Real Deal Spolas

[Feinman]

Okay, well, the white casein isn't curing the same way as the casein I've used to paint scales in the past; it's powdery, and scrapes off.  Drag.  And, I don't want to use acrylic paint.  So... I can still use the pieces of hide thhat I've cut already, but instead of two layers of the elk rawhide, the top layer will be from bleached Red Deer rawhide (elk from Caucasus) I will leave it the light cream color, and paint the stars on the yoke and add the tooled painted strip as already mentioned. A lot of spolioi were apparently colored, tan / cream like. Dyeing the skin side of hide would be easy --such as red.  i'm not going to use leather --my point in experimenting with the hide is to shew that it is the material that was used.
This will be the surface hide: