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Greater Basilisk wrote:
Thanks for the pics, Mel. Could we see some of the dragon forms, may be from the inside too?
Do you mean a pic from inside a dragon mold?
skigod377 wrote:Thank you! I was just wondering. Good luck with the Secret Keeper. I really hope to see her in production.
…gad, me too!
skigod377 wrote:My metallic red is totally pink 😕 I have been looking for a nice deep red, and I cant find one, either.
There aren’t any.
sunhawk wrote:Now I know Windstones are painted with acrylic and I’m assuming it’s a special kind of acrylic made for airbrushing. My question to Melody (or anyone!) is about the shimmery quality of dragons – how is that achieved? Is there a brand you buy that comes that way or is it something you have to add to normal colours? I recall in another thread you mentioned that the ruby colour is made from automotive paint.
I know acrylic can come in shimmery shades in the Interference category but I’ve noticed that they seem to be light regardless of the colour so that when you put them overtop of other paint, the shimmer is more pearly-related than a darker, jewel tone, if you know what I mean?
What I really want to know is whether it’s possible for someone to get the kind of glowing emeralds and deep blues you get, when we are painting our PYOS, if there’s a trick or a certain kind of paint we would need.
Sorry this is such a rambly question LOLWe use Golden acrylics. They come in all kinds of metalics and interferance colors. Our colors are usually a mixture of several of these, plus pigments…We spend a lot of time formulating these perfectly, and I don’t even remember what is in most of them. You can approximate these colors yourself, or better yet, come up with new ones, by mixing and experimenting with the metallics that are available from Golden and Liquitex.They are great paints.
The Ruby color is much trickier. It is achieved by carefully airbrushing the transparent red over layers of metallics and other colors. It may not look it, but that color took a long time to perfect!skigod377 wrote:Are there any other new dragon poses you are working on to go with all these new colors? Are you having any luck with the secret keeper? (hollowing)
uh .. no luck, yet.
I have a couple dragon designs I have been working on, but not for color. One is an out door dragon..and one is an I-don’t-know-what dragon. I haven’t done any sculpting for months, things take longer that way..and dragons take forever to finish anyway.Romeodanny wrote:I’ve just bought a Wizards Retreat candle lamp. I thought something was missing but, I couldn’t figure out what. Someone who has one pointed out that the crystal ball is missing. Would I be able to buy one?
Yes. Send us an email with your address. We will be back in the office after the New Year.
Nirvanacat13 wrote:DUDE! 😯 😯 I saw the Cyan coloring and was like “WHAT??? I didn’t post all that!??? WTF?? Oh, it’s Mel….” Freaked me out man! Usualy the way I look at threads is I look for the color, that was my last post, and then I know I’ve not read much of anything past that =P… And I’m not even on my drugs yet this morning!
Sorry. It is the nicest color.The rest of them are ugly.
skigod377 wrote:I thought all the tags were the same. I sure never got any card with my Ki rin either. Learn something new every day!
See? you didn’t get the little paper with your Kirin. That is another reason we started attaching them to the piece.
emerald212 wrote:I like and dislike the hang tags. As a seller, it’s a great place to put the price of the piece. As a collector of Young Dragons, it makes them tippy to sit on their tags, and the tags are too visible if they don’t sit on them. So I just try to flatten them as much as possible and sit the dragons on them. I don’t want to take them off because it shows they are valued and well taken care of if the tags are still attached (at least, that’s the impression I get).
yes , we really wanted to keep stores from putting the pricetags onto the sculpture.If you don’t like them,and don’t plan to resell the piece, yank ’em off! Just tug on them. they pull right out.
Greater Basilisk wrote:The OW has a special tag? I didn’t know that! None of my pieces here have special descriptions in them, but about a third of my collection is at Wolfen’s, so I can’t speak for the rest of them.
I don’t really mind the tags. I just always make the dragon is sitting on them so they don’t show.We also used to insert a little descriptive paper with some pieces, such as the baby Kirin and the Hatching Galapagos tortoise. This was before the hangtags.
