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is this allowed? I know to touch up a chip or whatever is ok– but are you allow to paint something over what was already there– I thought I saw a koi pattern being painted on a oriental dragon– is that kind of thing allowed?
For example- if you find a windstone that is just pracially ruined– old colors worn off etc- can you take it and painted something totally different than what it was originally meant to look like? and what about selling something like that? Say someone asks you to paint over a production color cause they want a lap dragon in pink or copper or something–
Is it infringing? I tried to search out an answer to this but it is hard to know exactly what to search.
thanks mipa
ThanksI’m not an official anyone, but last I remember, it was said WIndstone was not wild about the idea, as that was why they did the PYO line. However, what you do for *yourself* that will not be sold on eBay, but sit in your home is your own business…
Now watch, I remembered it all wrong… 😀
Nyte is basically right, though I have seena few on ebay, but you have to be very specific that it is a repaint over an official Windstone paint job and it is not affiliated with the company. I don’t think it’s not allowed, but it’s not something they encourage.
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I’ve done two myself. They are allowed, quite legal and okay. Windstone just finds them confusing, (easily mistaken for fakes, for example,) so they don’t encourage them.
Repaints are legal, but heavily discouraged by Windstone. They’re not trying to be mean; it just makes it much harder to tell repaints from rip-offs most of the time and can create confusion for collectors that aren’t ‘in the know’ (which is most of the collectors out there- only a small % actually know about this forum). So, Windstone asks you not to do so, but it’s not illegal.
Trying to reproduce a Windstone color scheme however is illegal. Such as taking a peacock male and repainting him to look like a rainbow or an old green or something. That’s a big no-no. 😉
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