Do your Windstone families match or?

Angelika_Zen wrote:

I don’t collect ALL the Windstone sculptures, so I don’t have complete set/families in any given colour. Emerald and Violet Flame (recent version) are probably my favourite production color schemes (and I have a few pieces in each of those colors) , but Rainbow seems to be my biggest family. I don’t know if you guys are like this, but I don’t buy just for the dragon, or just for the colour…I buy it because of how it looks in a certain color. Soooo…. I love the Male dragon sculpt, but I don’t get him in every color that comes out…and I love Violet Flame, but I don’t have every piece that was ever painted in that color scheme. There are some dragons that I am not particularly drawn to (spectral, Riser, curlies), but in certain clothing… I could be swayed. It’s the funniest thing!

As much as I like to mix it up to have a waterfall of colors in my curio, sometimes I do get hooked on one color scheme.

Other than the last sentence there, that is the way I am! I like certain sculpts, and I like certain colors, and I try to get all the sculpts I like in all the colors I like. My most complete dragon families are Emerald and Blue Morpho. I started collecting in 1990, when the colors were green, brown, and peacock. None appealed to me. I didn’t start collecting dragons until Emerald came out. I also have almost all the dragon sculpts I like in eBay color Monarch. I love to have matching sets. I have as many matched large flap cat-flip flap cat pairs as I’ve been able to get in the colors I like, pegasus families, and a few unicorn families. I also collect silver rainbow sparkle, black rainbow sparkle, and gold/silver colorshift pebbles.

I can tell you like matching sets from your Kickstarter box ! All the beautiful matching purple Poads!  🙂

And yes, she painted that Phoenix for me. It’s “Tongass #2”, good eye!

I guess I am also a bit of a sucker for finding matching sets…

Oh, now I’m going to have to take some pics, too. Dunno if I will have time today – I’ve already spent WAY too much time on the computer already.

I think my biggest complete family currently is my 8-family member Autumn Leaf Poad Clutter. My AL Clutter includes the Limited Production Autumn Leaf Adult Poad from the Store, a 2013 GB Winterberry-AL YPoad, a 2013 GB AL Adult Poad, and five GB AL YPoads from the last batch! Most I traded for or bought from other forum members – only three were bought directly from the WS Store by me. I do really like the Autumn Leaf color schemes. I also have one of the eight AL eBay Mother Dragons and the AL Curlie – I still need to find the Russet Autumn Leaf Curlie to complete the pair.

I also have several Wolf/Red Fox Pebble pairs in similar color schemes, and an AWD scheme Sitting Red Fox/Bat-eared Fox pair. Other similar colored families I have are a ‘Safari’ oriented Poad Clutter, a ‘Sugar Plum’ oriented Poad Clutter, a ‘Hoppy’ oriented Poad Clutter, and a Grey/Cuttle oriented Poad Clutter – each with an Adult, either a YPoad and/or Tadpoads, and my Safari has a Baby Poad but not a YPoad.

Of course, now I have a ‘Reptanglian’ Poad Clutter – once those are shipped with The Veligent/Sketchbook copies in July. 😀

I also don’t like all the sculpts and like some colors better on some pieces. I collect the ones that ‘sing’ to me.

I don’t collect all the sculpts either, just the Western dragons. I do match, a self imposed rule to try to control my collection (and the disappointment of not being able to afford/display everything, I’m a completist by inclination).

I started collecting in 1986, when the only colors were (old) green and brown. I loved the green. I have one of all the dragons which were produced in that color. The pieces which were never made in it I have in emerald, as the closest match to it. The only exceptions are the spectrals (both peacock, seemed to suit them best of all the colors), the loaf, a cranberry ruby lap that was to sell but never did, and a prototype old warrior in the test paint of empea. The o.w. and ruby are the only pieces I have doubles of, 2 each. I don’t have a hearth, since she hasn’t appeared in a ‘matching’ color yet. I hope to one day get the emerald SK.

This isn’t to say I don’t sigh over other colors and eBay jobs that pop up! Tanzanite and terracotta drool…

A little of both!

I collect all of the Western dragon sculpts I like in White, and all of the Orientals in Peacock, but I also have a Lap Dragon conga so that I can have ‘samples’ of all the other color schemes I enjoy.  😀

My Kirin parents match but have an assortment of babies (plus a PYO).  My griffins are a mix, too, but kind of divide into coordinating pairs (a Blue Morpho male with a Black Sunset female, the “black with metallic” side of the color spectrum, plus a Wolf male and Silver Wolf baby, the “natural colors” side of the spectrum).

I’ve painted three colorpoint Kitty Griffin siblings (working on a fourth), but also have one (commissioned) Kitty Griffin who doesn’t match.  One day I’d love to commission some coordinating KGs to go with that one, but so far she’s a loner in the flock.

On the Pebble side of things, I have four Sitting Red Foxes in natural white/grey/black color schemes, so I think of them as “matching” even though they’re not identical.  I also have four color shift Cougars, but that one’s a little harder to pin down; you can think of them as matching or not matching, depending on how you want to look at it!  The Red/Gold one kinda stands out from the others (Green/Silver, Cyan/Purple, Green/Purple) due to the warmer color scheme, and even the Green/Silver is pretty different from the two purple ones…

I have a menagerie though I do have 11 Browns,4 Rubies,Griffin family in Siamese set,white Unicorn family set,black Unicorn family set,3 matched white baby Pegasus,4 Toasted Pearl Dragon family.Rest is a variety of colors and sculpts.