Painting rubber boots???
CMWilkes98
costume). I tried brown leather spray paint, but it chips off. Any suggestions?
Would scuffing the surface with sandpaper help? And what kind of paint will
adhere to rubber?
Chris Tafoya
AndyK...
conventional paint that will hold up well. Even the "flex agent" added to
auto body paint might not flex enough for a rubber boot, though it might be
worth a try if you can find the right color pre made (comes in spray cans,
check a local auto supply store). Have you tried shoe dye (might be able to
find this in the local super market!), it will probably also flake where
there is extreme flexing but probably a lot less and with smaller flakes
than paint and cost little!
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Pat Strong
Nothing is going to stick well unless it is specially formulated to adhere to that
flexible stretchy surface of the rubber. It is also slick as a rule, but you can
knock the shine down with sandpaper. Using a high acrylic content paint, like latex
enamel or artists acrylics will have the greatest stretchiest film. Spray paint is
just too brittle.
Pat
Chris Tafoya
Pat Strong wrote:
> Using a high acrylic content paint, like latex
> enamel or artists acrylics will have the greatest stretchiest film.
Pat,
Sounds to me like you have been misinformed about 'acrylic'. There are flexible
acrylics, true, but there are also brittle ones.
Oh, and artists acrylics are high in pigment content, not flexiblility.
Pat Strong
I am talking about the acrylics that are labeled as such on the market. What the
average consumer is going to find labeled that way, is the artist type in little
bottles or tubes. That stuff is HIGHLY flexible and would probably last for the
needs of a costume. I know, some of the brittle sprays are acrylic like Krylon, but
if you went to a hobby store and asked for "acrylics" they are going to point you to
the tubes.
Pat
Pat Strong
> Pat Strong wrote:
>
> > Using a high acrylic content paint, like latex
> > enamel or artists acrylics will have the greatest stretchiest film.
>
> Pat,
>
> Sounds to me like you have been misinformed about 'acrylic'. There are flexible
> acrylics, true, but there are also brittle ones.
>
> Oh, and artists acrylics are high in pigment content, not flexiblility.
And isn't acrylic the binder, it has little or nothing to do with the pigment? You
could mix it with ground dirt and get a kind of paint if you wanted.
Pat
Chris Tafoya
Pat Strong wrote:
Yes, thats what i was trying to say, that artist acrylics are formulated with losts
of pigment because their primary function is to be colorful, flexibility is just
secondary.
I didnt mean to start an argument over such a frivolous use of paint, but....
If it were my costume boots, I'd use the cheapest latex paint I could find, PVA,
acrylic, terpolymer, whatever, any house paint is going to work well for one night's
fun.
And why do you assume the 'latex enamels' contain more acrylic than any other latex
paint? Latex enamels are actually more likely to be harder and more brittle than a
satin finish house paint, for example, and they can be made from PVA, or acrylic
resins.
CT
Pat Strong
That is true. I was thinking of the comparison to latex flat wall paint. The satin
finish enamel would be a tougher film.
Pat