I REALLY like the cool cases and holsters
The grips? Not so much. What do the grips add besides looking good? (and to me they look ovesized) I am all for the good looking gun case because in the end, it is fairly irrelevant, but a good grip is intrigal to how functional a gun is.
Some suggestions for direction.
I think a lot of us aren't into the skull and crossbones thing, just from asthetic taste to thinking it could be used against us showing a mentality of someone looking for trouble if we ever used it in self defense.
However, I think you really hit on something with the animals. Many hunters see themselves as top predators, and many competition shooters or your average plinker like that look too. Bears, wolves, wolverines, lions, tigers, jaguars, badgers, eagles, hawks, sharks, that's an angle that would work equally well on holsters as well as cases
Patriotic/military themes. Eagles as mentioned before, but helmets, (both modern and ancient) battleships, planes, Iwa Jima memorial, arlington cemetary scene, marine in dress uniform, grunt in dirty combat fatigues, minuteman, etc. I think this would work a bit better on cases rather than holsters
Western cowboys and indians, feathers, dreamcatchers, horses, western scenery (desert with long horn cattle skull, cactus etc) great for holsters especially, but cases too.
I also think you'd have a strong crossover in the female biker type artwork with female gunners. Roses with thorns, and other 'tough but feminine' images will play with both groups.
The grips? Not so much. What do the grips add besides looking good? (and to me they look ovesized) I am all for the good looking gun case because in the end, it is fairly irrelevant, but a good grip is intrigal to how functional a gun is.
Some suggestions for direction.
I think a lot of us aren't into the skull and crossbones thing, just from asthetic taste to thinking it could be used against us showing a mentality of someone looking for trouble if we ever used it in self defense.
However, I think you really hit on something with the animals. Many hunters see themselves as top predators, and many competition shooters or your average plinker like that look too. Bears, wolves, wolverines, lions, tigers, jaguars, badgers, eagles, hawks, sharks, that's an angle that would work equally well on holsters as well as cases
Patriotic/military themes. Eagles as mentioned before, but helmets, (both modern and ancient) battleships, planes, Iwa Jima memorial, arlington cemetary scene, marine in dress uniform, grunt in dirty combat fatigues, minuteman, etc. I think this would work a bit better on cases rather than holsters
Western cowboys and indians, feathers, dreamcatchers, horses, western scenery (desert with long horn cattle skull, cactus etc) great for holsters especially, but cases too.
I also think you'd have a strong crossover in the female biker type artwork with female gunners. Roses with thorns, and other 'tough but feminine' images will play with both groups.
