Fish scales, fish scales rolly poly fish scales

So I am still working on Talleg. I have a few pieces in the works, but I decided to talk about the scale armor today. I am also almost done with her tabard. The belt is shaping up. I will post about those when theya re closer to done.

So I have been trying to decide how to do the fish scale armor. I wanted it to look like shark scales. I just don't think I have the level to do those yet. I love what I started, but it is not practical at this moment. So I found a partial package of plastic spoons I got from the dollar store, and it started me thinking. They sort of look like fish scales. If I want to put some time into it I might be able to get them to look like shark scales.

So I pulled them out and cut off the handles. Then I pulled out my soldering iron/wood burning tool and turned it on. I used it to punch 3 holes in the spoons.

The idea being the 3 holes are used to tie them together like lamelar. Looks like it will work pretty good. I need to figure out how to get the rows to attach properly so they are offset and not lined up, but otherwise I kind of like how they look.

So next I need to make them a different color than white. It is currently dark so instead of wasting Plasti-dip I opted to use my new air brush to spray them with black primer. I was really surprised. A little goes a loooong way.

They look alright. I think this will work. I next tried out the gilders wax I bought earlier so see if the primer will take the wax. Looks like it might work ok. All I have is silver and emerald. I did a test with them. They are ok. I think I need to see if I can find a light metalic blue instead.

But this will work and I am kind of excited. I ordered 800 spoons off Amazon, and as soon as they get here I will work on getting the fish scale armor done.