A Big "Thank You" for Your Support! Herpetology Dragons has been funded! Not only that, your love of these little creatures has allowed us to unlock all of the hognose pin stretch goals. This means that there will be a collection of 6 hognose dragon pins, along with a corresponding Herpetolgy Dragons: Hognose blind bag!
In terms of your pledges, this means that if you pledged for an enamel pin, you can choose any of the 6 axolotl designs, and any of the 6 hognose designs for your selections.
If you pledged for a blind bag, you can choose any amount of axolotl or hognose dragon blind bags. These pin sets will not be mixed together in the blind bags.
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Hognose Dragon Pin Designs: Here are the previews and current design status of each of the hognose dragon pins. At this point in time, only the lavender hognose pin has been completed. Pins 2-5 have final-ish drawings, and will be completed in the coming days.
3rd & 4th Hognose Color Results: Voting for the color morphs for hognose pins 3 & 4 has concluded, and you chose toffee and snow to accompany the previous lavender & sable!
5th Hognose Color Morph Vote: Voting is currently open for the color morph that we will use for the 5th hognose pin. Voting for this color will remain open until Sunday, September 20th at 12:00pm PST. Shortly thereafter, we'll begin voting on colors for the sixth and final pin! You can find the 5th pin color vote in the link above and at the bottom of this update.
New Earring Color Addon: I've been speaking with my manufacturer, and we'll be adding in a second color variation for the earrings. The black axolotls earrings will feature adonized rainbow plating. This type of plating works best with soft enamel as soft enamel allows the electroplating to be peformed before filling with enamel, rather than after. Soft enamel also allows for thinner, more detailed lines, as the lines are not ground down during a polishing stage. For the black version, we will be using a combination of soft enamel + transluscent epoxy. The transluscent epoxy creates a smooth surface and finish that's very similar to hard enamel.
Though the plating on the charms will be a red copper and rainbow finish, the fishhook earrings that go into your ears will be gold and silver colored respectively. These fishhook earrings are hypoallergenic 304 stainless steel hooks from Fire Mountain Gems. Upcoming Addons: Mini Pins - I'll be adding mini pin versions of the axolotl earrings in both colors. This requires a separate mold to be created for each pose, as the mini pin versions will not have the built in circular hole for the earring findings. Currently getting these priced out with my manufacturer!
Stitch Marker Set - I will also be adding a stitch marker set utilizing the earring designs, The stitch markers will be similar to those offered in my previous campaigns. I already have red copper colored stitch marker findings available. Right now I'm finding out if it's possible to source anodized rainbow stitch marker findings, or if those will need to be a black or silver color.
Sticker Sheets- Finally, I'm working on a sticker sheeet for both the axolotl dragons and the hognose dragons. For the sticker sheet design, I wanted versions of the artwork that had colored linework as well as some simple shading. Getting the artwork updated for this purpose is currently in progress!
These addons will be available in the next update, as well as for the results of the 5th color vote!
Thanks again for your support of this project. Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope that everyone has a great weekend!
This vote is to help choose what color the fifth hognose pin unlock will be.
I also wanted to go over what pins 1-4 will be with a little bit of a better description so that those who are not familiar with hognose color morphs can get an idea of what each color will look like:
Hognose pin 1: Lavender (purpleish grey w darker purple/grey spots)
Hognose pin 2: Sable (deep brown w darker spots)
Hognose pin 3: Snow (white with light pinky grey spots)
Hognose pin 4: Toffee (warm caramel color w toffee colored belly)
You guys voted! And the purple dino is.... -opens card-
I'm really happy with how it came out! I'm excited to do the next one. I'm going to make these votes happen a bit faster. so you have two days to vote. (I think. my understanding of BackerKit's time zone has been off lol) ORANGE DINO IS UP FOR VOTES!!
Also yesterday, my hub and I were at a small local shop that has vintage style things (and we were probably making them nervous because we did not look like there average customer lol We spent way to much on Halloween art so I hope that made up for it. XD) I asked them about the washi tape because I've seen it as something I can make. She said it's SUPPER popular. Is that something you all would like? I can add it to Ad-Ons. It would be the same design as the lanyards. Leave a comment if your interested!
Also if there are any dinos you want to recommend, leave them in the comments!
I love funding a project, and this one is especially exciting because it consists of various components that I’ve never created before. It’s also a DOING thing—not just something you put on a wall or in a drawer. This project also lets others express their creativity.
Now go VOTE!
You may have noticed that 7 blocks have no art. We’re already planning to do four of them, but we wanted to leave the last three to the backers.
All the art with the 7 unassigned: #2, 3, 15, 21, 24, 32, and 35.
We have some things obviously missing. Three of our four are probably going to be craters. We really should have some craters in here. But see our poll to vote on some other things we could include. If anything is missing, it could be because we are saving it for our Stretch Goals, which include Artemis, Apollo, and Soviet-era space items.
If you think you might like to grab a T-shirt as an add-on, then let us know which PEST! you would like. If you don’t think so… choose no tee. Keep in mind this is only a poll. We are not adding a tee to our reward here.
Okay, Pluto. Stop voting for Pluto! It is in!
The set currently includes 7 blanks. We will determine the next four, but we want you to vote on the final three. This collection includes everything from entire planets to specific surface features. You can only select one option for your vote, so please include your second and third choices in the comments, and we will count those as well.
Hoorah! We've now unlocked the special double layered female Ruddy Darter dragonfly pin, it is now available as a separate pledge level and add-on option if you'd like to get one!
We've now got just two stretch goals left to try and reach and unlock the rather unique and colourful Dicarnosis erythracephala wasp and the Blue carpenter bee....
Before I add any more stretch goals to the line up I wanted to check in and ask you lovely lot what you'd be keen to see, so I've added a poll at the bottom for you vote in, and don't forget you can always comment with your ideas on this post.
I don't know if it's obvious, but this is my first crowdfunding experience and I'm absolutely blown away by the support from everyone! I didn't think so many people would enjoy silly little enamel pins of wildlife :D
