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Thans, there were fun to do but now I am reminded how long it takes to do the wolves, but it’w worth it. They look much better in person though…for some reason they do look just a bit over-saturated in the photos.
I admit I was going to bid to repaint but I think the paint is on way too thick to make it worthwhile for me. This piece wouldn’t have looked half bad if they stuck with one spot style option and went with it rather than dividing it up into three separate sections of using 3 colors in different spotty ways. That’s like indecision. It makes for a gloppy looking piece and it’s sad because it did take the painter time to do all that work in the first place and the colors do work well together, just not in this fashion. I bet if they redid it and stuck with one style, it would be a decent sculpture.
Dragonfeathers you’re gonna have a run for your money. And a fair warning…I snipe. But may the best bidder win!
All the research I did into Breyer and how serious the whole paintig this is kinda leaves me cold. I did buy 3 models to paint but now am not sure if I will. I don’t think I could get near the smoothness all the other painters achieve. It seems like a huge other wolrd…especially when you consider they actually have special shows and create saddles and bridles and everythng to scale for them, etc etc. I also have a couple MLPs I want to paint and may just have someone else do the hair for me, or create solid sculpy hair…or just make a set of reindeer and forgo hair at all!
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Read the descriptions to see what all these things are about. I managed to get these all done today so I can get back on track now with the rest of what I need to do. I really like how they came out.
I get different quotes many times, even when shipping out the exact same item in the same boxing, although I will say the USPS has never given me alternate rates, it’s UPS/DHL/and FED EX that go up and down depending on the day or place you get a quote from. You’d think it should be all standardized but some places I think have different set-ups with the shippers so they can charge less…like paying more for more services with UPS or something. I don’t know the ins and outs but I know if I get a quote on a Monday it can change by the Monday of the next week at the same store loction. Maybe it’s also how they enter it into the system or the person doing it knowing more how to charge less for something, you know? When I used to work at OfficeMax I knew how I could charge 50% less for someone making copies. Naturally OfficeMax told us all to charge the MAX amount (remember that when shopping OfficeMAX!). It could just be a simple little thing like that. I don’t know, but I don’t like it. I can never get an honest flat figure for someone, even when they ask prior to an auction close. They ask, I get, they win, and then I lose because the rate goes up by the time I get to ship it and then I absorb the fees. So now I may just go USPS for everything.
Hey collector…going to MFF con this year? It’s in shaumburg at the Hyatt by Woodfield Mall. I’m going out there and if you’re interested we could get together to paint.
It must be the same buyer then because she said it only cost her $15 in shipping costs to get another PYO she recently got, so I charged her that…then got shocked at the $55 I had to pay. I guess I’m going to have to make some seious USPS decisions. I NEVER had this problem with the shipping place by my grandfather’s house…they used o give me great rates. I called them and they said that same package would have cost about $20 to ship through them! Unfortunately they are an hour away and I don’t have a trip planned out that way. I had made a special trip to go down there to ship to Germany though, since they charged me only about $45-50 for the PYO griffin and this place by me charged over $80.
Check out the announcements. Melody’s got a cafepress store going! I’m so buying the sushi cat mug…Thanks Melody…can NOT wait to see more stuff up there! Please make a couple shirts…even a long sleeve or something. Awesome.
Ok, here are pics. of it: http://www.watergazersden.com/node/33000#comment-404068
I hope this doesn’t mean there’d be no oriental PYO ever! You know what I’d love to get…a PO gothic unicorn. I’d love to own the gothic, but I know of noplace or noone that has them and ebay rarely ever does.
I just was forced to single-box ship a painted wolf to the UK because if I double-boxed, it would have gone higher than the $55 I was quoted using UPS or Fed Ex shipping. Nornally I don’t double box unless it’s overseas or someone buys more than one thing…in this case I was so angry…I just hope it gets there ok. But because of the rates, I may just have to go USPS priority mail for everything EVEN OVERSEAS (my personal no-no for USPS) because the rates are killing me, especially when I quote someone something and then the rate changes drastically when I go to ship it, and then I have to absorb the added expense. This $55 to the UK floored me and it was just to ship the wolf in it’s white box! Can you believe it! This is the same plae that told me it would cost $85 to ship a PYO to Germany DHL or UPS, even more for Fed EX.
One thing I have tested though…USPS Priority ships all single-boxed PYOs very well and fast, and has a decent rate.
