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keschete wrote:
This is just CRAPPY! If they don’t want you doing repairs and repaints on your own….then they should send you a paycheck and let you be the special repair person for broken Windstones.
Melody and all of the staff at Windstone…this is silly! I protest! You need to work out an arrangement with purplecat! This is unfair and unreasonable!!!!
I think she is the best artist I have seen besides the artists at Windstone. Please don’t break her spirit, please try to do something that can be a compromise!!!!
Why would someone as talented as Melody turn away a fellow artist? I am bewildered and upset.
Purplecat is there any reason you can’t do specifically requested repaints…like in my case. I want a damaged piece repainted?
PLEASE SOMEONE AT WINDSTONE GET SOME SENSE!!!!!
Maybe if we all called and complained? Anyone up for that? I have spent a LOT of money in the past few months at Windstone directly…and referred others there as well….I have spent at least $2000 in the last two months on New Windstones.
If the customers all stand up and say something maybe we can get this injustice rectified!!!!!Please dont be nasty. Windstone has sense and are protecting their company.
I am very sorry PC… esp since I was soo hoping to get one of your pink dragons. 🙁 I really hope whoever complained is proud of themselves.
Oh, this is so sad! 🙁 PurpleCat, you are so very talented! Please don’t give up. Also, I’m a little curious…
Does this mean that the decree on repaints has officially been changed from “not encouraged” to “not allowed”?
Seems like this issue might be poised to open up a whole new can of worms…
Megani-chan wrote:Oh, this is so sad! 🙁 PurpleCat, you are so very talented! Please don’t give up. Also, I’m a little curious…
Does this mean that the decree on repaints has officially been changed from “not encouraged” to “not allowed”?
Seems like this issue might be poised to open up a whole new can of worms…I think it was just her style that was so similar to the production peices that was a problem. I have to go see this Earth dragon. I dont remember it. Ahhh… I remember
[img]Its the pattern maybe? If you change the colors, it could be peacock…
I see. That’s really too bad. I hope other repainters (even potential lurker ones) see this and use the information wisely. If someone as talented as PurpleCat can’t use this style of painting, no one should be able to.
Except of course the factory people 😆
I’ve been thinking about this. I do understand Windstone’s concerns about copyright issues. On the other hand, the more popular these things get, the more people will want unique, custom ones, also of production pieces. Like with Breyer. Of course Breyer started as toys, and Windstone is art, but I’m thinking there will be dragon painters sooner or later, just like there are horse painters now. Popularity does that. 😕
Eh, realized some of what I said could be taken wrong, removed it.
I’m really irritable about something else just now, I probably shouldn’t be taking part in this, as it’s a pretty sensitive issue, and I’m about as sensitive as the proverbial bull in a china shop.
I just want to throw this out there for everyone to chew on.
What happens when someone who bought one of PC’s pieces dies and it is left with no instruction of how it came to be? Someone could take the felt pad off, cover her writing and sell it as a “Very old, very rare test paint that didn’t have a felt” Goodness knows that there are many such pieces at the factory, Windstone destroys a good lot of them, but even so, there are dozens of pieces like that. Look at the Black and Tan dragons, or the Wedding Cake Dragons (the male and female weren’t even painted by Melody), or even the last two OOAK OWs that went on ebay recently (I think they had a felt pad tho…) There is just no way to completely verify these things…Anyway…
I’m really sorry for you PC, I know how much you loved doing these. I can only hope that you will continue here with us and let us be a support group.
Greater Basilisk wrote:I’ve been thinking about this. I do understand Windstone’s concerns about copyright issues. On the other hand, the more popular these things get, the more people will want unique, custom ones, also of production pieces. Like with Breyer. Of course Breyer started as toys, and Windstone is art, but I’m thinking there will be dragon painters sooner or later, just like there are horse painters now. Popularity does that. 😕
Who has the quote in their siggy, something about “If you have an original idea, expect to get coppied”?? Or something like that……kind of ironic
I know they dont approve and I know and understand their reasons…Its just sad… the quality of Melodys work and the quality/coolness of PCs paint jobs just seemed like a perfect match. 🙁 Fill out an App at Windstone, PC. I would love to see your pink dragons become production.
skigod377 wrote:I know they dont approve and I know their reasons…Its just sad… the quality of Melodys work and the quality/coolness of PCs paint jobs just seemed like a perfect match. 🙁 Fill out an App at Windstone, PC. 🙂 I would love to see your pink dragons become production.[/quote]
ROFLMAO Ski, you could invade Iraq with the army of those that you would buy 😉 😈
skigod377 wrote:the quality of Melodys work and the quality/coolness of PCs paint jobs just seemed like a perfect match.
And that was the problem right there.
Nirvanacat13 wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:I’ve been thinking about this. I do understand Windstone’s concerns about copyright issues. On the other hand, the more popular these things get, the more people will want unique, custom ones, also of production pieces. Like with Breyer. Of course Breyer started as toys, and Windstone is art, but I’m thinking there will be dragon painters sooner or later, just like there are horse painters now. Popularity does that. 😕
Who has the quote in their siggy, something about “If you have an original idea, expect to get coppied”?? Or something like that……kind of ironic
It’s Quill’s quote: “.if you’re gonna be original, you can count on being copied.”
skigod377 wrote:I know they dont approve and I know and understand their reasons…Its just sad… the quality of Melodys work and the quality/coolness of PCs paint jobs just seemed like a perfect match. 🙁 Fill out an App at Windstone, PC. I would love to see your pink dragons become production.
I asked before I really started selling these things and got a very definate no….sorry, I did try. 😥
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