I like to paint the bottom of my fins to make it easier for students and buddies to easily identify me u/w in the sometimes murky water of So. Cal.
I taped-off the bottom of the fins to mask everything but the the "raised panels" of the ScubaPro Twin Jets and Apollo Bio Fins. I used a spray paint called Kyrex's "Fusion," for painting plastic, and it worked great!. I got the paint at Michael's, a local craft/hobby shop.
I'd hand painted them a year ago with several coats of bright yellow acrylic paint. The paint stayed on pretty well, but got darn scraped and haggard looking after about a hundred dives (most of which were beach dives). The recent paint job seems much more durable, was easier (due to spray paint) and, with some creative masking, I was able to create distinctive blue & yellow patterns.
Anyone else paint the bottom of their fins?
I taped-off the bottom of the fins to mask everything but the the "raised panels" of the ScubaPro Twin Jets and Apollo Bio Fins. I used a spray paint called Kyrex's "Fusion," for painting plastic, and it worked great!. I got the paint at Michael's, a local craft/hobby shop.
I'd hand painted them a year ago with several coats of bright yellow acrylic paint. The paint stayed on pretty well, but got darn scraped and haggard looking after about a hundred dives (most of which were beach dives). The recent paint job seems much more durable, was easier (due to spray paint) and, with some creative masking, I was able to create distinctive blue & yellow patterns.
Anyone else paint the bottom of their fins?