Marla
CREATOR
4 months ago
Project Update: The shrike update
SO i have unfortunately multiple pieces of bad news and a little good news about shrike-
The bad news is it got is that I was warned that the black chrome was also not a great option for this colourway. With this, gunmetal, and army green being a no-go, that's basically every dark chrome colour out of the equation. I have to go with matte black nickel (Like the wyrm and black shuck pins)
What's been happening behind the scenes is black chrome happens to tint fill colours. This isn't a huge issue with midtone or dark colours but with the shrike colourway's light blues and greys everything yellows and pollutes into a swampy green. i had another round of samples made with black chrome to check this (i wasn't given details on how extreme it would be so I wanted to make sure it completely needed to be ruled out) and they were totally correct.
The bad news is it got is that I was warned that the black chrome was also not a great option for this colourway. With this, gunmetal, and army green being a no-go, that's basically every dark chrome colour out of the equation. I have to go with matte black nickel (Like the wyrm and black shuck pins)
What's been happening behind the scenes is black chrome happens to tint fill colours. This isn't a huge issue with midtone or dark colours but with the shrike colourway's light blues and greys everything yellows and pollutes into a swampy green. i had another round of samples made with black chrome to check this (i wasn't given details on how extreme it would be so I wanted to make sure it completely needed to be ruled out) and they were totally correct.
I'm bummed! I'm really sad i couldn't deliver a closer pin to the art for you guys but I think that's every avenue explored. I even tried to get another manufacturer to make it with army green, but i think a lot of them use the same plating facility because it was also unavailable. I think it's still a good looking pin (especially once the white printing is added) but this is where it stands now and it's what i'll be ordering.
If this alters your decision please let me know ASAP!! I"ll try to accommodate people as well as i can. I want to get the order in for these as soon as i possibly can so i want to gauge if i need to alter the order number or maybe even start up a second order of coffee coloured ones if people would like to switch. There's 38 of you so please get back to me if you want to change and i'll try to work out a system for altering orders and ensuring item counts.
Anyone who DIDN'T order shrike, your order should have been sent by now with the exception of 9 people who will go out very soon! those are the last of the stragglers who I ran out of crow pins for and most of you should have gotten an address confirmation the other week.
Thanks again for your enormous patience with this, and those of you who have gotten your items i hope you enjoy them!!
M
If this alters your decision please let me know ASAP!! I"ll try to accommodate people as well as i can. I want to get the order in for these as soon as i possibly can so i want to gauge if i need to alter the order number or maybe even start up a second order of coffee coloured ones if people would like to switch. There's 38 of you so please get back to me if you want to change and i'll try to work out a system for altering orders and ensuring item counts.
Anyone who DIDN'T order shrike, your order should have been sent by now with the exception of 9 people who will go out very soon! those are the last of the stragglers who I ran out of crow pins for and most of you should have gotten an address confirmation the other week.
Thanks again for your enormous patience with this, and those of you who have gotten your items i hope you enjoy them!!
M
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