I decided I needed to something more on these. Excuse my roughness, this is an 8 hour speed build.
The upper is based on the footprint of the V2 US8 which is about 11" long. My new upper is 9.5" tall which is about 3/4" taller then the V2 US8.
This material I have used is not the best for this project as there is no stretch what so ever. I am only using it because I have a heap on a roll and for this type of R&D where many attempts have ended up in the bin, a no cost solutions don't cause too much up-set when they are thrown out or cut apart. The material is a UV stable vinyl mesh. It can be sewn or glued and this proves that this shoe can be made from materials other than cloth over foam. Although I have a proper #20 UV stable industrial cotton, my machine can't tension it, so I was left to use standard cotton which breaks really easy. To get around this, I found that by sewing each seam at least twice makes the seams much stronger and they do not break from simply pulling on the parts.
Although I modded the patterns to allow larger concave arcs, I still don't have them quite right. I will need to change the cutouts on the base of the collar and they are close to the right size, just slightly wrong shape. I also had issues with the way the cuff attached. I lost the profile on one side of the collars and because it is all sewn up now, I can't get in to push out the seam from the inside. This is wear a template that goes into the shoe and holds the seams in their proper shape would have been neat.
For some reason I also got puckering around the base of the lace box where the tongue attaches. On the inside, the material sits flat. I am not sure why it won't sit flat on the outside. The tongue is sewn to the inside layer on the toe, keeping the point of attachment invisible.
I have solved the hidden seam mystery on the collar. The cuff is sewn on to the liner before it is attached to the shell. I do not know why the Chinese can't figure that out if I can and I am not even close to being a shoe "expert". I was also able to keep the back of the liner as a single piece. I simply made the base line bend to allow extra material to make the hollow (from the inside) of the heel.
The top of the collar is sewn on last and when it flips over, covers the join from the liner to the cuff. It is neat the way it all works.
Apart from the height increase, these patterns also correct the placement of the seams where the back seam extends all the way to the collar and the inside seam sits between 2nd and 3rd laces. The laces are the only thing I am not sure about how to do. On the V2, there is two seams and laces come through between the two layers. On the real MAG, it seems that the laces come out between the two layers (shell and liner) only. Sure I could do this, but not sure how to get the thing turned inside out later. I purposely only attached the base on the tongue so it would not get in my way at this stage.
And a quick wear test. These fit good. It will be very cool if I can actually make a wear pair from a decent cloth or leather. Normally I do make pairs, but as this was a speed build, I have only made the right shoe upper. I will have a bit more of a think about how I can attach these laces and take my time on the next pair. They will be made from mesh, so what I might do is cut myself a pair of templates from the thin polyprop I have. The template only needs to help the upper hold its shape.
There was an issue with the original templates I was using and a print directly from SketchUp solved any scaling issues as the program will print a true 1:1 of the model.
I also went back in and added the alignment points and they make such a difference when attaching the footprint.
