coloring / painting skates

[lyle.m23 0]

yellow laces would look sick man !

i think the toe pro worked better than the spray paint, was it messy ?

[ramensandwich 1]

haven't put the toe pro on yet... thats just straight dye marker right there. waiting a few days to put it on, but the toe pro should waterproof it, make it nice and flexible, and give it a nice even topcoat.

[legiahockey 3]

looks good as is. im not sure i would mess with it any more. but they look sick. good work

[gxc999 7]

Nice job with those. Maybe you could paint your next pair orange to distract the opposing defenders!

[lyle.m23 0]

Nice job with those. Maybe you could paint your next pair orange to distract the opposing defenders!

or just wait a year or 2 for warrior to buy another brand and they'll no dout make it

[gatorade09 0]

okay guys, done. found some dye markers at the hobby store.

gonna coat over everything in a couple days with a light coat of pro-toe.

what do ya think?

EDIT: i'm feeling some yellow laces. opinions?

yellow lace would look amazing on those

should i do that to my u+'s or just keep white ones already on there

send me a pm though

[trevor13478 1]

id put black laces on those vapors, how many markers did you burn through doing that and do you mind posting exactly what marker you used. (for those of us that may want to copy you haha). They came out very nice btw, i'm digging that look.

I think i would have left the red in there just because you can't get rid of the red on the bottom of the skate and the red XXV on the heel.

as for the toepro, i don't think that should be necessary if you used a dye pen and not a paint pen. but better safe than sorry, it would be a shame if those turned purple on you.

nice job.

[ramensandwich 1]

i used a Testors brand paint pen. I have experience with their products building scale plastic models, and have found that their pants penetrate and stain rather than forming an enamel coating. Testors paints also tend to tolerate flexing.

surprisingly, i did the whole job with 1 marker.

for what its worth, silver paint pen takes care of the heel lettering, and tomorrow i will be touching up the edges of the outsole.

[wildebeest 0]

Here's my vapor xxxx that I did with a sharpie and a drawing marker. took about an hour for both skates and they're holding strong after about 4 hours on the ice.

put them up in the show it off thread, thought I'd add them to this thread as well.

[CTK30 0]

i used a Testors brand paint pen. I have experience with their products building scale plastic models, and have found that their pants penetrate and stain rather than forming an enamel coating. Testors paints also tend to tolerate flexing.

surprisingly, i did the whole job with 1 marker.

for what its worth, silver paint pen takes care of the heel lettering, and tomorrow i will be touching up the edges of the outsole.

Looks like I need to get a testors pen

I wonder if Micheals carries them,I don't really know of any hobby shops around here anymore

[Rick 0]

I used the black Pro Toe stuff on the white tendon guard areas of my 552 Tacks after the white got real dirty looking and would no longer clean up nice and it worked great. I also used it to make repairs on my old 755 Kevlar Tacks and after a while they were green(kevlar) with a bunch of black spots so I finally painted all of the kevlar area with the black Pro Toe and they look a bunch better.

Rick

[EdgeFx1 0]

i used oneshot oil based lettering enamel

[seamussk8 0]

Some guys on my team have been using sharpie paint markers instead of regular sharpies

[IPv6Freely 2100]

If you want to paint the blade holder, you want to use Krylon Fusion spray paint. It bonds to plastic. A good scrape will obviously take it off, but it definitely wont peel or flake off. I'm considering doing it when I buy my new RBK 8ks. Maybe.

[ty_tanium 1]

kinda bring it back from the dead, but heres my x40s that i honestly hated the look of when i bought em, but the were comfy and on sale. Now they look like what had originally wanted them to look like. Everything was done using Sharpie Paint markers.

[shoeshine boy 246]

for the guys using Sharpie Paint Markers: are you using the water-based or the oil-based?

[ty_tanium 1]

the girl at the art store told me to use the oil-based as it would cover plastic better

also when ur skates get wet from playing the water wont react with the oil-based

[shoeshine boy 246]

the girl at the art store told me to use the oil-based as it would cover plastic better

also when ur skates get wet from playing the water wont react with the oil-based

thanks, exactly what I was concerned about with the water-based. I may have to give this a go on my Vapor XXXX's....

[IPv6Freely 2100]

You'd probably have better luck w/ Krylon Fusion as I mentioned above. It chemically bonds to plastic. You certainly will never have to worry about it becoming water damaged - in fact, many MANY people use it on the INSIDE of salt water aquariums... and for those who are into that hobby, they know what chemicals can do to a reef tank..