My entire table football setup is handmade, and for the goals I used a nylon tulle mesh fabric, which you can get in rolls from any fabrics or crafts shop for the netting. It also comes in a variety of colours.
That sounds great, I don’t really have the skills to pull something like that off. I can just about manage what you saw in the video. But it would be satisfying knowing that you’re playing on something you made yourself, fair play 👍
@@SubbuteoFocus I've been a DIY kind of guy for a while now, and I've long been fascinated with the game watching and reading about it online. But with money being tight I couldn't afford to get the "pro" equipment. One day several years ago I ran across an Italian website on Alta Vista made by this guy who made his own Subbuteo setup using 2L soda caps mounting cardboard flats, a hand-marked fabric pitch, homemade goals, and folded paper balls (forming a truncated icsohedron, which is what the Telstar match ball is based on) weighted with crumpled kitchen towel strips and it inspired me. I'm never going to be joining any FISTF-affiliated Subbuteo group or tournament so I don't have to care about homologation of the equipment. The website vanished along with Alta Vista but I was smart enough to make English-translated .pdf copies of the pages while it was still up and running for just such an eventuality. The way I figure it, I can create my own table football empire with as many teams as I like for less than U.S. $50 using mostly recycled or upcycled materials and yes have the immense satisfaction of playing on something made by my own hand.
Great idea, Dean! We've been experimenting with netting from satsumas, in orange netting bags, and the deep maroon you get onions in (onion bag, lol). But love your yellow nets, I'm going to buy some lemons as I think they come in yellow netting. We shall see.
Wow is there no limit to your talent they look brilliant can't wait to see how they play love these sections of your vlogs allways something different.take care 😊
It was good to use the spare bar and posts, they were just sitting in a box doing nothing! So at least made some use of them. Not sure if this dying business would work with plastic goals though. The dye might discolour the posts being plastic 🤔
Hi Dean; Was reading Geoff Boycott's book "The Fast Lane" and wondered if you'd consider doing West Indies vs England, 1981 as a test match. An England team captained by Botham, against the mighty Windies captained by Clive Lloyd. Let me know what you think...
Hi Darren, funnily enough I was going to play a game in conjunction with the West Indies tour. So that’s a good shout 👍 And just on the tour I’ve got tickets for days two and three at Edgbaston. Just hope the Windies are a bit more competitive in this one! 🏏👍
@@SubbuteoFocus Superb! Sounds brilliant mate. Hope to see Holding, Roberts, Garner and Croft lining up on your pitch soon (with some slower deliveries from Richards)
interesting. i purchased some of the said metal goals from italy. got 'spare' sets -one with royal blue netting and one with a light blue netting.neither look particularly good. think them yellow ones you made look pretty good. i wanted some with two colours on the netting-but if this is how the dying process is done i'm thinking thats pretty impossible
Funny you should mention that, after I’d finished it, it did cross my mind how it could be done. Two colours would look great, maybe it would be a case of brushing the dye across the area you want a certain colour and a separate brush and colour for the other 🤔
@user-te1hi9rx7b if you have a spare set you could maybe try it with one colour and if works add the second. And if it totally doesn’t work dye them both the same colour. 👍
It was my first time dying something but it was an experiment, luckily it turned out ok. Maybe I’ll try another colour on the nets if I get bored of the yellow.
My entire table football setup is handmade, and for the goals I used a nylon tulle mesh fabric, which you can get in rolls from any fabrics or crafts shop for the netting. It also comes in a variety of colours.
That sounds great, I don’t really have the skills to pull something like that off. I can just about manage what you saw in the video. But it would be satisfying knowing that you’re playing on something you made yourself, fair play 👍
@@SubbuteoFocus I've been a DIY kind of guy for a while now, and I've long been fascinated with the game watching and reading about it online. But with money being tight I couldn't afford to get the "pro" equipment. One day several years ago I ran across an Italian website on Alta Vista made by this guy who made his own Subbuteo setup using 2L soda caps mounting cardboard flats, a hand-marked fabric pitch, homemade goals, and folded paper balls (forming a truncated icsohedron, which is what the Telstar match ball is based on) weighted with crumpled kitchen towel strips and it inspired me. I'm never going to be joining any FISTF-affiliated Subbuteo group or tournament so I don't have to care about homologation of the equipment. The website vanished along with Alta Vista but I was smart enough to make English-translated .pdf copies of the pages while it was still up and running for just such an eventuality. The way I figure it, I can create my own table football empire with as many teams as I like for less than U.S. $50 using mostly recycled or upcycled materials and yes have the immense satisfaction of playing on something made by my own hand.
Looks great.
"If you don't want it to look sh1t, use Rit!!"
😂😂🤣
@@soitra now there’s a strap line 😂
Great idea, Dean! We've been experimenting with netting from satsumas, in orange netting bags, and the deep maroon you get onions in (onion bag, lol). But love your yellow nets, I'm going to buy some lemons as I think they come in yellow netting. We shall see.
That’s a great idea as well Chrissy, and cheaper than buying dye. I’ll have to look into that, I have a couple of spare goal frames to work with 👍
Wow is there no limit to your talent they look brilliant can't wait to see how they play love these sections of your vlogs allways something different.take care 😊
@@pauledmonds6824 😁 thanks Paul, every now and again a daft idea jumps into my head 👍
Thanks for dropping by and looking at the video, sometimes tinkering can be a bad thing and sometimes worth trying!
good job 👏
Thank you, I actually surprised myself with the results!
Looks good. Thought you might get a bit of staining on the metal work-obviously not!
@@nellyfett2681 👍 yes at first I thought that might happen but fortunately it was ok.
really like the look of those goals and your mod too them, might try that myself eventually. trawling ebay for 2bd hand goals is addictive!
It was good to use the spare bar and posts, they were just sitting in a box doing nothing! So at least made some use of them. Not sure if this dying business would work with plastic goals though. The dye might discolour the posts being plastic 🤔
@@SubbuteoFocus yeah, might have to dye them off the goals then reinstall.
@@phonojam3486 yes probably the best approach 👍
Hi Dean;
Was reading Geoff Boycott's book "The Fast Lane" and wondered if you'd consider doing West Indies vs England, 1981 as a test match.
An England team captained by Botham, against the mighty Windies captained by Clive Lloyd.
Let me know what you think...
Hi Darren, funnily enough I was going to play a game in conjunction with the West Indies tour. So that’s a good shout 👍 And just on the tour I’ve got tickets for days two and three at Edgbaston. Just hope the Windies are a bit more competitive in this one! 🏏👍
@@SubbuteoFocus Superb! Sounds brilliant mate.
Hope to see Holding, Roberts, Garner and Croft lining up on your pitch soon (with some slower deliveries from Richards)
interesting. i purchased some of the said metal goals from italy. got 'spare' sets -one with royal blue netting and one with a light blue netting.neither look particularly good. think them yellow ones you made look pretty good. i wanted some with two colours on the netting-but if this is how the dying process is done i'm thinking thats pretty impossible
Funny you should mention that, after I’d finished it, it did cross my mind how it could be done. Two colours would look great, maybe it would be a case of brushing the dye across the area you want a certain colour and a separate brush and colour for the other 🤔
@@SubbuteoFocus that def sounds interesting, if you think it could be effective!
@user-te1hi9rx7b if you have a spare set you could maybe try it with one colour and if works add the second. And if it totally doesn’t work dye them both the same colour. 👍
@@SubbuteoFocus i dont know where to even start.. dyes are not my thing.
It was my first time dying something but it was an experiment, luckily it turned out ok. Maybe I’ll try another colour on the nets if I get bored of the yellow.