Displaying shed skins!?: |
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Robbielab Member Joined: 16 Apr 2008 No. of posts: 26 View other posts by Robbielab |
Posted: 09 May 2008 Hi all, Found a couple of shed skins a few weeks ago and tried to think how best to display them. Came up with this... Putting them onto a canvas! Not too hard, just soak the skin then cut down the middle of the ventral scales and it opens up pretty easily (although spreading it out is a bit fiddley - easier if you do it all underwater!). Let it dry, bit of paint around the edges and a coat of varnish - voila! Just in case anyone has a load of skins they don't know what to do with! Cheers. Robbie |
tim hamlett Senior Member Joined: 17 Dec 2006 No. of posts: 572 View other posts by tim hamlett |
Posted: 09 May 2008 very effecive. kind of aboriginal looking. tim |
Vicar Senior Member Joined: 02 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 1181 View other posts by Vicar |
Posted: 10 May 2008 I think that's probably the nicest display of sloughs I've seen . Would certainly supplement displays of sloughs 'as found', which may be better for educational purposes, but don't look half as good. Steve Langham - Chairman Surrey Amphibian & Reptile Group (SARG). |
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