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Oh yes that’s my gorgeous Ki-Rin!
::hugs:: I love the color transition!
I’m so sorry I didn’t get on sooner to let you know. 😛
Let’s start the Karmic backlash club. 😛 😆
Ok… cause I’ve been outta the loop for so long…
I could pvobably be on both days… 😀
but what are we doing? just being on the forum at the same time? Or are we chatting? or what? I’m confused… maybe I should have read the entire post… 😆
As much as I’d like to make them outdoor cats sometimes…
A.) Coyotes… they wouldn’t last…
B.) two of them don’t have front claws… so that’s out…and C.) they’re morons… ~LOL~
So the Windstones just moved to the bookshelf for now… before they could topple over my other Gryphon chick or god forbid my momma gryphon!!!
As for the PYO Unicorn… ::cackles evilly :twisted::: Oh I have a fair few ideas.. this first one will be to sell… since I’m so bloody broke! GAH! 😀
Maybe… just maybe… she can rekindle the painting fire in my heart… I’ve just been so blah lately!
Hey guys… Sorry I’ve been MIA… Life stinks sometimes… ::sniffs::
but anyway.. Frozen… thank you SOOO much for the PYO Ki-Rin! She’s gorgeous!
Sadly… no pics yet. 🙁
but I LOVE the colors!!! ::hugs:: Thanks!
With any luck my PYO piece will be in the msail soon! Sorry I let it slip everyone. 🙁 I hope my swapee likes it!!! 😀
Where has Lady Brooklyn been?
MIA? Most certainly!
I just wanted to thank Frozen… I received my PYO Ki-Rin a week or so ago… and she is gorgeous!!!
::cries:: unfortunately… she fell victim to my cats… shortly after me putting her on my mantel… just before I was going to take pics of her…
She’s fixable… I h ave most of the pieces… just need to put them together and see how much I have to resculpt/rebuild…
I’m so sorry Frozen! She’s GORGEOUS! I LOVE the color… I almost STRANGLED my cat for doing it… ::cries::
It’s just been a VERY depressing couple of months… and I need to get out of this FUNK! I haven’t painted any PYOs since before I moved in FEB!!!!!!!
Let me tell you… I want life to QUIT hitting me square in the face with all of this crud!
UGH! I think I have had the WORST couple of months… and I dunno why…
Oh wait… I DO know why… bills… speeding tickets… and a fender bender… THAT’s where my money has been going!
Between family problems…mainly my sister and her from hereafter known as, Sperm Donor, husband… And the most aggrivating thing about that is… I don’t know if she’s leaving him now… after all he pulled last month… after all the pain he’s caused her… ARGH!!!! Looooooooong story…. 🙁
And there’s nothing I can do… I just have to accept it… just try to support her and hope that she leaves the @sshole…
That and work trying to crack down on internet use… and just generally being depressed…
Oh yeah… and my cats going on a destructo rampage and BREAKING several of my Windstones… ::sighs!:: Including my Pearl Crouching Gryphon chick!!!! I’ve just thought it safer to stay away so I’m not tempted to spend $$…
And look… my first day back I see that the PYO Unicorn is realeased… and what do I do… I BUY one!!! 😆
So yeah… I’m back… sorta!
(PS: Sorry if that didn’t make any sense.. kinda feels to me like I’m rambling… :lol:)
Dragonsrest wrote:It bites to be at work when you learn such things!
I second that!
MAN I want to go home and look at everyone! 😛
Oh WOW!!!
I’ll be trying my hardest for one of them! ::hopes:: GORGEOUS work as always NAM!!!
I can’t believe the momma didn’t go any higher! 😯
Oh man they are GORGEOUS!!! Congrats to the both of you!
