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Subbuteo Tribute Website.

Subbuteo Team Art - Page 1.

Subbuteo Main page.
The full text listing of Subbuteo football accessories.
The Illustrated Accessories List - (Page 1).
The Team Colours Project (Ongoing illustrated team lists).
Subbuteo Football boxed editions
Miscellaneous Subbuteo items - Everything that didn't fit anywhere else.
Subbuteo Art - Hand painted figures. Page 1: Joe and Stefano, Page 2: Wayne
More Subbuteo Art - Page 3: History and Trevor.

Elsewhere on this website I have a list of things to do with Subbuteo, where I suggest that you can paint your own teams. There are plenty of reasons for attempting this. You could be dissatisfied with the detail on the official versions or, of course, there could be no official version of the teams you want at all. Perhaps you would like a Subbuteo version of your local Sunday morning pub side. Maybe your country is one of those Subbuteo never covered. And let's not forget that Hasbro haven't produced any teams for the 1999/2000 seasons.

Being a painter of fantasy wargaming figures myself, I've tried to tidy up some "home-painted" second hand teams, and found it extremely difficult. So this page is dedicated to some of the regular contributors to the site, Joe Butt, Stefano Montecchiesi, and Wayne Smith, who have really improved on the original Subbuteo paintwork. Perhaps Hasbro could release special limited collectors editions of teams to this quality - they'd certainly have a few takers!!

A quick warning to team painters. Subbuteo is becoming collectable, so make sure you don't use any teams of value when you're doing this!

Joe Butt's Teams.
(left to right) Southampton, Manchester City, West Bromich Albion

Joe painted these teams in the early 1980s, when he became frustrated by the quality of teams turned out by Subbuteo themselves. Joe's aim was to paint a kit of each team in the English League, and this is just a very small selection. The Southampton kit is his favourite, but I also really like the West Brom kit with the bold strips and non-smoking chest advertisment. And yes, the Man City kit does have the "Philips" logo written across its chest.

Stefano Montecchiesi's Teams.

Stefano kindly sent me a JPG of twenty-four of his home painted teams. I was going to take a selection from this, but my favourites keep changing. So here they all are - pick your own favourites :-)