Both the purple and the white coats took about 3 to 4 passes to finally get the right shade and strength I was looking for. Then I masked off the green plate in the back and then the green "steel toe" color. Finished results look like this:



In the long run, this paint job won't work because the rubber isn't rigid. Spray paint is meant to stick to something that doesn't bend. If I crease the boots, you can see the paint start to "lightning crack." It would have been best to get white boots as a starter and then to only paint the green and purple on. But for a Halloween costume where he will only wear this 1 or 2 times in the uggs uk outlet month, I am not worried.



The last part will be to make a concoction of elmer's glue, caulk and water to "wash" over the entire pack to cover up discrepancies, and fill in a lot of the softness of the foam. In other words to make a "hard shell" exterior, or a "glue primer" so that I can get ready to paint it. The mixture feels like thick water, if I were to do it again, I might use less water. My advice is dump all the elmer's glue in and mix in a small amount of water until you get it how you want it, and then start adding your caulk, as it thickens keep adding water until it's a ugg boots outlet fluid paste. I ended up going back over it several times to fill all the holes in the foam. Sometimes I used straight caulking for rough patches, other times I sprayed spray paint or clear coat on it, just to give it a second surface and then I went back over it again with the glue wash.



Now starting to add some color



For the purple parts it was easier to paint the top "triangle" and to cut the bottom "oval" out of the fun foam. There has been a lot of bleed over from the two bright colors so another coat of white is in order for touch ups.



Here is a testfitting to give you an idea of the scale



My wife and I found the Jet Pack labels at the RPF (made by Mr Sinistar) and then she "designed" the exhaust ports with Photoshop.



Exhaust Fan



Danger / Jet Exhaust



Bucket Logo



She had some extra room so she made a label for his Halloween bucket.



Painting the wings on the sides



Glued everything down and added the white background to the "space ranger" logo. light came in the mail from a fellow RPF member. This will go in the other gauntlet to act as Buzz's lazer



Unfortunately I had to remove the outside housing on the laser, and then I made a small hole in the plastic gauntlet.



I attached the battery housing by making a foam pocket and then gluing that to the inside of the cup.



Here is what a test run looked like when we were finished.



NOTE: remember to print them out in reverse (we forgot one time) and second, your transfer has to be super flat. Tiny sleeves have tiny seems and creases that will ruin the transfer. Another option is ironing on the transfer to some scrap white fabric and then making "patches" to adhere to the sleeves. We tried transfer labels from HP (hated them) and then tried Avery and they worked perfect.