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ruffian wrote:
but I was unsure weather it was decided or not that we would be able to buy bags for those dragons we dont have them for?
I asked about bags.. I forget what happened.. I’ll ask about them again.
ruffian wrote:Are you going to be waiting to post any new listings on ebay until the new year?
I really want a large PYO dragon adn dont want to miss them if they go up over christmas. Same goes for the griffin families.I was hoping to get Fem griffs up before Christmas, but that doesn’t look likely… so they will get up when they get up.This is why I avoid calenders.They give me claustrophobia, all those little boxes you need to be in at the right time.. eeech.
CherylKaufman wrote:I just wanted to know what days are the factory closed for the holidays? I’m shipping off cookies tomorrow but wanted you to get them before the weekend. Or should I wait until Jan?
I don’t know.. I was gonna ask somebody. I think we are in session at least until Thurs.
littleironhorse wrote:With the retirement of the Peacock color, comes the side effect that the Spectral Dragon (sitting) is no longer available at all… With that in mind, is there any chance that he will be offered in another color any time soon?
Oh, right… Hmmm, I guess we will have to paint him in something. I’m glad we have you guys watching out for us.
SilverArrow wrote:dragonessjade wrote:That would be lots of fun, but imagine all of the security you would have to have to keep it civil. 😆
True, or Miss Melody would only have to whip out some new sculpt or color we haven’t seen yet and put it under our noses. Then we would forget all about the stuff we found for a short time – enough time so that Chessie and Vantid could recover all the items we stuffed under our jackets to sneak out. LOL! Why is everybody calling me “Miss Melody”? I think Miss skigod started that.
littleironhorse wrote:Reading about your storage space problem in another topic has brought this question to mind: Are you done clearing out really old stored items or might we expect some nice surprises on ebay in the future like the black and tan family or the wedding cake family?
And about the black and tan family… If the info in the ebay gallery is correct, there is still one family left to sell, besides the one you’re keeping as paint samples. Is that right?
We are done clearing out the old warehouses for now. Everything is stuffed into the space we have. There could still be stuff that we haven’t found yet, we don’t know what is boxed. We have lots of boxes and we didn’t go through all of them by any means!.
We have two pairs of Black and Tan dragons. I was going to auction one pair and keep the other. I would paint a hatchling to go with them.SPark wrote:Man, you’re probably sick of hearing me talk about fledgelings.
But I love them! And they make it so easy to collect colors!
Anyhow… what I’m wondering is, the limited gold lap dragons have come out in two batches, the dark and the light versions. From what I’ve seen of the gold fledgelings though, they were all the darker version. Mine sure is! Have there been any light version ones made? If there are, do you have any left at the factory? If there aren’t, will there be? I’ve seen the newer lighter gold in person now, and I LOVE it, and would like to have a dragon that color too! If I can’t get a feldgeling in it I may eventually save up for something bigger, but I thought I’d ask.
(P.S. How come the green fledgelings, and will there ever be violet flame fledgelings?)
Thanks! And if you don’t know, that’s okay. I’m just curious, that’s all. Green fledgelings are getting finished. They need to be antiqued and detailed. If we do more fledgelings in gold, I will probably do them in the new gold version, with copper and violet on them, as well as heavier brown. I have no idea if there are more of those old gold fledges in stock.. that is a question for Karen!
Maybe there will be violet flame fledgelings someday… Ya never know.WolfenMachine wrote:Well that means if they’re being shipped, they’re being sold, right? 😀
The Birman and I think the blue eyed white cats are for sale from our website directly as “limited production”. We don’t make alot of them at a time, maybe thirty or so, so they don’t take up much room.
The production ones would take up a whole forklift pallet space in the shipping dept, so we always need to think about our space limitations!WindstoneCollector wrote:Ok. So there I was checking on Windstones at ebay when suddenly I thought of my Orientals (Dragons and Ki-Rins) and decided to go look at the Foo Lions/Dogs on ebay. I just love those statues that sit outside the Chinese resturants and guard the doors. I really like Oriental things I guess, since I bought alot of little things to put with my dragons and Ki-Rins. Infact my Sun Dragon was who I took with me to work lastnight to show everyone what it is I am always working on there in my spare time (which isn’t much).
So, on to the question…
Melody is there any chance that you won’t retire the Sun Dragon since he looks so much like the Foo’s I have come to love? And if you do is there a possibility of maybe you might make a pair of Foo Lions/dogs perhps in a distant future? Or should maybe I just give in and buy a pair from China and pay to have them shipped here? I was thinking in my own small world how nice it would be for us Oriental lovers (unless I am alone) to have them. I personally think a set of bookends would be a neat idea. 😳
Thanks for your extra time to read this…in advance. 😉(Knows it is just the ramblings of another collector in the midst of her own mind, but also knows it doesn’t hurt to throw out an idea or two. 😆 ) I haven’t planned to do foo dogs.
Vantid has been a big advocate of them, so I have considered it…A paint your own Foo dog?
