River Plate Soccerstarz

I've done a few River Plate figures over the years- Prostar size, and Microstars. Here are my first River Plate Soccerstarz!

First off, Falcao in home and away kits. If you're wondering why I didn't photograph their backs, it's cos the long hair covers pretty much the whole back anyway!! Getting an angle that showed the name and number for the photo seemed like more trouble than it was worth!

 And last but not least Quintero!

River Plate x3

 Sorry everyone; slipped out of the blogging habit for a bit there!

Here are a few slightly more exotic figures to brighten a rainy day:

Three River Plate players, in their very distinctive kit. I did these quite a while back now, but, in quite a rare occurrence when it comes to figures I did over 2 years ago, I can't see anything that I'm overly unhappy with!!

Funes Mori is a 'lookalike', of course.

The other 2 are players that I admired a lot in my youth; Ortega pretty much cos of an ad campaign, and Aimar cos of Pro Evo...

Salas, River

Customers in Argentina= River Plate repaints aplenty!

Here are 2 on different figures of the same player; Marcelo Salas.

I was a big fan of Salas, around the 1998 World Cup! He scored a great goal against England in a friendly just before the World Cup, and continued that form with 4 in France.

These were interesting kits to do- I hadn't done diagonal 'sash' kits before this batch, and I quite enjoyed them!

It was also during this batch of figures that the 3 Adidas stripes became the bane of my painting life!! If they featured on shirt, shorts and socks, as they do on these Salases (and plenty of others in the same order) there are 18 precise, thin stripes on each figure!!

River Plate Microstars

There's been a surge in orders for figures in South American club kits recently.

I think it's because I had one guy order quite a few, and then other people come across them, and think they'd like one for themselves!!

Here are my first 3 River Plate Microstars:

If you're interested in South American football, keep your eye on the blog, and my other social media pages!

Many more to come, including Santos, Boca, Estudiantes and the Argentina national team!