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. 

McAllister x3, Leeds

Gary McAllister is still one of the best players I've seen at Leeds. Was just class in everything he did, and controlled games from the middle of the park. 

Here are 3 iterations of him from different stages of his Leeds journey.

This is probably the away kit I would think of McAllister in first... probably because I had a poster of him in it on my wall!

I think at the time, a lot of people thought the this version and the green and blue kit were pretty much the same, but you'll notice a couple of main differences- the stripes are much thicker on the yellow and blue, and on the back there was a blue square for the name and number.

It's strange but I hardly associate the kit with Gary Mac at all. I picture it on Gary Speed... and they were both playing in it at the same time! Maybe Speed has more memorable moments in it, as a guess. Although, funnily enough, I'm pretty sure they both scored against Blackburn in it, in successive seasons!

And here he is as a manager... I really wanted him to be the one to get us promoted from League 1, but it just never worked out. We weren't as completely hopeless as a lot of people make out under his management. He got us to the playoff final after taking over midseason from Wise.

He also brought in some great players that summer, and had some patches of good form... he just couldn't sort the defence out, unfortunately. At the time I said I felt we were a good leader at the back from being a promotion team. Grayson arrived, signed Naylor, and we barely lost a game again til the end of the season...

Next 4 Everton

I do find it pleasing when the next 4 figures for a club in my repaints album all have different kits!

This is the third time I've done this Ferguson Cup Final celebration figure, and I'd say it's the best! It's mainly the same as the others, but with a few more years of practice behind me, I was happy to have a go at the thin white and blue stripes on the collar. On the others, I think I just did it lighter blue, as that's how it looks from a distance.

First Everton Soccerstarz, if I remember rightly. As ever with the Hummel kits, you can't see the chevrons on the sleeves very well!

Franny Jeffers. Nice clean lines round the collar, if I say so myself.

 And finally McCall... the details around the top of the socks are my favourite bit!! That's the kind of detail I look at them in!

4 Portsmouth

4 Portsmouth players from what I guess is something of a golden era for the club:

 Well... maybe Edinburgh pre-dates the golden era slightly!

Looking back now, even just at some of the figures I've done, it's crazy the calibre of player they were attracting! 

It's also crazy that the guy who asked me to do these didn't want a Defoe! I just had to google him to make sure I remembered rightly that he played for Portsmouth. And he did. In his prime!! Crouch was too!

This whole post has just been sidetracked into me googling players, and working out how old they were when they played for Portsmouth... so, sorry if it is a bit incoherent, but, to be honest, I can't be bothered checking it through!

Pictures look nice tho, eh?

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 Serie A repaints

I thought I'd mix it up slightly today, with 2 Inter and 2 Juve repaints, though if I'm honest, I probably wouldn't have thought of that if they weren't next to each other in my repaints album...

I remember a friend of mine saying this would make a great England kit... not sure, myself! This was part of an order of several Colombian players that I did a while back. All in club kits though, interestingly.

I remember never really getting this kit when it was out at the time. I think it might have been Inter's kit for European games only, before that was a common thing. Tho I've not bothered to research that, so it might be wrong!

Bit of a pain to paint, this one; as you may know, I've commented before that hoops are disproportionately harder than stripes. The yellow numbers onto a darker colour also add an element of pain in the arsery.

Without realising, another part of the order of lots of Colombian players! Maybe Colombian players were less common figures, or maybe its more of a cultural thing to celebrate their players doing well abroad, cos personally, I'd never go for a bunch of England players in their various club kits... unless it was Leeds of course!

 Finally, Ravanelli. What a beauty of a kit!!

Derby

 Just heard the latest news about Derby, and, yes, it's petty, but after spygate, I can't help but have a little smirk. You'd think they'd have had a bit more nous in banging on about getting another team punished for not breaking any rules, when they're breaking much bigger ones (ie: ones that actually exist) themselves.

So... here are some Derby figures I painted... Any Derby fans want to buy them from me?!

(Not this Wanchope one- it's already sold)

There aren't that many Derby repaints you can do, in relation to some other clubs. 

These were just ones I took out of my box of spares and thought, I'd do. Sometimes I like doing figures I've not seen done before; gives me a bit of motivation, and gets my painting mojo back, when its become a bit of a chore. And it did work, tbf.

So, yeah... Derby fans, strike that first paragraph from your memories, and buy these from me, yes?!

4 Fowlers!

I think I wrote the other day about the parameters people have for their collections. In general, one of each figure is enough for me, but that is certainly not the case for the owner of these:

4 Fowlers that... might be in chronological order?! I couldn't be bothered checking! 

I've also done loads for him of Fowler in his first spell at Liverpool too, and away kits! Basically, if you trawl through this blog finding all the Fowlers, I'd say 95% of them are his! 

I mean, a good 90% of the Liverpool figures in general probably are to be fair!! Big collector!!

 

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!
 

Assorted Sheffield Wednesday!

 See how I kept it fresh by going all thesaurus on the title?!

Let's see what we've got!

We'll be going for the abridged notes tonight, as I should be going to bed really...

So, Di Canio into Sheffield Wednesday has been a very popular repaint. And, without checking this at all, I'd say I've done this kit more or less as much as the home kit!

... I'd forgotten Jeffers played for them until I did this.

NEXT.

Jim Magilton. Nice kit to paint, this. Stripes not too thin to make them tricky! Black number on the back means clear decal, and no faff!

Speaking of black numbers... I think this one should probably be white *grimace emoji*.

I did it black after seeing a picture of the back of the shirt online... but obviously a lot of dodgy printing (ie incorrect fonts, colours etc) gets done on shirts. It would make much more sense to be white. That said, the guy I did it for never mentioned it. 

And that's it for today. Come read my blog again soon, for more figures, and to see whether I can think of another word to use instead of 'mixed' in the title!

AC Milan European Cup Winners

After yesterday's post offering the chance to WIN FREE REPAINTS, I thought I'd get back to normal, with a few pictures today.

I've gone with AC Milan; partly cos they featured in the quiz at the end of today's episode of Quickly Kevin, but mostly because the are at the top of my repaints album due to alphabetical order!!

I haven't even put them into chronological or shirt number order today. I'm surprised too!

Lazy Bank Holiday vibes, I guess!

Some good players here!!

Hope you enjoyed!