This is my third and last attempt at posting this! I can't get the photo to upload .
Anyone like to hazard a guess as to the perpetrator of this fantastic piece of artwork on my son's Escort RS Turbo bonnet? It has lain for some time, but what you see is entirely natural with no input from humans at all.
Answer in a week or so..........IF Ican upload the photo this time! [frame][/frame]
Who (or what)dunnit? Nature's Art
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Re: Who (or what)dunnit? Nature's Art
Something that like to eat lichen but doesn't move very fast, slug or snail is my guess.
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Re: Who (or what)dunnit? Nature's Art
Snails, then the badger ate the snails!
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Re: Who (or what)dunnit? Nature's Art
Whatever it is, it is a classic case of where a paint finish needs to be CONSERVED rather than RESTORED. There are thousands of cars with bonnets that have had concours bare-metal resprays but this is UNIQUE (it would not have found its way on here if it had not been). PATINA can not be created out of a spray-gun!
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Re: Who (or what)dunnit? Nature's Art
Put it on canvas and the Tate Modern will give a million for it!
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Re: Who (or what)dunnit? Nature's Art
Answer in a week or so..........IF Ican upload the photo this time! [frame][/frame][/quote]
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Re: Who (or what)dunnit? Nature's Art
I do apologise!!!! A week or so has turned into almost two months!
This bonnet, still on the car outside for several years, and some of the panels, especially the bonnet have become covered in a green alga ( Podophyllum I think) which is a bit slimy when wet and powdery when dry. When wet it is grazed by slugs and snails, and they "lick" it off with a wee toothed tongue called a radula which it sticks out of the "mouth" in the muscular foot. It moves along moving its head from side to side, hence the wonderful random patterns.
This bonnet, still on the car outside for several years, and some of the panels, especially the bonnet have become covered in a green alga ( Podophyllum I think) which is a bit slimy when wet and powdery when dry. When wet it is grazed by slugs and snails, and they "lick" it off with a wee toothed tongue called a radula which it sticks out of the "mouth" in the muscular foot. It moves along moving its head from side to side, hence the wonderful random patterns.
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Re: Who (or what)dunnit? Nature's Art
It is well-travelled, too, 'cos it's been eating the fence-coating off the top of my coal-bunker recently!