Tracy, skins looks great--and those younger ones have a nice, tighter pattern that should show up better on the thin limbs of the Pronghorn. I owe you big time.
I went ahead and did a light coat of black on the limbs before gluing up to hopefully get a darker look when finished. The skins are glued up now and drying. While still wet, the scales on the one snake came up pretty easy; the other one's not letting most scales come off without a bit of a fight. We'll see.
Afraid maybe I put on too much glue as I've got a mess in here, but figure the masking tape should come right off at the proper time and the excess dried glue should come with it. Tricky part might be trimming.
You know how there's the old adage: measure twice, cut once? Well, I'm more like, measure twice, think about it, change my mind, measure again, change my mind back, measure once, no measure again to be sure, think some more, and then finally go for it.
So when the glue's on and the snake skin's being applied, I'm a wreck.
I'm also a packrat. What should I do with decent size trimmings. Seems a waste not to put the skin on something. Ha.