4 Ian Rushes

Strap yourselves in, here are 4 Ian Rush figures!

As you may have guessed, this grey one was a pain in the backside to paint! I think it was worth the effort, though I don't mind that I've not been asked to reproduce it since.

On the flipside, while it is also tecnically pretty difficult to do, I actually quite enjoy doing pinstripes. This one is part of a growing collection of European Cup final players that one guy is doing; one player from each final.

Another complicated kit! But probably not as difficult as it looks. I didn't try to match the kit exactly- just stick to the righ kind of shapes and patterns. It's all you can do with a kit like this, really.

 And finishing off with the 92-93 away kit. Whenever I'm doing this kit template, I do the main colour of the shirt... and then put off doing the adidas shoulder/ shorts section for ages! I don't know why though, the thought of it is always worse than doing it!#

And, there you go. There was a time when I would have put these into chronological order... but I'm sure the fact that I haven't this time hasn't ruined your evening too much. 

4 Oldham

Here are the last 4 Oldham figures that currently reside in my repaints album:

 I think that Shezza is perhaps the piece de resistance in this guy's Oldham collection, not least because he is so hard to get hold of!

If he was a bit easier to find, I might have ended up making a Sheridan manager remodel too! 

There are at least 2 more manager possibilities: Recently sacked Keith Curle, and that scumbag who's happy to crawl over the memory of murdered fans for cash. Not sure I'd really want to do that one, tbh... although removing the head with a saw might be quite satisfying.

On another note, unless I'm mistaken, the Crossley figure is by far the most recent Oldham player I've repainted. 

4 More Norwich

Norwich finally got a Premier League win under their belt today, so seems as good a time as any to post a few more Norwich pictures:

Gotta say, I think this Fox repaint is my favourite!

Never knew Grant played for Norwich until I made this.

Or Hartson, tbf. These ones certainly proved educational, as it was the same with Bruce and Andy Townsend.

 And finally, Danny Mills, who I think had a little more hair when he was a youngster at Carrow Road...

4 Wallaces, Southampton

 Never thought I'd get to the stage of having 4 Rod Wallace Southampton figures to put on one post! 

Like, he was a good pro, but I just didn't foresee this demand for him, especially when he's not the easiest figure to get hold of!

Anyway, here they are: 

This kit *heart eyes emoji*

Yes, it's not the easiest to paint, but just look at it!! Beauty. 

The next one is a bit easier to make up for the difficulty level of the first!

Number 11 for the second 2 figures. I guess that might have something to do with the emergence of a certain le Tissier, but that's speculation, based on no research at all!

And there you have it: 2 homes, 2 aways, 4 Wallaces!
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And knowiung the collector they belong to, don't bet against there being more!!

Indiscriminate Norwich figures

I'm reaching with these titles now!!

I recently finished 12 Norwich figures; the first Norwich I've done since my only previous one in about 2014!

Here they come. Let's go for 4.

This was the only previous Norwich kit I had done, but it was on Sutton before. Needless to say, this is better, even if only cos the number font is more accurate!

Unfortunately, you can't see the best part of this one; the hummel chevrons on the sleeves and down the side of the shorts!

And there you have it; just going by alphabetical order has given us 4 different kits! Nice.

Various Nottingham Forest Figures

I'm on quite the roll! And if it ain't broke...

Here are 5 Forest figures. All B and C surnames!

I'm a big fan of this Bart-Williams away kit repaint! Nice and crisp, and clean!

Benali at Forest. Who knew?

A pair in the pinstripe Labatts kit. As you may have gathered from the printed base, Kingsley Black is a lookalike figure!

And another lookalike here, to make Nigel Clough. Funnily enough, you'll see another Nigel Clough, using a different lookalike next time I do a Nottingham Forest post... assuming I stick to alphabetical order!
 

Mixed Liverpool figures

 I have now got a lot, and I mean A LOT, of Liverpool figures which I have finished, but not added to the blog.

My feelings are that, to get a nice mixture of kits and players, the best way to start is to probably stick them up in alphabetical order.

With that in mind, here are a few mixed Liverpool repaints!

Minor remodel on this Phill Babb figure; I filled in the v neck in order to get the white part of this 'collar' nice and round, and more even looking. Nice and simple apart from that small extra job!

