Ok! Pics of the painted inside as well as close ups of my magnet system.
The paint came out nice, but it still needs some time to cure so that not as much silver is rubbing off.
I did a lot of wiping to get most of the silver dust off so that I could put the brackets together with the straps.
I'm happy with it overall, but I may go back in and adjust the outer straps. Since the process of adapting these brackets to this shield involved me cutting a half inch off of one end and an inch and a half on the other to get them to fit. This resulted in the outer straps being looser. Since I am not really using them for anything other than looks, it's fine for now.
The main arm straps fit just as great as they did before and everything else went back together just fine.
So, for the magnet system, I used Grade N42, Rare Earth Neodymium Disc Magnets 1" x 1/4" with Dual Sided Countersunk Hole, with an estimated pull force of 24 lbs. I used two of them, one was on the mount on the shield and the other one I attached to the chest harness I made. I made sure that the screws I used to hold them in place would sit flush with the surface when in the counter sunk holes on the magnets. They snap together nice and easy (makes a pretty good clicking sound). The shield comes of without a ton of effort, but even when making fast movements and jumping around the shield stayed in place. It seems to be all about the angle it is pulled from for them to come apart easily.
I'll look into putting up a video of putting it on and taking it off.
Then came the fun part, pulling off all the tape! It was nice to see it all finished (for the most part) with the red, blue, and silver.
The star is still more matte than the silver stripe, but I'm still not sure what I want to do. Do I glossy up the star, or mute down the rest of the shield?
I put it back up in it's place of honor for now.
The next thing I am going to work on will be the gaiters for the boots. I feel like this is that one little detail that makes the costume feel more Cap-like.