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Eeek! Sorry Riversgrace, large (though stone reliable) household, and I didn’t discover he arrived till this morning! Thank you, he’s gorgeous!
Whee! My little sweetie came!
He’s a nebula/star themed Foop painted by Riversgrace, came with a sweet (and beautiful) card and the little guy is a marvelous mix of boldness and subtlety, easy to make out the highlights at a distance, yet rewards a much closer look. (and dang, that lovely sparkly paint!!!) His name is Uncharted, and the house ate my camera, leaving me with a much poorer camera that wouldn’t do him anything near justice. (Er, Riversgrace, do you have any photos of the little dude? Otherwise pics will be when I find my good camera)
Thank you, I love him!
Let’s see…
Scratching Dragons in Blue Merle
Baby Poads in Grey Cuttlefishand a restock of Brown Vampire Bats in time for Halloween.
(regarding sculpts, a PYO Pegasus or Hippogriff would be awesome)
There’s umpteen other things I want, but between my cashflow and your super epic schedule, I decided to narrow it down!
Well, he’s neither the tricolor run of 24, nor the blue merle run of 16 that was on Ebay a few years back.
I can’t say for sure, but from your mention of no felt, I’m guessing you have an old one from the eighties. Sweet find!
Will there be a large number of chicks made? I’m often commuting at release times, but would love to get a pair of young to match the male.
Been chewing on some ideas…
It might frankly be simpler to resculpt it, but I thought of something for casting.
(keep in mind, this is theory. I have not done it, nor do I know how the materials will behave, nor the best way of keeping things from sticking to other things!)
Take the intact young oriental, and pack one side (mostly the tail and back area) with a clay that won’t harm the acrylic finish. (sculpey, perhaps?????) Sculpt the clay smooth down the center/spine of the piece, but add,
A. Two or three pushed-in finger impressions (keys, to make sure the mold halves line up nicely)
B. Two built up half-cones coming from the top, one for air escape, the other for plaster to be poured in through.
C. Some kind of border surrounding the area, so when you pour or build up the flexible mold material, it will behave nicely.Build up or pour a flexible mold around the exposed half of the back and tail.
Once it’s cured, gently remove the sculpey to expose the side without the mold. You should see two or three pressed-up finger impressions in the half mold, as well as a pressed-down half cone. Then,
A. Build the borders surrounding where you’ll want to cast the other half.
B. Fill the half-cones with sculpey till you have full-cones of sculpey, with half standing above the flat mold surface. This will let you cast the other sides of the pouring cones.Then pour the other side of the mold. (and for all that’s good and merciful in the world, throughout this project, use good amounts of a Windstone-friendly mold release!)
When that’s properly cured, you should have two sides to a mold that will fit nicely on the broken dragon’s back, and can be clamped there. This will make a seam all the way around that’ll have to be cleaned, and you’ll have two ‘buttons’ of unfinished material where the cones were when you cast, but that isn’t too sculpting intensive to clean up. (when you cast, the place where you have the air vent, should be angled to be at the top of the empty space.)
Good luck, hope this made sense, and please take with a ginormous grain of salt!
I’ve noticed that trend.
I don’t like it, or agree with it, (though they certainly have the right to do so.)
But if it’s any consolation, unless they stumble on an outrageously underpriced selling price, they have to,
A. be willing to pay more than anyone else to win in the first place, and
B. sell it for their high winning bid purchase price plus their cost of shipping in order to merely break even,which makes it a difficult way to break even, let alone profit.
I’d love to see the cement version come back! Mostly because I’d love a ‘floor model’ that’s on the sturdy side.
@dragonfeathers *purrs* Happy to hear it!
Overall, I guess the point is, (regarding the Emp) is that 4dragonlove’s in the legal, ethical right (and Ebay will surely agree), this forum has several miracle workers with restoration, and that poor brown emp is still valued.
So it may be a bit more grief and some headaches later, but IMO there are good odds of things eventually being set right.
Yeah… my worst ‘horror story’ is that I bought two Guardian Dragon Gargoyles for a song, and they were horribly packed and arrived shattered. Really, really shattered. This was before Ebay had much buyer protection at all, and the seller never responded to my multiple Emails. (I ended up having to ‘snipe’ negative feedback on the 90th day, so they couldn’t reciprocate) The money was very minor (unlike with the emp), but this happened the same week that my boyfriend and I split, and my childhood dog died… I kid you not. So those poor beautiful pieces drove me nuts every time I looked at them…
Happy ending though, two forum members bought ’em cheap, got them out of my hair, and restored them beautifully.
(I apologize for any thread derailment, but it seemed relevant in a way.)4dragonlove, I just thought of something. It might be painful, but if you could remove him from the bag as well as the little shards, and either do a ‘field test dry assembly’ or give us a photo of him and the little shards laid out, we can get a good idea of whether or not all the pieces are in there. (emperor wings are relatively thin and small, so maybe he’s all there???)
It’s also possible, that the seller was simply too inept or careless to figure out how to fit both inserts and the dragon into the box. As those inserts are rather tight, and require placing the dragon in exactly the right way. So if they didn’t have spatial perception or mechanical skills worth beans, left the insert out, and then covered it up with the missing insert lie… (this in no way excuses their behavior, it’s merely a theory on what happened)
