Dave Skop from rareairshoes.com has put together the new Collectors Sneaker Price Guide. This year the list has been expanded to over 250 sneakers. It includes everything from Nike, New Balance, Puma, Adidas, Vans and more. Dave tells you what the avg price is on the sneakers as well as the low and high price. We see things like the Omni-Pump X Alife in the yellow for 950, the AF1 Playstation for 1,550 avg, AM-1 Kidrobot for 1,075 and so much more. Besides just bringing you the price guide, Sneaker Freaker also took the time out for an interview with Dave about the list and how he goes about giving the sneakers a price. All this info and the interview is thanks to Sneaker Freaker so check it out. A must read for any sneaker collector or sneakerhead in general.

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Looking for some quality custom acrylic paints to customize your sneakers. World famous customizer Sole Junkie has released his own line of acrylic paints. Sole Junkie is known for his work when it comes to custom kicks so you can expect a quality product right here. He wouldn’t sell you something which he wouldn’t be using himself. There is a pro kit as well as a starter kit for those just getting into the game. You get a few various colors which you can mix to create just about any color you desire. Check out the Sole Junkie website for more info or take a look on ebay for these kits.

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A lot of people wonder how you go about stripping the leather on your kicks to prepare them for paint. Preparation is essential to any paint job. Doesnt matter if your painting your kicks, your car or your house. Proper preparation will make all the difference and will help when you lay down your colors. It can make or break the job. If your gonna do it make sure you do it right if you want a quality result.

This guide is by RobL off the Crooked Tongues forums. Much props to RobL for putting together the guide with pictures. Follow the jump for the quick walkthrough and the pictures to go along with it

First you start off with your kicks…In this guide a pair of New Balance 574’s are being used.

The first thing RobL did was mask off the white midsoles to avoid black smears. RobL has come to realize acetone dissolves the encap section so he took the time to cover that as well instead of taking the chance of the color smearing.

Make sure your masking is tight. Like i said, if your gonna do it do it right. This is an essential part to the process. If you dont want your colors to smear spend the time to lay down some tight masking. And go over it to make sure its right on the edges and nothing will leak through.

Get yourself a few bottles of acetone and start to strip the sections you want. When using acetone be sure to work outside or in a well ventualted area. Acetone is very flamable so do not smoke while doing the job and dont breath the fumes in if possible. During the stripping process take a nice soft white cloth and wipe away the areas to see what your working with.

This is the result after about 2hrs. Make sure you keep soaking the cloth in the acetone, its going to take a lot of rubbing to strip the sections you want. Your cloth is going to get coated up with the leather your rubbing off the sneaker so make sure you keep using a clean part or a new cloth every so often. Its pointless to use a dirty cloth the whole time and it will add to the time it takes you to finish. Make sure you scrub till your arms are about to fall off though. A lot of sneakers have multiple coatings, the top layer which makes the shine wont be so hard to remove, its the nitty gritty youll get to under that which will take a lot of rubbing.

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• Jordan Brand Sneaker Templates
• Nike Sneaker Templates

Almost 50 sneaker templates of various Jordan Brand sneakers. All the templates are white JPG files which you can easily cut into various layers to make PSD’s out of. Very useful if your into designing your own sneakers. Enjoy the images and i hope you can put them to good use. Feel free to share your designs with us to display in the Sneaker Art section. Since there are way to many images to post i included a download link with all the images in an rar file. Just extract and have fun.

Download Jordan Brand Sneaker Templates Here

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Heres a collection of 40+ Nike Sneaker Templates. Half the work has been done here to turn these into PSD files. All the photos are white JPG images which you can easily cut in Photoshop to create a PSD file with multiple layers for each piece of the shoes. Have at em and enjoy the images. There are to many images to post in a single post here so i included a RAR file on Rapidshare.com where you can download all the images. Grab the link after the jump.

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Nike Sneaker Templates

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