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My name is Tara. I am currently attending college in Tennessee. I am writing a desriptive paragraph, and I am using the Oriental Sun dragon in ruby that I purchased a few years ago. It is my favorite peice, and it is sorta upsetting it cannot be purchased in any other colors. Though I do love rarity of the peice. But the reason I am writing to you is that I heard it took you severval years to perfect the ruby color. Is this true and if so what was the reason behind it? Thank you for your prompt response.
Sincerely,
Tara S. from East TennesseeIt is available in Peacock and Emerald, but they’re just hard to find
Then there a few limited production ones here and there, that are even rarer to come by
I agree though, I’d love to see the Sun Dragon make a triumphant return to production someday! I’m not too sure on the story of the Ruby color, but I know most of the Rubies were “unstable” in high sunlight.
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Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry DragonsThe Emerald was/is my other favorite color. I loved the wizard in the green the best. the different peices speak to me. how would i go about finding out about the story behind ruby
Try a Forum search on “red unstable” or “ruby unstable” and see if that gives you enough information.
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lynski17 wrote:The Emerald was/is my other favorite color. I loved the wizard in the green the best. the different peices speak to me. how would i go about finding out about the story behind ruby
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My art: featherdust.comlynski17 wrote:My name is Tara. I am currently attending college in Tennessee. I am writing a desriptive paragraph, and I am using the Oriental Sun dragon in ruby that I purchased a few years ago. It is my favorite peice, and it is sorta upsetting it cannot be purchased in any other colors. Though I do love rarity of the peice. But the reason I am writing to you is that I heard it took you severval years to perfect the ruby color. Is this true and if so what was the reason behind it? Thank you for your prompt response.
Sincerely,
Tara S. from East Tennessee Oh long… boring story.This is the story of the ruby dragons:
Yes, I had been trying to get a good red color for our dragons for YEARS because many of our customers had requested it. I had an image in my head of what I wanted; a deep jewel-like ruby red.
This is a very frustrating way to try to get a new color, you almost never can arrive at color of paint that looks as good as you can imagine it.
After years of painting yucky lipstick colored, stop sign colored and clotted-blood colored test paint dragons, we FINALLY found some gorgeous red paints that looked great!
These were automotive paints that needed special heat treating to set, and required a special uv coating to prevent fading, so we built special booths with heaters in them, and applied and coated the paint very carefully… It worked! For a brief moment we had the ruby dragons I envisioned… then the manufacturer changed the paint formula on us (without telling us) and the paint started having MAJOR issues, like fading in the sun and “bleeding”…( One wouldn’t expect an automotive paint to ever do that, RIGHT? …quick rant , sorry… ) augh.
So, some of the dark ruby dragons may fade in bright sunlight (some got shipped out before we found out about this) though the ones from the earliest batch should be fine. Oy vey.
The later Ruby is a different paint. It is slightly lighter in color and is pretty stable, no fading or bleeding complaints yet. These are the later “Ruby” and the “Red Fire” ones.
I have given up on painting red dragons for the time being, I am still looking for a good red paint to use, and if I find something cool we probably will make some kind of red dragons again.
I can picture a nice deep metallic red…“I can picture a nice deep metallic red…”
Oooo, yeah! Me too! Candy apple red with gold flake… *drools*
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Any chance of the emerald coming back out? I am thrilled by the response. Here in East Tn dedicated Windstone followers are trying to increase the recruits. lol Adam’s Apple in our local mall is the only dealer around that i know of that carries your peices. Another quick question… did u retire the silver/gray you had done more recently
lynski17 wrote:Any chance of the emerald coming back out? I am thrilled by the response. Here in East Tn dedicated Windstone followers are trying to increase the recruits. lol Adam’s Apple in our local mall is the only dealer around that i know of that carries your peices. Another quick question… did u retire the silver/gray you had done more recently
Once a color such as Emerald has been retired , we will never paint the same dragons with it again, though we might paint any new dragon designs in retired colors. For example; if we start casting the Moon dragon, we may paint them in some of the old retired colors, so they will match the various other Oriental dragons we have made before.
Did we retire the silver color? I don’t think we did, but I can’t remember stuff like that. Does anyone know?* edit* The silver dragons are still shown in our store, so I think they are technically still being sold. We are just out of them!Melody wrote:lynski17 wrote:Any chance of the emerald coming back out? I am thrilled by the response. Here in East Tn dedicated Windstone followers are trying to increase the recruits. lol Adam’s Apple in our local mall is the only dealer around that i know of that carries your peices. Another quick question… did u retire the silver/gray you had done more recently
Once a color such as Emerald has been retired , we will never paint the same dragons with it again, though we might paint any new dragon designs in retired colors. For example; if we start casting the Moon dragon, we may paint them in some of the old retired colors, so they will match the various other Oriental dragons we have made before.
Did we retire the silver color? I don’t think we did, but I can’t remember stuff like that. Does anyone know?* edit* The silver dragons are still shown in our store, so I think they are technically still being sold. We are just out of them!Ms Melody,
What is a Moon dragon??
I can answer that one!
Info Link: http://melodypena.elfwood.com/Oriental-Moon-dragon.3031681.html
And some further reading: http://www.windstoneeditions.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7836&p=212634#p212629
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