HEY... I was 19, drunk, AND in the Navy In San Juan Puerto Rico. I started drinking about 11:00 AM and got the DUMBEST tattoo about 9:30 PM. Enough Said...
At one of my shops, a female employee would get a new tatoo, or piercing, every time she had some 'life crisis'. She came up to me one day to show me she just had her nipples pierced. Another gal showed me she had Snoopy on one of her breasts. I told her she should get the Red Baron on the other.
Ive got 3 BIGGIES too. That one mustve burned pretty good on the "flank"... check yer camber LOL (or is that the "curve" on the model?)... I worked with a bunch of old WWII Navy guys when I started at the generating station. A lot of them got theirs in the far east. Thirty years later there was a surge in liver cancer from lousy RED ink. Just sayin'. Most of the "red" was gone and absorbed into the system. Several had liver transplants that failed ;-(( . Yours' was done by a true artist Luke! The gloss effect is most excellent. Done in one sitting? My guy used to hand paint all the Marshall Field & co. trucks' logos. He'd set up a staging and start to paint. Another artiste'. When he'd do tatoos, we'd party for a while and then he'd say "Lets draw". He went by the moniker Cosmic Curt. Candy Cane next? ws Just a GETTY image but you get the idea... probably all vinyl stickers now.
Yessir, one sitting. 8 hours. I've got quite a few, but you'd never know when I've got even a regular t-shirt on. Good friend of mine has a pretty big name (Detail Dave), has tattoo'd Vince Neil, Ace Freely, Alice Cooper, and a bunch of guys most here have probably never heard of haha....The car looks straight when I'm relaxed, that was immediately after and was anything but relaxed. Those pics actually made me go back on a diet and get back in shape. I was afraid I was going to end up with a funny car version of the Mach 1 if I kept going the way I was
That mustve been a pretty nice scab! I wouldve had to "tune up" after that job! Just to tease Jerry, #2 and myself pierced each other looong before it was cool (about 1978). She did my lefty and I did both of hers. I was driving an 18 wheel dump truck at the time and that puppy was dangggg sore! Lotsa bouncing all day! ws
A friend of mine was in the navy in the 60s and has a tattoo of a tiger on his arm, which hasn't aged very well. We tease him telling him it looks like a squirrel
Lucas, don't take this the wrong way, but don't ever get fat, or that lovely Mustang will look like an LTD in no time... And that's one thing you see nowadays, the rebels of my youth all decrepit fat and old; the once proud eagle now looks like a plucked chicken...
It could also say "BiB", what we thought was the "o" could be the dot on the "i"... Now there's a visual...What has been seen can not be un-seen...Now don't everybody go gouging your eyes out with a fork or something...
Just because someone is artistic, it doesn't make them a scholar. I think anyone getting something permanently painted on their body should spell it out, on paper, for the artist to copy. Even then, I'd be keeping a close eye on the procedure. Don't want both Ws on the same cheek.