Manchester City home kit 2011/12

After purchasing some light blue and white bases on the cheap, there was only 1 team that sprung to mind to paint; Citeh!

Here's how its turned out.  Check out the detail on the badge! 100% handpainted. 

Can you work out who's who?

Liverpool Away 1981-1982

I can't really say what inspired me to paint this team, maybe it was the challenge of painting stripes, maybe it was because I've been wanting to paint a yellow kit for a while.

1981/82 season Liverpool won the league for the 13th time and the league cup.  There's a great video on youtube here of the season http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjHSWiqYcPc

Another Cosmos team

I know the GK kit is based on a Puma design rather than Umbro, but I fancied giving it a go.

A few more Melchester Rovers kits

It feels like my blog is slowly but surely turning into a Roy of the Rovers homage rather than about painting subbuteo!

I've painted up a couple more Melchester Rovers kits; the first is from the 1950's era, the second is from the 1970's era.  Both kits have been painted up on Superfooty figures and bases which are available from http://www.worldtablesoccer.com/engine/shop/index.html 

Pulp Fiction

I've been after a subbuteo rugby set for ages; when the opportunity to get one on a swapsies basis arose I couldn't say no!  My half of the bargain was to paint up a team based on the classic Tarentino movie, Pulp Fiction.

I hadn't watched the film in a good couple of years, so when I finally found my copy on dvd I had to blow off the dust and watch it to remind myself of the characters and what they looked like.

Hopefully the painting below bares enough resemblance to the classic film characters!

Another Roy of the Rovers

I had a request to paint another Roy of the Rovers team; this time the 1986 kit on LW figures and bases.

Here's how it turned out

A few more HW repaints

Slowly but surely I'm getting around to repainting some of my older HW teams in my collection for the start of my own HW solo league.

Rummaging through my older teams, I came across old Liverpool and Brasil teams that had seen better days.  Many of the figures in both teams had been broken and reglued back together.  I thought these 2 teams would be ideal to use for my repainting project.

I started to repaint the Liverpool kit first.  after completly stripping it down to the white plastic, I decided to repaint it once again in an all red strip, using gold as a secondary colour.  Using a chinese takeaway menu and an Inter Milan away strip from a few season ago as inspiration, here's how the team has turned out: meet The Golden Dragons!

The second team i had to repaint was the old Brasil strip.  This team had 6 out of the 10 players broken so I've replaced most of the team with new Santiago HW T2 figures.  See if you can spot the differences between the players!

I took quite a bit of time to think what kit to paint up instead of Brasil; with a green and yellow base combo it was quite limiting and I didn;t want to replicate a kit that I already knew of.  Then one night, whilst watching a re-run of the film The Running Man, I was inspired to the paint the team up as follows:

The team has been entered into my solo league with the name of "TFC Running Man". Hardly original I know, but fun all the same!