Peacock Dragons Real color?

[frozendragon]

lamortefille wrote:

skigod377 wrote:

Mine is an older one and does not look nearly so flashy. I have the male.

My male looks like an old fart compared to the rest of his flashy family. lol

I had a family of the earlier peacock….it was darker and a little different from the newer ones….they are brighter more “clean” looking….so my OW in peacock looked totally different….but now I have the OW in white…..and sold the whole family….cause I just want all the white ones….

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frozendragon wrote:

lamortefille wrote:

skigod377 wrote:

Mine is an older one and does not look nearly so flashy. I have the male.

My male looks like an old fart compared to the rest of his flashy family. lol

I had a family of the earlier peacock….it was darker and a little different from the newer ones….they are brighter more “clean” looking….so my OW in peacock looked totally different….but now I have the OW in white…..and sold the whole family….cause I just want all the white ones….

Isn’t it hard to pick just one color?! LOL! 😆

[Bob]

All my peacock ones are much older and have a much flatter coloring to them. they cleaned up reall nice before i put them in the new display cases I just got for them.

[lamortefille]

skigod377 wrote:

lamortefille wrote:

skigod377 wrote:

Mine is an older one and does not look nearly so flashy. I have the male.

My male looks like an old fart compared to the rest of his flashy family. lol
I will think of mine a dark and forbidding as apposed to dull 😀

Good idea 😀

[Rose]

lamortefille wrote:

Same thing here – I just figured the color difference on my older peacocks was due to age. Some of it is age – the gold is starting to wear off in spots. Anyone else have older pieces? Have they developed “freckles” – small spots of paint loss that can’t be attributed to knocking something into the piece? My black griffin has a few on top of his head.

My emperor is about 10 years old and he is quite a bit darker than the new ones. I noticed it the most when I added the OW to my collection. Some of it is age but, I don’t know. Mine does have freckles The most noticeable one is one by the left wing. It’s completly rusty coloured. The rest well the gold is worn off in some places. I don’t know how that happens.

[Mimi]

Hmm….does it also get humid where you are? Sounds like it gets humid where lamortefille is too…

[Rose]

mimitrek wrote:

Hmm….does it also get humid where you are? Sounds like it gets humid where lamortefille is too…

The last few years it has been very humid. Well, also the temp. can be anywhere from -30 to 40 C. What that is in F? I couldn’t tell you.

[lamortefille]

mimitrek wrote:

Hmm….does it also get humid where you are? Sounds like it gets humid where lamortefille is too…

What does the humidity do to them?

[Mimi]

Romeodanny wrote:

mimitrek wrote:

Hmm….does it also get humid where you are? Sounds like it gets humid where lamortefille is too…

The last few years it has been very humid. Well, also the temp. can be anywhere from -30 to 40 C. What that is in F? I couldn’t tell you.

That’s -22F to 104F…a lot more temperature variation that I have here in California…

[Mimi]

lamortefille wrote:

mimitrek wrote:

Hmm….does it also get humid where you are? Sounds like it gets humid where lamortefille is too…

What does the humidity do to them?

Well, I’m not sure…but both you and Romeodanny have seen this fleabite problem and you both live in areas which are considerably more humid and with bigger temperature swings that I get out where I am (and I’ve never seen this problem), so I’m guessing that the humidity might be what’s degrading the paint…the bigger temperature swings might be a factor too, unless you guys always keep your houses at a fairly constant temp throughout the year via heating/AC…

[lamortefille]

mimitrek wrote:

lamortefille wrote:

mimitrek wrote:

Hmm….does it also get humid where you are? Sounds like it gets humid where lamortefille is too…

What does the humidity do to them?

Well, I’m not sure…but both you and Romeodanny have seen this fleabite problem and you both live in areas which are considerably more humid and with bigger temperature swings that I get out where I am (and I’ve never seen this problem), so I’m guessing that the humidity might be what’s degrading the paint…the bigger temperature swings might be a factor too, unless you guys always keep your houses at a fairly constant temp throughout the year via heating/AC…

I like it to be as warm as possible, so I’m not much for AC. Maybe it is the humidity. Maybe we can ask Melody sometime – when she has less on her mind:-/

[Mimi]

lamortefille wrote:

mimitrek wrote:

lamortefille wrote:

mimitrek wrote:

Hmm….does it also get humid where you are? Sounds like it gets humid where lamortefille is too…

What does the humidity do to them?

Well, I’m not sure…but both you and Romeodanny have seen this fleabite problem and you both live in areas which are considerably more humid and with bigger temperature swings that I get out where I am (and I’ve never seen this problem), so I’m guessing that the humidity might be what’s degrading the paint…the bigger temperature swings might be a factor too, unless you guys always keep your houses at a fairly constant temp throughout the year via heating/AC…

I like it to be as warm as possible, so I’m not much for AC. Maybe it is the humidity. Maybe we can ask Melody sometime – when she has less on her mind:-/

Yes… 🙂 The curious thing is that Melody mentioned in some previous threads that they do rigorous reliability testing to make sure that the problem that you and Romeodanny are seeing doesn’t ever happen…I’m wondering if some batches of the paint were bad at some point…

[Rose]

mimitrek wrote:

lamortefille wrote:

mimitrek wrote:

Hmm….does it also get humid where you are? Sounds like it gets humid where lamortefille is too…

What does the humidity do to them?

Well, I’m not sure…but both you and Romeodanny have seen this fleabite problem and you both live in areas which are considerably more humid and with bigger temperature swings that I get out where I am (and I’ve never seen this problem), so I’m guessing that the humidity might be what’s degrading the paint…the bigger temperature swings might be a factor too, unless you guys always keep your houses at a fairly constant temp throughout the year via heating/AC…

Unfortunatly I can’t control my temperature that much. I don’t have AC and my heat is controlled by my landlord. That means that some days it’s very hot and some days it’s freezing. Even if I had AC I would have to use the window AC so I would only be able to afford one room of AC maybe I’ll move all of my Windstone to my bedroom and buy AC next spring.

[Mimi]

Eek! That sounds rather unpleasant…but I guess a space heater and the window AC that you mentioned would help a lot, especially if you stayed in that room most of the time.

So in your case it sounds like there are big temperature swings and if the gypsum stone and the paint were expanding/contracting at different rates then that could cause the paint to flake. It sounds like Lamortfille might have the same temperature swing problem that you do, but to a much lesser extent since she likes to keep the house warm in the winter…and it also sounds like her Windstones have less freckling than yours, so there might be some correlation. It’ll be interesting to see what Melody says about this issue at some point…when things are less crazy for her…

[whippetluv]

Just took this pic…look at teh color differances! Both are soo pretty though

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