But, You don’t need to go to China for them! Gad, they are everywhere around here, in any Chinese import place. They are a little on the crummy side, but there are nice ones too.I bought a pretty nice pair of them for about $16. at an import place.
I often search on Kirins on Ebay, just for images to save for reference if nothing else.I’ll look at foo dogs too, when I get a chance.WolfenMachine wrote:Yikes! I hope the female griffins aren’t as much as the males…more than $230 when the originals sold for $75? I’d have to pass if all the female griffs are going to be more than the BIN males 🙁
That’s just a guestamate for the limited production females.
I don’t know what the production ones will go for, we haven’t priced them yet…or even figured out a color!WolfenMachine wrote:I dont mean to speak for Mel here, but….
Although the calander idea sounds great, Melody keeps saying she never knows when things will be out-they’re out when they’re out. Windstone doesn’t work on calanders and dates 😉
(from the “ETA Griffin” thread)Quote:I really have trouble with ETA becase I just don’t know what is gonna happen. Sometimes stuff gets out on time, sometimes we run into unforseen glitches.The Fem. griff is final, being cast for a final test paint batch and then on to production.The sitting chick in in the same state , the crouching chick will be done Monday and begin getting the final mold made. Possibly we will put a test batch on Ebay the end of this month? That is optimistic,of course.
And also judging by her response in another recent thread in which she said she didn’t know the prices of things out now, so I have a feeling she doesn’t decide the price directly, herself (but I could be wrong on the last bit)
hope that helped!
Right. I don’t set the prices myself. We set the prices by figuring how long they take to paint (after painting a batch or two)how complicated they are to cast, and how big they are, etc.
See how organized we are?Pam Thompson wrote:Mel, what will the Ebay BIN prices be set at for the brown griff mother and chicks?
Second question: Have you started work yet on the PYO flapcats and hyppogriffs?
Also, I think it would be great if this website had a calander of some sort, to organize everything, such as estimated release dates for BINs, new colors, new production pieces, etc. Just something to let us all know your plans for the future, so we wouldn’t have a million and one topics like this one asking you all that stuff over and over and over again.
And finally, I must say, I LOVE the new golds SO much better than the first versions!! They look so much more realistic and have so much more depth to them. I am guessing their main difference in comparison to the first ones is that these new ones have more brown plus they have purple added? Either way, they look fantastic and I can’t wait to get my hands on a new gold emperor.
We haven’t yet priced the new griffins, but I guess the female griffin would be around the same price as the BIN males, although she is a little bigger… we haven’t priced the chicks yet, either. We typically decide these things about five minutes before we put them on ebay.No, I haven’t begun work on pyo flappcats or any other sculpture, for that matter.(…and now that my winged wolf got stolen, I’ve got to do that one over again, too! moan, gripe)
This time of year I don’t try to work on sculpture. I work on painting. And griping.A calender would be swell, if we were organized enough for it to mean anything…but we never know what is going to happen, when. Things just kinda happen when they are ready to. I give up trying to predict anything! Too many variables.
The gold dragons now have some purple, and some copper on them, so they are slowly gaining complexity. They do look much nicer with more colors on them.
SilverArrow wrote:Any chance in the next year or so to see a new color of production flapcats? Or have flapcats just flown away for good except limited productions?
I don’t know.
I would like to do them in more colors as limited production..(when I get time) but I hadn’t thought about doing regular production ones.
We have a storage problem and can’t have too many items in the shipping area at once, so we need to think hard about making new production things.Instant Karma wrote:Is there any type of action type molds in progress?
Don’t get me wrong, I love my dragons and there isn’t any other sculpt I feel that could hold a candle to the Windstones! But all of the dragons are either laying down or sitting, except for the scratching dragon. Is there any chance of getting one standing or with wings extended? Something in motion? Maybe attacking or stalking?
Same with the flions and gryphons… I think an attacking flion would be simply awesome if there was a way to work the mold.
Just wondering!
Two reasons that I don’t do action poses:
One is, like everyone told you, gypsum just isn’t the medium for that sort of thing. I am proud of the almost-action poses we have managed; the rearing pegasus, for example, was really stretching our material and methods!
The second reason, and this is just as important to me, is the emotional connection people have with Windstone creatures. If you have a roaring clawing dragon sculpture, frozen in mid-attack, well you know he isn’t in YOUR world. Either you emotionally treat him more as just a SCULPTURE of a dragon, or that he is acting out in his own little dramatic story in his own world. He is less present with you, as a companion and fellow living thing in the room, the way I want Windstones to be. (…even though they happen to be stone right now.)SilverArrow wrote:What is the “story” behind the Wind Wizard? What was your inpiration? I love knowing the little details and ideas that went into your work. Any other tidbits of info on other pieces would be great too. 😀
As far as the figure, he is another wizard brother of the family..I forget what his name was! It will come to me.
He was a limited edition because he was a pain to produce! I needed to go over every single one of those guys with touch up paint, and stain to make sure the face and everything was right.The pewter hand needed the fingers positioned on each one…We decided “yaaach! we can’t make these!”
We still managed to sell out the whole edition. Glad we don’t have to do more of those!
