MephistonAG wrote:
Well I'd kinda given up on ever seeing these turn up.
Well they will turn up but will not quite be what most people had hoped for I think, which is a pity really as this project had so much potential. The main problem I feel was the plastics company's total inexperience in making moulds for such tiny figures, they had no idea basically. Ben was constantly having to tweak the designs to fit what they could achieve rather than what he wanted thus compromising the whole original design concept. It's a bit poor really that they can accept a contract to produce a product and then totally fail to deliver that product as originally agreed on at the start. I feel very bad for Ben and TMG as a whole for how this ended up going, he had no real control over what was happening in china or what the agent was or was not doing to keep the project going. This and cost overruns with the last funder was the last nail in the coffin for TMG as a business.
Personally I'm really sad that Ben has felt the need to move on and leave us, he created some truly wonderful models for the epic community and had great plans for many more his input will be really missed in the coming years of that I have no doubt.
On a more positive note it looks like I will be handling the shipping for the funder backers once these arrive dependant on final negotiations with Ben. I will also have a batch in store for those still interested in trying them out.