MAN I wish I had the $$ for one!!! Or any of the larger flap cats for that matter! I can’t wait until Melody does a PYO Flap cat! I’ll do portraits of all of my kitties!!!!!! 😀
Well… I hate to keep this going… I know it’s a heated debate… but…
When Breyer started out in 1950 or so… they had no idea how the “hobby” of collecting “toy” model horses would take off. Before they knew it they had a nice community of collectors growing… avid collectors… and soon those collectors began to make changes to their model horses.
It started out simple… just repainting the models. And generally its EASY to tell when the horse has been modified. Initially the “customizer” was not concerned with hiding the brushstrokes from painting the horse. Nowadays… having visibile brush strokes on a horse you painted is almost taboo…
We customizers strive for realism… putting as much detail and life into the pieces as possible… and that is why this hobby has grown…
Individual artists can put WAY more time and life into a piece than a production line…
Also… for the longest time… ALL large Breyers (Traditional to Classic scale) were produced within the United States… so Knock-offs… though they DID occur…weren’t as common place as they are becoming. Since Breyer shifted their production to China… we’ve seen a LOT more molds be recast, resculpted… and just generally cheeply knocked off. And there’s not much that Breyer can do about it… because the laws in China are different than here… they don’t respect the copyright laws. And they are SO hard to track down. I know Breyer is currently fighting it… but I don’t see an end to that coming soon…
Heck… to begin with Breyer stole some molds from Hagen Renaker (a small company that produced china and porcelain horses, based in CA) and began producing them…
Hagen Renaker, of course, fought them over it… and eventually allowed Breyer to lease some of their molds to produce in plastic. This “truce” of sorts lasted until last year… when either Breyer chose nto to renew the lease on those “old molds” or… Hagen Renaker decided they didn’t want Breyer to lease them any more. Details are still sketchy on that…
But anyway… back to my original point… 😆
Breyer soon realised that they had a rather LARGE collectors market… and then this “Custom” horses… it drove their sales up… People wanted to buy horses just to customize… these customized horses were selling well on the secondary market… and every time people encountered them… it brought more people into the world of collecting model horses.
I don’t think there’s a customizer out there today who didn’t START collecting the “Original Finish” models…most still collect them, even if their focus (like me) is custom painting and selling them…
So Breyer decided that it was more profitable to encourage Customizing their horses (they even sell kits for this specific purpose… as well as tack and what not for them, for little kids and amateurs to get started on! it’s an entire product line for them!)… rather than spending the money to squash it and see that people didn’t do it.
If you think about it… it was a really smart move on their part.
I’m not saying that this is something Windstone should follow explicitly… or even at all… it’s just WHY Breyer doesn’t discourage it…
Honestly… I know it’s something Windstone can’t exactly stop…
In all honesty… the best thing to do is EDUCATE people about it… maybe not discourage it as such… but tell them that they prefer it not to happen… the reasons why… WHY it’s special to keep OOAK, LE and even production run Windstones as “special” and “collectable” as they are.
We all know that Melody’s artwork is beyond compare. ^.^ There just aren’t ANY fantasy figures out there that even come CLOSE to what she achieves!
It’s up to us as a collecting community to make sure that Custom painted pieces REMAIN identified as such… so there is NO confusion…
I’m honestly thinking that if I repaint any regular mold Windstones… I’ll find some way of permanently identifying it as a customized, OOAK piece… a signature carved into the bottom of the figure… or something to that nature… Cause we all know that no matter how many COAs, notes or ther ways of identifying the piece, that is separate from the piece… WILL be lost at some point… causing the current owner to be unsure of it’s origin…
But yeah… that’s just my $.02… 😀 😈
Oh! And another note… Nam’s pieces are beyong question. They aren’t “custom pieces”. Simply because she is a WINDSTONE EMPLOYEE… therefore they are OFFICIAL winstone pieces. They are just OOAK using a different method of production. 😀 Totally different beasties!
Oh I love the Gryphon Chick!!! I can’t wait till mine show up tomorrow night! EEEEE!
The chicks are DEFINATELY my fav sculptures now! So ADORABLE!!!
Lookit that guy! What a…. small horn… Poor thing!!!
