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Hi again Melody! (sorry to buuuug)
I’m curious about all the casting issues you guys are facing. Would it be possible to show us, pictures, of the Windstone rejects? The ones with the bubbles, the orientals that you have to ‘clean up’ after casting, etc? I can only picture a two sided sculpture with the line running down it’s middle…kinda like those resin sculptures they used to have at zoos. I remember using my nails to scratch off those extra bits of resin to try and ‘smooth it out’ when I was little.
Do you fix all the castings that come out badly, or do you sometimes have to toss them out if to far gone?
So, any pictures of the Windstone Rejects?
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Nakase wrote:Hi again Melody! (sorry to buuuug)
I’m curious about all the casting issues you guys are facing. Would it be possible to show us, pictures, of the Windstone rejects? The ones with the bubbles, the orientals that you have to ‘clean up’ after casting, etc? I can only picture a two sided sculpture with the line running down it’s middle…kinda like those resin sculptures they used to have at zoos. I remember using my nails to scratch off those extra bits of resin to try and ‘smooth it out’ when I was little.
Do you fix all the castings that come out badly, or do you sometimes have to toss them out if to far gone?
So, any pictures of the Windstone Rejects?Ok I’ll try to show you what we are up against. I’ll probably post this on the blog, because I
can’t get my photobucket account to work anymore.
I’ll have to see how much luck I have photoing the problems, the pin hole bubbles are almost microscopic. I have to have someone else spot the defects, I usually can’t see them! They show up prominently after the piece is painted though. It’s really frustrating.
Thankfully, because our molds are one-piece glove molds, most of our pieces don’t have seam lines, except where there is a hole through the piece.
We fix everything we can, and use some hopelessly bad ones as training pieces for painters.
I like to rescue a few bad ones once in awhile, and spend a bunch of time re-carving details and patching them with epoxy. I often use these as subjects for doing the test paints. Augustus the Bengal griffin is one of these. I get attached to them.
We need to destroy the rest.How does one destroy a Windstone, aside from letting a cat at it, putting it outside, or using it as a doorstop?
Greater Basilisk wrote:How does one destroy a Windstone, aside from letting a cat at it, putting it outside, or using it as a doorstop?
Oooh, good question!
Do you save them in a closet next to a sledgehammer, for those days when nothing is going right and you just need to wallop something to bits? 🙂 Or do they just get slowly sludged to death, like clay that flubbed on the potter’s wheel, thrown into a bucket of water?
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I bet you could sell them… people would buy them to paint I bet just like pyo’s since so many people seem to know how to fix them (sure wish I knew how to fix!)
It might cause a copyright issue, though, if they sold the reject sculpts allowing people to repaint them or re-sculpt them. I think that’s what the PYOs are for (except for the re-sculpting part).
Greater Basilisk wrote:How does one destroy a Windstone, aside from letting a cat at it, putting it outside, or using it as a doorstop?
They get pulverized by someone , not me.
No, it can’t be reused easily. The gypsum will be replaced by the company if it was to blame, but we still don’t know the reasons for the problems.CherokeeDR wrote:I bet you could sell them… people would buy them to paint I bet just like pyo’s since so many people seem to know how to fix them (sure wish I knew how to fix!)
No, we never let unpainted production pieces out of here (except for the ones we send to Nambroth and Arlla to hand paint) There are legal reasons for this. I wish we could though, it is really hard to destroy pieces even if they are bad.
Melody wrote:CherokeeDR wrote:I bet you could sell them… people would buy them to paint I bet just like pyo’s since so many people seem to know how to fix them (sure wish I knew how to fix!)
No, we never let unpainted production pieces out of here (except for the ones we send to Nambroth and Arlla to hand paint) There are legal reasons for this. I wish we could though, it is really hard to destroy pieces even if they are bad.
right.. I’d love to get my hands on one of those tea soaked sea jewels to paint
👿 😀Melody wrote:Ok I’ll try to show you what we are up against. I’ll probably post this on the blog, because I
can’t get my photobucket account to work anymore.
I’ll have to see how much luck I have photoing the problems, the pin hole bubbles are almost microscopic. I have to have someone else spot the defects, I usually can’t see them! They show up prominently after the piece is painted though. It’s really frustrating.
Thankfully, because our molds are one-piece glove molds, most of our pieces don’t have seam lines, except where there is a hole through the piece.
We fix everything we can, and use some hopelessly bad ones as training pieces for painters.
I like to rescue a few bad ones once in awhile, and spend a bunch of time re-carving details and patching them with epoxy. I often use these as subjects for doing the test paints. Augustus the Bengal griffin is one of these. I get attached to them.
We need to destroy the rest.Yes, I would love to see the culprit behind all your frustrations <3
I eargly await your next blog then ^^; even if it’s about the ‘virus-like’ issue you’ve been trying to recover from.I’m going to assume that all of us here, really are wishing you and Windstone all the best in finding out what is messing everything up and to give you wisdom to figure out how to fix it 🙂
~Nakasewww.nakaseart.com
No kidding… that has got to be ungodly frustrating. If you knew what was going wrong, you could at least look for a solution. But without knowing why, where do you start? :?.
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