Sheringham XLs

 Today seems as good a day as any for some Sheringham XL figures; 3 in fact!

I'm pretty sure I've painted more XLs of Sheringham than anyone else! Les Ferdinand second!

Tadaaaaa!

Can't be bothered writing mush today, so thought I'd treat you to 4 pics!!

Larsson, Helsingborgs... part 2.

Time for a quick end of the day blog post before I go to bed.

I scrolled through my repaints folder, looking for some likely figures, and settled on these 2:

Larsson, in his Helsingborgs days! 

A quick check through the archive confirmed that I have done just one Helsingborg figure before these; Larsson in a different kit! (In case you were wondering, that's why this post is entitled: Part 2, though a long time has passed between the original and the sequels!)

These were for a Celtic fan, who has Larsson's whole career as something of a project!

They were both nice, simple figures, to be fair; especially that second one!

My First Barnsley figures:

For the first time: Barnsley figures!

When a Barnsley fan got in contact with me, he was after a Neil Redfearn figure if I remember correctly. I explained that, while it would be possible, using a 'lookalike', I could also look into the figures made who did play for Barnsley.

What followed was a relatively short list, and from it, he chose these 2:

Comments on this one: I love the socks! I also feel the need to comment that I know he wouldn't have had his name on the shirt in this season, but that was the buyer's preference.

 Pretty sizeable collar on this one!! I'm not sure if the white on red exaggerates it or something, but it looks massive!! I also think the name and number look really sharp and clear.

My final comment... it pleases me that these are in both time and number order!!

van Dijk, Celtic home kits

van Dijk... or Virgil as he seemed to want to be called at Celtic! Here are a couple of Kodoto figures, with the promise of more to come (away kits!)

I've had plenty of practice of doing hoops lately, with big QPR and Celtic orders, and it's a good job too, with these 2! Look at the thin white hoops within the green hoops on the top one, and the little ones next to the thick hoops on the bottom one!

Thes figures also have captain's armbands added. Recommendation when doing these: check is the buyer has any intention of moving the arms, and if not- keep them very still!!

Barca x2

A couple of Barcelona figures today, why not?

 I did 2 similar figures a couple of years ago, but in the kit from the season before... or maybe after! I remember them being quite tricky as their wasn't a central stripe, which, I think I've mentioned before is the one that is key for me in getting it even!

With that in mind, I'd say these 2 were a bit easier for me... and probably better too.

Click the Barcelona tag if you want to compare them. you won't have to scroll back far. Probably!

Stuart McCall, Bradford: Great City!

Well, Bradford are playing tonight, so how about a Bradford repaint?!

 I hadn't done any Bradford players until a couple of months ago, and now I've done 5 or 6, including Stuart McCall in 2 different kits!

I had to do a bit of searching to find a suitable picture of the 'Great City' logo, to make the decal, but I found one in the end!

I was happy with how this turned out. It was an interesting one to research, as, unless I'm mistaken, the shirts all had their stripes in different places (eg some had a central amber stripe on the back, and some had a maroon one) and I know similar happened with Sheffield United shirts.

Anyway, I think (hope!) that I did actually find a pic of McCall to look at for this repaint. It was well received

Cantona, France

 I gave you an international figure yesterday, and being as it's still International week, here's another:

I quite like this kit; the main problem with putting it on this Cantona is how asymmetric the figure itself is!! Seriously!!

Look at the collar! Look at the size and length of the sleeves! This is an issue with a couple of the other poses too, and sometimes you just have to work around them. 

Hopefully, this is one of those things that only people who spend hours staring very closely at the figure whilst painting it notice!

Schmeichel, Denmark '92

International break: International repaint, and one of my finest in recent times, I'd say.

I checked with the guy who ordered this to see if he knew there was a version of this kit made by corinthian... apparently it's really expensive!

In case you wondered about my method, firstly, I painted the shirt completely white. Then, I mixed versions of all the pastel colours (in a milk bottle lid!) and then did them in sort of stripes, blending and mixing on the shirt as I went along.

The next step was doing the black at the top of the shirt and on the cuffs, and elbow/ lower arm padding, and of course those criss crossing lines!

The final step was details like the yellow round the collar and the number 1 on the front and back. Normally I would use a decal for those, but on this one, I felt it would make more work in redoing the colours and black stripes, so I did them by hand this time. Fortunately, there were no names on shirts in 1992!

Wallace home and away, Southampton

You know my Friday blogging habits by now:

Here are some Rod Wallace figures.

 I like them.

I'm tired.

Leeds United Funkos

 I'm going to take this post as the chance to have a proud fan moment: what a performance against City yesterday!

More possession, more passes, better chances (sorry to be that guy, but just check the xG!) After a tough first 20 mins, we could have conceivably won that.

7 points from the first 12 available including playing last year's top 2. Cannot complain.

Anyway... here are some funko pops!

Ilan, you wonderful spiderboy!

Oh captain, my captain

Tyler you handsome bastard, who shows flashes of brilliance but just needs a bit more consistency...

Mateusz, you delightful shithouse who also just happens to be really good at football.

 Premiers League Leeds United. I've been waiting for pretty much half my life to get back there!

More Funkos in the new kits are pretty much inevitable!

If you've made it to the end of this post, well done!

River Plate x3

 Sorry everyone; slipped out of the blogging habit for a bit there!

Here are a few slightly more exotic figures to brighten a rainy day:

Three River Plate players, in their very distinctive kit. I did these quite a while back now, but, in quite a rare occurrence when it comes to figures I did over 2 years ago, I can't see anything that I'm overly unhappy with!!

Funes Mori is a 'lookalike', of course.

The other 2 are players that I admired a lot in my youth; Ortega pretty much cos of an ad campaign, and Aimar cos of Pro Evo...