Lot's of trepidation on this paint job. In fact the emerald green metallic shown above was coverage of a mistake/poor finish already in trying to get the "snake skin" motif for the LOC King Viper III build. I know lots of people have done this, but the couple of fishnet stockings I found were too thin (net part) so I tried diamond shaped conformable aluminum, real fish net, even chicken wire. None of these got the balance I was looking for in terms of size and balance of the base color versus the top color (scales). Finally I found some material on Etsy that looked pretty good and since this build has taken forever, my goal was just to "make it work." Biggest problem here is figuring out what to do as the largish fins connect down into the three much smaller 54mm MMT's. Finally I settled on just making a large portion of the fillet area a solid that will blend into the "skin" on the MMT and outmost areas of the fins. Here are a few snapshots and I'm clearly not there yet but I believe after I move through all three sides I'll be able to go back and do a mist of top color to do the blending as I'd like to still see a healthy area of the emerald green on each fin. The top color BTW is a metallic burnt orange. Base Duplicolor lacquer, top is Rustoleum Automotive lacquer.
First a couple snapshots with the fishnet still on the parts.
And a couple after the fishnet was removed. Note, below the green looks dull. This is partially because of the random overspray, but more because of the 600 grit wet sanding done before applying the top coat. Once all touchup is completed the shine will be brought back with Future Finish.
