Roy Race, 1980s... again

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A recent order request, from someone who saw my Roy of the Rovers repaints and wanted one for himself!

The differences between this one and my first 1980s Roy Race are the lack of a sponsor, and the yellow number (rather than black)

And, I would say, this is slightly neater! The 80s Roy Race for my own collection was my first ever attempt at stripes!

Ian Baird, Leeds

A friend of mine asked me if I could do him an Ian Baird. 

Genuinely love that my first response was: "With mullet or without?!"

He chose with!

Bairdy's response:

Escape to Victory: Full Set

Realised that I promised to post the full Escape to Victory set 'soon'... in August.

So, as a man of my word, here it is:

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From left to right, here are Carlos Rey, Luis Fernandez, 'Hatch', John Colby, and Terry Brady.

AKA: Ossie Ardiles, Pele, Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Bobby Moore.

Anderton, Bournemouth

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At a time when I didn't have any to do for my own collection, or any orders, I had a look through the big box and had a think about which figures in there I could do what I imagined would be a fairly unique repaint of.

One of the results was John Barnes in Watford colours, and the next was this Darren Anderton.

After a pretty successful, if injury hit, career at the top level, Anderton finished his career with his hometown club, Bournemouth.

Unless I am mistaken (which is possible, I'm not a Bournemouth expert!) this is the kit in which he made his final appearance, grabbing a winning goal!

Pure Roy of the Rovers stuff!

Here's the bbc's take on the events, and a picture from the game:

(EDIT- Figure successfully 'ebayed'!)

Dom Poleon, Leeds United

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Here, I used a 'lookalike' figure to make young Leeds forward Dom Poleon.

Fancied doing something other than white, and hate our 2nd strip, hence the use of the third kit. 

Like this one, and Dom himself seemed to like it too:

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