Justice League of America

The Justice League of America is a strike force comprised of the world's mightiest superheroes with the DC Universe.

The seven original members were Aquaman, Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern, the Martian Manhunter, Superman, and Wonder Woman.  I’ve also included the 4 recruits from the 1960’s to complete the Subbuteo team – Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkman and Black Canary.

Here’s how they’ve turned out on the little plastic men (and women).

The Justice League

Superman, Wonder Woman

Green Arrow, Black Canary

The Flash, Green Lantern

Atom, Martian Manhunter, Hawkman

Batman, Aquaman

The Justice League

Football Attic's League of Blogs 2013

The Football Attic is one of my favourite blogs to read; they have loads of articles about subbuteo as well as other retro football stuff.

For the past 2 years the guys at Football Attic have run a design your own kit competition called The League of Blogs.  This year I thought I would enter; have a look here to see this years entries.  Despite not winning, the guys at Football Attic contacted me asking if I could paint up their home and away kit and the kit for the overall winner.  I jumped at the chance!

Here's how the kits look on the little plastic men

The winning entry from Live For Football Shirts

Football Attic's Home & Away kits

Congratulations to Live For Football Shirts for winning the best kit; it reminds me of a cross between Chelsea and a Portugal away shirt.  My favourite entry (excluding my own!) has to be Hungry Ted; check out that kit design and beard combo!

Captain Tsubasa

I received an interesting request to paint up the anime football team "Captain Tsubasa".

Captain Tsubasa, also known as Flash Kicker, is a popular long-running Japanese manga, animation, and video game series, originally created by Yōichi Takahashi in 1981. The series mainly revolves around the sport of Association football.

The story focuses on the adventures of a Japanese youth soccer team and its football captain Tsubasa Oozora, whose name literally translates to "Big Sky Wings". The series is characterized by dynamic football moves, often stylish and implausible. The plot focuses on Tsubasa's relationship with his friends, rivalry with his opponents, training, competition, and the action and outcome of each football match.

Watch a clip of the animation series here

Here's how the figures turned out on the little plastic men.

If you would like to watch more episodes take a look at this site http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=916

Star Wars Stormtroopers

I love Star Wars. I love Subbuteo.  Combining the 2 together is a match made in heaven!

I made a Star Wars team a couple of years back and have been meaning to paint this up for a long, long time.

I'm hoping Darth Vader in goal can use the dark side of the force to keep the goals out!

Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

This will be played every time I score a goal! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzntZLHcYy0

Drinks Brands

I recently received an email from a fan of my work from the USA with a fantastic idea for a team to create.  The idea fits perfectly into the ethos of this blog of painting original teams that no one else will have.

Initially the idea was to create a team of 11 players based on soft drink brands; the following picture shows the rough idea drawn out by my clients son

The 11 soft drinks to be included within the team were as follows:  Coca Cola, Cherry Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Fanta, A&W Root Beer, Sprite, 7up, Dr. Pepper, Sunkist and finally Nestea.  I really liked this concept for a team and after discussing the idea with my client, I put forward the idea of having a "Father & Son" team, where the father could have alcoholic branded drinks and the son could have the soft drink brands.  My client agreed with me that it would be great for him and his son to play matches against each other with their own customised teams.  To make it personal to my client, I asked him to provide me with a list of alcoholic drinks brands that he liked (some of which I had not heard of before!) so I could paint them up.  The brands chosen were as follows:  Guinness, Bass, Heineken, Budweiser, Coors Light, Miller Light, Corona, Blue Moon, Sam Adams, Palm and finally Stella Artois.

I was given a fairly free reign to paint the teams how I thought would look best; you'll see from the pictures below that some have turned out very well on the little plastic men and hopefully do the brands justice.

The soft drinks team is below

 

 

The alcoholic drinks team is below

The figures are 2K4, the bases are iBases, available from LPM Online.

Halloween

This time of year everything gets a bit spooky!  I've had this as an idea for about 2 years but keep on forgetting to paint it in time.  When Hallowwen has passed, I've then forgotten about it and put the idea on the back burner.

Finally I've remembered and found the time to paint it!  Enjoy!

 

 

 

Happy Halloween!

Fantasy teams

Ever had an idea that you thought "This will look great as a Subbuteo team" but never got around to painting it?  Well I've had that idea on many occasions.  Here's just a few of the players I have painted up

The Superheroes

L - R: Batman, Silver Surfer, Joker, Captain America, Superman, Iron Man, Daredevil, Venom, Hulk, Spiderman

Cowboys and Indians

If you have an idea for a fantasy team that you would like painted up, please contact me