Well, Ive got 2 done thus far and I'm trying to come up with some ideas to get one of them either removed or covered up.

This was my first tat, and it was a symbol for my military company, but turns out that it has faded pretty bad and I want to get it completed so it doesn't just look like a geometric figure. I'm thinking of some how incorporating the "Dont tread on me" snake wrapped around an m16 and somehow incorporating it into the middle of the delta.

http://img687.imageshack.us/i/n14023...532702847.jpg/

Here is my second tat and I absolutely love it as a chest piece, it's my family crest and I'm leaving this one alone other than getting the occasional touch up.

http://img684.imageshack.us/i/751611...381139857.jpg/

Any advice on the cover up idea would be appreciated.

Nice work you have got goin on there both accounts.

As far as the cover up, the way I view is to have the snake the focal point as far as size and have it kind of zig zagging in and around your military geometrical sign. Since the snake would be a big body with a nifty twist like structure to it, maybe have the snake kind of squeezing (since snakes have a tendency to squeeze with their body) an M-16 within his body as the snake makes its way up across your shoulders and a tad over your upper back.

Of course, it would be a big tattoo placement, but would look absolutely spectacular givin the concept and size of what it could be, as I love big tattoos, but it depends how big you would be willing to go. If you wanted to add the words "Don't tread on me" somewhere, that would be easy givin the nature of having a big tattoo and finding a place for words. Just my .2cents. Hope it helps as well as other people's opinions.