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!

Newport Subbuteo XLs part 2!

I posted some 1970s style Newport Subbuteo XLs the other day (which could be 2 days ago, could be a month ago cos: Lockdown) 

Here are some more contemporary ones!

No mullet remodels on these at least; just a beard, some changes of hair colour and some changes of skin colour too!

I think these players and kits were all chosen because of important recent moments in Newport history; promotion sealiing players, cup upset goals etc. 

I think they look pretty decent as a set... and I was very happy that the base was black!! They are a nightmare when it's a light colour!

QPR, XL Subbuteo Figures

Pretty much summed up by the title, this post!

Here are a couple of QPR Subbuteo XLs that I finished recently.

I mean, I'm still on furlough, so does recently mean a day ago, last week, 3 months ago; no-one knows!

I'm gonna come clean and say: I have quite a dislike for painiting hoops; probably just because I've had less practice at it than stripes. Nontheless, I'd say these came out pretty well.

Newport Subbuteo XL Figures, part 1

I did a blog post about some Wales XL Subbuteo figures a while back, and here are some Newport ones that were part of the same order.

You may notice a couple of... hair embellishments! I've not done them on subbuteo figures before these, but feel they turned out pretty well! 

And it wouldn't be a troupe of 1970s players without a couple of moustaches in there too!

Custom Man United Subbuteo XL

An XL Subbuteo figure for your viewing pleasure today!

This was ordered by someone as a birthday present for his mate! 

He chose the kit and shirt number, and, while this didn't need any of these changes, hair colour and beards can easily be adjusted too. Likewise boot colour.

I'm open to suggestions on the base colours as well, although you surely know me well enough to know that I'm happiest when it a) matches the kit and b) is the same as the original subbuteo figures were for the team!

Anyway, if you want a custom subbuteo figure, get me with the links in the header, or search 'Marc's Corinthians' on Facebook or Insta... or use the contact form below. 

Literally no excuse!!

Wales Subbuteo XLs

I haven't posted any Subbuteo XL figures here for a while! (Though I have put some WIP ones on my instagram; click here if you want to follow!)

I've also realised as I went to add the labels to this post that the previous posts I intended to tag "Wales" were tagged "Wales. Northern Ireland", so that's something to sort out... later!

Here are some Wales figures, that I think are in chronological order!

Gotta say, I was very pleased with these! That pattern on the bottom one is a particular highlight!
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I feel that I need to point out that her arrived with me with 2 left hands!!

More subbuteo XLs soon- I've got a few pics waiting to be posted here, including Man Utd and ... Newport County!

Custom Subbuteo XL

I haven't posted one of these in a long time!

This subbuteo XL was done for a wedding favour, believe it or not! I think favour is the right word?!

It was a present for the groom, as the only football related thing he was allowed to have on the day! It was customised as him, in his Sunday League kit, including correct badges, and with his own name and number on the back:

These are easier to pick than Corinthian lookalikes, cos they all have the same face!!

If you'd like something similar for a wedding, birthday, dare I say Christmas... get in contact, via the links in the header, or the contact box at the bottom of the page!

Personalised Subbuteo Figure

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I had a spell of getting quite a few orders for these XL Subbuteo figures. 

A lot of them were of Leeds players in the 1970s pre match tracksuit. This one, while also Leeds related was a little different.

The customer bought it for his son, hence Ian and 4 on the back and Greenpeace on the front- the junior kit sponsor for Leeds last season.

If you'd like a personalised XL Subbuteo style figure, where you choose the kit, and name and number, get in contact by leaving a comment below, or on Facebook or Twitter.

Subbuteo XL, Leeds tracksuits

Without further ado, here are the final 3 (for the time being at least!) XL Subbuteo Leeds United 1970s pre-match tracksuit figures.

Phew!

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Pics added in sock tab number order, of course!

Leeds Tracksuits, part 3.

I think I explained in a previous post that one customer decided that he would like the full 1970s Leeds United line-up in their iconic pre-match tracksuits, so here are the next three without further ado:

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Leeds Subbuteo tracksuits part 2

I'm on a roll!

I started posting the Leeds tracksuit top XL Subbuteo figures a while back, stating that there were plans for a whole team. Well, here are the next 3!

Apparently it was between numbers 4 and five that I got bored of taking the side on pics to show the sock tags!

Aside from doing different names, I also had to change the hair colour on all 3 of these ones; it starts as a sort of general mid-brown colour on all the XL Subbuteo figures.

Leeds Subbuteo, away

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While there are plenty more of these XL Subbuteo figures to come, this is one of the ones that started the trend!! 

Getting this one repainted led to the idea of the full Leeds 1970s XI tracksuit project that I am now underway with (which started with these)

This was a very interesting one for me to paint, as I actually own this shirt! I even have the number 4 sewn on the back!

Who could possibly have inspired that?!

Leeds Subbuteo Tracksuits, 1-3!

On my first post about an XL Subbuteo figure, I think I said that there were more coming...

So here are 3 of them!

Shirt numbers 1, 2 and 3 would be on show here, if theses players weren't wearing Leeds' iconic 1970s pre-match tracksuit tops! 

As it is, all of them have their numbers on show on another unique part of the Leeds kit of the 1970s: the sock tags. Unfortunately, they can't be seen on these pictures; you'll just have to take my word for it!

There are only minor differences to all of these repaints. The sock tag numbers have been mentioned already, but I also adjusted hair colour, and added the moustache on David Harvey! The names on the tracksuit backs are different too, of course.

As I said when painting a Costa Rica World Cup Squad a while back, there is something satisfying about completing a full set or squad of players... more of these to come!!

Here's a pic of some of the greats wearing this tracksuit, ahead of the Charity Shield match with Liverpool.

Leeds, Subbuteo

Here's the first (of at least 3!) extra large Subbuteo figures that I've been asked to paint into Leeds colours:

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The kit chosen was a late 1970s Leeds shirt, and the number 10 of Tony Currie.

It was fairly enjoyable to paint; being bigger made it easier to do details... it was just the base that took ages, and used loads of paint!!

Being as loads of people asked how big it actually was when I posted it on my Facebook page, here's a pic of it next to some normal Prostars.

So, yeah, it's pretty big!

And here's the kit I did on it, to compare it to: