Tattoo idea

would your mother approve of this?      

the ling is cool but you better have a damn good tattoo artist for that.

Trying to incorporate too many ideas into a simple tattoo will screw it up.  My suggestion is to run that image by your artist (you have one yet?) and see what they can do with it. Its really gonna be dependent on location, and how much ink and what other images you're gonna add later on....once you get a little ink in the veins you're addicted 

When I worked in Texas, I did a design well trolled images I liked, printed them cut them out, superimposed them on other designs to come up with a US Map with a compass super imposed on it.  Really came out nice.  Just a thought.  I don't have an image of it here, but I do have the tshirt, I will try to take picture of it.