Rangers Variety Pack!

Here are Rangers figures of 3 different varieties!!

A kit I can remember from my early days of watching the Leeds United 92-93 season review video, and the coverage of our fixture against Rangers in the European Cup, which went very well...

Anyway, I was delighted with how this figure turned out. I love the clean lines of the adidas branding, tho I did have to say to the buyer "You'll have to keep the arms as they are, or the adidas stripes won't line up!"

You might also have noticed the mitre branding on the ball!

Slightly more straightforward this, tho I not only were adidas boots requested, but, adidas predators!

I was also asked to do "Blondish/ginger hair", which was nice, because whenever I try to mix blonde, it seems to have a bit of ginger to it anyway!

 And finally, lots of extra requests were made for this one too!

Luminous boots, gloves (which I went ahead and stuck the hummel branding on) sleeve patches and, last, but certainly not least, Morelos' style hair, which I remodeled! Overall, I was probably most pleased with this one, of the above 3!

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!

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:

van Hooijdonk, Celtic

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Here's another kit that I'm running out of things to say about!!

I've done it a few times now, and if you've read my previous posts about it, you'll know that it's widely considered as one of the worst kits in Celtic history!!

You'll also know that I enjoy the challenge of painting a more complicated kit.

One additional challenge that is starting to arise, particularly with this kind of complex kit, is keeping it consistent, especially when I'm doing the figures as part of different orders. I think I've done ok so far. I keep photos of every repaint I've done, so there are always pictures to refer to as well!

Here's a picture of the kit in real life:

Boyd, Celtic away

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Another Celtic repaint, another recurring kit, another that makes it onto the '6 of the worst Old Firm kits of all time' according to the Daily Record!

I don't know if it's the amount of times I've painted it or what, but the kit is actually growing on me... in spite of it being described as a 'Particular abomination' in the aforementioned article, as well as being put on a par with Coventry's chocolate brown number! Surely not!!

Here's the real thing, worn by Celtic in 1991/92 (and featured on uglyfootballkits.co.uk!)

O'Donnell, Celtic away

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Considering this is usually mentioned in conversations about Celtic's worst ever kit, it's been requested quite a few times now!

So much so, that I don't really have much else to say about it!

I've enjoyed painting it, and I particularly like the Umbro number font... tho I like how pretty much any number fonts look, as long as they're accurate!!

I couldn't find a pic of O'Donnell in this kit with a quick Google, so I'll just put this here:

It's from an article entitled: Six of the Best... Worst Old Firm kits!

Stubbs, Celtic

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I actually did this Alan Stubbs, Celtic away repaint ages ago, but because I'd already posted pics of a couple of other players wearing it (Wright and Burchill) I thought I'd hold on before posting it here!

It's quite a nice kit to repaint! I actually prefer thin stripes or hoops to thicker ones! I find them easier to keep consistent!

Here's a pic of Stubbs in the kit for real to compare it to:

Collins, Celtic

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Compared to some of the recent Celtic repaints, this kit is positively tame!!

A plain old black with green pinstripes was relatively straightforward in comparison to the white with yellow and green swooshes, or the mint green, grey and white zig zaggy number!!

I like the Umbro font numbers on the back too!

Here's the kit, a la historical kits:

Grant, Celtic

The latest Celtic repaint:

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I had to google his name to know that this was Peter Grant!

The kit chosen was another away number: Celtic's 3rd kit from 1994-95.

I was pleased with how it turned out! Not overly difficult, but enough to be an interesting challenge to paint!

Keep your eye out for another player in this kit soon!

Here's a pic of the shirt to compare the repaint to: