Kevin Blaylock
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Is there a way to change the color of fins (besides buying the color you want)? Like if i had white fins and wanted to paint/dye them to a blue or green?
Can you paint fins?
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Maybe this would work
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it depends on the fin, but essentially no. Anything you put on them is going to chip off. Most fins have a good amount of silicone in them and nothing sticks to silicone, they also have a mold release that will be on them for several years though you can remove that. The rubber/plastic isn't going to hold onto most paints unless you sand it really well to get high surface area, but the problem with that is the fins bend so while something may hold onto the plastic itself, the paint has to be flexible enough to deal with the dynamic nature of the fin and that's where you'll hit problems.
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I heard Plastic dip will wear or fall off.. not good for the fish.. any how.. i put a few stickers on my fin they have been holding up for a while..
Fins and wetsuits have been painted for movies and television productions. It isn't hard to spot places where the paint came off. Cousteau's feature film The World Without Sun and the Sea Hunt TV series come to mind. You have to figure the props team on a production would have a much greater motivation to maintain the paint than any of us.
You can paint them any color you want, it will hold up fine, until you use them. Permanent marker may work for a while.
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Oil based dye type stuff works very well
White fins are the most visible to your buddy. Are you trying to ditch your buddy?
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Once I got same idea - to add something to my fins, to differentiate them from others..
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it is very interesting marker... it is not ink, but it is more similar with paste or putty.
also - it is working UNDER the water!
and here is fins, only ribs i`d painted
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best was edding 950 industry painter
it is very interesting marker... it is not ink, but it is more similar with paste or putty.
also - it is working UNDER the water!
and here is fins, only ribs i`d painted
P.S.
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I went on my first pleasure boat dive and while it was nice that you had someone to hand your fins up to before climbing the ladder (you never get that luxury on research dive boats :cool:).....they all end up in a pile and everyone loves black, bleh...(I actually don't, but black fins were the...
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