30s Packers and Buffalo Bills

[zak99b5]

Some little progress. Primed the figures, and painted the platforms. 
 

Testors is soooo much better than craft paint. I picked gloss just because Tudor figures normally came in gloss paint. Covered in one coat. I’m sure I’ll need to do a touch up here and there, but you can see how well it covered. 
 

[zak99b5]

New shoes—black, of course. 
 

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The Testors also flows so much smoother off the brush. It was pretty easy to go along just the shoe where it meets the platform. 
 

Question: what do you paint the molded support that’s under the shoe but up off the platform?  Green, because it’s not shoe?  Or shoe color, since you’d see the shoe “through” that?  Not sure this is making sense. I kinda split the difference. 

[nefgm.org]

I usually just paint them the shoe color. 

 

[zak99b5]

Got the white on the socks and the yellow down on the packers’ pants, helmets, and shoulder yokes. 
 

going to do the navy first, then the second coat of yellow. 
 

got the pants and socks painted white for the bills, plus the skin as well. 

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Front arm is light blue. Throwing arm is dark blue. Which for the bills?  His back is the insignia blue, for the Packers. 

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Insignia blue is flat, apparently. 

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Thinking about using the dark gloss blue instead. 
 

lighter gloss blue for the Bills. 

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Properly mixed, light blue was more oilers/chargers. Dark was good for the bills. May try to find gloss navy for the Packers. 
 

you can see the powder blue on one sock in the background on a guard figure. 
 

i also painted the sox above the knee for the wide receivers, as is the current trend. 

[zak99b5]

After a busy few days, I finally got back to some painting last night.  Finished the jerseys and sock stripes on all players.  No pics, since they don't look any different than the ones I already posted.

Some Qs on the Bills' striping:

No way could I paint the red-white-red-blue-red-white-red on either the socks or the shoulders, and I'm not sure I want to use decals.  Would it be better just to paint two white stripes separated by blue, one red-white-red set of stripes, or something else?  Not even thinking about the small black borders!

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5 hours ago, zak99b5 said:

After a busy few days, I finally got back to some painting last night.  Finished the jerseys and sock stripes on all players.  No pics, since they don't look any different than the ones I already posted.

Some Qs on the Bills' striping:

No way could I paint the red-white-red-blue-red-white-red on either the socks or the shoulders, and I'm not sure I want to use decals.  Would it be better just to paint two white stripes separated by blue, one red-white-red set of stripes, or something else?  Not even thinking about the small black borders!

I would just go with the 2 white stripes separated by blue. My biggest suggestion to hand painters is keep it simple if it "looks" like a particular team and is generally easliy recognizable as a particular team, then you have done a good job. If you study and look at the way Tudor presented their "Official NFL Uniforms" in the 60's and 70's, you will notice not that much worry about accurate details. Most teams were very recognizable as a particular team just by their basic team colors and uniform designs, and certainly decals were not used or even considered until much later when MIggle first came out with their stamped helmet teams and other people started creating  decals for helmet logos, jersey and pant stripes.      

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Thanks--sounds like a plan.  I may try a shoulder stripe decal I have on a figure.  If it's not too fiddly, I may use them.  But then the socks stripes need to be painted anyway, and it may just be better to keep them consistent.

I also need yellow number decals for the Packers.  I was thinking about using the Chiefs ones, but solid yellow would be better.  Any leads there?

[NO Dave]

"No way could I paint the red-white-red-blue-red-white-red on either the socks or the shoulders, and I'm not sure I want to use decals. " - 

 

Paint in layers. Use the blue, then make a stripe in red. Allow to dry. The make a thinner stripe in white. 

[zak99b5]

Yes, that's how I paint stripes, by layering.

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Thinking I may try to get some red in by doing that layer first pretty wide, slightly narrower white layer, then a strip of blue down the middle.

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First attempt to include some red in the stripes. Left too much showing. Plus my hand wasn’t so steady when I painted these stripes. 

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Tried just doing two white stripes to see how that will look. 

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And a third attempt, more careful of leaving only a small bit of red showing beyond the white. 

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I’m kinda liking the last way best. The just white stripes will look better once the red pant stripe and the helmets are done, but right now it looks a little too Colt-ish. 
 

fist guy looks more like a New York Ranger than a Bill lol. 

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Just need to do a quick second coat of green, the grey face masks, and decals for the helmets and numbers. 

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Packers are ready for solid yellow number decals.  Need to source those. 
 

Maybe a quick coat of navy and gloss clear coat too.

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I know my paint job is barely better than an 8 year old, but I’m pretty happy with it for figures that will be seeing action. They look enough like the teams do, and at playing distance it’s good enough (for me). 

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I already ordered the decal set from Tudor for the Bills, but I thought I’d try painting the logo anyway for fun. 
 

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When I ordered the decals, I also ordered yellow number stickers for the 30s packers. Not what I want to use, but at least I have something. 

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36 minutes ago, zak99b5 said:

I already ordered the decal set from Tudor for the Bills, but I thought I’d try painting the logo anyway for fun. 
 

Nice!! I love the handpainted logo.