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Greater Basilisk wrote:
$660 is a doosy. I bet Windstone is happy.
Did you ever see what the first Black Golds went for??
drag0nfeathers wrote:Hiya Melody!
I was just wondering if I could perchance grab a tiny bit of the Pearl Griffin touch up paint for the claws. See I got a few babies to make sure I got one that matched my momma. I’m finally left with my pick of the litter and I noticed one of his claws were accidently missed in the painting process. If I emailed Karen do you think she could send it with my Gold Curl? If you had any to spare that is. Thanks.
I can.
If anyone requests paint from me, it is best to tell Karen too, because I just can’t remember who needs what! If anyone has requested paint, and hasn’t gotten it, please remind me!(or tell Karen I forgot, she will remind me, loudly)TrottierJS wrote:I’m guessing that I already know the answer to this question.. and that you don’t know anything for certain yet but I had to ask to satisfy my curiosity anyway.
Do you have an estimate for production for the Secret Keeper?
From what I’ve read in the other threads you are still having issues with hollowing out the Secret Keeper sculpture and maintaining integrity.
Or is it possible that there will be no Secret Keepers available anywhere other than ebay? I love this dragon she is truly magnificent (such a pleasing expression) but I can simply not afford to spend two thousand dollars on her. I might be forgiven for an expenditure of under a thousand.. but more than that and I’m really stepping on my husbands toes…
🙄 We haven’t made any progress on a hollow SK , but we haven’t had time to work on it either. Perhaps we will get enough solid ones coming out of casting that we can begin to sell them direct from our online “store”( which isn’t up and running yet, we are working on it) at a set price, in limited production colors. I can’t predict when that will be. We are aiming at a price under a thousand.I think the auctioned ones have sometimes gone for under a thousand.Keep your eyes open!
tfsculptures wrote:glee! i can’t wait! this is going to make me get a big pearl griff yet! uh oh! 😯 the proud parents will have a whole litter of chicklets!! hmm two pearl, two black and two wolfs for me in the chicklets!weeeeeeeeee! thank you thank you! uh oh, i forgot about the poads for a moment…. (breaks out calculator..) 😯
I painted the first batch of twenty five butternut colored poads yesterday. I am still working out the messy-back-stripe issues, but we should be getting poads out soon. Poads really do look best in large numbers…
Oh, I forgot the “TM”. The name “Poad” is trade marked.yadda yadda yadda. legal poop.
emerald212 wrote:emerald212 wrote:Once I get the shadowbox made that will look like an aquarium and put the goldfish in it (and some shells that I picked up while I was in England), I will use the shelf for a Mariner’s Watchtower I just ordered.
My favorite is the one on the left in back. It’s white with spots and bulging eyes. I paid more for it because it’s rare, but it’s so CUTE! I also have a solid orange one coming that looks like the black one, and two little hermit crabs. And a seahorse to keep the Lion Fish company. 🙂 You are addicted too!
emerald212 wrote:Okay, Melody. You said you wanted to see photos of my lighthouse decorated bathroom. I included a close-up of the shelf with the Kaiyodo goldfish on it. This bathroom is a spare and its tub holds bags of packing peanuts and bubble wrap. And I store boxes in there too, since it’s next to my packaging room for my business. You’ve been warned! 🙂
You can see the fishing net that hanging from the shower curtain loops in the mirror.
Note the lighthouses on the curtains.
Once I get the shadowbox made that will look like an aquarium and put the goldfish in it (and some shells that I picked up while I was in England), I will use the shelf for a Mariner’s Watchtower I just ordered.
That’s a little Kaiyodo Lion Fish by the sailboat. These are NOT the shells I got in England. Those are still packed away.
THAT is your SPARE bathroom? Gad, it is beautiful!! You should see ours. No, you shouldn’t.
Oh those fishes are beautiful! I’ve got to get the ones I don’t have! Did you notice the tiny gold edges on the little scales of the orange ones? Just amazing.
