Happy Halloween Backers!

We got the last Jagged Edge Hideaway package sent out this morning! Most were sent in early and mid October with a few wrapping up this week. A big THANKS to all of you for your support, questions and comments on this project.

Problems with your order???

If you need anything or have questions, please contact us at [email protected] and we will get you sorted.

Build Guides

We are looking to make some build guides and photos for these models in the next week. Our staff builds 1000s of models a year so we sometimes forget that these kits can be pretty intimidating if you are new to the hobby or not sure how something goes together. We will get that published next week in an update.

Next!

If you like this project from Trenchworx, please consider joining us for our next project launching tomorrow morning at 9:00am MST.  Hobgoblins, Kobolds & Goblins Too!! will add even more monsters to the worlds created by MCDM and usable in Draw Steel!  You can join us HERE!

Thanks!
Dave

Afternoon Backers,

We have crossed to less than 100 packages to go! About 450 of you should have seen your notifications go out by now and about half that should have the Jagged Edge goblins invading your homes as I type this. Aside from a few stragglers that are missing some information, we are looking to be wrapping up most of the shipping by end of week and the stragglers by next Monday/Tuesday.

CAMP FIREFIELD HOBGOBLINS!

We are getting our next project lined up to launch on November 1st.  Bloodlord Varrox will be invading a table near you from Camp Firefield.  You can sign up for the teaser page HERE so you can follow launch next Friday.

Have a great night!

Dave

Hello Goblins!

Your packages are starting to ship. Watch for updates on your emails as we slog through the boxes of minis heading out. It will take us a few weeks to get this all complete but we are very excited to have these goblins leave the building! They are all over the place and in every nook and cranny like goblins tend to be.  Nearly 50,000 components went into the physical build. By all counts, THAT'S ALOT!

As we wrap this project up, if you are interested in a Queen Bargnot Trophy for your wall after your PCs defeat the Hideaway, you can order her HERE. We still have a few castings from the first run of the mold and she looks amazing! We will match her to your shipment at no added shipping cost.  If you are outside the US, use code BARGNOT_TRAVELS at checkout for Free International Shipping.

Watch those email boxes and be sure to share your paint jobs!

Thanks,
Dave

Oh! And sign up for CAMP FIREFIELD HERE...

Afternoon Backers,

We are spinning a tangled web of spider parts at the moment working to finish this project.  Marrowgnaw ended up requiring larger silicone molds than we expected and is caused us some capacity problems in resin. Although her final parts aren't huge, to make sure the parts are cast well, we needed thicker mold walls.  We could only fit about 1/3 of a full spiders worth of parts in a resin pot at a time.  Each pot takes about 10-12 minutes to turn so we would be looking at 30 additional working days of casting spider parts in resin!

What we are did to remedy that lead time was move her legs and howdah mud flaps over to Siocast and the howdah railings over to 3D prints.  We've got more capacity in those manufacturing work cells and they can run parallel with resin casting and keep us on track.  That will leave us with only the chunky spider butts, bodies and the howdah in resin which really is the best use of a resin process.

Moving the railings from resin to 3D print saves a lot of wasted material for the tiny parts too. The mold only lasts about 25 shots and 3D prints have no parting lines. Printing is great for smaller things like this. The following picture is a comparison of the larger mold and 2 master sprue castings to the 3D print sprue.  We get about 30 prints on a tray and will will finish these parts in 2 days in our printer module.  As opposed to the week of mold making and another week of casting 500 parts.

We are about 80% done with all the other castings and packaging of the characters and larger number of warrior and lackey packs. This will dovetail in with Marrowgnaw manufacturing so we can finish this project in September.  Below is a compilation of various stages of parts from mold masters, resin casting, siocast printing and packaging. I built this from various photos of the process during the shop walk around this week. As you can tell, there is a lot that goes into making 18,000 goblins and 600 spiders!

And finally, Ainsley conducts a careful inspection of Looty the loot goblin...

Reassigning the parts to different processes puts us delivering to our original plan of September, but it is sure aggravating moving along at a nice clip and all of a sudden slowing down to a school zone pace.

We've already locked the addresses and intend to start shipping this month. We will start with the simple goblin boxes since they don't have a spider.  There's about 50 of those and their contents are complete.  Then we will move on to the full kits right after. The shipments will proceed in this order...  

The digital fulfilment of the project is complete and if you are missing your invitation emails please let us know. Everyone who backed this project received a digital invitation from MyMiniFactory for all the files.


That wraps up this update. We are excited to start the physical fulfilment process and finish this project up. If you have questions, don't hesitate to send an inquiry to [email protected]. 

Thanks!
Dave