Hi guys, this is a bit of a mad question but does anyone have a make on the boots Ripley wears when she's in the Power Loader? They look like ski boots, I was wondering if they were off-the-shelf or were they custom?
I think you will find the whole shoe is made from vinyl. If you were to do a complete new build, would you not make the whole thing out of leather? When you buy leather, do you have to buy a whole hide or can you buy it cut up?If I could get a pair of these in my size I would totally rip off the grey part and construct the whole upper. It would probably cost about $300 for the different leathers, but there would be a lot left over.
If there was a knockoff made, it would probably be vinyl. I don't think a company like Reebok would be that cheap. Using vinyl is like throwing in the towel for your whole company, the stuff is garbage.
I wouldn't even try a complete scratch build. There'd be no way to find soles even remotely like the originals and it wouldn't be worth the effort if the sole is that far off.
Most places require you buy a whole hide. Shoes are generally made from cow hide, so we're talking really big hides. You might be able to find it in a side, though, which would run about $100 for the white/light grey stuff, $100 for the dark grey, and you could probably get away with lambskin for the tongue, which is a smaller hide for about $35. The lambskin could do about 10 tongues and the sides could make about 50 pairs of shoes (top section, not the whole shoe).
And here I was thinking some crazy RPFer was making actual YELLOW POWER LOADER BOOTS to wear. :lol
Talk about bug stompers...