Paint for Boots

[Ghostrider]

This is going out to all the mods, Can you put me in the right direction of where i can get me boots painted. No real hurry for it to be done. Just been up Spean Bridge last weekend and got them trashed afterwards in the bar . Up at Fasers atm. Cheers

[davo141]

unit armourers are usually the blokes and charge about a tenner a pair, alternatively you can crack it yourself, the paints called japlac and is availble from focus diy store i believe, just masker the stitching and soles well and pour on with a spoon, allow to dry for a few days and hey presto!! getting it in to the armourers is a lot easier thou

[Ghostrider]

Awlrite davo, yeah its usually the armourers but the lad that does it is on his juniors and aint coming back to fasers, might see about trying it myself. If it does go pete tong ill speak nicely to the civvi in stores
So is that stuff all you need? No sanding them down or base coat?
Cheers

[Ghostrider]

One other thing, just incase any nods are reading this, dont be stupid enough to try anything like this. You'll be in the hurt locker, in a world of extra admin and pain

[davo141]

alright mate, make sure theres no polish left on them, sandpaper cant halm, i sanded mine down, you need it down to the leather, if theres any polish left it may bubble or set uneven. you need to maskers till your eyes bleed, all of the soles, the wood around the cap and a bit further back, on the stiching that goes over the top, anywhere you think the paint might run, you put it on quite thick so will run more places that you think.

a base coat shouldnt be needed, i never but if it bubbles etc an extra coat cant harm!

just give it plenty of time to dry as it takes a fair old while

[Pilgrim Norway]

Ah yes .....

Sounds like the old "Straw Hat Dye" from the fifties - nineteen fifties ...

Fine - until tapped by the tip of a pace stick ---

This was always a " Good idea at the time " but usually ricocheted ...
giving many curious hours of extra drill

Still - keeps you fit I suppose

[Ghostrider]

thought this stuff was pretty bootneck proof, cant get hold of the nose cone paint. What else do you recommend?

[owdun]

Try spit and polish,safer and less likely to cause pain.



Owdun.

[English Rose]

Ah yes .....

Sounds like the old "Straw Hat Dye" from the fifties - nineteen fifties ...

Fine - until tapped by the tip of a pace stick ---

This was always a " Good idea at the time " but usually ricocheted ...
giving many curious hours of extra drill

Still - keeps you fit I suppose

Just had a seek for hubby's boot paint, it's German but he bought it in the UK. He's taken it with him though - bar steward

[druadan]

Ho-hum, civvy used to do it at Logs, £17 a pair, believe they went to CTC to get done. Give them a ring and get them in the post...they use some hoofing gel stuff so scratches just rub out. Mine have survived two years on the first coat so far.

[davo141]

yeah your right, its the tailor, they dont send them to ctc though, somewhere in Gus, they use the nose paint off the Tornado or something!

will be getting mine done when we move out of this travelodge and find my repack boxes full of kit which is all over the shop in shake-ons and cupboards. Few lads have had them done and they are immense!

[Pilgrim Norway]

Mine have survived two years on the first coat so far

Two years - We obviously lacked the transport - unless we were flown over and had to walk back

Ours were walked out quicker'n vindaloo

Sea Service boots lasted a little longer - used them mainly for dances etc
we were all the rage

[terryrat]

Bloody paint......... ..aaaaah whats wrong with the old polish and a bit o spittle then jeeeeeeeessssarse "n" mary

[Pilgrim Norway]

Being taught how to spit is perhaps not in the book now ...

And the polish might just mar the colour already on the nailjob ---

Little circles - for hours an' hours - now THERE was a hobby ...

Yellow duster forgotten in the pocket and put into the dhoby, again & again

Spit and polish - matched only by blancoeing over and over again -

Green small arms equipment, white belt and bayonet frog -
Black polished small arms equipment, black belt and bayonet frog -
Green small arms equipment, etc etc etc

Cold water dhobying - bars of yellow soap - wet denims on Parade -
( but clean - yeah ? ) -

Coke stoves and rampant asthma in the 'huts' of Lympstone

Five quid a WEEK ( not the hour as complained of now ) a shilling a pint
for beer though - and here in Norway you'll pay NINE POUNDS FIFTY today
for just under a pint -... .-.. --- --- -.. -.-- ' . -.. .-.. ( I'd write that in
flags but they're not available either ! )...



Never mind - anything that turns ya on - shortcuts are canny as well -

[barrybudden]

yeah your right, its the tailor, they dont send them to ctc though, somewhere in Gus, they use the nose paint off the Tornado or something!

I dont think you can get that paint anymore.

You could try flea bay and bull your own up. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ammo-Boots-Instru ... .m20.l1116

A mate of mine was in the Micks (Irish Guards) he told me the secret which is to bees wax them first.