I don't spend much time on this forum anymore, and I'm not sure how many of the posters on a thread nearly 13 years old are still around. But just to close this out for anyone who is still interested, I did end up making at least one stock:

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I'm not the best photographer, but the close-up photos are closer to the real stock colour than the full length ones.