Angel's remake process has started, and if required to reduce the flaw rate of the white sparkly "skin," they will be using another pearl/mica method to make it. It's kind of play it by ear right now because the rep does feel really bad about the whole batch being crummy, and I don't want to be taking up a ton of their time and materials either, so I'm trying to make sure all details are ironed out properly this time.
As mentioned in previous posts, she's really bad quality overall. I have enough to fulfill the campaign orders IF we ultimately decide to keep the enamel materials the same, but I don't have any to fulfill gacha or if people were to add her to their surveys, she's about 80% with very major issues:
Most of the problem pins are because the pearl colors are inexplicably all bleeding into each other in the hair, but many also have random blue and black speckles throughout all the white pearl, which is their "skintone"... If we do decide to change the pearl white to something else that's less prone to debris and easier for the workers to keep in the right cavities, then I will need to fulfill all of the orders via the remakes because you all should have the same type of pin.
Demon's 100 pins are being sent straight back to China, they paid the shipping so I don't have to do that. That's GREAT too because I looked it up, and uhhh it would've cost me $340 to send back on my own. I'm upset that she doesn't glow like she's supposed to on her skin, but at least her eyes do still glow:
While we were at it, they had me include the 12 flawed Golems that were
missing enamel too, because if they agree that they're not good they'll remake at least that many...so they say. If the printing works out, whether or not they can fix those 12 Golem I will be super, super grateful for that - But, that currently remains to be seen. There's also about 20 more Golems with substantial issues but they ignored those and just focused on the ones with empty cavities.
They've also got Gorgon the proper colors again:
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Gorgon was initially made with the wrong gradient. After much back and forth, she is being remade correctly. Details can be found
here.
However, if you're someone who got Gorgon who PREFERS the incorrect-gradient version please let me know and you can have her, they're
mostly good quality just not matching the artwork...
And as I showed the backers of the first campaign last week, TV Cat is practically all perfect!!
Mermaid is about 3/4 finished...she just requires the clear enamel/epoxy/whatever they're topping it off with, and then printing...not sure why they plated her first...
Lastly, here's an updated Dullahan.
I've been reassured that the navyish color is a static glitter/pearl effect now, the lighting is just poor and it isn't visible. The reason I wanted that to be a very faint pearlescent (and not swirly) is to resemble high-opacity nylon stockings. The glow effect is still really good despite the added color, which they were worried about, but it looks great to me:
So she's now wonderful! The only disappointment I have about Dullahan is that her nails look a bit dark, we did actually try a much brighter color with this 2nd sample but the plating affects the shade way more than anticipated because the cavities are so tiny... There's also the
chance the lighting is just totally washing it out, it's like that in photos I take of Zombie from campaign 1 somehow and her nails wind up looking grey in some pictures...but they're super vibrant.
Next update will be after I've submitted my surveys for review for this campaign, so in about a week, with info on new stuff (mostly keychains) that will be available in it! Thanks.
