HOW TO MAKE A MINIMALIST SCORPION DISPLAY CASE FOR YOUR STEEMIAN FRIENDS

This one took some time and thinking, but I like the way that it turned out.

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Life can be interesting, and life as a steemian even more so. I would have never thought about taking some "Canadians" hunting for scorpions, but then, thanks to steemit, that's exactly what we did last year when @vcelier and @naru-celier came down for a visit. Mr. @vcelier wanted to enjoy a vacation with his grandson @naru-celier anyway, so he figured, "Why not visit @papa-pepper and the Pepper Tribe?"

As you can tell from the expression on the face of @naru-celier above, it was an exciting and successful time. In fact, both @vcelier and @naru-celier each found a scorpion on our outing. We had a lot more fun than that over the visit, but this may have been one of the highlights.

If you take a look at the video, you will see that within five minutes of unlocking the gate @naru-celier had located his first ever scorpion! It was a good sized Striped Bark Scorpion and it was very quick. I grabbed it and put it in the container that the @little-peppers had brought along. At about the 8 1/2 minute mark, @vcelier found our second scorpion of the night. To have a keepsake from this experience, I wanted to send both @naru-celier and his grandfather @vcelier a gift, so I finally made them recently.

HOW TO MAKE A MINIMALIST SCORPIO DISPLAY CASE

I struggled for quite a while on how to preserve and display some dead Arkansas scorpions. Eventually, I chose something sleek and simple, that would keep the focus on the subject matter, which is the scorpion.

The main things I used were a glossy clear coat spray and some super glue. The clear coat would help preserve the exoskeleton of the scorpion while giving it a nice shine, and the super glue would hold it in place.

These beautiful two inch bu two inch display cases that I found online seemed perfect for the job. They are very clear and look great for use in either a shelf or desk display.

The first step was to apply a few coats of the glossy clear coat spray to the scorpions. I like to do both the top and the bottom, and to also give them a few coats.

Since I had three dead scorpions, I made an extra one which I'll be mailing up to @mini-provider as a gift. He's an old friend from Wisconsin that I think will really enjoy it.

After the clear coat dried, I carefully mounted the scorpions in the center of the display case. I think that they look really cool, and will give people the chance to get a closer look than they may normally be comfortable with.

Here's what all three of them look like. I'll do my best to get them mailed out this week, and hopefully they survive the shipment without becoming detached or breaking. I think that they will make a great keepsake to remind my out of country steemian friends of our wonderful adventure together. What do you think?

As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:

proof-of-cool-scorpion-display

Until next time…

GIF provided by @anzirpasai

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