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Hey folks,
I bet people from the Windstone LiveJournal remember, but I was one of the people who first got the soft-feather prototype griffins basically as an experiment to see how well they can be hand-painted. Nambroth was one of the others, and she showed it was altogether possible. Mine…eeeeh…I kinda wish I had her tutorials back when I did mine. XD I’ve touched mine up by antiquing and such and finally sealed them, so I’m finally going to upload them for Melody and the rest of you to see. (Melody’s seen several versions of them, and has been wondering for a while whether or not I’d upload them to the site.)
Dakota, my main cougar gryphon character. He’s a rather plain coloured character, but I think he turned out best in the end.Other pics:
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/windstones/dakota1.jpg
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/windstones/dakota2.jpg
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/windstones/dakota3.jpg
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/windstones/dakota5.jpg
Lindsay, his mate, is the gryphon who appears in my profile pic. She’s a ferruginous hawk gryphon. (Dakota’s more based off a golden eagle.) Hence I had lots of pain trying to get the feather markings to work. I’m not happy with the end result, but I have shaky hands and this is the best it’s going to get, I think. :Other pics:
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/windstones/lindsay2.jpg
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/windstones/lindsay3.jpg
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/windstones/lindsay4.jpg
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/windstones/lindsay5.jpgPlease be kind, folks. I didn’t know what the heck I was doing, and paint and I never got along that well. I still don’t regret being a guiena pig for Windstone , though. I did get these for no charge. 😀 *waits to get killed by jealous Windstoners*
I really like them! A bit rough around the edges, but they look like they were meant to be that way IRL. Very nice!
I like the first quite a bit!
The second one is a bit rough… but I like the markings!
Very nice! 😀
Nirvanacat> Thanks! Dakota especially ended up having an “older”, “rougher” feel upon antiquing that I ended up liking. I wasn’t using the best paints for laying on a smooth coat- I used the old Delta Cermacoats I had on hand from my own sculptures which is kinda thick and probably should’ve been thinned- so I kinda regret I lost what detail the soft-feathered griffs have.
Lady> Ya, I think I bit off more than I could chew with Lindsay (the second one). This is how I potray her myself in full:
http://kiwiberry.critter.net/traditional/lindsaysketchbook.jpgObviously just a tinted pencil sketch, but gives you an idea of what the markings are like. *falls over dead* Don’t choose buetos as your model for your PYOs, folks, unless you’re really good. Or end up like me. ;-9
😆 I still think you did a good job at it though! just keep practicing and you’ll get it… perhaps Acrylics isn’t the right way to go about those markings… hum…
I’ve been wondering though… What if you want to repaint your PYOs???
You see… most model horses… if you decide you don’t like the color… you just put some Easy Off Oven Cleaner on it… and wham… off melts the paint… leaving the plastic/resin nice and clean again!
I’m wondering… will Easy Off do the same thing on the PYOs?? or will it possibly damage the Stone???
Not sure I want to test it or not… 😯
I love the first one! It looks lovely. I like everything on the second one, except the wings… I do like it, though.
Lady> I dunno, what I’ve heard from other people on the forum about re-painting PYOs hasn’t been good. I dunno how kind that oven cleaner would be to the plaster Windstone uses…(they use a very, very dense and hard plaster, not resin or plastic.) I know getting the paint off regular production Windstones is a pain from some of the folks (SPark?) who tried to remove the paint so they could custom paint them, but I think they were using aceotne or something.
Yeah acetone eats the plastic model horses up… but Easy Off doesn’t do anything to plastic or resin…
Well… I guess I won’t try it until I encounter a PYO body I want to strip… 😀
Though I’m insanely curious! I don’t think it would hurt it…
Thought it might hurt the eyes… maybe cloud them up… hum…. 😯
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