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Boba Fatt - Member

heat the polish first (just set fire to polish with a lighter) extinguish then apply with a slightly damp yellow duster in small circles, apply a few more coats then buff to a mirror shine

get a seperate pair for exercises and what not and keep the other pair for parades

teach them how to do it too, they'll need to if they go to any camps. When they get to their first camp tell them to buy proper RAF parade shoes, a much smoother leather and better placed for a mirror shine

10 years in the ATC, best thing i ever did

Posted 2 years ago #
Surfr - Member

Spent many a lost evening with parade gloss and small bits of cotton wool on a newspaper laden dining table trying to get a decent mirror finish on my RAF Shoes from Silvermans. Never managed to get them as good as the guys who purloined a can of Tornado Nosecone paint from Conningsby when we re there on Summer Camp. They must have lucked in while I was servicing Tornados on the apron or checking the best before dates on a hercfull of NBC suits (it was Gulf War era).

Boots were British Army 10 hole DMS and I;ve still got them now. Amazing boots and only required a basic brushing with kiwi black to keep them waterproof and matt. Noone wants shiny boots on exercise. Hell we even had blackened cap badges for such occasions.

<created new reminiscing post about ATC to save polluting this thread>

Posted 2 years ago #
beamers - Member

I'm surprised that no one yet has mentioned the Sylvette polishing cloth.

Any good Batman should know how to do the following:

1. Soak cloth
2. Wring out cloth
3. Place trigger finger and middle finger inside cloth and twist cloth round finger tips
4. Get some Kiwi (black / black / oxblood as described above - NOT parade gloss) on the part of the cloth on your finger tips.
5. Move you fingers in small circles until the shine appears
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until the desired effect as achieved.

I would agree with the points above though that you would only want to be investing time in a pair of shoes or boots which are only going to be used for parades. One brush with undergrowth and your hard efforts will be wasted.

Posted 2 years ago #
parkesie - Member

Good thick coating of polish on the toe caps.
1 can of lynx
1 lighter
few quick blasts.

Posted 2 years ago #
molgrips - Member

Surely a buffing wheel on a drill woudl be good?

Posted 2 years ago #
Smudger666 - Member

As a Para, we NEVER bulled our boots!

However, whilst at uni, i was a Cr@phat and had to - RSM was Scots Guards and he had a hard-on for bulled boots. Never use Klear - gets wet and goes white - not a good look to have on Parade

Find a polish - normal Kiwi was my choice - and then wet cloth (yellow duster or cotton wool - start with duster, then cotton wool near the end maybe) and bull in SMALL circles. It takes time but will suddenly go from a high polish to bulled.

And yes, make them do it themselves. Or do one boot for each of them really well and make them do the other to the same standard.

And the Beret thing is vital for street cred - a well fitted/shaped beret is the muttsnutts in terms of street cred in the cadets.

39 posts - suprised we havent had disparaging comments from the pacifist/lefties yet about how un-pc all this army willy waving is

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