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 Euro 2020 post 6

 Well everyone, my supply of figures that just barely relate to Euro 2020 is running low. But yesterday's highlights show gave me another one!

Dion Dublin! He may've been on all through the Euros; I don't know!! Last night was the first time I caught a bit of one of the highlights shows... even though I had already watched both of the games!

And here's Cantona again, making his second appearance on one of these posts, just because he's on a Sports Direct advert!

For those of you unfamiliar, this is a Vivid Imaginations Figure. There were a few Premier League players made, at a similar time that corinthians first came out. These are much bigger. I don't have any in my own collection, but I can see why people like them.

And that's your lot for today. I've decided (without doing any actual planning) that to stand any chance of getting to the end of the Euros with these, I'm gonna have to cut down to 2 pics per post!

Euro 2020 ish post...

 Well I haven't been here since April! If you follow my socials, you'll know I've not been taking any new orders due to real life work commitments. I have managed to get a bit of painting in, but absolutely zero blogging!!

As a result of lack of new orders, I don't have any specific Euros related figures, but how about some with tenuous links?!

Ian Wright may have never played in the Euros, but he's at this year's as a pundit! Here he is in Celtic kit!!

Sheva! Here he is in Milan European Cup final winning kit. It'd take a brave man to bet on him winning the Euros as manager of Ukraine!

Another of ITV's punditry team, and another European cup winner! Graeme Souness, in Liverpool kit.

A couple of active players... but not in their England kits! Kane and Walker soccerstarz in Spurs away kits. We need both of them to step up, I'd say. Not seen the best of either in this tournament yet.

And last, but certainly not least, the Yorkshire Pirlo: Kalvin Phillips! You'll notice this custom funko is in the number 7 shirt, and has different hair than Kalvin has now- I made it just after his England debut based on his appearance then.

And that's your lot for today. Hopefully giving you a few more pics than normal makes up for the absence. I'll try to not leave it so long next time... not least as I've got some more figures tenuously linked to the Euros!

He's our Centre half, he's our number...5

I posted 2 home kit Celtic van Dijks a good few weeks ago now, with the promise of some away kits. Here they are!

While I quite like all the kits you see here, i'll level with you and say: I'm  not bothered if i never paint another Kodoto figure again!!

They are different from corinthians in that they have moving heads and arms,, which I tried to 'cover all angles' with, but the paint would often crack around the joins. I the end, I just asked the buyer what he thought... and whether he had any intention of ever moving the arms!! 

He said he was happy for me to glue them still if I wanted!!

Aaaaand, unless I'm mistaken, that's every kit VVD ever wore at celtic, done!

Celtic 'Bumblebee' away kit

To be honest... I'm still sulking after a Leeds defeat, so here you go, just have a look at a load of Celtic players!

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!!

Thompson and Keane, Celtic

Keeping the momentum going on the blog posts! Here are 2 Celtic players

Tough decision for me this one; Shirt number order or chronological!!

I was pleased with both of these. I think I've mentioned before that hoops are one style of kit that I am not quite as confident with in terms of just cracking on and getting them done; it takes concentration, and a session dedicated just to them!

With that in mind tho, I was pleased with these- the lines are good and clean, and I was happy with the sleeves too, another area that can be tricky.

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I also can't look at these without thinking: They both played for Leeds too!

Larsson, Celtic

Thursday= Europa League night. Celtic are in the Europa League.

How about a Henrik Larsson repaint?!

Here he is, post dreadlocks!

I really like how distinctive Celtic repaints are. 

This shirt design had a white space for the name and number. Ideally, I would have liked to fit the bottom green stripe in as well, but didn't want to make the name and number too small. 

I could've moved it up, but then I would've lost the top stripe! Never mind- the buyer was happy enough with it!

... This might also be a 'head swap' figure: I can't remember! One of my regulars often does the head swaps before sending them to me; I guess he likes some body poses/ specific short or long sleeves etc for specific players.

Viduka, Celtic

Loved Viduka when he was at Leeds.

Fortunately for me, this Celtic repaint request started life in a Boro kit!

Lovely!

Normally I don't go into painting technicalities much on here, but I tried a different technique on this one. 

For a sponsor like the ntl one on this figure (where it is on white, that goes over the green hoop) I'd usually just do it on a white decal, and use that to cover the hoop.

For this one though, I used white paint to make the gap, and then used a clear decal instead. Most people wouldn't notice the difference, to be honest, but I felt it gave it a crisper, cleaner look on the front, and I'll probably do the same again, for similar situations.

Hope that didn't bore you!! Or lose you completely! Maybe it'll be a useful point to someone!

