Chechen wood

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Well, I think I'm slowly improving at this scale-making malarkey. I got a nice Crown and Sword from Tony (portal5) which needed very little work to get it shiny and then used chechen, aka poisonwood, with a CA finish for the scales. Lessons I'd learned from previous mistakes : don't skimp on the coats of CA or you get dull patches, don't make scales too big or they can look a bit clumsy, try and get a similar grain pattern for both sides to get a better symmetrical look and don't drill holes in the kitchen table .

Now I have to learn how to take better pictures as these don't show the nice iridescence you get in the gold streaks in the wood.

No innovative techniques yet as I've been trying to get competent at the basics first, but I do have an idea about the next one...