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Jim

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  1. I started to explain my rules and regulations, but got so involved, and then started to write them down, and realized most all of them were in my head. Then, it was time for my season to start... Well, I, at about that time, took the idea presented by one of the members here, to expand, by painting "home" jerseys to go with my existing whites, and then switching bases for home and away games, according to my schedule. I'm afraid I really don't have the skills necessary to do such a good job as I've seen from the examples of others, but I tried. Being old, and having arthritic hands sure doesn't help! Still, I did well enough to satisfy myself. It's still on-going, and I have 2 more teams (Warriors and Wildcats) to finish up. Warriors is no no problem. Wildcats involves a more complex paint scheme, similar to that of the Green Bay Packers. As it was, I managed to get most teams done in time to play at least some of their home games in their new colors. I'm using Apple Barrel acrylic ipaints, and colored sharpies for detail and touch up. I've found the Tudor colored numbers are sometimes not particularly good for the colors I'm using. For example, the silver numbers are difficult to make out on the "moody blue" colored jerseys of the Gladiators, so I had to switch to white numbers. Similarly, I've got a couple of teams that I'd like to have yellow (or gold) numbers, but the Tudor numbers don't show up very well on the colored background, so I use the white numbers and ten go over them with a yellow sharpie to produce the effect I want. Another thing I've been doing is modifying some of the basic figures, by cut off arms, reshaping the cut edge with a sanding stick, and gluing them back on at different angles. This has produced some very interesting (unique) figures. I did this initially because I was short 1 DB for a team, and I didn't want to buy a whole team for just 1 player. So I took a Tackle (Tudor now refers to them as "general purpose", of something like that), removed an arm with an Xacto saw, and repositioned it. I was amazed at how well it worked! Of course, my skill set (and age, and arthritis) leaves it rather imperfect, but sanding and a coat of spray paint, leaves a pretty good effect. I have a bunch of RB figures I wasn't using, and proceeded to modify those. I've come up with some pretty good LB shapes, DE shapes, and even some different RB poses. I'll include some photos with my next post. As for the season, the Thunderbolts became only the second team ever to finish with an undefeated and untied season. They went into the championship game against a Titan team that hadn't been there for a long time. The two teams had the top defenses in the league, with the Titans giving up an average of 12.7 points per game, and the Thunderbolts 12.8. In the championship game, the Thunderbolts defeated the Titans 28-24, which really wasn't as close as the final score indicated.
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