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With the other huge thread on ebay fakes, I’m sure someone else has made a note of these. I thought that I’d post them up anyway, and send them along to John as well. Shame shame…
*wags a finger* UGLY!
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Hi again! To answer your questions/comments…
Watergazer and drag0nfeathers: I could make other styles of hats, sure. I’ve only made the fishy ones so far, but my base pattern with the earflaps is flexible! PM me with your ideas.
dragonessjade: I have made these fish hats in kids’ sizes too. They have stubby tails and are really cute, in my unbiased opinion, hehe. I’ve had commissions open for these for some time, and they’ll stay open on the trade end too, so keep me in mind if things change!
Thanks!
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Thanks and thanks, to the both of you! Heh, yes, if I had half of the inking prowess of Jhonen Vasquez, I’d be a very happy girl. Cest la vie! And nice ink yourself, drag0nfeathers 😉
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Hi all! I’ve been itching to add some of the PYOs to my collection, and paint to my heart’s content. But grad school’s keeping my funds pretty low, so I thought I’d offer some trade bait and see if anyone gets ‘hooked’ 🙂 I make some pretty cute polyester fleece hats in the shape of Japanese koi/carp/goldfish. I can customize color patterns and sizes as people would like. I’d trade for anything, really, and don’t mind damaged pieces at all. I’d figure two custom hats for an unpainted PYO, or smaller ‘common’ production piece, more for a larger or ‘rarer’ piece?
For examples of the hats, please see:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47397779/
and http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/48919373/Hehee, ‘hooked’, get it? 😉
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Hello, and thanks for the quick reply. There might have been little spaces in the paint where water got underneath, and maybe that’s how it bubbled up. The piece is ‘used’, hehe, as in pre-owned and scheduled for repairs to a number of chips. Strangely enough, none of the other paint weakened, and even the front of the egg (which had a stain and needed to be scrubbed with soap) wasn’t affected, just the top.
Anyway, good to know that the paint is supposed to be water resistant. I suppose something must have been applied to it in the past to make it so weak (glass cleaner? Furniture polish?). I’ll try to inject a little glue under the bubbles to fix them back into place, and a paint touch-ups were in order for the little fella anyway. I’d really appreciate a little bit of that stain, though, and thank you for offering. I’ll send you a PM.
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Hello! Just this morning I decided to do a little dusting, and ran my Windstones under a quick sprinkle of water to get them clean. I was darn near horrified to find that the eggshell paint on my gargolingus started to blister and flake off! I quickly patted it dry, but as it has dried, more paint has started to peel away from the piece. Help!
Have you ever run across this problem with your other gargolingi or egg pieces, and do you have any repair ideas? Thanks in advance!
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Aren’t the dinos cute? I have all but the Velociraptor and the Maiasaura. I managed to find them all through eBay, and the others are right, the Protos do seem to go for the least, and appear the most often. Because the dinos aren’t as popular or recognized as Melody’s dragons, people list them often without really knowing what they are. I got one as a STEAL for a friend of mine for only 99 cents! Its shell was scuffed up, but still!
But the others are a different story, especially if you’re looking for mint ones. By far, the T. rex and the Velociraptor appear the least often. Good luck to you!
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*confused* Don’t the two adult oriental dragons have metal horns too?
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Wow, what a find at that price! The damage shouldn’t be too hard to fix up, since it’s all in one section. Plus, it’s the ‘back’ wing, so it’ll still display nicely. Great deal!
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Thanks to Melody and others for your suggestions! The vibrating method is something we do by hand, tapping the molds, with variable success. We run a pretty low-tech operation so the cleaner and the vibrating table aren’t much of an option. Thanks to seeing Melody’s gallery pictures, as well as the work of others with molding and casting expertise, I can say it’s a much better option to have flat-sided mother molds that can be banded or screwed together.
And BTW Melody, there’s nothing negative at all with drawing more! Best of luck!
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Hi Melody! I have a question about your casting process: how do you create such wonderfully bubble-free casts? I work in my school’s fossil preparation lab where we mold and cast all sorts of things in all sorts of materials. We often use plaster and gypsum stone, but have a lot of trouble with keeping bubbles from appearing on the surface of our casts, and occupying the ‘tips’ of our casts. The common method for reducing the bubbles is tapping the molds once they’re poured, but this never gets rid of the problem. Do you guys have some sort of vaccuming process which eliminates air from the slurry before or after it’s poured?
Sorry for the long question, thanks a lot!
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Melody wrote:Oh they aren’t all cheap plastic, I’ve seen some that are just beautiful!
No, I’m not doing any more dinos.
(A sabertooth is a dino?)
I’ve done lots of sketches for a sabertooth sculpture.. never got around to it, as usual. I would like to sculpt one with its mouth shut for once.
I would love to sculpt the archyopteyx (however you spell it; that bird-like thing, I LOVE those!), but the whole dino line sort of fizzled. We didn’t really sell that many of the normal dinos, just the hatchers.
A hatching sabertooth? hmmm..Aww, well, I must say that the dinos you have done are much appreciated by some! Kooky old mammals would be interesting too. A winged baby giant ground sloth? 😆 And yes, I like sabertooths with their mouths shut too, it always makes them look sort of dignified. Thanks for the info though!
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Aw, what a shame! Well, the way I see it is that someone (or many someones) already put so much work into making the piece, it’s a shame to just throw it out. Several years ago I was browsing in a gift shop that happened to sell Windstones, and noticed a baby peacock oriental dragon in a box full of garbage. It had a clean break along the base of the tail, nothing more. They refused to sell it to me, saying that all broken merchandise ‘had’ to be thrown out.
From a hardcore collector’s standpoint, it is always nice to have mint pieces. But I don’t think repairs take away too much from the beauty of something made well. Damage sometimes has a neat history to it too, like the fire-burnt dragons posted on the livejournal community a while back.
Oh well, I ramble. Off to bed!
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… yearning to be fixed up! 😉
I’d love to expand my collection, and I drool over the stuff that goes up on eBay. Student loans keep most of that out of my budget range though! So I thought I’d throw out a line to anyone who’s got any damaged pieces that they’d be willing to sell. I like to dabble in sculpture and painting, and found that I had a bit of a knack for fixing Windstone pieces after I had to do it for a lovely few dragons I won online, and got them smashed in the mail. 🙁 I enjoyed the challenge, so I wouldn’t turn down something that people would consider unsalvagable.
So if you’ve got damaged pieces and would like to pad your fund for something new, please drop me a line!
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Hello! I’d like to ask if you have plans for ever doing any more dinosaur sculptures, Melody. With all of the feathered, big-eyed birdcritters they’ve been finding lately, I can’t help but think what an adorable personality you’d give them in sculpted form. I’ve also gotta say that the little ‘grin’ on your hatching T. rex’s face is too cute! Thanks for producing your original lineup of them! It’s hard to find dinos to decorate my shelf that aren’t made in China and of cheap vacu-formed plastic 🙂
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