Brazilians!

Day 2; Post 2 of my blog booster week!

As we're now officially in an international break, how about some international players?!

Here are some Brazilians *snigger*

My favourite of these is definitely Leonardo, closely followed by Edu. On reflection, I think that's due to the quality of the players themselves... as well as the kits which were a bit more interesting to paint!

I'm thinking there will be at least one more Internationals post this week, possibly featuring Brazil's arch rivals Argentina!

Friedel, USA

I think this is my first USMNT figure!

Big Brad:

I was pleased with the neatness I managed on the grey trim! I also painted the 1 on the front, and managed to make it look pretty much like the proper font... so that was nice!

I think the kit was from the 2002 World Cup.

Inamoto, 2002 World Cup

Well, it's been a long time since I've been here!

Hopefully I'll get a few posts up during the Christmas break!

Here's Inamoto, as he looked for Japan in the 2002 World Cup:

England, World Cup 2002

The last 2 England World Cup 2002 repaints:

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In my memory at least, Nicky Butt was one of the stand-out performers for England in this World Cup. He probably wouldn't even have been starting were it not for Gerrard's injury, but one of my clear memories of this World Cup is of him bossing the midfield for England; quite an admission for a Leeds fan!

James was very much there as back up... it didn't really come as a surprise when he didn't make it onto the pitch. The kit was quite a simple, but also effective repaint!

I couldn't find a decent image of James in this kit, so here's one of Seaman!

England, World Cup 2002, part 2!

Next 2002 World Cup post, 3 more players!

This latest few England figures, comprising of one Fan Favourite figure, and 2 prostars. Put up in numberical order, naturally!

It's a nice little kit to paint, this; relatively simple, but with enough extra details to keep me interested!

All 3 of these players went to the 2002 World Cup very much as understudies, and it shows in the amount of game time they got between them.

Bridge made it on as sub a few times, but realistically had no chance of ousting Ashley Cole from the starting line-up, while Keown and Southgate offered experienced back up, but were never likely to start ahead of Ferdinand and Sol Campbell.

Here's Bridge in the kit... not sure if this photo was taken at the World Cup or not!

England, World Cup 2002... part 1!

So, as I have mentioned before, I have a returning customer who is attempting to put together the most comprehensive and accurate collection of England tournament squads I have ever seen!

My repaints have already been used to plug the gaps in the released squads of the Italia '90, Euro '96, France '98 and Euro 2000 squads.

Here are the first couple of England World Cup 2002 repaints:

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In number order of course, we have Danny Mills and Trevor Sinclair; two players who, were by no means regulars, but became unlikely regulars in the campaign.

An injury to Gary Neville gave Mills his opportunity, while Sinclair wouldn't have even been in the squad were it not for injuries to both Steven Gerrard, and Danny Murphy. Nonetheless, he made the left midfield spot his own by the end of the tournament. 

This was a favourite England kit of mine when I was younger! Here's a picture to compare the repaints to:

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Harte, Ireland

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So, Ian Harte has finally retired!

This made me think today was as good a day as any to post a pic of a recent Ian Harte repaint; one of him in the Republic of Ireland's 2002 World Cup kit!

Harte got 63 caps for Ireland, scoring 12 goals.

His club career saw spells at Leeds (when they were good!!) Levante, Sunderland, Blackpool, Carlisle, Reading and Bournemouth.

Enjoy your retirement, Ian!

Wanchope, Vivid Imaginations figure

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A bit different this one, but one I was excited to paint, and am excited to share with you!

It's obviously different from the figures I normally paint- it's a different brand first off; a 'Vivid Imaginations' figure. It is also huge compared to what I normally paint.

See?!

So, yeah, it started life as Ian Wright, but at the request of a loyal, and highly valued customer, it joined the long list of Costa Rica figures I've done, becoming another iteration of Paulo Wanchope!

The chosen kit was World Cup 2002, where Wanchope bagged a goal against Brazil!

Other than the size, the major difference with this figure was the finish; it's original shininess meaning that it needed extra coats of paint.

Another point of interest was that I had to paint it bald!!

Here's a closer look at some of the details.

I enjoyed this one, and would definitely do more int he future, given the opportunity!

Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rica.

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This figure was part of the large Costa Rica order that I received a while back, but I felt that Paulo deserved an individual blog post!

This is in part due to the fact that the kit is different from the other Costa Rica repaints, but more due to the fact that he is legitimately a Costa Rica legend.

The chosen kit is that of the 2002 World Cup, in which Wanchope scored against Brazil

I like this one!