Amy's Dragon skin tail..nervous beginings!

[Mermaid Leira]

[Mermaid Leira]

Little mini scult I made at lunchtime Thoughts? I might make a mini tail while I'm waiting on a few things for my tail

[Mermaid Leira]

Had inspiration from the fighting fish and my tattoo's with the feathery edges, the color scheme I will use is based on one of my favourite marine fish, the Lunar (or moon) Wrasse the main color with be pearlecent teal green and have blue, purple highlights and stripes and a yellow highlight in the fluke

[MarkF]

That is so cool.

[Mermaid Leira]

Thanks Mark, I think I've settleted on this basic design, will be easier to get better detail in the full sized sculpt!

[Mermaid Kassandra]

That's incredibly amazing *.*
I'm sure your tail will be a beauty!

[Mermaid Leira]

Thank you Kassandra

[Mermaid Melanie]

beautiful mini fluke sculpt ! x

[Azurin Luna]

Looks nice, good luck with the full-scale fluke

[Harpress]

Eeeeeee!!! It's Beyond Beautiful!!! and I adore Fighter Fish too Amy

[Mermaid Leira]

Thank you Melanie, Harpress and Azurin , Melanie, good luck finishing off your tail, your fluke is beautiful! I'll be watching you progress x

[Mermaid Joie]

I love your fluke design! I have had several Beta(fighter) fish in my childhood. Would your color scheme look kind of like this maybe? Sorry I don't know how to make the image appear.


http://l.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/cFv...c_z.jpg.cf.jpg

[PearlieMae]

Wow! So many posts, how did I miss this until now???

You've got a great start, Amy! I am excited about following your progress! Good luck!

[Mermaid Leira]

Thank you Joie, I'm using a lunar wrasse as my color inspiration, I'll color a scetch and post today, that color scheme of the fighter is is just magic though! I'd love to see if if you used those greens and reds!

Thanks pearlie,! and if you didn't mind I had a question? since I'm sure you have done more research and tests than anyone, I know you use a single scale method, but when tail makers se a traditional scale sheet method, do they pigment the silicone matt white to gove a good base to pick up color and make the pigments vibrant? It looks like it from some inside and edge pics of tails but I' not sure ta

[PearlieMae]

Hmmm...I couldn't say, but dragonskin is a milky white to begin with. I would imagine adding a nice scoop of Micro Pearl Pearl Ex into your dragonskin will give it a luminous base to start on. Pearl white is nice but can be swirly, but micro pearl is really bright.

Scale sheet makers want to weigh in on this?

[Mermaid Wesley]

i would pigment it the color of your primary color in case of scraping.

[Mermaid Leira]

Thanks Pearlie I might send Firemaid a message, her tails in particular look done this way, and the colors are fantastic, thanks Wesley, I hadn't taken that into considderation! x

[Mermaid Lorelei]

If you don't pigment your silicone scale sheet, it will come out a base creamy white color. It's slightly translucent, but not see through.

[Mermaid Leira]

Yeah my tests came out milky clear this just made me think some start with a matt white base

[Mermaid Leira]