Boot Painting.

[Silver-Cylon]

A quick question if i may, i had to get new boots for the cylon build due to my calves being a tad on the large side, so they arrived the other day and are really nice looking, now the question i would like to ask is, what do you fine folks use when painting them, as i have tried masking tape and as the leather is porous. it doesn't stick too well, so what do you find that works best for this sort of thing, so that i am able to get the silver paint to the sections that need it.

any help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance of any replies.

[Silver-Cylon]

thought i would post pics up to see what peoples thoughts on them are? would these work for Cylon boots, once modded and painted of course.









Thanks for looking.

[itookadooku]

Ive been searching for where I read about using clear scotch tape, not sure if it was here. I had problems with painters tape not sticking and someone mentioned scotch tape. I mainly used it for the toe piece because I wanted to get the best lines possible. Everything else I used the painters tape and newspaper to mask with. Hope that helps. Good looking boots btw.

[Cylon-Knight]

Silver-Cylon, those boots look GREAT! They'll be perfect for your Centurion.

As for how... I had no trouble with painters' tape. Photos here: https://www.byyourcommand.net/cylonforu ... 390#p26456

Of course there were a few little bits to touch up, but nothing major. My everlasting problem has actually been transfer. The paint doesn't seem to want to fully cure on the leather...

[itookadooku]

I used the Meltonian Nu-Life Color Spray #423 silver, it has worked great.

[Silver-Cylon]

Silver-Cylon, those boots look GREAT! They'll be perfect for your Centurion.

As for how... I had no trouble with painters' tape. Photos here: https://www.byyourcommand.net/cylonforu ... 390#p26456

Of course there were a few little bits to touch up, but nothing major. My everlasting problem has actually been transfer. The paint doesn't seem to want to fully cure on the leather...

Thank you for the confirmation on the boots, that's great to know, also thank you both for the masking advice, i shall try different types of painter tape, it might be the brand that i am using isn't too good for what i am trying to do, but i got frog tape and thought that would be the best but i guess not, i found leather paint so i hope that it works out ok, i am going to test it on an old suit case to see how well it looks first before trying the boots,
i shall report back when they are done as i am really wanting to push this on i have had the kit for 3 years or more and not done too much so once the ball is rolling i want to keep it that way.

Thank you once again for the help.

[Cylon-Knight]

No worries, it took me 4 years to get my Centurion done!
Cylon perfection takes time.