Many Many Little Ones!

Well, I've been casting away like fury this week and am pleased to say that the 100 copies of Little One will be achieved. Moreso, the mold is holding out exceptionally well (considering I had orginially hoped for just 35 copies from each!) and I think I may have a few more copies available by the time the mold finally gives in. Here's a photo of where I'm at so far (these are all RAW casts, I have to tidy them up yet so if they look a little rough it's because I've not got them ready to go just yet).

In the above photo, there are 87 copies of Little One, also there is the original (on the right hand side, next to the dark grey copy), three seconds which is (thankfully) all I've had, and one copy I decided to pigment in grey (which I'll keep): and a bunch of models I've been casting alongside Little One to use up any surplus resin I mix (I hate wasting materials!). 10 copies of Little One have already sold and been given to their new owners at the Live Show I went to a couple of weeks ago, which means I have already cast 97 good copies of the model! The mold is still looking as good as new so I'm really confident I'll be able to increase the edition from the 100 I've currently limited it to, though I don't know by how many.

If you'd like to be informed when any additional casts become available, drop me an email to savagebyname @ hotmail.com (remove spaces) as I'm keeping a no obligation reservation list and will be informing the people on the list first, should any additional casts come after the 100.

You may have noticed in the above photo that one of the models appears slightly different to the rest, if you look to the left hand side of the photo you might be able to see that one is a very slightly different colour...

This is what I call an "Opel" model. It is made from the same resin as all of the others, but due to a combination of (for want of a better word) "errors", I find that about one copy out of 100 comes out this intriguing colour. I won't sell this copy, I'll hang on to this one as I don't know if the resin will go a bit odd over time, but also because I regard them as a bit of a lucky charm. The model truly comes out an opel colour, translucent with lots of diffuse colours mixed in there. You never know when an Opel model will pop up, this is only the third I've cast (one Fly Fishing and One Pickle V2 came out opel) and I have to admit there's something a little magical about discovering one!

Quick Update

Hi all!

Just a quick update as I sneak five minutes in-between castings. The response to "Little One" has exceeded my expectations in many ways - it's now about 90% sold out even though the first mold has given me over 50 crisp casts (I expected about 35, so am confident for an edition of over 100 now)!

I've just poured the second mold, I'm using a firmer rubber for this one so with a bit of luck it should hold out even longer (I'm classing L.O. as sold out when orders hit 100, I daren't take any more than that until they are all cast). Since changing my materials supplier (half way through production of Fly Fishing) I've notice a huge difference in the reliability and durability of my molds and casts - so far I have managed a 100% good-cast rate with Little One, which I thought was impossible!!

Interestingly, and huge proportion of the Little One models will be off to their new homes...in Germany. I've not sold a great deal of medallions to European countries before now, but Little One seems to really appeal. Perhaps medallions are unfashionable in Europe? Dunno, but thank you to all my German, Swiss and Worldwide customers :o)

A new development has occurred with Little One, something that I have only dreamt about before now. I won't say anything more about it yet as it needs to stay a secret for now, but I'm very excited about it and can't wait to tell everyone!!

A little personal info now; I was made redundant this month. I wasn't enjoying my job too much so when the opportunity arose to take an enhanced voluntary redundancy I decided to go for it. Being on Garden Leave this month allowed me to complete Little One and get it released, which is fabulous! The success of Little One now means that when I finish Jasper, I can pay for his casting up front, so no pre-orders or long waits for buyers wanting a copy! Jasper is a HUGE job to get finished but I'm hoping to make good progress on him in the coming weeks; but he has to wait for now while I spend my days (and nights, hehe) casting and cleaning Little Ones. I'm looking forward to going to the Post Office with dozens of boxes containing little foals ready to embark on their journeys!

Right, Little One number 50-something should be about cured by now, time to go make some babies (yey!).

New Resin release - "Little One"

...And here it is, please allow me to introduce...

Little One

Little one is a Traditional scale foal. Just a few days old the foal is all curled up, contemplating the world.

The model pictured is actually the original model; once the mold was taken, it was sent to the talented Emily Prouse (also known as ChaChaCrazy) for this beautiful soft baby bay paintjob.

Emily met my (rather unreasonable) challenge and had this one finished in an amazing 24 hours! She interpretted my demands on colour and shading perfectly, and I am so pleased with the results!

Little One is a two mold run, so the edition may be anywhere between 50 and 100 copies but once the molds are cast out, the edition will close.

Pricing details are as follows:

£30 - UK - £4 p+p

€40 - Europe - €7 p+p

$50 - US - $8 p+p

Any other country - please contact me.

Little One is making it's debut at the Shropshire Live show this weekend. I am travelling tomorrow and away until Sunday. I may not be able to reply to emails until then so please be patient.

All comments are welcome, I'd love to hear what you think of the model, and all comments on the finishwowk will be forwarded to Emily.