River Plate x3

 Sorry everyone; slipped out of the blogging habit for a bit there!

Here are a few slightly more exotic figures to brighten a rainy day:

Three River Plate players, in their very distinctive kit. I did these quite a while back now, but, in quite a rare occurrence when it comes to figures I did over 2 years ago, I can't see anything that I'm overly unhappy with!!

Funes Mori is a 'lookalike', of course.

The other 2 are players that I admired a lot in my youth; Ortega pretty much cos of an ad campaign, and Aimar cos of Pro Evo...

Everton, 91-93

Seeing as it's been a while since I posted any Everton photos, how about 3 in their 1991-93 kit:

Relatively simple, but with a couple of bits I really like... unfortunately only one shows properly on the pic; that being the tiny stripes on the front part of the collar.

The other details I really liked about these are the sort of half umbro pattern on the players right sleeve and left side of the shorts.

Pity I didn't photograph it, eh?!

At least you've got a clear look at that lovely umbro shirt number font!

Haaland, Leeds home and away

After a a first top flight win in... quite a while, I thought I'd make today's post a Leeds United one.

The guy this was for told me that it took him ages to track down an Alfie! As such, he took his time choosing the kit, and decided on this beaut in the end.

My favourite parts are definitely the detailing around the collar, cuffs and bottom of the shorts

I did this one a much longer time ago. Another kit that I loved in my childhood, but I think I lost it during one of my many house moves in uni days. I mean, it was pretty much ruined anyway, cos it had Kewell on the back...

This figure may also be the one that I painted for someone, who needed to raise a bit of cash further down the line, so sold it on ebay... to a Man City fan that wanted a repaint. I'm sure you can guess the rest...

 

Matty Holmes, Dorchester!

Matty Holmes, Dorchester!

I love a non-League repaint, especially when it's a 'real' player, rather than a lookalike.

Holmes played 170 games for Dorchester, when he joined them following injury problems at Charlton.

Sheffield Wednesday away kits

A good start to the season for Wednesday yesterday! 

Here are a couple of away kit repaints

One of the problems with going through my old photos for the blog posts is that I often can't remember anything relevant to write on the blog posts!

What I always think when I do a figure in this pose is: I don't like this pose! not cos it's tricky like some of them are, just that it seems a bit weird and unnatural a pose! I like how the kit turned out tho! And as I recall, Mark Bright himself commented on it on Twitter, tho I don't have the screengrab of it to hand. It'll be in the tweeets album on my Facebook page!

 I always loved this sculpt! But while we're on the subject of things being awkward to paint, the hair is all over the back and shoulders, so you have to be careful with the join!

I do like the effect of putting half a number, as if the top is covered by the hair!