Snake Themed Tamiya Sand Viper

[Burniefloyd]

I have been practicing with my airbrush and tried to get this one done for the BOTM but it didn't come out as well as I was hoping. I plan to pick up another body and give it another go with what I have learned tho.

I did a snake themed paint job on my Tamiya Sand Viper. It has potential but the masking lifted on some of the contours and there were a few other details I want to correct.

The intention was for a 3 color fade but the 2 desert sand-ish colors on the lower half were too similar to notice a difference. I I don't mind the black bleed thru on the mask as it feels realistic but where the tape lifted on the contours the scales were lost completely.

I had a bottle of camo gray I wanted to use for the scale outline but when I tested it on some scrap lexan it seems to have gone bad as it looked like it tried to separate on contact.

Next version I will spread the darker brown further down the sides and use gray for the scales instead of white like I did on the wing (it was my rattle can backing color because I got lazy and didn't want to clean the airbrush again)

[Frankentruck]

Wow. That is really cool.

[Coelacanth]

Very nice, Barney the dinosaur approves! I like that you went with natural-looking colors for the "snake skin". Are the wheels painted a similar color to match?

[Burniefloyd]

Very nice, Barney the dinosaur approves! I like that you went with natural-looking colors for the "snake skin". Are the wheels painted a similar color to match?

Haha thanks!

The wheels are the stock gray discs that came with the kit. In my original thoughts the gray wheels would match the grey scale outline to tie it all together but I had forgotten that when my camo gray bottle went kaput.

Honestly when I pulled up the mask I thought leaving that outline clear would look cool but figured it would look black once mounted.