On the serious side,this is exactly why China has put most US “figurine” manufacterors out of biz!rockerbot wrote:I know it’s hard for you to come up with ETAs for this sort of thing, but I feel like I just gotta ask. I’m not too wild on the pearl coloured anythings and I really want those griffin chicks in brown. (DUCKILING GRIFFIES!) Do you have any idea when you’re going to sell them on eBay or the site in brown? Did you even start painting any? I’m counting me pennies! 😀
I’ve got paint samples but no production yet. I can’t give ETA’s, but maybe I can get someone started on them next week. I was focusing on the wolf colored ones, because the stores need griffins too! We are starting to get castings of the crouching chick.. so the next one available will be that one in Pearl.
You think I got time to answer a long question like this??
(Just kidding!)
I realise most of these are rhetorical questions, befitting a glorious rant, (No sarcasm intended, I LOVE rants!) but I’ll answer them literally anyway.You and I, we are different, but yet there are so many similarities in our work.
Quote:All day, every day, people look at the work you’ve done in the past and immediately start winding around in their head, “hey, I bet he/she could take this and do this with it, since they’re so freakin good at doing this”.
Isn’t thinking about the new things you can to do what keeps you interested? Fortunately with me, most things people suggest are things I’ve already got on paper, or in my head to do when I get to it. If I have no intention of ever doing what they suggest,or I can’t, because of the material I use, I tell ’em.
Quote:It would really be an impressive feat if you could pull of making every single piece that people have asked for here.
Hey, I’m not retired yet.
Quote:It would be an equally impressive feat if I could pull of creating and maintaining every site I’ve been asked to run. Even the ones I’ve had in the past I’ve had to step away from micro-manging, and I cry a little bit when I see how they begin to fall apart when not being maintained.
Micromanaging = love. Love is free, get someone else to love it! What can the forum members themselves take care of?? Take this forumm.It is flourishing because we all care, ( all of us forum members) and pretty much try to take care of problems ourselves, because this forum is important to all of us,and we really care about each other..Is this a rare thing for a forum? (I don’t know alot about other forums, but I know I’ve asked questions on others and it takes days before I get a response if I ever do..)Although we do need the Professional to help, for spam avalanches and other bad things, that we can’t handle ourselves.
Quote:So the question is, why do we do it? Why do we bend ourselves out of shape everyday to try to make as many people happy as we can, just because we have a skill?
Quote:Sure there is enjoyment of work, but where do you draw the line?
I have two lines I draw; there are projects I can do, and want to do,and will get to eventually, but not this minute…, and those I don’t have any interest in.. People understand “I have no time to do that”…well,some people do anyway…
And then there is the things Iwant to do for myself.yeah, right.Quote:Maybe I’ve made a gross assumption and you have no time management issues,
O.o
Quote:but I’m sure you can’t work on more than what, two or three different figurines at a time? Cast one set while you paint another and maybe be selling/shipping a third?
Of course, but don’t forget, we got a staff of twenty or so people that do the work! I do the creature sculpting entirely by myself now(that is why new things come out VERY SLOWLY), but I only paint samples and special stuff.
Quote:I could use about three full time staff to get me where I would like to be, one to do nothing but answer the phone, open the mail, and read the security mailing lists (and keep an eye on my forums) .. gee, who wouldn’t love to be paid for that. Another to input my accounting. And one who could monitor help tickets and the server health on a daily basis, do small maintenance jobs, etc. But who the heck can afford to shell out one, never mind three salaries, 25K+ a year, when people complain about paying more than $5 a month for web hosting….
Thats what teenagers are for.
Quote:(not Windstone of course).
You need to charge more.
Quote:I don’t understand how you guys are able to sell these curlies and what not for less than $100. Your R&D has to be stupidly expensive just in time alone.
We can afford to sell the the curls for that price because they are direct sale. That is why we never produced them untill now.
