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I decided that the Ricky Fowler edition white and orange cell fusions are basically unwearable unless you either have a full blown custom orange get-up or a plethora of orange and white clothes. Unfortunately I had neither when I bought a pair last year. So after watching them sit in my closet basically barking at me to be worn I decided to custom paint them and see if they have a little life left in them.
Here's the before photos:
Both shoes [BEFORE]
Inside view [BEFORE]
Outside view [BEFORE]
Lots of orange to cover up...at the end of the "experiment" I felt like everything I looked at, kitchen counter, ketchup, beer, had orange in it...mentally exhausting process.
First step of the new process was deglazer with the Angelus deglazer. BTW - their products are very nice and are relatively inexpensive. If you are thinking about taking on this bear of a project (thank goodness my tee time on Sunday was cancelled due to rain) I would recommend buying much less paint then you think. I bought the larger sizes because I didn't know how well it would cover and you can easily get away with the smallest sizes for numerous pairs of shoes. After you rub the deglazer on, it's time to start painting.
First I painted the primary black
That step in the process was the easiest, roughly 45 minutes to coat entirely both shoes. Next step after that was detailing the silver lines in the puma swoosh
I was pretty sloppy here because I knew that I would be overlaying with lime green and any imperfections seen here would be covered by the next lime green layer. Total process time here was about an hour and a half. The tackier swoosh was harder to cover. The last painful and tetiuous painting step was adding the lime green...this took roughly 5 and a half hours....
After putting so much blood, sweat, and tears into these babies I had to go for a personal touch on the inside. I added my nickname "vinez" on the inside
After applying a full bottle of nail polish to the sole to make it look legit you have the finished product (actually have 1 more coat of nail polish to add to the sole, but more or less they are finished)
That's pretty much it, let me know what you guys think.
-vinez
Here's the before photos:
Both shoes [BEFORE]
Inside view [BEFORE]
Outside view [BEFORE]
Lots of orange to cover up...at the end of the "experiment" I felt like everything I looked at, kitchen counter, ketchup, beer, had orange in it...mentally exhausting process.
First step of the new process was deglazer with the Angelus deglazer. BTW - their products are very nice and are relatively inexpensive. If you are thinking about taking on this bear of a project (thank goodness my tee time on Sunday was cancelled due to rain) I would recommend buying much less paint then you think. I bought the larger sizes because I didn't know how well it would cover and you can easily get away with the smallest sizes for numerous pairs of shoes. After you rub the deglazer on, it's time to start painting.
First I painted the primary black
That step in the process was the easiest, roughly 45 minutes to coat entirely both shoes. Next step after that was detailing the silver lines in the puma swoosh
I was pretty sloppy here because I knew that I would be overlaying with lime green and any imperfections seen here would be covered by the next lime green layer. Total process time here was about an hour and a half. The tackier swoosh was harder to cover. The last painful and tetiuous painting step was adding the lime green...this took roughly 5 and a half hours....
After putting so much blood, sweat, and tears into these babies I had to go for a personal touch on the inside. I added my nickname "vinez" on the inside
After applying a full bottle of nail polish to the sole to make it look legit you have the finished product (actually have 1 more coat of nail polish to add to the sole, but more or less they are finished)
That's pretty much it, let me know what you guys think.
-vinez
Took me 6 hours....
