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Weathering Pants - HalloweeN - 10-14-2004
My brother and I are going as the Fab 2 this year from FvsJ. We bought some black dickies pants. How can we make them look old and nasty lookin? Please post if anyone has any ideas.
Thanks,
Jon N.
Weathering Pants - jwolf1277 - 10-14-2004
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dirt, oil, spray paint
Weathering Pants - EverythingJason - 10-14-2004
I posted this a little while back, but just for you I post it again:
If your pants are brand new do all the sratches and cuts first before you wash them. All the cuts or whatever should be made with a coarse steak knife with a sawing like motion. That way the cut does look more realistic and not like just a hole that was put in the pants on purpose. If you cut any holes make sure you scrape along the edges with the steak knife to fray the edges a little bit. You can use some coarse sandpaper to "weather" the more worn down looking parts of the pants.
Now comes the fun part: take a bucket, poor around 2 cups of bleach in there and some lukewarm water. Throw in your pants and use a stick or something like that to keep stirring. Make sure that the pants are soaked and moved around as to keep the pants from being bleached in only one part. DON\'T leave the pants in longer than a maximum of 10 minutes (not even that!) because black pants turn out orange when left too long in bleach. Now throw these beauties in the washer and wash em out really nice. That makes your frayed ends look awesome and takes that bleach smell out. Once that is done, use grey/brown acrylic paint mixed with water in a spraybottle to give the pants a more dirty used look. Spray the extreme areas, like knees, around the ankles and bottom of the pants....you know where I am getting at.
Most of all: Stay away from spray paint and real dirt. You do want to wear these after remember
Hope this helps. Have fun
Rob
Weathering Pants - englundisgod - 10-15-2004
if u want a used dirty look like greying use a coarse sandpaper (about 80 grit) around where they would legs,cuffs,butt,knees,shins and so-on i reccoment a wirebrush it is easier than running something across the already cut edge, and u can use either a mannual wirebrush, or one on a bench grinder but wathch out if you use the bench grinder and the fabric is not taught it will get tangled on the wheel and mangle yer hands (learned from expeirience
) also i heard of people using their dremel (i dont have one) and use some of your sanding bits and hold it on the area as long as u want the longer the more cut up and frayed look. also if u want the bleaching methon u should use clorox and use the already posted topic and leave them in the hot sun for a day or two and it speeds it up and prolongs the ammount of bleaching or greying. also if you want to have lots of hole in it put it on the garage floor and hit it with stuff 9hammers,chains,bricks,crowbars) get created with it then fray them for other ideas send me a pm or something B)
Weathering Pants - FullMoonFever - 10-15-2004
or you could borrow someones mini cement mixer, fill it with rocks and throw in the pants. Then turn it on
Weathering Pants - HalloweeN - 10-15-2004
Thanks for your help, guys. I think we found a good way to weather them. My brother and I just done his and I gotta do mine next. I\'ll post pics when they are done.
Thanks again,
Jon N.