Quote:Well, that’s my thoughts of the week. Having taken two naps totalling 5 hours since Wednesday morning, I’m going to make an attempt at 8 hours now. 😳
Sounds like you are in training for parenthood!
Quote:Here’s to another 10 years of Windstone Editions! and heck, maybe web hosting too 😆
What will this forum look like in ten years, I wonder?
Nirvanacat13 wrote:I so want to see the ALSK when we come up! 😯 I’ll take pictures!! =P
I found the Autumn Leaf color to be impossible to photo with a normal digital camera. The colors come out totally wrong; I mean, not even close! The pics I took make the dragon look as if it was painted with big blotches of black, red and green, with no gold, and no shading between the colors. Simply awful.ugh.
SPark wrote:She said probably not, because having boxes for sale would make it too easy for fakers. They could put fakes in real boxes.
Personally I think the solution to that is to sell boxes one at a time, and ship them one at a time too, no combining. That way they’d bee too expensive to be economical for fakers, (who would need hundreds) but still within the price range of those of us who just need one or two.
I don’t think the danger of fakes in Windstone boxes is really much of an issue, myself. A fake looks like a fake, no matter what kind of box it is in. The biggest issue to me is that we simply don’t have time or space to deal with selling individual boxes. We assemble one kind of box at a time, as needed, for batches of finished things when they are packed. We don’t have the complete boxes sitting around for all the products, that would be impossible..emerald212 wrote:I’m more interested in the color as opposed to the rarity of them. However, the sculpts that appear in Jade currently wouldn’t have to be reissued, so they could stay rare… but could imagine a Jade Emperor, or Rising Spectral? A Jade Male, Mother, Young, Hatching, Fledgling? Those would be so pretty! A Jade Lap! OMG! I’m going to drool, and I try so hard not to. 🙂
I have thought about this, but we have no idea which designs were issued in Jade! They are a mystery to us! I am pretty sure the Spectrals, Emperors and Warriors weren’t, but the Father, Mother,Young, Laps, Scratching and coiled ones have shown up in Jade.
Zelda wrote:Hello! Over the years I’ve saved a lot of pictures of Windstone pieces from ebay and such places. Roaming through my folders, I came across a few emperor dragons painted in mostly orange and red, with sky blue eyes and jewels. I also have a picture of a darker version of this paint scheme with golden belly, shoulder, and arm scales. I was curious about this coloration as it’s very striking.
When were these big fellas made, and were there ever plans for the rest of the dragon family in this color? Thanks! The bottom two are Old Browns. They all had violet interference paint on them, don’t ask me why. It photos weird. I don’t know what the top pic is of. It isn’t a color I recognise.
Does anyone know when the Old Browns were retired? I think the Astral Castle website has the retire dates. I don’t remember.John took a pic but I don’t know where he filed it. I was looking for it yesterday. I’ll post it when I do find it.
I was planning to paint ten Autumn Leaf SK’s ( if I have that many castings…I didn’t count them…) to auction on ebay. That would be like the first ten we auction of a new production color. Hopefully these ALSK’s can be made in production someday.This should keep the auction prices under control.
We really aren’t trying to fleece you folks, we just haven’t many of these to sell!
We are painting more of the white SK’s too.Whistful wrote:the other mother with the blue purple has them
as well as the male so i think they are supposed to.
well the orig had them later they dropped but if a em/pe is a hybrid of emeralds and peacocks it makes sense they have the markingsguess you are right.
Whistful wrote:okay i got the purple VIOLET em peacock momma from emerald and i guess it was a bit of a trial on the color and we know it was changed a bit. but i just noticed she dosn’t have her non metallic touches, she has her gold, but her head and just above the rear leg she dosn’t have the purple blue hand painted scales o_O i wonder how many others escaped like that
Probably all of them, I’m not sure that the male is supposed to have those markings! I’ll need to check the paint samples the painters use, and see what gives…Which way do you like them?
