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Real pictures this time!
I might consider trades for a natural or safari unicorn since I missed those, but as far as the poads go, I’m pretty happy with him 🙂go ahead and use these pictures if you like Hannah.
Ever put some acetone on a synthetic one? -Or lay a piece of sculpey on it?
At work, yes 🙂 We discovered that they completely disappear when acetone hits them (the first time was accidental, after that…not so much)
Never tried the sculpey though.
…I actually really hate packing peanuts in any way shape or form. The synthetic ones especially, but just…ack, I don’t like them.
I lose at uploading photos, but later this weekend I’ll set up with new Christmas mini-tripod and have nice photos to upload of the new poadie and other things that need updating around here.
My little guy had himself a little escapade and got himself delivered to the basement apartment where I used to live. Getting the ‘delivered’ e-mail was a little bit of a ‘Huh? No it didn’…uh oh.” moment, but a short drive and all’s well. He sure picked a night to go adventuring too! It’s only ten degrees here! Crazy poad!
Here he is in the class photo: He seems based on a peacock (not a peahen, he’s informed me) with metallic blue fading into that awesome peacock-burnished green on his flanks, purple on his head, and a metallic bronzy-orange stripe up his back with green eyes. He’s quite handsome, I think.
So, yes, better pictures later, and this for now:
I’ll have to buy some when I can afford it, but in the mean time, would any of what I have in stock work? There’s not really any chance of my being able to buy any dullcote soon and I really want my horse to be protected – the Fixatif doesn’t seem all that durable. Thank you so much!
Well, if you’re just going to display it until you can get dullcote, a couple layers of fixatif should do fine as a holdover. I’ve also found that some colors of pastel are more durable than others, so it’s really hard to judge how any given fixative will affect them. You might try pastelling a piece of paper or something with the chalks you used, then spray it with the different kinds of sealer you have to see how it affects the colors you used on this particular horse.
I use Testors brand ‘dullcote’
it’s a matte finish laqueur spray that feels wonderful when it’s dry, and I think it does pretty well with pastels. I’ve pastelled a few, but that was before I had the dullcote. I most recently used it as a topcoat to kill the high gloss finish my last custom was sitting in (which was Rust-o-leum crystal clear enamel, which killed my pastels a -little-, but then, I was using eyeshadow, so I wasn’t overly surprised at that…)
The rustoleum stuff worked great on an all acrylic stablemate, and putting the dullcote over it gives it a very pleasant luster-satin look.
I switched to dullcote after hearing multiple breyer artists swear by it. It comes in little cans in most hobby shops in the model car painting section, generally.
Is this the time to squeak again for baby Gothic Unicorns, and have them as PYOs? I remember the baby goat photos that were posted when this suggestion was made before. So cute!
Hooo! a baby gothic would be SO adorable!
[We had talked about maybe releasing the old Gothic Unicorn as a PYO]
This would make me unbelievably happy, since it seems there’s even less chance of new production for the gothics on the horizon than the other unis.
I have a protective skin on my iPad and e-readers, do I need something similar to protect the drawing area on the grafire tablet?
Not sure about the new models, but my old graphire was virtually indestructible, I had it for over a decade with no protector on it and it was fine. It had a hard snap on cover designed for putting graph paper or a personal photo under, so not sure if what you’ve got is the same, but good choice with the graphire.
I’m suspecting more and more that the forum isn’t particularly friendly on Safari, but I can’t swear to it since I don’t have an Apple to test from. 🙂
That would make sense, as that’s what I’m on right now and can’t vote. I’ll try in another browser.
[EDIT] No go. Tried voting in both Firefox and Google Chrome from my mac. At least in the other browser it says ‘please select an answer’ or something like that so it’s at least pretending it’s my fault in stead of resetting the page without a word. Maybe it’s just Mac’s in general? I’ve been able to vote on some of the polls in the past though, so who knows. …
I’m not sure if my vote actually went through or not, it looks like the page just refreshed and reset.
If they released a PYO Gothic Unicorn I would be in heaven 😀
I second this, I voted unicorn, but a Gothic PYO is where my heart’s really set.
Second that, a companion wolf would be nice (lol, even just a regular wolf would sell like hot-cakes I’m sure!) and I wouldn’t mind a companion kirin and griffin.
If I have to pick just one though? I’d probably say pegasus.
I’m also going to be a brat and put in a write in vote for pebble PYOs. }:)
I got a ‘Neo by Iwata’ this past summer, which I think means Iwata doesn’t make it but backs it up. It was about $100 (but I used a %40 off one item coupon at Hobby Lobby for it }:) ), and works great so far. It’s top loading/ gravity feed, but I’ve been using it with my normal painting acrylics just fine with very little clogging issues–I just water down the paint to the consistency of 2% milk-ish. They make it in both single and double action models (I got the double action, though I can tell you if you don’t have hands like a surgeon you’d probably be happier with a single action…I’ve got pretty steady hands but it still takes me a pretty good warm up to get my lines under control)
I suppose it depends on what you want to do with it, but I’m guessing it has something to do with painting certain addictive gypsum-hearted companions. I’ve yet to do a PYO with mine yet, but it’s done fantastically on both Breyer traditionals and stablemates. If you’re doing one model at a time, the quick paint changes are handy: you can put just one or two drops into the cup, use them for your three dapples in just the right place, then take two seconds to flush it, and load a new color. I’ve been keeping colors in those little paper cups, then loading and reloading as much as I please without too much hassle, and actually use the tiny 1 oz. cup more than the bigger one that comes with it (which I pretty much just use for a base coat now then switch out)
Hope that’s of help.
Everything I painted would have red eyes.
….everything…..Deal! Start painting! ^^
She can start with mermaids
Haha, red-eyed mermaids! Sounds like they’re swinging toward the more sailor-kidnapping kind of mermaid then 🙂
