10-14-2004, 10:45 PM
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
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