Official Homemade Boots Thread

[jrnymanprotector]

wow, hell of a nice job! I saw the black boots and thought, "you've got to be kidding me..." but wow, very impressive. They'd look great as they are and just adding the spikes.

If you want to put a little more into it you might use a quikplastic or something similar to bulk up the toe, making it more squared. You might also (you may be doing it anyway) put another piece of canvas over the black ankle part.

Otherwise they're still very impressive and certainly do the job as they are

Gotta weather them though hehe...

Phil

 

[Trooper TK409]

UPDATE 11/24:
Just finished another pair - updated the info below with a few more specifics than before....

I made my boots from leather zip-up ankle boots. I know they aren't exactly screen accurate (they're leather) But they ran me only about $25 each. I made two pair so you'll see two slightly different boots in the photos. I Started with a pair of black leather boots:
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/9.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/10.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/1.jpg

Painted them with gray latex house paint:
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/2.jpg

Then I weathered them with tempera paints (olive, black, and gray from a craft store). I used some very small black piping (fabric store) and trimmed off the extra fabric. I drew lines on my boots where I wanted the piping to go and added it to the boots using regular superglue:
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/11.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/3.jpg

I primered the soles with KILZ Latex sealer/primer house paint. Then I added two coats of white latex (not gloss) ceiling paint. For the spike mount, I used 1/2" wide X 1/8" thick aluminum flat bar (hardware store). I bent it in a vise (it's aluminum so it bends easily) Drilled holes for the screws, (first in the aluminum, then the sole) then I screwed the mount directly into the rubber sole of the boot:
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/4.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/5.jpg

For spikes, I used common pencil tips and glued them to the mount (used superglue gel). I also trimmed off the extra piping at the toe and sealed it with super glue to keep it from fraying:
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/6.jpg

Then I weathered the soles with the tempera paints:
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/11.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/12.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/13.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/14.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/7.jpg
http://www.TK409.com/images/fett/boots/8.jpg

 

[jrnymanprotector]

The boots like nice enough to me. The colors are nice and close, the shape is right. I especially like the squared toe.

Very well done, and done at, what? 12.5% the going price for these?

Good job

Phil

 

[Hand Schaub]

those look pretty cool! I actually like the soles being a bit different - looks tough.

 

[tteF aboB]

Those are sweet. You do an amazing job with items. I've been cruising your web site the last week or so. Doing a trooper with the tax return. As a mater of fact I just bought a cheap plastic gun to do your storm trooper rifle you just completed and posted over at the RPF. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mlcallanta]

Excellent!!
The sole design actually made the boots look "meaner" - very well done!

Mardon

 

[Trooper TK409]

Thanks guys. The boots are GBX and I got them in a thrift store for $10. The pair with the squarer toe are Kenneth Coles - found on ebay for about $15.

 

[Megalomaniac Mando]

Here they are. Unashamedly, I'll start by saying the soles were from a pair of women's sandals I picked up at WalMart. I completely removed everything but the sole.

On these soles, I sewed a one-piece upper, to create a high-topped shoe. To this, I sewed a piece like this _/ with velcro attached to the sides to create an "openable" tapered tube. So, to this kneee-high boot of canvas, I sewed strips of split leather in shingle fashion. I like the effect, and also use these with my Tusken outfit. The velcro opening runs nearly the entire length of the boot at the rear.

The top one is with flash, the bottom is without. These have been weathered heavily in darkish brown.

 

[Packrat]

Quite... custom. Look more like tusken boots than Mandalorian boots, though.

 

[Megalomaniac Mando]

:facepalm Perhaps I haven't been to the parts of Planet Mandalore that you have to see what a typical pair of shoes looks like.

Anyway, custom means custom. This is what I wanted, this is what I made. Didn't know there were any rules to the whole "custom" thing. How are yours coming along?

Besides, this is what Mandalorian cowboys wear. You just need to get out of the city.

 

[Packrat]

lol... You just have been doing custom paint (and gun) until now, you didn't change your armor, did you? Anyway, just can't imagine such footwear going with Mandalorian armor, but I'll have to see some pics of you wearing them. All of the boots I've seen have been on Concord Dawn, I haven't been to Mandalore itself before.

 

[Megalomaniac Mando]

You guys truly rock! I'll say it again; I'm just doing this because I'm such a cheap skate. If not, I'd be buying-up the good stuff from our board artists. When I'm done, I'll be lucky if I look like the Jed Clampett of Fetts.

 

[Omega Man]

Here are the latest pics, painted sole then added metal hardware....

 

[Tabomabi]

Those look great Fpoato, but how did you fill in the sole to make it even? Did you cut off the heel?

 

[Omega Man]

Thanks for the compliments!

I used a belt sander and took off heel, sanded sole till shoe looked like it was flat, and the sides of the rubber sole were rounded and i sanded that flat aswell. These boots
i bought at a Canadian Walmart for $19.00 canadian new!

 

[MaxPlague]

I've seen jet-ski, water sports and wind-surfing boots that are very similar too. Kinda makes ya wonder doesn't it?

 

[jeezycreezy]

It does indeed.

I've tried many searches on the words "canvas ankle boots" looking for what the original boot might have been. The searches led mostly to boots used for boating and hiking.

Turns out the ones pictures above are described as "dinghy boots".

If they have a square-ish toe it's looks like it might be a suitable boot with a little modifying. They're not canvas. But since MC boots don't seem to grow on trees, the rest of us have to find something to wear.

Keep us posted Neil!

Cheers!
TJ

 

[Omega Man]

Here are some links to those boots:

http://www.sailgb.com/sshop/prod_info.asp?PID=390

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/argus/905zipboots.html

 

[BobaFettish]

For about $50 (US) per pair, those aren't that bad of an option for those of you who don't have a pair of Boba boots. Although they aren't screen accurate, they arent't that bad (the first pair anyway). All you'd have to do is add the toe plate and spikes.

 

[micke]

Interesting find!
Here's a couple more:

The soles and main shape seems very simillar except for the square toes.on many of these..