International Break

As we're currently in the middle of a set of international fixtures, how about a couple of repaints in international kits?

First, one to offer a little cheer to any Irish followers I have:

If I remember rightly, I mixed up some slightly darker green for the sleeves on this kit. If you can't tell... well, it was only a subtle difference anyway!

 

And here's Celtic legend Billy McNeill in his Scotland colours. Nice simple, but effective repaint.

Portsmouth Goalies

I did a nice little Portsmouth order recently- 4 outfield players, and these 2 goalies:

Nice and simple, but a lovely repaint, this one. I always liked Shaka... and was most disappointed when I found out his name was actually Neil.

 Another pretty simple kit... awkwardness of the pink paint not withstanding! I did at least add a captain's armband to it!

David James liked the pic of these figures on instagram, if that's of any interest to you!

The Final Sheffield United figures!

For the time being, at least, these are the last Sheffield United figures in my repaints album.

The guy I made them for had definitely got to a similar stage that I did with my own Leeds collection when he asked for a Jim Leighton; one loan spell with no first team games!! Hence the number 13 shirt.

 A couple more nice figures here. I like the Phelan sculpt, and you don't see too many Alan Wright repaints, so they are always of interest.

Everton, 1985-86 (I think... without checking)

Another Everton set for one of my regulars, and it's featuring a fair few lookalikes this time.

He probably shares the same frustrations as me as a Leeds fan, in that many of the greats from one of their best eras never made it into corinthian form.

Anyway, here they are. Lineker and Steven are the ones Corinthian made as themselves!!

Nice kit this one, and also the first outing for the le coq sportif number font that I found!

To be honest, I don't even know if the lookalikes are good!! He just sent the figures to me! I didn't google them, and my knowledge of football in the 1980s isn't great... mainly cos Leeds were crap!!

Bolton Wanderers

Here are the last 5 Bolton Wanderers figures to be posted from my repaints album. I considered splitting them into a 2 and a three, but have all 5 as a Saturday treat!!

Comments below each pic... if I have something worth saying about them!!

I always liked Frandsen when I was a kid. I think it was just cos he scored a lot of goals, tbh!

This figure had a very minor remodel element- I filled in the gap in the v-neck in order to recreate the round neck that this shirt had.

This was the trickiest repaint of this set. Those dark lines do look a bit wonky... it's one of those times where the contours of the figure don't really do me any favours!

Also... white numbers on sky blue shirts: bleugh.

I really liked this one! Considering it was a pretty easy one too!

I mean, what can you say about a kit like this?! I don't know if the timings are correct on this, but to my mind, this is peak Barclay's Premiership Bolton!!

Woodgate, Spurs

To prove I was telling you the truth yesterday, here are 2 Spurs Woodgates!

 I don't really have much to say about them, to be honest!! Other than you'd struggle to know that they were the same person, based on the differences of these 2 sculpts!

Woodgate x2, Leeds

I haven't posted in a few days (apols- been under the weather!) so here is a post that very much reflects my: if in doubt, chip away at the Leeds or Spurs backlog of pics in my repaints album!

 Woodgate played for both, of course, but I've gone with 2 Leeds ones here (tho I'm sure I have painted him in spurs kit too)

The yellow kit is one of my faves in real life, and tho I can tell it's an old-ish repaint, I think I've done a decent job!

QPR x3

The last 3 QPR figures in my repaints album... though I get the feeling the guy who ordered them may be back some time!!

I never knew Paul Parker played for QPR before doing this. I think I said the same about a Parker figure for another club... Sheffield United, maybe?! 

These sleeves are definitely preferable to hooped sleeves!

Andy Sinton, here, in the "The shorts badge is gonna be a squeeze" pose!

And here's Trevor Sinclair, in a more recent kit than you might expect. I think this was chosen due to the hair (or lack of it!) on the figure. Sinclair had... I'm gonna say dreadlocks(?) when he played for QPR, so this kit, which he wore more recently in a charity game was picked.

That suited me, tbh, as I'm struggling to keep up with orders as it is, and a remodel wouldn't have helped with that!!

Bale, Wales Funko

Well gang, it's one of those very rare posts where the figure is available!

Gareth Bale, custom Wales Euro 2016 funko pop:

So, just to be clear to anyone who has stumbled across this- No Bale or Wales figures have been produced by funko.

This one has been individually handpainted by me, with accurate shirt number font, adidas logos and badges.

If you are the person who offered me a fiver for it on ebay, the above reasons are why I turned you down!!

If you've got a reasonable offer for it, feel free to get in contact- social links in the banner, contact box below. If you leave a comment, you'll have to come back and check for my reply- blog comments are probably the least effective way of trying to get me!! 

Beattie x2

James Beattie, Southampton. Let's go!

2 Beattie figures- one home kit, one away. You can tell that the first one is earlier, as he moved from number 16 to number 9 as he established himself.

One of the things I sometimes find myself thinking about as I do these is: how much does the sculpt actually look like him in his days at the club. I'm not sure he had the soul patch in his saints days, and probably had more basic hair too!!

I like these tho- the detail round the collar on the first one, especially!

2 Pairs of Wednesday players

Here are some Wednesday players... even though it's only Tuesday.

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Jonk and Hinchcliffe first. I don't think I've painted either of these 2 before this.

And next up, Tommy Johnson and Someone Burrows. I wanna say David?!

Without going back to check, I'd say that Johnson is the only player I've done in both Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United kits. 

While it isn't the clearest to see, if you look closely, you'll notice different number fonts on the 2 pictures- the first is a Premier League era kit, and the second one was worn in the EFL.

Lastly, for all those fans of the boring technicalities of my methods, I painted the shirts all white first for the kits on the top pic, and all blue first for the bottom ones. This is because I find it much easier to paint the central stripe than leave it there by painting the two around it!

A couple of Arsenal figures

Some Arsenal figures for your Monday. 2 players that, really, I don't know much about.

If I remember rightly, this Brian Kidd remodel was the by-product of making another coach figure. I was left with a spare player body, and Kidd head. Just seemed pointless to not do it!!

 Here's a more recent one. You know by now that I love simple kits. I've described them as being 'less is more' kits in the past.

I think it's slightly more nuanced than them just being easier; I think it's the fact that I can get them as close to perfect as I'm going to manage. If that makes sense.