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I posted in the general windstone forum but I was wondering if the old warrior was ever made in the darker (older) peacock version? I was looking at my old warrior next to my emperor and noticed a big difference in the two colors. Did the old warriors ever get the dark coloration? If they didn’t could there possibly be a limited run of them in the older darker color?
purpledoggy wrote:I posted in the general windstone forum but I was wondering if the old warrior was ever made in the darker (older) peacock version? I was looking at my old warrior next to my emperor and noticed a big difference in the two colors. Did the old warriors ever get the dark coloration? If they didn’t could there possibly be a limited run of them in the older darker color?
I think they were all the older, darker version, weren’t they? If they all aren’t, then at least I know that the the prototype ones were the darker type.
Does anyone have an example of a “bright” Peacock Warrior, and a dark one? I don’t remember which way the production ones were painted, or if we painted them both ways.My Emporer is very dark like the one shown. My Old Warrior is darker than the one shown (could be the lighting), but he has the champagne colored chest like that one. I don’t think I’ve seen one done like the dark Emporer. I wasn’t really looking though. 😉
I thought only the family dragons and Emperor were done in the darker colors and the rest of the sculpts were in the newer, brighter peacock.
WolfenMachine wrote:I thought only the family dragons and Emperor were done in the darker colors and the rest of the sculpts were in the newer, brighter peacock.
This is how my whole family is, the only ones I have seen a huge variance on is the orientals.
The original family on the top shelf is the old peacock, and the rest are the new peacock.
Ruffian…you’ve got the peacock Fledgie I’m looking for… *grabby hands*
I’ve got the bright version of the peacock Old Warrior too.
GB your OW doesn’t look like he has as much purple on his chest. Mine has a TON. He’s much brighter than my peacock Lap Dragon.
Aha, so it looks like the production ones were mostly bright peacock. I think the prototypes were the darker kind, or maybe something in-between, though I’d have to look at one to be sure -and of course, any we have here are packed.
Anyone got a picture of a pea prototype Old Warrior? Maybe there is one in our ebay gallery somewhere.
I didn’t pay attention to the type of peacock any dragons were painted in because we didn’t consider the two kinds to be different colors, some dragons just looked better with the more pigmented peacock paint on them and we felt some looked fine the old way.
*edit* Gad! The ebay gallery isn’t easy to find is it?? It is under “Website and Dealer Catalog here”
I can’t tell if that old warrior is a dark one or not, the green on him looks bright, but the blue looks like the dark blue. I think he is an in-between color.
So, I haven’t answered you question very well! I don’t think any production Pea old warriors were painted in the darker color, but I may be wrong! It will be interesting to see if any ever show up.Wouldn’t you just know it–I’ve got photos of my prototype peacock OW (from eBay) and regular peacock OW side-by-side, but they’re on a computer that is being profoundly ill at the moment and I can’t get to them! :/ Looking at them together and comparing them to bright and dark peacock pieces, they’re definitely both the bright peacock. There are some minor variances, such as more salmon coloring on the chest of the prototype, and there’s definitely a little variance in the placement of some of the green and purple. Initially I’d bought the production OW thinking I might resell him, but when I put them together I realized just how different the distribution of the colors were and decided I liked them both!
However, I’ve also noticed that the production OW looks very, very dark blue when seen from the rear; I’ve got him displayed in a glass cabinet just above floor level, and although there’s plenty of light it hits him just right to turn him a midnight blue. So maybe the paint is sort of in-between after all? I have a peacock Young Oriental who’s in-between, so it’s possible some of the OWs got the same paint.
Barrdwing wrote:Wouldn’t you just know it–I’ve got photos of my prototype peacock OW (from eBay) and regular peacock OW side-by-side, but they’re on a computer that is being profoundly ill at the moment and I can’t get to them! :/ Looking at them together and comparing them to bright and dark peacock pieces, they’re definitely both the bright peacock. There are some minor variances, such as more salmon coloring on the chest of the prototype, and there’s definitely a little variance in the placement of some of the green and purple. Initially I’d bought the production OW thinking I might resell him, but when I put them together I realized just how different the distribution of the colors were and decided I liked them both!
However, I’ve also noticed that the production OW looks very, very dark blue when seen from the rear; I’ve got him displayed in a glass cabinet just above floor level, and although there’s plenty of light it hits him just right to turn him a midnight blue. So maybe the paint is sort of in-between after all? I have a peacock Young Oriental who’s in-between, so it’s possible some of the OWs got the same paint. When I repainted those prototype O.W’s for ebay, I handled a hundred or so of them, and they seemed to me to vary in color a bit, particularly the way the “wounds” were painted. Some had bubble-gum colored skin showing through the bald patches. I supposed those were from the earliest batches.
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