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Oh man, I love the baby, he’s SO cute! I think he’s one of my favourites of this family.
Isn’t he though?! The black outline around his eyes makes them that much more adorable! My husband doesn’t ‘get it’, sadly. He thinks the baby is identical to the fledgling! But he listens to me go on and on about my dragons while I listen to him tell me about computer parts, so it’s a fair trade 😉
They’re very close, but definitely not identical; even the sculpts themselves have different shapes to them. I think it takes a close eye for detail to really see it though. In fact, I had to bring up the pictures for them to compare side-to-side today as I was debating whether or not to get a baby in addition to the fledgling I’d already bought. I chose not to as I want the lap or perhaps even the scratching dragon quite badly to go with the morpho baby, but it was a close thing because especially with that larger eye it’s just *darling*.
Oh yeah, pretty dragons. I was hesitant about getting this guy but am very glad I did! Not sure if a photo belongs here or in “Show your Collection”, so he’s in both places. 🙂
Oh my word that Spectral is FANTASTIC!! I really hope that gets re-released at some point, I’d love to have one of those next to my fledgling. And also a lap dragon. I am still waiting on that one to pop up.
I am really interested in getting at least one of these for myself. For those of you who have been here longer than me, do PYO’s usually run out of the store fast, or would I probably be safe to wait until the 21st of June (my pay day) to order one?
The cute little kitsune with nine tails showed up on the Windstone Facebook page one time. I think a kitsune is a fox in Japanese. Somebody else can explain the nine tails. 🙂
😀 Ohhh kitsune! I’d love to see some kitsune. Kitsune is the Japanese word for fox, but I think in this context you’re probably referring to their mythological status in Japan. They’re thought to be sort of demi-gods/messengers to the God Inari. They can shapeshift and are something of tricksters, some of them malevolent and some not. They usually carry a jewel known as a ‘hoshi no tama’ with them that is supposed to carry their soul/powers inside it, especially when they change shape. The number of tails that a fox spirit has is supposed to represent how long they’ve been alive.
Also, is it too crazy/out of left field to desire either a unicorn alpaca or some sort of horned alpaca sculpt?
Oh! And I’d love to see a Jackalope family!
Unicorn alpaca or alpaca with wings–I basically NEED these in my life.
Oh, thanks for the pointer there! I think I would have been a bit peeved with myself if I messed up and missed it because I didn’t know to click a different button.
This is my thought too. I’m going to actually look into which paints I should invest in/if they’re available here and for how much, anyway, in case I try not to try this.
Also, I know we’re only supposed to squeak once and edit said squeak, but it’s so far back now I’m afraid it’s buried. Is there any chance we might be able to get PYOs of baby kirin, mother kirin, and father kirin? I know we have the general kirin but it would be awesome to be able to paint whole families, like with the foo dogs.
I could give that a try, though I suspect Jennifer is right and it wouldn’t work; I know they slick off things really easy. I guess the question though would then be if that messed up, would the POY statue still be workable with acrylic after, or would I be out a statue for sure?
@Kiya:
I had read that the oriental dragons (sun and moon) had some casting issues–bubbling feet, was it? It’s a pity, they’re gorgeous. And I guess there might have been some issues with the babies as well, since the young ones in patina apparently had some casting goofs? But at least it sounds like the kirin are unaffected by all that, so hopefully soon it will be cost effective enough to get stuff plated for unicorns and ki-rin if nothing else.I saw a picture of the blue morpho lap dragon on Melody’s blog and was just in awe. I really hope that I don’t miss it–and that if/when it comes out, it’s in a price range I can afford. I’d really like one to match my fledgling.
I found the button for notifications, so I am on the list. I’m excited; I’d really like a grab bag colt. I’m not sure if I want a tadpad or not, personally, as they seem to be super tiny, but a young poad would be both within my budget and a little bit bigger I think. More to enjoy 🙂
Thanks so much for your ever informative replies.
@etruscan
Hmm. The lists seem to be mostly for dragons and grab bags. Any chance that there’s something like that for ki-rin as well (and I’m just missing it somehow)?Fair enough! I thought that grab-bags came around maybe once a year, actually, so hearing that grab bag unis and poads are actually pretty frequent is heartening actually. Maybe I’ll just have to keep a small bit of extra cash around just-in-case gb curlies ever do pop up again. But I’ll definitely be hunting down this sign-up for new items; I don’t want to miss a thing. And it seems like I have a lot of catching up and learning to do about what kinds of pieces have already been done; I imagine there’s bound to be a list out there somewhere.
Also, I’m not sure if it’s okay to ask or not, but you mentioned that the horns are in production again. Is that just for unis, or is that also for kirin and the oriental dragons as well?
@dragonfeathers – I imagine that if they did blue morpho, they’d use the scale pattern to make the scales look like wings folded to the back by following edges of certain scales with the black and silver. At least, I can kind of picture it in my head; I’m kind of failing to put it into words. The colors would be stunning, though, especially with a pewter horn.
And oh my gosh I got a response from Melody herself. Wow. That’s kind of amazing; like somebody famous acknowledging my existence…
These are all so beautiful! I’m trying really hard not to be jealous about missing out on such a unique opportunity. Congrats to all of you.
