🐅#18: Finally digital Proofs for the Big Kitties and good news for the Cubs!!!🐆
about 12 hours ago
– Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 07:22:07 AM
Hi Cat Lovers!
I FINALLY recieved the digital Proofs for the Big Cats a few days ago. Most corrections already have been made and I'll send them back to the Manu this evening.
Pallas Cat is kind of Production ready (but I'm not sure if they send a single Pin of the ordered ones into Production or if I have to aprove everything from the order first - I'll ask).
The rest has to go through a list of corrections, especially Puma and Jaguarundi. They have Problems with the small Areas of the Eyes & Face Details...
Jaguar & Clouded Leo will go to my regular Manu, I wont wait that long for the answers of the actual Manu a second time. I don't doubt their Quality, but it streched the workflow a lot.
In the Background EVERYTHING moves forward...
... but I have to care for PBK, the Little Dragons and the Furball Puppy Prototypes, what I HAD to bring forward BECUASE -> my private circumstances can often be turbulent and my live is not just beeing an artist.
I also have to prepare for two possible conventions in late Winter 27.
I hope that makes you're understanding why it all takes it's time and why everything happens at it's time. This is what you could call my Motto.
And what I just said in one single update text (at least I think I've once written it...) my second business here at home in Germany is a Pet Business, that wants to be build up and just doing it's first baby steps now.
Working at almost nothing else than these Projects - as much as I love them - also costs energy and I HAD to recover a bit. What never means I do nothing about it.
And I will charge the remaining money, when the Big Cat Pins are approved and in production. For me this is more fair.
It's kind of "charge shipping later", it's for this and the remaining Cub Pins.
But I want to give everyone the chance to make final choises when it is about the things still missing Images.
They will come, probably even in this month. I'm fully concentrated on PBK now, but I'm not a machine.
I FINALLY recieved the digital Proofs for the Big Cats a few days ago. Most corrections already have been made and I'll send them back to the Manu this evening.
Pallas Cat is kind of Production ready (but I'm not sure if they send a single Pin of the ordered ones into Production or if I have to aprove everything from the order first - I'll ask).
The rest has to go through a list of corrections, especially Puma and Jaguarundi. They have Problems with the small Areas of the Eyes & Face Details...
Jaguar & Clouded Leo will go to my regular Manu, I wont wait that long for the answers of the actual Manu a second time. I don't doubt their Quality, but it streched the workflow a lot.
In the Background EVERYTHING moves forward...
... but I have to care for PBK, the Little Dragons and the Furball Puppy Prototypes, what I HAD to bring forward BECUASE -> my private circumstances can often be turbulent and my live is not just beeing an artist.
I also have to prepare for two possible conventions in late Winter 27.
I hope that makes you're understanding why it all takes it's time and why everything happens at it's time. This is what you could call my Motto.
And what I just said in one single update text (at least I think I've once written it...) my second business here at home in Germany is a Pet Business, that wants to be build up and just doing it's first baby steps now.
Working at almost nothing else than these Projects - as much as I love them - also costs energy and I HAD to recover a bit. What never means I do nothing about it.
And I will charge the remaining money, when the Big Cat Pins are approved and in production. For me this is more fair.
It's kind of "charge shipping later", it's for this and the remaining Cub Pins.
But I want to give everyone the chance to make final choises when it is about the things still missing Images.
They will come, probably even in this month. I'm fully concentrated on PBK now, but I'm not a machine.
Let's come to somthing cute now:
They arrived!
(Sooo sorry for didn't posting them earlier but I had a really important event this weekend.)
Aren't they cute?
They have been graded already, and lets say, it went pretty well.
Tiger Cubs Silver + Gold together:
A/Grade: arround 81
-A/Grade (very small issuses): 12
B/Grades: 7
Cheetah Cubs:
(Highest Rate of issues, many with small scratches. Mostly in Metal.)
A/Grade: arround 70
-A/Grade (very small issuses): Arround 20
B/Grades: 7-9
Snow Leopard Cubs (didn't count that exactly here)
(Only Issue every of them has, is that the Light reflexes of the eyes a the same light gray as the Eyes. But we don't have the funds to remake them. If I ever reorder them I'll let the Manu know, to make them white. But it is supercute anyway.)
A/Grade: About 75-80
-A/Grade (very small issuses): 10-12
B/Grades: 10-12
The -A/ & B/Grades are reseverd for the Cons or mabybe also any kind of "in Stock Wintermarket events"- let's see later...
A/Grades are for you dear PBK Backers.
Thats all for now,
Akitaya.
(Sooo sorry for didn't posting them earlier but I had a really important event this weekend.)
Aren't they cute?
They have been graded already, and lets say, it went pretty well.
Tiger Cubs Silver + Gold together:
A/Grade: arround 81
-A/Grade (very small issuses): 12
B/Grades: 7
Cheetah Cubs:
(Highest Rate of issues, many with small scratches. Mostly in Metal.)
A/Grade: arround 70
-A/Grade (very small issuses): Arround 20
B/Grades: 7-9
Snow Leopard Cubs (didn't count that exactly here)
(Only Issue every of them has, is that the Light reflexes of the eyes a the same light gray as the Eyes. But we don't have the funds to remake them. If I ever reorder them I'll let the Manu know, to make them white. But it is supercute anyway.)
A/Grade: About 75-80
-A/Grade (very small issuses): 10-12
B/Grades: 10-12
The -A/ & B/Grades are reseverd for the Cons or mabybe also any kind of "in Stock Wintermarket events"- let's see later...
A/Grades are for you dear PBK Backers.
Thats all for now,
Akitaya.
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