Celtic x3

Celtic play Rosenborg in the Europa League tonight, and you know me; always like to keep my blog posts on the pulse...

So here are three players that played for Celtic over 8 years ago!

The only way I could've been more relevant is by posting pictures of current Celtic players... or a pic of Celtic legend Henrik Larsson, who's birthday it is today! D'oh!!

If you want to see Larsson birthday posts, check out a run-through of his career in repaints on my instagram here, or have a look on my facebook for my latest Celtic repaint of him.

Shay Given, Celtic

A bit of evidence that my regular Celtic customer is becoming as obsessed as I am (with my Leeds collection, at least!)

Here is Shay Given, who never made a first team appearance at Celtic!

I enjoyed this kit: a decent challenge! And I was happy with how it ended up.

Shay's lack of first team appearances at Celtic are the reason for the 13 shirt, and no name on it!

Given himself liked this repaint enough to like a picture of it on Twitter!

Di Canio, Celtic

So... it's been over a month since I last posted... I'm a teacher again!

Without further ado, here's a repaint that I think looks great!

I felt the lines were crisp and neat, and the sponsor and logo just look bang on! 

I also did the trademark white boots!

This is the second Celtic Di Canio I've done. The first, in an away kit can be found here.

Another point of interest, I also made a youtube video about painting this one, sort of tutorialish, at the request of the buyer who fancied a go at painting a figure himself afterwards. 

Click here if you've got too much time on your hands!

Celtic, Alternative Lisbon Lions!

The last of the repainted Lisbon Lions set. Through all of the recent Celtic repaints, you may have noticed that I've grouped the figures dues to some kind of similarity... the similarity for these 2 is that they are the last ones I haven't blogged!

Celtic 1960s aways

Here continue the Lisbon Lions in away kits!

Today's theme: mainly white kits!

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Celtic, away kits of the '60s and '70s!

One of my regulars, who is a big Celtic fan recently came by a Lisbon Lions box set at a price he couldn't refuse!

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But he already had one!! The result? Plenty of Celtic away kits and Scotland National team repaints!

Here are the first few Celtic ones... I've grouped them together in that they are all predominantly green!

I've always found Celtic's tradition of numbering the shorts, rather than shirts interesting. Obviously they changed at some point, so I just trusted my customer's knowledge on these.

The highlight of this bunch has to be the hand-painted Umbro logos on Lennox!

Hughes, Celtic

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Here's the last of the (relatively speaking) more modern Celtic repaints you'll be seeing here for a while!

I've got a whole bunch of 60s and 70s ones coming up, so keep your eyes peeled, Celtic fans!

Anyway, this 1990s away kit is relatively tame by Celtic standards; just have a look through some of these, and you'll know what I mean.

I painted this once before, on a Grant figure. At that time I described it as "not overly difficult, but enough to be an interesting challenge to paint". Still a fair assessment, I'd say!

McStay, Celtic

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If you've followed my blog for any length of time, you'll probably know what I'm going to say about this kit by now!

In a nutshell, the level of detail makes it an interesting one to paint, even though it is widely regarded as one of the most ugly shirts in Celtic history!!

I've done it on a few different players now, so I have gotten to know the design quite well!! 

One of the challenges has been to mix the colours in the same way on subsequent repaints- I haven't painted them all at the same time, but they are for the same collector, meaning  ideally, they'll be exactly the same shades! I've used the photos that I keep of every repaint I do to help!

Here's the kit, as represented on the excellent Historical Kits website:

Cole, Celtic

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OK, so not exactly a Celtic legend, but one for the completist collector! I know understand him wanting to have this painted; I have a Michael Ricketts figure in my Leeds collection!!

I like how this ended up, and it was nice to be able to do Celtic's traditional home colours; considering how many Bhoys figures I've done, I've not done the famous green and white hoops many times.

Carlton Cole appreciated the figure too, well, enough to like and retweet it on Twitter, anyway.

Toure, Celtic

My most up to date Celtic repaints incoming!

 Kolo Toure joined Celtic from Liverpool this summer, and as a result, here are a pair of repaints of him in both home and away Celtic kits.

I quite enjoyed doing the traditional home shirt; even though I have done quite a few Celtic repaints, many of them have been in outlandish away kits!

The original plan was to get a third Toure figure, and do one in the bright pink away kit!! It may still happen, if I can find any fluorescent pink model paint at a reasonable price!

Donnelly, Celtic

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Well, here's an unusual post; a Celtic away kit one, where I'm not commenting on how the strip is considered one of the ugliest they've had!

This black and mint-green pinstriped number is positively tasteful, compared to some of the others!

Here's a picture of it, via historical kits: