Our Last Dorito: UPDATE

Here's our last Dorito... This is an update on my post- Our Last Dorito https://imgur.com/gallery/6dRVDnr

FINAL UPDATE HERE: http://imgur.com/gallery/kwiWAdm

I used wet toiletpaper to sculpt a basic Dorito triangle. Added a little glue and yellow and ocher watercolor for color and structure.

Close up of my Dorito forgery. Checking the color against the real thing.

I put the "chip" in my toaster oven to dry it out.

Added a little more color and glue, then let the "chip" dry over night draped over an old pen, to give it the same wave form as the original.

With the basic chip done and dry, I tried to figure out the distinctive Cool Ranch Doritos seasoning, red and green specks. I was worried that the watercolor paint would run and spread too much, so I decided to try a suggestion from the comments of my original post, and use real seasoning from the old Bach that I fished out of the garbage and cut open.

Cool Ranch seasoning spices.

I tried placing the seasoning on the "chip" but even with scissors and tweezers, it wad impossible. Apparently, the only surfaces that the spices will stick to are Dorito chips and your fingers.

Silver lining: Cutting open the bag gave me access to some missed crumbs.

Mmmmm.

Solution: I used a needle to paint cool Ranch red and green specks on my forgery.

Finished "chip."

I was going to wait for my girlfriend to go to sleep to pull off the switch, but... my girlfriend decided she needed to take a bath, giving me an opportunity to pull off a daring daytime heist. And...

Boom!
What do you think? I don't think she'll ever know.

Fin: The Doritos Chip Affair