Next 4 Everton

I do find it pleasing when the next 4 figures for a club in my repaints album all have different kits!

This is the third time I've done this Ferguson Cup Final celebration figure, and I'd say it's the best! It's mainly the same as the others, but with a few more years of practice behind me, I was happy to have a go at the thin white and blue stripes on the collar. On the others, I think I just did it lighter blue, as that's how it looks from a distance.

First Everton Soccerstarz, if I remember rightly. As ever with the Hummel kits, you can't see the chevrons on the sleeves very well!

Franny Jeffers. Nice clean lines round the collar, if I say so myself.

 And finally McCall... the details around the top of the socks are my favourite bit!! That's the kind of detail I look at them in!

4 Serie A repaints

I thought I'd mix it up slightly today, with 2 Inter and 2 Juve repaints, though if I'm honest, I probably wouldn't have thought of that if they weren't next to each other in my repaints album...

I remember a friend of mine saying this would make a great England kit... not sure, myself! This was part of an order of several Colombian players that I did a while back. All in club kits though, interestingly.

I remember never really getting this kit when it was out at the time. I think it might have been Inter's kit for European games only, before that was a common thing. Tho I've not bothered to research that, so it might be wrong!

Bit of a pain to paint, this one; as you may know, I've commented before that hoops are disproportionately harder than stripes. The yellow numbers onto a darker colour also add an element of pain in the arsery.

Without realising, another part of the order of lots of Colombian players! Maybe Colombian players were less common figures, or maybe its more of a cultural thing to celebrate their players doing well abroad, cos personally, I'd never go for a bunch of England players in their various club kits... unless it was Leeds of course!

 Finally, Ravanelli. What a beauty of a kit!!

Hernandez, Leeds: GoalaGoalaGoal

Pablo Henrnadez was adored by the Leeds fans long before those behind closed doors games after lockdown... but that was when he cemented his place as a club legend.

In that final run of games, Bielsa had to nurse him through, managing an injury niggle in those 35 year old legs, and still, Hernandez pulled out moment of class after moment of class, none more so than the moment that means he'll be forever remembered in this grey and pink kit.

 I've done a few Hernandez figures, but these are the first 2 in this kit. A kit that, in truth, a lot of people's first reaction to was: urgh! But also one that had so many great moments on the pitch, that, again, it will be written into folklore!

Sorry about the wordy(?) sentimental(?) post, but the culmination of 16 years of striving to get back to the top table was achieved by this man, in this kit. Gracias Pablo.

GoalaGoalaGoal.

Minamino, Japan

As it's an international break, how about a couple of international repaints.

No idea if I can keep up the posts with international kit figures throughout, but might as well start with a theme, eh?!

Here we have Minamino, in Japan's current home and away kits.

Hard to get the number to show up well on the photo, but I was very pleased with this one! The sort of camouflage pattern (in very non-camouflage colours) came out great, if I say so myself...

The away kit is much simpler, but one of those nice, crisp, clean ones. A sort of "less is more" repaint!

And that's your lot for today!

 

Mixed Spurs

 Another mixed post; let's do it! I haven't even checked who's up next in the Spurs section of my repaint album...

Well, we've definitely reached the stage where repaints that I don't think of as old were done at least 3 or 4 years ago.

This one, for example. I know lockdown has made a lot of things feel 3 or 4 years ago, but one thing I know for sure is: it's been quite a while since I took my photos in the location this one is in. You'll notice the sort of leafy wallpaper in the background of the newer ones!

But also, this is not so old that I look at it and immediately see 5 or 6 things I'm unhappy with!!

Note the wallpaper!! Fairly simple one this, though.

Aaaand 3 more that are a bit older. Aside from all the painting improvements, I've also got much better at photographing them!!

Hope this post cheers up any Spurs fans that see it a bit!

EDIT: Didn't realise til I started adding the tags- there are 3 different kinds of figures in here! 4 if you want to get even more picky about the figure types... which I generally don't!!

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!

Wigan

 Sunday night, and I find myself on my laptop, renaming all the photographs of recently (and I use the term loosely) finished figures.

Aaaand this made me think I should probably do a blog post for the first time in quite a while.

So without further ado, here are all the Wigan players I've ever done!

And I think that'll do. Let's see if I can get back on a roll here, now that the football season has started again!

Tenuous Euros post, part 4

 I might be starting to run out of figures vaguely related to the Euros now... but until I've completely run out, let's keep cracking on!

I know I said that the last post was a bit Spurs heavy, but I couldn't resist starting this post with a figure that'll make you say: Townsend? I didn't realise he was doing punditry on ITV!

NEXT!

