Looky looky! Progress!
Jul. 17th, 2014 12:47 amIt sounds like the next horrible challenge on a reality survival show, it's....
Snake Painting!

Working mainly off of this screencap and this screencap (above is just a mock-up on the hat with tape... nice thing about the stick-on vinyl contact paper; scotch tape leaves nary a mark when you peel it off).
Okay so first it involved snake casting

This bucket-o-latex has got to be like, five years old at least. But it was liquid-y enough that a little water added made it pourable.

Like so!
THE FOLLOWING DAY...

"Flesh-tone cobra"... OH MY GOD my guess is, don't google that phrase. Also, now with the head glued back on. GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER.
FOUR HOURS LATER...

"Don't mess with me because I am an Egyptian Bad-ass Mofo!" I think the colors came out mostly good though my light blue is a little too sky blue and not enough aquamarine hints. Still the painting took forever so I'm not going to bother to go back and do it with a better matching color.
Front facing (with flash, kinda grainy)

And the side again:

I was a bit too impatient with the gold color paint on the back; will likely have to re-do it. Also I ordered a bottle of Flex Gloss high-gloss finisher for latex masks, which I will use to coat the whole thing and make it look more metallic.
Hat is almost done! If nothing else, I will have a hat!
Snake Painting!

Working mainly off of this screencap and this screencap (above is just a mock-up on the hat with tape... nice thing about the stick-on vinyl contact paper; scotch tape leaves nary a mark when you peel it off).
Okay so first it involved snake casting

This bucket-o-latex has got to be like, five years old at least. But it was liquid-y enough that a little water added made it pourable.

Like so!
THE FOLLOWING DAY...

"Flesh-tone cobra"... OH MY GOD my guess is, don't google that phrase. Also, now with the head glued back on. GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER.
FOUR HOURS LATER...

"Don't mess with me because I am an Egyptian Bad-ass Mofo!" I think the colors came out mostly good though my light blue is a little too sky blue and not enough aquamarine hints. Still the painting took forever so I'm not going to bother to go back and do it with a better matching color.
Front facing (with flash, kinda grainy)

And the side again:

I was a bit too impatient with the gold color paint on the back; will likely have to re-do it. Also I ordered a bottle of Flex Gloss high-gloss finisher for latex masks, which I will use to coat the whole thing and make it look more metallic.
Hat is almost done! If nothing else, I will have a hat!
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Date: 2014-07-17 05:08 am (UTC)"Flesh-tone cobra"...
*Giggles*
OH MY GOD my guess is, don't google that phrase.
*Stops Mid-Google* Whut?
Also, now with the head glued back on.
*Has more quiet fits, trying to contain self*
GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER.
Yeeeah. No. That's not happening.
What makes this post even funnier is the post I just put up. About Filthy Wickedness and Posting SRS!BIZNESS scenes instead.
So. Yeah. I'm not gonna make it.
*Crawls back under Rock to laugh self stupid...and think naughty!thoughts*
(On a more coherent note, though...that headdress is f@#king BADASS. You ROCK ON, woman!!)
*SQUISH*
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Date: 2014-07-17 05:17 am (UTC)Well, I need to refrain from being awake, about now. It's way past my bedtime.
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Date: 2014-07-17 05:28 am (UTC)*CACKLES*
Yeah...thee and me. Oi. So get thyself to dream-land, honey. I'll hold down the fort, yeah?
*HUGS*
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Date: 2014-07-17 05:34 am (UTC)GNight!
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Date: 2014-07-17 01:16 pm (UTC)… and no, I am not searching for "flesh-tone cobra."
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Date: 2014-07-20 06:22 am (UTC)Very impressive snake and head dress
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Date: 2014-07-22 03:55 am (UTC)Thanks! I need to pick it up again this week and try to re-do the band. Baby steps. Until like a week before DragonCon where it will be OMG-do-everything-left-that-didn't-get-done-with-baby-steps.
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Date: 2014-07-22 03:55 am (UTC)