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I know some of the originals are different from the newer old greens…He has a stamp on his base and it looks like the gold wore off long ago and were repainted white…There are very faint ridges in his chest chest scales… I’m putting pics of my brighter old green to show the differences…Here they are…
As you can see he doesn’t have felt except for the little circles, the faint ridges in his chest scales didn’t show in the pics really well…
I’m gonna take a couple more pics of this fellow to post…
Yes. Those are great comparison pics of two of the versions of old green. The oldest is the one without the pad.
We changed the more transparent greens to the opaque green because it was hard for the painters to match each other’s paint jobs, since the color would vary with how much green paint they put on. We also switched to a much higher quality paint.
What is odd about these two is that the eyebrow ridges match. When we were casting the older dragons, such as the older green one here, I always had to re-sculpt the master’s eyebrow ridges over the eyes. The rubber molds were all made from a plaster “master” and it would break there every time the mold was removed, so for a while every male dragon mold was a little different. That was before we started using epoxy masters.(Every once in awhile a “squinty eyed” male shows up on ebay. That was one particular mold where I had sculpted the eyebrow ridges so low down we could hardly get the eyes in)
Are these two exactly the same in scale pattern every where? You did mention one has ridges on his scales.Actually there is more gold scaling on the older one…There are some large scales on his hips that have nearly been rubbed clean of gold but it was once gold and the two lower scales beneath his forehead stone are gold as well…odd.
I also noticed his freckle patterns are different on both his face and hips…The older model has more freckles…
Man, I just spent some time doing major squinting at this fellow and he has several differences I really had to look for before finding…The biggest difference is he seems to have ‘scarring’ that was actually part of the original sculpture (not a patching job). One of his chest scales looks, well, scarred….similar to the ow but alot smaller…Also the gold along his tail is mostly gone but it appears like it originally went the entire length of the scale instead of just the tip…The area around his eye is alot rougher than the newer model and all along the sculpture I’m finding several things that must have been refined over the years…There’s a spot on the underneath of his snout that is kinda flat like there was a little problem with a seam line there… I think that’s it for now but I’m still checking him out.
purplecat wrote:I also noticed his freckle patterns are different on both his face and hips…The older model has more freckles…
Man, I just spent some time doing major squinting at this fellow and he has several differences I really had to look for before finding…The biggest difference is he seems to have ‘scarring’ that was actually part of the original sculpture (not a patching job). One of his chest scales looks, well, scarred….similar to the ow but alot smaller…Also the gold along his tail is mostly gone but it appears like it originally went the entire length of the scale instead of just the tip…The area around his eye is alot rougher than the newer model and all along the sculpture I’m finding several things that must have been refined over the years…There’s a spot on the underneath of his snout that is kinda flat like there was a little problem with a seam line there… I think that’s it for now but I’m still checking him out.If it has scratches on the smooth scales then it is a very early casting, before I learned to refine the sculpture in plaster. So that is an old one!
Yep, I have an older one like the one on the left. I like him better than the lighter version because he has deeper colors and more color variation. Mine also has the markings on the smooth scales and the squinty eyes.
Is it just the picture, or is the older one a tiny bit bigger than the other one?
I like the older version better, more colors and details.
Cool to get to see some Windstone history here.
Kyrin
I like the older one with the browns, etc. too. He’s pretty! Someday I’ll have to get a Male and Mother in that color. 🙂
My female looks like the older one and my male looks like the shiny new one!
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