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kitsunelady wrote:
That sucks about your OW, drag0n. = Did you get that sticky dust off? I figured smoking probably left something like that…we get a lot of people trying to sell us game systems from smoking households, and you can always tell because there’s a bunch of light brownish-yellow dust on the fan ports, and it won’t come off with canned air.
I honestly can’t smell *anything * off the sun dragon or the curl, and I’m pretty sensitive to smell…but not allergic. I tried various weird methods for getting the smell off my sun dragon (without marring his sensitive paint job). None of them worked – I was pretty steamed. He was one of my first Windstones after I got into collecting, and the seller did not say he was a smoker! My fault for not looking at his feedback closer, though, because others had complained without leaving a negative. In the end, I just sat him on the dresser and left the windows open and the fan on a lot. Can’t even get a whiff of it by sticking my nose right up next to him, now! I wouldn’t have bought the curl if I hadn’t been able to rid the sun dragon of his smell, though. It was pretty bad.
I also seem to recall someone saying that smoke (of any variety) could damage the gold plating on horns? True/false? Speculation?
I have only had the misfortune of getting one item with a smoke-like smell (not incense). One thing that helped is spraying (and pat dry, then air dry on its side) the felt bottom with Resolve carpet cleaner. That cleaner gets odors and stains out of carpet like nothing else, and I had a good result from using it on a felt pad on a Windstone. Just don’t soak it (lightly spray) and it should be fine. Hope that helps.
Hmm, well I haven’t got anything that needs cleaning at the moment, but there are a couple of things on ebay that I was eyeing that the seller says come from a smoking home. One I have never seen in person, so I do not know if it is yellowed or if that’s just how it normally looks :
White Mouse Wizard –
http://cgi.ebay.com/Windstone-M-Pena-WHITE-MOUSE-WIZARD-MINT_W0QQitemZ220512787407QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3357961bcfI can see some dust around the eyes, but that’s not too unusual and may just be regular dust…however, do you think that the pictures are just yellowed from the light source, or is he actually that color? And if he is, should he *be* that color?
It looks like direct incandescent light so it could be the lighting.
It could just be the photos.
It could be the original paint job.
Or it could be the smoke!!This is one of the gambles of buying a piece like this. Sadly the photos only ‘tell’ so much. Even really good studio photos can ‘lie’ as to the true colors.
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My art: featherdust.comJellyFish wrote:Mine are more golden. I love the coloring on thw whites as well.
At least you have a matched set! My poor male looks a bit of an outcast, surrounded by all those gleaming, mediaperson-teeth-white dragons. 🙂 Maybe I should try to pick up one more golden-y one, to give him some company…
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