Barrett, Man City

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Here's Earl Barrett in his Man City days... to be honest, I didn't know he played for them until I got this request!

One of the problems about 1980s figures is the lack of squad numbers! The guy who requested this wasn't sure what number Barrett wore for City.

I did my best to find out; I even tweeted Barrett himself, but to no avail!

We agreed on number 2, which he also wore at Villa!

Here's the shirt I used to help me with the repaint (from the excellent Bluemoon site)

Newton Jr, Leeds

Having done Neymar Junior in Leeds kit before, why not Newton Junior?!

These 2 figures were ordered by a dad, and designed to look like his son.

He sent me a picture, and I went back with a few possible 'lookalike' figures, before he selected this one. 

He then chose the kits, shirt numbers and names on the bases that he wanted, for a fully customised set of figures as gifts for his son!

If you'd like a similar service, contact me on Twitter of via my Facebook page!

You can even use the Messenger app and scan this image to be linked straight to my inbox!

Sheringham, Forest

Being as he's quite a common figure, I've done a few Sheringhams; Portsmouth, Colchester and now Nottingham Forest:

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The others all ended up selling on ebay, but this was my first requested Sheringham!

I felt it ended up quite well.

Regular readers will know how much I appreciate an accurate shirt number font(!) and I was also happy with the pinstripes!

Here's a picture of Teddy in his Forest days to compare it to:

Speedy Messaging!

Well, loyal readers, here's a bonus second post of the day!

Yeah, it's Sunday, and I'm bored. But that boredom has helped me stumble across something that makes me want to start talking about 'the wonders of modern technology' in only a semi-ironic manner!

If you didn't already know, I have a Facebook page dedicated to my repaints, which you can find by clicking here.

If clicking links is all a bit 2015 for your liking though, you can now get send a message straight to my Corinthian Repaint Facebook inbox by scanning the image below in the Messenger app!

Pretty nifty, eh?!

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I feel like I should say now, please only use this if you want to send me messages regarding football figures and repaints.

Any pesterers... if that's a word, will be blocked!

Thanks!

Thom, Celtic

The Celtic fan that regularly orders from me just keeps coming up with more and more bizarre looking kits!!

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I won't complain about it though- I enjoy a challenge, and a chance to paint a different kit for the first time!

Here's Andy Thom in a lovely example of 1990s away kit asymmetry!

Funnily enough, kits like this are often easier than ones that are symmetrical.

Stripes, or hoops for example, and the fact that they need to be the same width, can be more troubling to a perfectionist like me than kits like this one!

... I found this image in an article entitled: 6 of the best... Worst Old Firm kits!