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Displaying shed skins!?:
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Robbielab
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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
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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
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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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