I only started paying close attention to the site in the last two months, so I have no clue. But it seems like it would possibly be popular. The grab bag for the curly dragons went really fast, and I think so did the unicorns before that? I could be wrong.
How about it Melody, grab bag baby kirins? Pretty pretty please?
The grab bag curlies weren’t really meant to be grab bags – I think they take too long to paint in general (Melody had been working on these for at least 6-7 months and there were only 42.) She was doing test paints to see if she liked anything for a new production color and ended up with so many she just did a small grab bag. I’d be surprised if we ever see grab bag curlies again unless a similar situation comes up. Usually a grab bag has to be fast to paint. Unicorns and poads are, but other sculpts not so much.
I think the mini-keepers were also fairly quick because Brandi was helping and they didn’t have to worry too much about the colors overlapping clear transitions in the sculpt.
Kirins are tricky because the fur and scales need to be painted separately. Melody did say she MIGHT do a small batch of the new standing kirin colts as a grab bag once they get the pad issue sorted out.
There’s also the problem with trying to keep a grab bag from looking too much like a test paint or production color. For a new sculpt like the mini-keepers or standing kirins that’s not a problem, but for something like baby kirins which have been painted in large numbers, it’s hard to avoid an overlap.
Melody also tends to like things that have large smooth-ish areas so she can paint patterns or wings and such on them.
The only production color for kirin right now is the albino with pink or blue eyes. The brown/white color is retired and would probably only come back on new sculpts. I don’t think Windstone un-retires production colors general.
No more GB curlies? 🙁 Oh, I am so sad to hear that I missed a chance. I can see I’m going to have to start stalking this website, because otherwise I’m going to miss out on lots of one-of-a-kind opportunities.
Thanks for all the info on why some things do and don’t get grab bags made for them. I guess I’ll need to stalk / advertise for a brown and white kirin then if that color is retired and never coming back.
But I think when I was talking more natural colors, I meant things that have colorations/patterns from normal horses like the GB unis (ex:palamino, stockings and starbursts, paint, dappling, etc) or even like the ziger where it’s a pattern taken from another animal. A kirin with a giraffe pattern would be really neat I think. But even just seeing some more fantastical colors used like with the oriental dragons (ex: red and gold, green and gold, blue and silver) would be really neat. Although I guess like you say, that tends to start sounding more like a test paint. Guess I need to stalk those, too (I can see this is going to become an expensive hobby for me >_>)
Wow, thanks for the responses everyone. 🙂 I’ll try to quickly go through and respond to everyone.
@Jennifer : The more I thought about it last night, the more I realized I was at best probably looking at using a mixed media approach as, like you say, I can’t go backward. I’m also not sure I am that confident in my skill as to not make errors… so something more forgiving would be better anyway. It’s good to hear/see some reassurances that hand painting is more than okay. (Your PYOs are gorgeous, by the way. Seriously. Now I just want to paint even more!!)
It’s not so much that *all* paints are hard to find, I can usually find really cheap paint at the Japanese version of the dollar store, and there are online services I can order fine artist type materials from online. But the paints in Japan usually cost 2-3 times what they would in America and never seem to go on sale here, or in the case of the ones I can get from the dollar store I’m not sure I really trust them for going on a relatively expensive statuette.
@siberarkh1 – IIRC Dick Blick does ship to Japan. I placed an order with them last year to get some newspaper print, nice papers, and soft pastels (I had the worst time ever trying to find the last thing here; all I could find were hard and oil). It was either that, or I had family in the US ship me the items from their place because I wanted to avoid customs fees, which (especially when you combine already expensive shipping) are just absurd. I can seriously be easily looking at 70 dollars worth in shipping and tax duties on top of the costs of supplies.
@96037 – This is all really interesting information. The more I read the more it seems like my safest bet is to just go ahead and find some acrylics, but if I ordered something really small, like a foo puppy, perhaps I would experiment with the copics just to see how it goes.
@ moonbeam – My response to you will probably the longest, sorry for that. You hit the tail on the head with my concerns: the inks get absorbed so quickly, I wonder if it would really even be workable or not turn out all streaky, for one, and then the cost of those inks even here where they’re produced is NOT cheap; like you say, they’ll run out fast enough as is. I think I will take your advice and not use them for anything big, although if I bought, say, a PYO Foo puppy or Tadpoad, I might experiment with them just because it’s such a small thing.
Thank you SO MUCH for that website. Seriously. Unfortunately, I don’t live in someplace really nice and convenient like Tokyo or Kyoto; I am waaaaaay out in the country-side boonies, and to get to the nearest big city it’s a two hour limited express train and 55 dollars. The local shops around here have some really cheap stuff–if I went to the Daiso I could find paints for a dollar, but I’m not sure I’d trust them for a Windstone project. I’d be similarly leery of any of the young-student grade materials I could find in the stationary shop at the local department store.
I had tried scouring high and low for websites in Japan for art supplies, and even asked my fellow artist friends, and no one could help me. I think I finally managed to find some on Rakuten a while back, after I’d broken down and made my big Dick Blick order, but I think it had worked out that I had STILL managed to get my art supplies as cheaply or no more expensively from America. :/ So I’m going to need to do a price check before I buy anything, but at least this gives me options if I’m desperate.
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