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sunhawk wrote:whippetluv wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:
Oh wow! I love the wings, and the idea, and the scales are just gorgeous! I don’t know how you’d want to ship it, though, so you’ll probably have to keep it?
Oh no…actually it will be very easy to ship. That is he best part of my evil plan you know! Those wings are very flexable and can be folded for shipment! ha!!
Kyrin –
I would not drill…not even hand drill. Windstones are very very easy to chip and pop, much more so than ceramics or plastic resin. I just cut the wires away and worked from there.I dunno, handrills can work with very fine drillbits, if she’s careful she might be okay! I’ve drilled seashells with my handdrill and it worked out better than I thought. I think you just need to do it in light passes, very quickly, so that the gypsum doesn’t have time to chip beyond the hole? Also lets you blow out the powdered gypsum from the hole. I’d say it’s worth a try anyway! Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
True, and if I do mess it up, I can always fix it…not like I haven’t done that before. LOL!
Kyrin
Congrats! I am guessing your Thesis is like a Senior Project, a big paper you have to write in order to graduate college?
I remember doing mine, man was it maddening…took months. Was so relieved when it was done and turned in, even happier when it got an A-.
I know how you are feeling, it is such a huge load off, I bet you didn’t even realize how much it was weighing on you until now.
It’s kinda like pregnancy…every new ache and pain just adds in, until the baby is born, you don’t realize how much discomfort and pain you were in until it is all just gone! Course the euphoria of finally getting to see your baby has noothing to do with it at all….nope…not a thing! LOL!
Anyway, glad your paper baby was birthed and received favorably, congrats on completing it, and getting asked to be in a contest, that should be really cool.
Kyrin
whippetluv wrote:Very secret methods…. super glue. 🙂 I used Apoxie Sculpt afterward to keep it permanity in place. 🙂 Here is the website of the stuff I use.
http://www.avesstudio.com/Products/Apoxie_Sculpt/apoxie_sculpt.html
that is the stuff~ It hardens in about 3 hours…overnight for rock hard. It has to sit before you mess with it to, but for only like 10 minutes. And it takes some getting used too before you should apply it to a windstone, its not like sculpty!Actually, I have never used sculpty. I have a bunch of it, but never opened it and tried it out. I guess I should, huh? LOL!
Anyway, cool…I was thinking of using my handdrill and tiny drill to put holes into the kirin, then use the superglue to reinforce the bond after. Kinda nervous about drilling, but since it is a hand drill, I should be able to do it without doing serious damage.
I just love what you did with yours, you can’t even tell you added anything, it all goes along so seamlessly. Really great work, but then considering your talent for repair work, I am not surprised.
I should show you the ice dragon that my brother accidently knocked off a shelf and utterly anniliated. He is very tall, about 20 inches or more and he was on a shelf about 5.5 ft from the floor, so when he hit he shattered into a billion pieces.
Took me days, but I rebuilt him, filled in the cracks and repainted, if you didn’t pick him up and look inside him, you’d never know from looking he was ever broken.
Anyway, I’ve also repaired ceramics, by piecing back together and then refiring with glaze to seal it. That one was fun.
Kyrin
whippetluv wrote:Kyrin wrote:Oh, I love it! That is so flipping clever!
How did you attach the wings?
It looks terrific, I want it! Now I am wondering if I could get Monarch wings for mine.
Kyrin
Giggles..I am not sure about you…but I can do a monarch one, so you probably can.
Oh and I attached them with secret methods…ooooo and then covered the attachment with sculpted apoxie to make it look more natural.
Secret methods? 😯
Actually I found the eBay seller you got yours from, and I lust after some orange and gold ones for my ki-rin.
I am watching them, with luck, they will be adorning my girl soon. I love your idea, hope you don’t mind my borrowing it. In fact I was thinking of getting a new Ki-rin PYO and some wings and color coordinating them.
Also, what is the sculture apoxie you use? I would like to get some. While the product I am using for repairs now is pretty good, it takes a long time to dry, and I can’t shape it until it is partially dry, so adding details sometimes is tough if I am unable to get back to it before it goes solid as a rock on me.
Kyrin
foxfeather wrote:I think that dragon medly said the first person to recive theirs was supposed to start a new thread. Can’t wait!
