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Bosky, I’m glad I’m not the only one that looks at what is going on in the background. I’m always checking out the details. 😀
Kyrin, you do such good work, I wish I could just sit and watch you work on them as you make them whole again. 🙂
Kyrin wrote:Dragon Master wrote:Oh lord why can’t people learn how to pack and ship correctly???
After talking to the owner, who lives in Canada, we suspect that customs opened him up, then did not repack him with the same care she had. In fact a good portion of the packing peanuts that were in there according to her, were not present when I got him. Also the bubble wrap was no longer in two thick layers around him either.
Our plan is to repack him in two boxes with a photo of what is in box number two, along with a pic of how he arrived here and a request that if they still feel they need to open the second box, to please make sure he is repacked as carefully as we had him. so he makes it to his destination whole.
We’ll see. I am hoping the pictures and the request will influence them to leave him alone.
Kyrin
I hope the extra precaution works out and customs does re-package correctly.He’s almost completely restored, just need to do a little paint matching and reseal him. Photos will be posted tomorrow.
Kyrin
Okay, he’s all fixed, the updated repaired picture of him is under the first pic in the initial post, so you have a side by side comparison of before and after.
Kyrin
That was my poor gryphon. I really did pack him well, I had one long strip of bubble wrap taped horizontally, and one long strip vertically. There was newspaper around him and then all the spaces were filled with foam peanuts. I almost cried when she sent me the first pic. But now he is perfect. A million thank you’s to Kyrin!!!
Jas
pegasi1978 wrote:Yeah he’s all pretty again!
Yeah, it always makes me happy to see these guys finished, very satisfying. Now if only I had something else to do today besides clean house.
Kyrin
skigod377 wrote:He looks great! Much happier! And he can probably hear better, too!
Yeah, the original job was just supposed to be his ears, but unfortunately he suffered some severe turbulence and showed up broken. I had to rebreak his left ear and clean off all the glue to get it to sit correctly, but the other side had already been rebroken when he arrived.
Basically all I did here was protect the eyes and gems with Eye Protect, clean the griffon himself (he was pretty dusty), clean off the glue residue on the ears, reattach them, then glue in all the other broken off bits. Fill in the voids and chips with Apoxie Sculpt, then fill in the cracks so they would no longer be evident. Replace details, like the foot and feathers on his legs and wing.
Let the Apoxie set up hard. Then repaint, thank goodness I got those interference paints a while ago, I don’t know what I’d do on these black griffons without it.
Then reseal him. Repack him, oh damn, I forgot the before and after pics so customs would leave him alone…oops, will have to reopen him. Tomorrow he goes to the shipping place to get a shipping quote, then he should go out either tomorrow or Tues.
I’d say that most often the toughest part of a repair is paint matching…though the white male dragon was the exception, the paint matching was easy, the rest of him was hard. 🙂
Kyrin
Kyrin wrote:skigod377 wrote:He looks great! Much happier! And he can probably hear better, too!
Yeah, the original job was just supposed to be his ears, but unfortunately he suffered some severe turbulence and showed up broken. I had to rebreak his left ear and clean off all the glue to get it to sit correctly, but the other side had already been rebroken when he arrived.
Basically all I did here was protect the eyes and gems with Eye Protect, clean the griffon himself (he was pretty dusty), clean off the glue residue on the ears, reattach them, then glue in all the other broken off bits. Fill in the voids and chips with Apoxie Sculpt, then fill in the cracks so they would no longer be evident. Replace details, like the foot and feathers on his legs and wing.
Let the Apoxie set up hard. Then repaint, thank goodness I got those interference paints a while ago, I don’t know what I’d do on these black griffons without it.
Then reseal him. Repack him, oh damn, I forgot the before and after pics so customs would leave him alone…oops, will have to reopen him. Tomorrow he goes to the shipping place to get a shipping quote, then he should go out either tomorrow or Tues.I’d say that most often the toughest part of a repair is paint matching…though the white male dragon was the exception, the paint matching was easy, the rest of him was hard. 🙂
KyrinGee… thats all?? Sounds like cake 🙄 😆
Sorry about the dust… 😳 I had glued the ears back on since hubby was supposed to try and fix him (this being 6 years ago). You must have done a lot of these since I can’t even see where the wing was broken. The colours match so well.
Jasmine wrote:Sorry about the dust… 😳 I had glued the ears back on since hubby was supposed to try and fix him (this being 6 years ago). You must have done a lot of these since I can’t even see where the wing was broken. The colours match so well.
This is only my second griffon repair. Paint matching on this sculpture is easy, as long as you have the interference paint, and the right shade of black paint. The paint I used on this was FolkArt’s Licorice black, which apparently is exactly right.
I’ve fixed many Windstones to date though. Several of them mine.
But I’ve had the privledge of restoring several other pieces for other forum members, a happy cat gargoyle, a large blue wizard, several dragons, and two griffons.
I hope to be allowed to repair many more, because I am really enjoying the challenge each represents.
Kyrin
He’s back and very happy to be home. I heard the UPS man outside…drop the box on the ground and almost had a heartattack. If you didn’t know he’d been broken, you’d never be able to tell. A huge thanks to Kyrin for her amazing talents in repair.
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