A more familiar pundit now! Alan Shearer, in his Southampton days. One of my favourite recent repaints! 

And to finish off, perhaps the most tenuous link yet:

What do you mean "What's Cantona got to do with Euro 2020?! Haven't you seen the Sports Direct advert?!

Tenuous Euros post, part 3

Yes, it's the post that none of you were waiting for! Let's crack straight on with some figures vaguely related to Euro 2020!

Lloris, who gave a penalty away yesterday by punching someone in the face! 

I can't tell you the full story of this figure. Clearly it's not an original corinthian of Lloris, cos he wasn't on the scene when they stopped making them. My best guess is that it's a remodel using a Soccerwe head... or a remodel using a lookalike from another corinthian that I'm unaware of. Anyway... I didn't remodel it!

Here's an away kit repaint of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink in his Leeds days. Hassebaink has done a bit of punditry in the Euros... on Netherlands games, I would guess.

He's done a bit of punditry on Leeds games over the last couple of years too... here's hoping that he does a few less when we can get back to grounds and the amount of games to be covered goes back to normal.

Speaking of pundits people want to hear less from...

Also, why does this Danny Murphy microstar look like it might steal my lunch money?!

And last but not least:

What would these posts be without a Kyle Walker Soccerstarz?! This one was requested in Spurs training kit... for some reason.

I didn't realise this post was so Spurs heavy until I did all the tags. Don't worry; I've got some more figures that are sort of related to the Euros to show you soon!

Tenuous Euro 2020 post, part 2

 More figures that have some relation to Euro 2020... but definitely not painted in Euro 2020 kits!

We have an active player! Here's Ben Davies, in his Spurs stuff. Davies has featured in all of Wales' games so far, as they have succesfully navigated the group stage for the second successive Euros.

Sticking with the Wales theme, Mark Hughes (here in Southampton kit) was a pundit for one of the Wales games... I don't think I've seen him on for any other teams!

Another pundit for the current Euros; Jurgen Klinsmann. Hair's a bit shorter these days, mind. Gary Lineker asked him if he'd be interested in the Spurs job after one match the other day, and, going against the grain of the 157 other managers Spurs have spoken to, Jurgen said that he would!

Good memories of playing in the above kits clearly an influencing factor!

And after a glorious, slightly boring 1-0 win for England, that definitely means that it might be coming home... here's Kyle Walker in an away kit from his early days at Spurs.

Spurs heavy post this one! I'll see what other minor Euros links I can dream up for another post soon!

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!

Brrrrrr!

Ready for a tenuous link?!

I scrolled through my (alphabetical by team) unused repaint pics, and these were next to each other; the only ones of their respective teams unused. 

So, I decided to chuck them in a blog post together, and Br... it's cold outside. 

Anyway...

I was very pleased with this one! I've done McCall in Bradford colours before, but from the Premier League era. This kit was a bit harder to fit that sponsor on, but keep the stripes on the front without making them too small. But I feel I succeeded! 

I've also done Sidwell in Brighton kit before, but not on a Soccerstarz figure. Again, happy with how this turned out. Stripes on soccerstarz aren't too bad, as long as you've got a very thin brush, in good condition!

Pablo x2

In a vain attempt to raise my spirits during lockdown, here's Pablo Hernandez, who gave Leeds fans one of the best moments during lockdown with his goal against Swansea.

4 Sheffield United Soccerstarz

These are the last 4 Sheffield United Soccerstarz in my repaints album that I haven't posted here yet.

There are still plenty of prostars tho!!

Doing this one was one of those occasions that taught me something new; namely that Matt Phillips played for Sheffield United!

This sentence is only here cos I felt I should write something about the Walker figure.

Stokes is one of those players that I only have the vaguest knowledge of! Maybe I tried to take him on loan on Football Manager once... maybe he was quite good in the Scottish Premier League... (I'm purposely not googling here!)

I'm not even entirely sure what his first name is! I want to say Anthony... or Tony?!

And finally Jagielka. I certainly repainted him in a kit from hsi first spell at Bramall Lane before... I may have even posted a pic of him in this kit to this blog in the past (I'm sure I did 2)

What I can tell you for sure: He is the only one that is definitely in the right place in my attempt to order these chronologically!

Hutton, Spurs

Well, Premier League football is back, and being as I posted Man United pictures yesterday, I thought I'd better put some Spurs ones up today, to stay balanced!

2 Hutton figures incoming:

I did the first one so long ago, that it's not even the house I lived in before this one! I also have learnt how to take a better picture since!

Both of these kits are quite plain, which means the hardest thing was probably applying the decals, which can be a fiddly business on soccerstarz!