Arlla wrote:Is there anyone besides me who finds the hangtags to be super annoying??? They ruin the fantasy of the piece a little bit for me…plus I’m always afraid I’m going to bend them the wrong way or something when I put a piece back down on a shelf. They irritate me! But of course I can’t bring myself to take any of them off…
The only one I kind of like is the one for the Old Warrior, because it’s got a little blurb on that particular dragon on the inside, telling us a little about the old warrior – I didn’t know he was supposed to have a kink in his tail before I read that! (I thought it was just twitched to the side a little, like a cat twitching the tip of it’s tail.) That’s kind of cool. Are there any other tags that talk about their pieces on the inside??
Thank Beanie Babys for that! We expected everyone to yank the hangtags off soon as they got them. Now, since the collecting frenzy of Beanie Babies, with the little hangtag protecters, everyone is into saving hangtags!Keplilly wrote:Melody wrote:SilverArrow wrote:Melody wrote:Romeodanny wrote:That’s alright. Between my strange freckle problem and my yellowed unicorns (actually they were won off ebay, I didn’t notice they were yellowed until I compaired them with mine.)<>What can I say other than I have some strange windstones.
The only thing I know that will yellow them is smoke.
I haven’t had this issue on Windstones, but have had it on some other sculps. They looked fine when new, but turned yellow over time and with increased light exposure due to a yellowing of the sealant/finishing coat, not the paint itself (in a non-smoking house). Has this ever been a problem?No, we have never seen this. If anything goes wrong with something, we get the stores to return the piece so that we can see what happened. We’ve never seen yellowing, but who knows what has happened to these unicorns? There are things we haven’t done to them that might change the surface, such as intense weird wavelenght light from a tanning lamp, or black light maybe? Spray wax finishes somebody dusted them with? Who knows.Heat and fire are the only things we have seen that really will yellow the paint. But it turns it golden, more on one side, and is sort of pretty- on the pearl paint, anyway.
Are your unicorns evenly yellow?… or just on one side? Perhaps we just used a slightly creamier colored paint on yours.We do mix the unicorn paint ourselves, it is possible that one batch was the wrong color. (I’ve heard that we sometimes paint things the wrong color.)My mind just screamed jade at that. 😆mine too.
Arlla wrote:Melody – are the PYO griffins in their final mold, or are you still changing some details on them? Because as a painter I have a few suggestions…but only if want them.
The pyos griffins are done. What are your suggestions?
Ha, I just read all this , and all I can say is I tryed to fix all the glitches Nambroth found on the first sharp feather casting, but didn’t get them all! The eybrow wasn’t detailed well at all on the off side, so I recarved the feathers into the epoxy casting. That is why the detail looks sharper on that side.
The PYO griffin I have here has four toes on each foot! … though, this is a soft feather one…I did recarve one foot; his left hind foot, because it was too big. I’ll have to get a sharp feather one and check its toes.SilverArrow wrote:Melody wrote:Romeodanny wrote:That’s alright. Between my strange freckle problem and my yellowed unicorns (actually they were won off ebay, I didn’t notice they were yellowed until I compaired them with mine.)<>What can I say other than I have some strange windstones.
The only thing I know that will yellow them is smoke.
I haven’t had this issue on Windstones, but have had it on some other sculps. They looked fine when new, but turned yellow over time and with increased light exposure due to a yellowing of the sealant/finishing coat, not the paint itself (in a non-smoking house). Has this ever been a problem?No, we have never seen this. If anything goes wrong with something, we get the stores to return the piece so that we can see what happened. We’ve never seen yellowing, but who knows what has happened to these unicorns? There are things we haven’t done to them that might change the surface, such as intense weird wavelenght light from a tanning lamp, or black light maybe? Spray wax finishes somebody dusted them with? Who knows.Heat and fire are the only things we have seen that really will yellow the paint. But it turns it golden, more on one side, and is sort of pretty- on the pearl paint, anyway.
Are your unicorns evenly yellow?… or just on one side? Perhaps we just used a slightly creamier colored paint on yours.We do mix the unicorn paint ourselves, it is possible that one batch was the wrong color. (I’ve heard that we sometimes paint things the wrong color.)
