International Break

As we're currently in the middle of a set of international fixtures, how about a couple of repaints in international kits?

First, one to offer a little cheer to any Irish followers I have:

If I remember rightly, I mixed up some slightly darker green for the sleeves on this kit. If you can't tell... well, it was only a subtle difference anyway!

 

And here's Celtic legend Billy McNeill in his Scotland colours. Nice simple, but effective repaint.

British Keepers

Day 3 of blog boost week! Still going with international figures, as it's international week, but today'd specific theme is keepers!

Here are 5 goalies (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales) in freshly repainted kits, including gloves!

If I can say this about my own work, I'm a big fan of these! The gloves add so much!

I particularly like the patterns on the Jennings Northern Ireland kit!

I can also reveal to you here, that all of these figures are set to feature in the book Glove Story 2, set to be published next year!

Lisbon Lions, Scotland, part 2!

Of the alternative Lisbon Lions Celtic set that I did for a big Celtic fan, I think I am right in saying these are the only ones I haven't posted yet.

Here's John Clark in a Scotland away kit, and manager Jock Stein, in his sky blue Scotland blazer!

Scotland, 1960s

My regular Celtic fan has recently developed a taste for getting Scotland international kits repainted onto former Celtic Greats.

Here are a couple of them!

I give you Billy McNeill, and Bertie Auld, both of Lisbon Lions fame, sporting a mid 1960s Scotland kit.

If you follow this blog, I'm sure you'll have read before that I love the simplicity of 1960s kits- not just because it makes them easier to paint(!) but I think there is something really effective about the end result.

Something a bit different about these two is that I also hand painted the shirt number, rather than using a decal. I felt the big, curved 1960s number font would be fine to paint, and it turned out that way too.