Building my Cylon-Knight

[Cylon-Knight]

Okay, dye for leather... (I know that paint is "correct" for 1:1 but I'm gonna dye my gloves to ensure they STAY black.)

SO - my dye from Fiebing's (pictured on page 9 of my thread here) says to first use Fiebing's Leather Deglazer... So I thought I needed some of that. HOWEVER, check out this listing I found online a bit ago:

Fiebing's Leather Deglazer
Fiebing's Deglazer prepares and deglazes smooth leather for dyeing and refinishing. Will not impair the softness or flexibility of the leather. Rub into leather, wipe off surplus then apply dye. Not recommended for man-made leather. Keep from children's reach! 4 oz

What do you think about that "man-made" leather bit? Are the Cooper gloves real or man-made leather???

[Cylon-Knight]

HERE WE GO! I decided that after about 30 years these gloves don't need deglazed! AND if they are real or man-made leather I had to try to use the dye that I bought. I'm a Cylon and I fear nothing


Here is the test subject and applicator wand - THAT HOLDS A LOT! Only dip it a TINY bit into the bottle.
The test subject that was cut off the other night, from the cuff of the hockey glove.

First coat the white was covered - NO trouble at all!
The green still had a little bit showing through the black.


Before and after. This shows three quick coats of dye. LOOKING GOOD That is under a flash and you can't see any hints of green (the top right is still green as I had to hold it somewhere).
I didn't apply dye to the COOPER label area - it just sucked up it as it is fabric.

After about 5 minutes it was dry to the touch and is looking good! The gloves are so old and used... they dye will bring them a great new life - what to blowed up some Colonials

SO - Fiebing's Leather Dye for your Cylon glove mod ...?... Cylon-Knight Mind APPROVED

[Red Eye]

Looks great... if only I'd known that before... than I've used the dye-method as well...

[GoldCylon]

Awesome out come on the sample piece.

[Darth Clayton]

Lookin good! I guess the dye will work on the nylon portions of the glove as well. My set is mostly nylon except for the bottom (cooper writing) and a little bit on the side.. Guess I'll have to get on Tandy's website and order some..

[Cylon-Knight]

Ready to start to dye my right glove. I found some more applicators at Hobby Lobby... wasn't sure if the ONE that came with the dye would still be good after my test.


Left: Before
Right: After. A good first coat, and a bit of a second. In this photo.
It might take three or four coats I'm guessing - to get everything covered well and every little tiny, deep down area.
I'll need some more dye for the other glove. Used about 1/2 of my bottle so far.


More before and after. The flash really brought out the green that is in the edges still... doesn't seem that way in normal light.
I've got to keep on putting on the dye after it drys out. So far so good.

Check out this video I took while putting on the dye! 4MB in size... download it, or click the link and wait for it to load up
LINK: Cylon-Knight Glove Dye

[Tinman]

Duct Tape is a gift from the GODS!!!!!

[GoldCylon]

Nice video, great that you did the speed it up. I was wondering if it was going to be 18 minutes...LoL

[sean]

Looks great......

[Red Eye]

Nice and very fast work!

[Cylon-Knight]

Here we go - some more dye put on tonight... can you guess WHERE?
Down in-between the fingers is being fussy. Since the fingers do not really MOVE that much.
Going to take several coats. My bottle is ALMOST gone now. Probably get two more for the left glove and any touch ups.

I was also thinking I may give some new color to one of my pairs of work shoes. Got a few scuffs on a pair of black shoes.

[Cylon-Knight]

Gloves, what Gloves? Okay... Mr. Short Attention span (that's me)... back to the back pack!
I had the back pack roughly trimmed and taped together to just geek out and play with it
Now I took it all apart and did more trimming to get every part to fit as best as it can for a final assembly.



Left top edge, right top edge


Back, center top edge
CYLON KITTY says "Good work so far, but hurry up would ya!?"


Left: Front without the cap.
Right: Bottom of the back


The cap still isn't "right" I couldn't have cut anything wrong... the cap just seems too big to me?!


Cylon Puppy showed up to help... we're both puzzled.


On to the seams... here are the sides


Here are the seams from the inside of the back pack.

I have the back pack together with tape on the outside for now. I plan to put some milliput on the inside of the seams first. This will strengthen up the parts into one unit, and the tape will help keep putty from oozing out all over. Then I'll take the tape off section by section as I apply putty to the outside. Then I can sand and primer this bad boy

[GoldCylon]

Looks great so far, and offering up a side note. The studio used silicon to connect the pieces together. They did this after the pieces were chromed, and in case (ha like this ever happened) a Cylon ever fell, and damaged say the back pack they could just cut away the broken piece, and insert a new piece. Just a side note in case you decide to go trip and fall like a true Cylon.

[Cylon-Knight]

Hummmm that was a great idea they had to keep reusing parts.
But, no, I don

[Red Eye]

Nice work again you've done there.

I wouldn't be worried about the size of the front cap.

The original caps were overlapped as well: