Shoe painting

[auchtermuchty]

Isn't mud brown?????




I'll get me coat........

not always no............clown!!!

 

[The Masked Geek]

You could always get off your backside and bull them you lazy git.

 

[box-of-frogs]

not always no............clown!!!

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Fair one, it is red in sennybridge. But grey mud???? Really????

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[box-of-frogs]

You could always get off your backside and bull them you lazy git.

Here here!

 

[denthemen]

Many moons ago there used to be a product on the market called Johnson's Shine, a thin liquid floor polish. This, applied by cotton wool, on the toe caps, after a good bull session with real Kiwi, used to bring them up a treat. I once knew a d!ckhead in basics who just used the Shine stuff without polishing and was most suprised when, on coming to attention at his pass out parade, his whole toecap just fell off in front of him. The DI must have thought all is horses had come in at once......

 

[Wannoscrew]

What a load of CR*P you lot are all talking, when I was in (89-95) nobody spoke to us ever as we were GEF and not techies but worked on kites right down the far end of the shed and were just the "Dopey Brushes".

I shall share my knowledge....

All we ever used was black gloss Poly (it MUST be polyurethane, nothing else) and after giving the toe cap a good de-greasing, just with thinners (brushwash) and "Kim Wipe" (pale blue industrial tissue paper - dont wipe your ars*e with it) you masking tape off the toe cap and go for it, straight over any polish that may pre-exist, the brushwash gets rid of that..

We just filled our guns and SPRAYED it on layer by layer (it took minutes), you did'nt even really need to leave them in a paint bay or oven. The most important and worrying thing for me was "write your blo*dy name on a piece of masking tape inside so I know who's is who's)

It's as simple as that................ I could do up to 20 pairs during lunch when it was AOC's at Marham and we had the SENGO and all his mates lining up for it.

When done all you do each year is go over it with good old T-cut, just like you do on your car. It gets rid of any blue tinge and removes all scuffs and small scratches. Use glass polish (Mr. Muscle, now I suppose) on the morning of the parade etc to really make them glint in the sun.

Forget all this nose cone paint rubbish, the reason the RAF bought it was that nothing else was painted in black gloss poly in the RAF apart from shoes - how many aircraft, or parts of aircraft, GEF stuff etc do you see in poly black gloss?

What else do you think we ordered it for?

Now if you want me to tell you about other funny PTR/FNR stories like the court case and the car painted in (different) IRR paint that buggered the civvy coppers speed gun up at St.Athan in 92 then let me know - we had to stand in the dock with a steel plate painted in it so as to explain ourselves!

If anything, painted shoes are the one contribition everyone knows about in the RAF, new or old, and for that one little aspect - I'm quite proud of my time.

Please remember your Painters........................................ DT_Xtremez_15:

 

[roverboy]

Forget all this nose cone paint rubbish, the reason the RAF bought it was that nothing else was painted in black gloss poly in the RAF apart from shoes - how many aircraft, or parts of aircraft, GEF stuff etc do you see in poly black gloss?

What else do you think we ordered it for?

The Padre's Metro??DT_Xtremez_27:

 

[Wannoscrew]

Naah mate, that was white with sky blue piping details.

I might produce a booklet on how to paint RAF shoes, and sell it on ebay. "YOU can do it all for a fiver with stuff from Halfords" - it's a winner!!

When it comes to the peak on your hat, the opposite end of your shoes, use a PEA sizes amount of shaving foam/gel, that's another winner.

Shall I go on?

You'll miss the Painters... ::

 

[roverboy]

Padre's metros were always painted black where I was, in fact it was a bit of a joke if you bought any black car privately, especially a 2 door Escort estate.

 

[tradegroup13]

Funny old thing, a "chap" I used to work for sent me to the paintshops to get his shoes painted. The gent in question was reknowned for being pedantic, so I thought I'd play him at his own game. Feigning naivety, I asked him what he wanted them painted with. (Tonka nose cone paint was the reply)

(Bear in mind that we were in the middle of the mod programme for the GR.4's)

Imagine the shock when he went to get his lovely shiney shoes and found that they had turned a funny shade of grey DT_Xtremez_17:

I took a few weeks leave after that little episode DT_Xtremez_30:

In the early 80's when I worked in the MT paintshop at kinloss, a cpl fitter aske dfor his shoes to be painted, I asked what colour, he said whatevers in the spray gun, I had gloss yellow in mine, dont know why he was speechless DT_Xtremez_15: