Evening All,

I hope your weekend has been relaxing. There's a good bit of info to go through for you in this week's update.

Address Updates Requested
First up, we've locked down the Pre-Order store for all items.  We also sent out the request for you to update your shipping addresses before we lock them in the next 48 hours. Yay! That means we are close to sending things.

Shipping
At the moment, the only thing keeping us from starting shipping is a few models remaining from our contract artists. The ones we need the most are the Grilps because they are part of the stretch goals that go in every package. We have assurances from our artists that we should have those models early next week and we can get those converted and wrap up the the freebie stretch goal package.  The Stretch goals include 3 Free Grilps, 3 Free Kobold Legionaires and 3 Free Hobgoblin Warriors plus the metal Pinna.

Two other models are outstanding which include the Hobgoblin Mage who we expect next week. The last models are the little trap features the Kobold Artifex uses (Fire Trap, Spike Trap and Beehives). We should have the traps the week after next. During all this model delay, we hired another artist to help us fill in gaps and she is doing an excellent job for us and helped us get this back on track. Her latest work is the in the backer only content below.

Final Digital Models
Digital backers are waiting on the Hobgoblin Mage, Grilps, Kobold traps and the Slaughter Demon. We will have him parted out and ready to download Monday/Tuesday of this coming week.  He was a particular type of bastard only because of polygon issues on our part. We got that sorted this past Friday and I can assure you that he is worth the wait!

The Digital backers already received the new freebies as well as the FOrx sets. If you don't have these on MyMiniFactory, contact us at [email protected] to get you sorted.

LESSON LEARNED!! - This is the last crowd funder we will execute without completed models.  This is far too disruptive for all involved to not have these ready to go prior project kickoff. That means we will have to do things a bit differently next time, but we have that worked out too.

Pinna's Healing Salve - Free SNAP TRAY
We've ironed out contents of the Free SNAP TRAY we are including for every physical backer because we are so tardy. We thought about this quite a bit in the shop and decided to structure the tray to include models that could be used as player characters. We really didn't want to just pile more hobgoblins, kobolds and goblins on the tray because you already have a pile of those. So the ones we decided to provide are...

Shipping
Once we have the missing models we are looking to start shipping orders the week of the 20th.  We think we will ship about 30-60 orders per week until we are done. We only have about 300 physical orders to process so should be through all this by mid-October. We are also looking at doing some partial shipments for the particularly large orders that have beastheart bundles and other add-ons to get those goods in your hands. It costs a little more to manage, but we think that will help move the orders out the door.

What's Next?
Later today, you will receive an invite to our next project called SNAP TRAY.

During all the craziness of this year, the need to manage through tariffs, missing models, supply issues and a host of other setbacks, we needed to adapt and develop a new way to make things. As an engineer by training, the old adage of 'Necessity is the Mother of Invention' has never been more true. We developed a new way to print our models in a form that allowed easy support removal after cure. We've been using similar techniques for several years with our bits and component parts, but this is the first time we've offered full squads, units and kits with all the necessary parts in a single package. Feedback from our conventions and other Trenchworx products has been very positive.

SNAP TRAY will be a giant Bonanza of model offerings from Trenchworx, MCDM, Victoria Miniatures, Knuckleduster Miniatures, Lost Heresy Miniatures and Spikey Bits. We will be making SNAP TRAYs of models from many different genres all in one place. It is sure to be a wild and crazy ride. Be sure to follow when you get your email notification. Or you can follow the teaser page HERE.

That's it for this update.  Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions or post in the comments and we will get back to you as quick as we can.  Backers, keep reading the backer only content below.

Thanks!
Dave