How would you create this texture?

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Hey guys!

I’m creating a coaster car and I came to the texturing stage. I’m creating manta at San Diego, most of the textures went fine but then I came to the nose. How would you create this kind of texture?

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-01/331608900-20150629.jpg

This the nose I’m talking about. I have allready a uv-map, but I would know how to come even close to the actual nose.

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa473/dumbo987/Manta_02_zps876f3b76.png
Manta_02_zps876f3b76.png1024×1024

This is the UV-Map.

Hope you can help me!
Cheers!

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I would use a third party program for that for example GIMP if you wanna stay with free programs or Photoshop.

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Yeah, basically what kreatif said. Unwrap it well, shouldn’t be too tough it’s relatively flat. And then in PS (and more or less in gimp)

  1. Add a purple/blue gradient
  2. Create a bezier shape (or path) with the “flames”
  3. Add an outer glow in blue