Painting your leather jacket...

[Klause]

Ever seen those jackets that look really nice but some tit decided to pick a horrible colour for it. Yes, the ones that go on ebay for nothing (£20), yet the same jacket with a better colour sceme goes for more (£50). Well I got the horrible coloured one and changed it for £3.95...

First off find your local art and crafts/hobby store. Uhuh, the shops that are full of weirdo's but it's the only place you can get this stuff...
https://img184.imageshack.us/img184/14/paint0di.jpg

Next off prepare your surface. Clean the piece of leather you want to paint. I used parafin, no idea if it was good for the job but I couldn't be arsed with buying "leather cleanser". Mask off the area your painting, don't want to make a mess now do we.

Next, you need to mix up your paint with abit of water. This is so it can soak into the leather and make a good base layer.
https://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8899/paintmixed5cd.jpg

Started to apply the diluted mixture...
https://img157.imageshack.us/img157/2223/tape4wq.jpg

Right, now you want to mix abit more paint into the water to make it thicker. After this layer you will be ready to use just the paint, no water.
You should be look at something like this, if not hit yourself HARD...
https://img57.imageshack.us/img57/3067/thicker2rb.jpg

I applied a few more coats of just the paint to build up a good finish...
https://img157.imageshack.us/img157/8574/done3tl.jpg
https://img157.imageshack.us/img157/1204/finished8ul.jpg
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[toomuchcrazy]

sexeh

[0ddball]

Bit too lairy for me.
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[Walloper]

That's so hot it's cool mate
How much is the paint?
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[Klause]

Walloper, your answer...

[Klause]

Well it just started pissing it down and I was reading through my post to check for mistakes and noticed the picture with the jacket outside on the chair!

Thank god it had dried, hasn't run at all.
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Current bikes: 1960 Triumph 5ta x2, TTR600RE, KTM200EXC, Cagiva Elephant 900ie.

[craigs23]

Is acrylic water soluble?

[Klause]

I dunno, but it just pissed it down and my jacket was left outside. Nothing has run at all. You'd need a power washer to get it off. I'm not really going to use this jacket for bad weather, I have my £££ rukka jacket for that.
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[Jack_Cheese]

Acrylic is a plastic. So no, acrylic paint is not water soluble. its a bugger when the paint dries in the tub though... was the leather you painted black?

Jack
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[Klause]

It was yellow like the mouth bit of the pumpkin like face.

Sexeh model...
https://img131.imageshack.us/img131/4968/untitled0vp.jpg[/img]
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[ZZR Girl]

Can you get flourescent/reflective paint too? My leather jacket's mostly all black and I would like to paint a reflective design on the back. (I could even paint a tromp l'oeil (is that how you spell it) Sam Browne belt! LOL Maybe not)
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Keep it shiny!

[Klause]

Yes, the make I got Liquitex do them...

https://www.liquitex.com/Products/paintfluorescent.cfm
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[Jack_Cheese]

Would tyre wall markers work? would be interesting to find out...

Jack
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[Klause]

[ArabianKnight]

[Klause]

I use to have a cagiva planet, great bikes. You can get metallic colours aswell if you want to change the jacket colours. I wouldn't recommend changing alot of the jacket e.g. The black on mine. I changed nice small simple pieces, easy to redo if it wears out.
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[Irezumi aka Reuben]

[McGee]

I like that!
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