Custom Vmax Tank

This is a custom paint job I done on a tank for a Yamaha Vmax. I sanded down, primed and gave the tank a satin black base coat before aibrushing a 3d skull on the top, freehand. I tried to get the effect that the skull was bulging out from the tank. For the sides I wanted to re-create the Yamaha Speed block design that put onto a lot of their motorcycles, but my own version. I wanted to give it the look that the stripes were metal and were bolted onto the sides of the tank.
Directly below is the 90% finished piece before some final details were laid down and before the lacquering, followed by the progress photographs.