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Here is my take on rattlesnake skin on a shotgun.
I was not happy with the standard fishnet stockings look for scales. I had been looking around for a material that would work for scales and found it at Wal-mart. It was a mesh laundry bag that was around where you find clothes pins and moth balls. It is similar to
this but didnt come with the frame.
Once you have the mesh the rest is kinda simple.
First step is to paint the item black.
Next is to get the mesh on the item so that it lays flat. Any where that it isnt tight you will get under spray and you will loose your scales. I spray the mesh with some spray adhesive and let it dry for about 5 minutes. Then with some finessing and clothes pins I got it to lay flat. This is by far the hardest part.
Next is to paint the item with your base color. I chose a beige-khaki color.
Then lay out the diamond patterns with some brown.
The outline the diamonds with black and then white outside the black.
I went back with the brown and added some darker sections between the diamonds and darkened the diamonds themselves.
