Alright I know its been a bit of a time since you've heard from me.
You can't imagine how much of a HELL making this pattern has been. I'm not sugar coating this - it was a bastard and thats being NICE about it.
Thanks to pinder, and some light photo reference I was happily and secure in the knowledge that the pattern lines have been counted - and I could keep it accurate to that degree.
However - since I did this vector by cutting out all of the miniscule pattern bits - I can honestly say it's the most complex vector I've ever encountered and my computer HATED IT - most of the remaining time was spent just figuring out fractions of pixels to get things to line up and then waiting 3 minutes for the computer to comply and make changes.
THAT SAID....
HERE SOMETHING YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
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Notice that the Checker patterns at the top end up next too each other as they should.
Folks we cant get any closer than this.
The actual color ended up being cross reference sampled from every photo I could get my hands on with solid lighting as well as the recommendations of the board. I took ALL of these samples and allowed the computer to average them all out ^_^
Then I tweaked it a hair from there. What do you think?
The actual vector is also to scale. Even if this picture isnt.
