So I decided **** it, and went the acetone (rubbing alcohol) route on these. Started off slow with the toe with rubbing alcohol and paper towels. Then finally realized an old t-shirt would be better. about 10 minutes in, doing my best to keep the ink/paint off the fabric parts of the shoe, I realized I was fighting a losing battle so I just went HAM on them and said **** it. This is the final product on the one shoe. Hit it with some leather honey, doesn't look bad by any means, but you can see the parts where I rubbed a little over-aggressive lol
Took about an hour total and again, that was me just dumping rubbing alcohol onto a tshirt and just hammering away. I'm going to do the second one a little different. I think I'm going to try and tape off the tongue and stuff to help it from being stained. Anyway, not sure if anyone cares of follows this anymore, but for the time I have in, I think it's worth it, but I'm not sure how long I could make tiny circles nice and slow. Ain't got the patience for that...lol