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I just think they age according to how they are kept. Most of mine are repurchased whites of the forum or eBay none are really yellow looking an only one is real bright white. All mine are kept in air tight cabinets and have been the entire time. These are about 10 years old unless they are the newer ones that came out. Now to figure out how to post pictures here–oh well look in the for sale section here with no price because these are not for sale.
The photos from your “sale” ad (minus one duplicate). They will not go away if you take the ad down:
Very Nice Set Of Whites!!! :bigsmile:
Mimi…my White Dragons were purchased here, or from Ebay, and still have their tags so you know they’re not that new… I don’t know how the other collectors kept them before selling to me, but I keep mine behind glass, out of the elements; I don’t see a change in mine. I have a White male who is super duper white, and the rest of them have a fair amount of golden to them. I would say the Male is my oldest one, and he’s the whitest of ’em all. I know that the whites did vary quite a bit…you always see someone posting an ad for “a REALLY WHITE White Dragon”…so maybe that’s what you have going on….just a variety with your Whites. I feel like I’m in a commercial “get your whites white, with…” LOL!!!
Wanted: "Dragon Fruit" Male Dragon ~ "Fire Berry", "Paradise", "Dragon Fruit", "Tie Dye" ~ The brighter, the better!
No not really a commercial. But what I meant was these have mostly been with me for around 10 years before that they were someones Else’s. Except the newer ones. But think about it. Light fades every thing and breaks it down. Ever move your furniture and see a color difference? That is from the sun hitting it. See when its covered it does not change from the original color and there is not the break down an rot that the Sun does. Just like it does to your skin–we moisturize after having been in it to long but we can’t very well re-moisturize our Windstones now can we ? An we can’t blame anyone but your truly. Just saying. My darkest one of the bunch is that OW and I was lucky to get him at the moment. He is a signed piece so whatever. HA. But seriously I will never sell these because I really needed the money ATM back then but the very time they all had bids my back pay came in. I wanted to cancel every bid but knew how I would have felt if someone did that to me. So they all went except that OW! He never went up at all. Then one day I was sitting there looking at eBay wishing someone would put up some really nice whites like I once had. An OMG there was one then another and I bought and bought and bought pretty son the guy just told me what he was putting up next. I bought all of them even the ones I had replaced because these were well taken care of. So no direct sunlight an as little fresh air as possible. I learned that from my aunt. Just like canning takes the air out and preserves food so does it work on anything. How to get the air out of a cabinet? Burn a essence cone in there when it goes out leave it.
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As far as we can tell from old samples they don’t darken with age. Tobacco smoke will do it, and it doesn’t take that much. The first white dragons were not very consistent in how much gold was over sprayed onto the white but we have always used high quality no-yellowing clear finish. Our old samples look just the same as we remember them, and they are a lot darker than the newer white pieces, but it is the gold overcoat.
I’m a huge fan of the Whites and I have a lot of them, purchased from a variety of sources over a pretty broad span of time. None of them have visibly changed color on me! (Some are now in storage, alas, so I haven’t seen them in a couple of years. But they were unchanged when they went into storage.) I have one male, purchased on Ebay, who I suspect is an intermediate form of the “heavy gold White” (a variant color scheme, much like the “dark Peacock” or “Jade” form of Emerald); his color is notably different from my other Whites, much like your less-bright Lap.
Sometimes I think about trading/selling in order to get a Male who matches the rest of them better… but at the same time I kind of like the natural variation/piece of Windstone history represented. I really don’t care for some of the *ULTRA*white Whites I’ve seen on Ebay, either! They’re whiter than most of my bunch, and it makes them look incomplete – their details are lost, and they don’t feel like a real animal. So it seems to me that there’s a whole spectrum of paint colors out there sharing the “White” label, from the heavily-gold-interference’d to the blinding-white. I’ve never seen one change from one to the other, but that’s very interesting! Maybe I should experiment and see if I can’t convince a couple of mine to become more similar to my Male?
(Does anyone have any good pictures of the “heavy gold” White color, by the way? I thought I did, but when I went to check my files all I could find was one who was maybe intermediate between heavy and normal.)
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Thank you everyone for your input.I was just curious. I just stained[added a little gold interference in places] the bright white one,she had arrived damaged and I didn’t have color matches.When I did,I saw something I hadn’t noticed when it was white.The finish is crackled.When I stained it they popped out but I still like it.
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(Wanted......Brimstone Lap)
Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.NIIIICE collection of whites.
Every act matters.No matter how small💞
(Wanted......Brimstone Lap)
Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.Thank you everyone for your input.I was just curious. I just stained[added a little gold interference in places] the bright white one,she had arrived damaged and I didn’t have color matches.When I did,I saw something I hadn’t noticed when it was white.The finish is crackled.When I stained it they popped out but I still like it.
Maybe that’s it then, something to do with the finish not holding together perfectly? If you remember it being just as white as the new one anyway. I’ve seen this on a white lap before on this forum, but I don’t remember if the colour was off or not.
Edit: I just realized I misread and the newer one is the crackled one. :p Could still be the finish… or temperature changes maybe?
Thank you everyone for your input.I was just curious. I just stained[added a little gold interference in places] the bright white one,she had arrived damaged and I didn’t have color matches.When I did,I saw something I hadn’t noticed when it was white.The finish is crackled.When I stained it they popped out but I still like it.
Maybe that’s it then, something to do with the finish not holding together perfectly? If you remember it being just as white as the new one anyway. I’ve seen this on a white lap before on this forum, but I don’t remember if the colour was off or not.
Edit: I just realized I misread and the newer one is the crackled one. :p Could still be the finish… or temperature changes maybe?
I don’t know but it is an interesting piece now. 😉
Every act matters.No matter how small💞
(Wanted......Brimstone Lap)
Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.This is an unrelated comment as I only have one white dragon which I just got so I have no clue if his color has changed but when I was looking at him I kept thinking he reminds me of a snowy owl! Does anyone else think the whites look like snowy owls with their golden yellow eyes? Just a random observation…
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