I'll be honest and say this is a design that I put off doing for a while. It was the thought of those thick adidas stripes on the shoulder. Once I cracked on though, they didn't give me too many problems. Definitely preferable to the 93-94 design, with the adidas stripes coming in from each side of the stomach!

Nice kit to do this one. People might think it looks difficult, and, while I always keep a pic of the kit nearby to refer to, once you've got the kinds of shapes that feature in mind, it's fairly straightforward, as long as you've got a thin brush! The shapes and lines can always ben thinned a bit once they've dried too!

See: comment on the Barnes figure!

Hope you enjoyed perusing, and my notes!

More soon!

Tenuous Euro 2020 post part 7

At the risk of being an arrogant, unbearable England fan: It... might come home. Possibly?!

What a great win yesterday tho! First time in living memory that we've won a knockout game at the Euros in 90 minutes!

I thought I'd mark the occasion with an England legend. Not in England kit, obviously, but he is in white! And he's a pundit at this year's Euros!

 SPOILERS: there's gonna have to be more Southampton Shearers for me to make this theme last!

And now, one that I hadn't accounted for!

As I chomped on my victory Pizza, I saw a pundit on the Sweden vs Ukraine game, and thought: "Aha! I've done one of him!"

And here's Freddie Ljungberg in Celtic colours. We probably won't see him again this tournament now that Sweden are out...

Tenuous Euros post, part 4

 I might be starting to run out of figures vaguely related to the Euros now... but until I've completely run out, let's keep cracking on!

I know I said that the last post was a bit Spurs heavy, but I couldn't resist starting this post with a figure that'll make you say: Townsend? I didn't realise he was doing punditry on ITV!

NEXT!

A more familiar pundit now! Alan Shearer, in his Southampton days. One of my favourite recent repaints! 

And to finish off, perhaps the most tenuous link yet:

What do you mean "What's Cantona got to do with Euro 2020?! Haven't you seen the Sports Direct advert?!

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!!

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.

Maradona, Boca Juniors

Happy Sunday everyone!

Here are a couple of Maradona repaints:

 I've done this one a few times now, but these are the most detailed ones, so I picked them for the blog post.

I don't usually add kit manufacturers or shorts numbers, but they were requested for these. Tho it's not my usual style, I'm happy to add them when requested.

If you look carefully at the top one, you'll even notice the Puma king boots!

For the uninitiated, this post is also a good illustration of the difference between 'normal' corinthian prostars (top) and Fan Favourites (bottom pic)

Arsenal Keepers

Hot off the press! Here are three Arsenal goalies that I finished and posted less than 3 days ago!

One of the changes I made to this Pat Jennings (apart from the kit) was painting over the bare hands that the original figure had!

When I made the decals for this Lukic figure, I accidentally printed a number one with an Umbro logo on it. You can't clearly tell from this pic, but the shirt and short have Adidas stripes down the side... so, to save having to make another decal, I painted white over the umbro logo on the 1!

I think this was my favourite of the 3, and my favouite part is the collar!! If I'm allowed to say this about my own work, I just thought the thin lines on the collar were very well done!

Brrrrrr!

Ready for a tenuous link?!

I scrolled through my (alphabetical by team) unused repaint pics, and these were next to each other; the only ones of their respective teams unused. 

So, I decided to chuck them in a blog post together, and Br... it's cold outside. 

Anyway...

I was very pleased with this one! I've done McCall in Bradford colours before, but from the Premier League era. This kit was a bit harder to fit that sponsor on, but keep the stripes on the front without making them too small. But I feel I succeeded! 

I've also done Sidwell in Brighton kit before, but not on a Soccerstarz figure. Again, happy with how this turned out. Stripes on soccerstarz aren't too bad, as long as you've got a very thin brush, in good condition!

A Sheffield United Trio

Hard to believe I'm almost at the end of the Sheffield United pics now! However, the guy that I did most of them for has been back in contact recently, asking if there are any other possibilities... and I've got 5 or 6 ideas!

Shipperley- difficult to get hold of, and then when you do, and repaint it gloriously, the first comment when it goes online is: looks more like Jimmy Carr. To be fair...

Yep... I'd rather keep Gary Speed in Leeds colours, tbh!

 Last but not least, another rare-ish one, I think. Phil Thompson. Tricky badge on this (and a couple of other Sheff United figures. No shield or crest round it, just crossed blades and 'Sheffield United' straight on the shirt. Meant I had to be more precise with the decals than usual! Think I pulled it off tho!