Scale Counts? Sean Thomas are you a member?

Has anyone done scale counts on their CBB reptiles. I purchased Gorzula's BPs in the wild, when it came out, and he briefly mentions the practice. Upon surfing the web I found this 'companion' to his study.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/cite...thon_ghana.pdf which describes it in more depth.

Sean Thomas has published How to count body scales on his sitehttp://seanthomas.net/

Ive also looked into methods in which to perform the count like latex moldings and shed scale counting but not in great depth. Can anyone relate or lead me to a good method. I am interested in making accurate scale counts on my Ball pythons to see if there is diversity in my different lineages. Thanks for your input.