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.

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!

Arsenal Keepers

This is one of those times where I learned something repainting figures; I couldn't have told you the names of Arsenal's second and third choice goalies prior to this!!

These are lookalike figures, unsurprisingly!

They were good fun though! I particularly enjoyed the sort of camouflage pattern on the shirts! 

Arsenal away, part 2

I posted 'part one' of these kits a while back, so thought today was as good a day as any for part 2!

I split the pictures up by who ordered them, so one lucky person now owns both of these beauties!

I loved how these turned out! I think I explained last time, that it's unusual for me to paint the sponsor on. I also painted the A on the shorts. If you want to know why, find the other post about these kits, by clicking here... I'm not explaining it a second time!

Arsenal Away, 1995 (I think) Part 1

Well, here's an unusual thing for my recent blog posts; I actually finished these figures within the last few weeks!

In trying to clear some of my back log, I've been posting pretty old pictures recently! 

Anyway, here are some Arsenal away repaints.

I loved this kit as a kid, and as a result, whenever I designed my own kits, they always featured some (slightly wonky) lightning. Hopefully no-one considers these repaints slightly wonky!

Lightning aside, there are a couple of other aspects to these repaints that are different from the norm- I painted the sponsor and the Arsenal A on the shorts, both for different reasons.

I hand-painted the sponsor because I felt that, with the lightning design, putting a decal over the top, and having to paint the 'joins' would probably be just as much work as painting  what is a relatively simple (and short!) sponsor.

For the A, basically... I couldn't find a good clear version of it online to print. I'm very happy with how it looks, especially on Bergkamp, I'd say!

Oh, also in case you're wondering why this is 'part one', I had 2 separate orders for this kit. I've decided to group them that way for the blog posts, so the other 2 figures will be up here soon... ish.

Tony Adams 1989

Too tired to write in much detail...

Here's a Tony Adams figure in the kit from Arsenal's famous title-cinching win at Anfield in 1989:

Andy Cole, Arsenal

Quick blog post before I go to bed!

This is another of those figures that I grabbed out of my box of spares, and just knocked out a quick repaint that took my fancy.

Again, it's a figure I've never seen done before... you know how I like to be original!!

It's probably never been done by anyone else because Cole played like twice for Arsenal!

I went with number 15 as that's the number he wore coming on as sub in the Charity Shield against Spurs.

Quite simple and straightforward, but I was pleased with it.

Aaaaaaand it sold on eBay!

Ian Wright: Just Done It!

Recently, I did an Arsenal remodel!

It was a bit of a strange one, as it actually covered up the face of the figure; surely the main feature of a Corinthian figure. But, I was pleased with it, and I think it worked!

Here it is:

For those of you wondering what on earth this is, it is the way that Arsenal legend Ian Wright celebrated the milestone of breaking the all time goal record at Highbury; pulling his shirt over his head to reveal a vest saying: 179 Just done it!

I felt it would be a remodel within my skillset(!) and just fancied having a bit of an experiment, and this is the result!

If you fancy watching a YouTube video of it being made, as well as some of my musings about the figure, click here.

If you fancy bidding on it on eBay, click here!! (Disclaimer: if you're reading this more than a week after this blog post is made, it probably won't work!) 

Kidd, Arsenal

A while ago, I did a few remodels, and these left me with a spare Brian Kidd head, and a player body!

I decided to do this with them:

I think there was a Kidd player figure made as part of a Man United European Cup Winners set, but there was never an Arsenal one, hence my decision to make this one.

It is available, so if any Arsenal collectors see this and are interested, comment here, use the contact box at the bottom of the page, or use the social media links in the header.

Rosicky and Eduardo, Arsenal

With the news about Wenger coming out, I thought it would be fitting to post a couple of Arsenal repaints!

Not his best signings, but players that, I think it would be fair to say, did a decent job before injuries... and more importantly, the only Arsenal players I've done and not posted the pics of yet!

So, here are Rosicky and Eduardo:

Just in case you were wondering about Rosicky's white hands, these were for a customer who, I think, does a bit of painting himself. He asked me to leave them as they were!

Seaman, Arsenal

I find it quite surprising that I haven't done many Arsenal kits, when you consider the size of the fanbase they have.

Here's my most recent one, and it's one of the most intricate!

I remember this kit vividly, as Seaman wore it around about the time I really got into football... and moved to North London!

I was pleased with this repaint; it's a level of detail I wouldn't have even attempted maybe as little as a year ago. Notheless, I had this little frustrating feeling that maybe I could do it even better.

Always striving to improve!

Arsenal 98-99

A couple of Arsenal figures.

Being as they are in the same kit, I thought I'd put them in the same blog post:

For those of you that notice this kind of thing; these are remodels. I didn't do them myself- the guy that wanted the repaints sent them to me like this.

I think I am right in saying that Bergkamp sculpt was never produced in this kit, while the Overmars that Corinthian produced in this kit had a different body pose.

Twenty Years of Nike and Arsenal kit

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When I first saw the promotional 20 years of Nike and Arsenal kit, I thought: I have to have a go at that!

Then came the decision of which figure to do it on. There were many candidates... but the only Arsenal player that I had kicking about was Tony Adams! (I also have about 50 thousand David Seamans, but thought he would need a 20 year goalie kit instead!)

In any case, who would be a better model for this kit than Mr Arsenal himself??

While it's not perfect, I was fairly pleased with the paint job. For those who haven't worked this out, it is quite an intricate and tricky kit to paint on a 7cm figure!

I may be getting another chance to practice this one soo...

Watch this space!

Adams, Arsenal (away)

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Adams, in a mid 90s Arsenal away kit.

I loved this kit at the time... basically because it had lightning. In fact, every kit I designed myself (as 10 year old boys do) had lightning on it from this kit onwards.

Here's the shirt:

Think this may be one of my next models to go on ebay: while I fancied painting it, I never really intended to keep it!