Can't wait for the Kickstarter. How long from end of KS to delivery of product, do you guys estimate?
Thank you!
Resin production does not worry us almost at all, we have great facilities and although hard and intensive labour we have accumulated great experience. Doing it in-house makes it secure and we can do it as fast as humanly possible once the sculpts have been delivered. What needs inevitably more time are the plastics.
For those who have industrial knowledge in manufacturing HIPS, they know these things take many months. Sculpting must finish, be approved (aesthetically), be checked
again and approved (for tooling issues). Then proofs must be sent, approved (yes,
again) and then
if all has gone according to plan go into production, mail to our warehouse after which we move on to packaging and last (fulfillment) phase.
All this obviously involves shipping times back and forth between all the parties involved (in this case England, Greece and France).
Anyone promising HIPS in anything less than 10 months is either someone who is not familiar with the process, or he
is familiar but dishonest about the real delivery times. I agree that KS can have unforeseen issues (heck, we should know about it, our June politics shook the whole EU!) but the important thing is trying to make it on time all the same.
I'm not saying we will again deliver to some backers earlier than promised (like we did in KS-1) but we will try respecting the set deadline within 2016
and delivering quality product. Pretending anything more is just not realistic and although we now have proven knowledge on both KS
and producing HIPS that does not make us magicians and we prefer being honest than overpromising.
Hopefully you will find the answer sufficient.
01 June 2013, 05:46:08 PM