Me neither! Especially since I sent out the completed PYO two days ago, via Priority Mail. If it didn’t get there today, it’d better be there tomorrow!
Kyrin
Oh, I love it! That is so flipping clever!
How did you attach the wings?
It looks terrific, I want it! Now I am wondering if I could get Monarch wings for mine.
Kyrin
Okay, now I am wondering if my recipient got her PYO today or not. I was hoping she would. Are we running a separate thread for that?
Kyrin
Man, it’s killing me…who has me! I wanna know!
Dang it, this is gonna be a long few weeks. LOL!
Kyrin
Dang! You got a great deal! Shows that the thrift store has no clue, doesn’t it? I benefited from that one time with a genuine cameo box. They thought it was plastic, though when you opened it up inside was a sticker indicating it was stone. I got it for $4. Considering its size and color, it was blue, it was probably worth closer to $100.
Anyway, congrats on the deal…good luck selling them, I am sure you will do well.
Kyrin
Whaaaa! I miss Donnybrook! *cry*
SLO was my homeground, we were in the Peasants Guild there. We lived in Santa Maria for about 20 years…moved here to Idaho two years ago.
You guys go and mention Renfaire, how mean! Actually we have a Renfaire here too, and this year we will finally get to go, last year we were too broke and had to work, so couldn’t go.
You should like SLO safire…you have to eat at the SLO Brewery…good eats. Also, do go on down to Nipomo and eat at Jocko’s, best steak in the world, I swear. Breakfast place that is the best is Jack’s, in Santa Maria.
You must go to the Great American Melodrama in Oceano, it is one of the places I really miss. We have nothing like it anywhere else. If you like live theatre you should enjoy it a lot.
Oh the Central Coast is a great place, lots to see and do. I hope your move goes smoothly.
Kyrin
Greater Basilisk wrote:Kyrin wrote:You have to realize something though in regards to my painting time. I have been painting ceramics for over 20 years now, and I paint in acrylics on paper too, doing other types of 2D art.
So for me, putting in 9 hours on something as small as the sculpture I did, means there is alot of details.
Talking about it, I sent it out today, it should arrive at its destination by Thursday, I hope. I hope she likes him!
I wish I could be there for the unveiling…I love to see people’s reactions to things.
Kyrin
I didn’t mean to criticize people who take less time, Kyrin! You’re a great painter; just look at your wolves. Sorry if that came across wrong. I am actually a very slow painter, so I know that if I take less than a certain amount of time I haven’t done enough.
I didn’t feel criticized, I just felt compelled to explain why I was so quick. At one point in time, I was dependant on my ceramic sales, so I got pretty fast, but still keeping the fine details. Nowadays I can just kick back and enjoy painting them, but I still tend to go fast, because I am in a hurry to see what it looks like when done. LOL!
Kyrin
You have to realize something though in regards to my painting time. I have been painting ceramics for over 20 years now, and I paint in acrylics on paper too, doing other types of 2D art.
So for me, putting in 9 hours on something as small as the sculpture I did, means there is alot of details.
Talking about it, I sent it out today, it should arrive at its destination by Thursday, I hope. I hope she likes him!
I wish I could be there for the unveiling…I love to see people’s reactions to things.
Kyrin
dragonessjade wrote:haha, you say that now…but I know later you will change your mind. That is the way of the forum. 😀
Okay, let me rephrase that, only 9 brown Windstone dragons to go!
I am still working on getting the following:
Oriental dragon, which I have gotten an agreement made with someone, so should have that soon.
A Flion, again, agreement made, shoudl have soon. Yay on both!
The ki-rins, mother and father. Have the baby.
Pegasuses, only have the hatching one thus far.
Griffons, all of them, hopefully in the wolf color when it is released.
Secret Keeper, if I am lucky…Autumn Leaf color…all depends on if I win the lottery when it goes up for auction. If not, I pray it is released in that color so I can buy it straight up. I wonder if we could talk Melody into custom paint jobs, for a bit extra? That would be so cool if we could make requests.
Oh, have you seen the new Flame OW they put up on eBay…OMG he’s gorgous!
I am also working on getting the most gorgous curio cabinet ever…soon my collection will be displayed properly…Yay!
For now, all that will do. Oh, and a young oriental and eventually a sun oriental too.
Kyrin
