I actually finished the Beardsley and Heskey ones quite a long time ago (years) and looking at both, there are parts I think I'd manage to do better now. 

Wilbraham was finished fairly recently (within the last 3 or 4 months- who can tell with lockdown...)