18 January 2012 Update…
January 18th 2012
A few quick updates today…
- The Mafrica Disaster!
In short, the 4th print run is ‘On Hold’ – our printer has gone out of business.
The ‘off-color’ prints may be the ‘only’ prints we have available – a decision will be made on the state of these prints by the end of next week.
When we do our next print run we will be looking at much higher costs, this will result in a much higher price for printed maps… - Resistant Roosters
- AM-100 – US Infantry Platoon in Greatcoats. These figures are going out of production. These will remain listed through the end of January 2012, at which time the listing will be removed form the website.
At some point these will return to production, but when is unclear at this time. At least two (2) of the figures need to be re-mastered and we need to decide how best to expand the figure offerings (more poses and support weapons) . Extending the figure offerings may well require a redesign of the entire set. - GE-100 – Panzergrenadier/Grenadier Platoon. This pack will be delisted for a short period of time. The original molds have reached end of life and we will be making new molds. We expect to re-list this pack by the end of February 2012.
- GE-400 – Fallschirmjäger Platoon (Late War – Ardennes) . Stock is running low for this pack. This set was molded while we were int he process of moving, thus the molds were not made in house. We are in the process of reviewing the molds, but have not had the best of luck with these molds in the past. If these molds need replacement, the figures will be de-listed (out of production) until late 2012, possibly early 2013. More news as stock runs out, or progress is made on the mold review.
- AM-100 – US Infantry Platoon in Greatcoats. These figures are going out of production. These will remain listed through the end of January 2012, at which time the listing will be removed form the website.
- Scruby 54mm
We are currently reviewing our molding priorities for 2012. As of last weekend, we are looking at adding more ACW figures. In addition to the ACW we are looking at set of figures for the American Revolution along with some additional Napoleonic and the first British Colonial offerings. Once we get the ball rolling on the 54mm re-molding, we expect to complete one or two molds per month.This should equate to 3 or 4 newly remolded figures per month. - Scruby War Game Scale Remolds
This project is moving a little more slowly than I would like – mainly due to my current work schedule. Once we clear our current [software] release, my time will free up and I’ll be able to get back to sorting, repairing and re-mastering of select war game scale figures for remolding. - Scruby War Game Publications
With our recent ‘bad luck’ printing maps, we are taking a more serious look at producing eBook versions of the various publications and rule sets. If we go the eBook route we would produce eBooks in two formats: .mobi (for the Kindle) and ePub (iPad, and others) . We have most of the text in an electronic format already, and formatting issues/concerns for eBooks are different (and easier to deal with) from printed books. So, this means it is far more likely that we can complete the eBooks within a resaonable time frame. More on this topic in February. - New Releases
Lots of new figures for the Blasted Planets line are awaiting molds. Sadly there are 50+ mold projects in the pipeline, this means we can’t yet set release dates for these new releases.We also have a handful of other new figures/products to release in 2012 – as these get closer to production we will be sure to give you more details.
Yikes! It looks like this short update became much longer than expected. Perhaps I need to post more often?
I’ll close now before I drag on too much longer. Look for another update late next week…
