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No, not an S12, just paint practice...
 
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No, not an S12, just paint practice...



Painted an old monty wards store brand pump we had around as practice. The seeing as we live in the desert, the little lady of the house thinks she wants a snake skin paintjob on her S12. Didn't want to jump right into messing up Build 1, so i decided to do this to test durability, and get opinions... all are welcome!

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i personally dont like the snake skin look but the paint job came out nice so if she wants snakeskin it looks good to go

I know, snakeskin is really a matter of taste. Yeah, as soon as i see how the duracoat holds up, i'll see if i can reproduce this for her... it was the best of my experiments. I'm a little concerned about getting the fishnet "fitted" to the curves in the S-12 receiver cover... i got washout on mine, but the colors were so subdued, you don't notice. thanks!

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Depending on what you paint with, you could always strip it off if it doesn't turn out the way you want it.

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Depending on what you paint with, you could always strip it off if it doesn't turn out the way you want it.

 

I did see a couple of articles in my research about stripping duracoat, but being the handy man at home, i've discovered that stripping is one of the few jobs around the house that I absolutely hate doing! I'm going for long term on this russian ladies! ;-)

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I like it. You did a good job. Did you use real snakeskin for the pattern?

 

Kevin, thanks!

 

No, didn't use a real snakeskin exactly... i used some of the little ladies fishnet stockings ;-) Instead of using the usual symmetric type, i used the ones with a variable pattern. While the top look ok, the sides look kind of like grandma's doily's.

 

For the colors and all, well, I have to rid the yard of about one rattler a year, so i've skinned my share of them. While i didn't try to mimic the real thing, i did try to get "feel" for the colors and variation in the scales.

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