The end of January is near and there are so many projects on my desk and in my head that I just need to ramble a bit – if nothing else it helps me sort things out, and who knows you might pick up on a few ideas or upcoming releases…

The shop is busy this week – Alison is processing a large quantity of 54mm figures as well as preparing for a stock run for Resistant Roosters packs. Several other little projects in her queue as well, but those are the biggies.

Switching from the casting shop to the mold making shop, we see projects lining up very quickly. Since moving the 8 foot table into the shipping room, my projects have been stacked on my desk, but there are too many, so they are slowly filling all the open floor space – nice neat stacks of trays and boxes with masters and patterns. I’ll be working in the mold making shop (AKA Basement) most every night this week and on through the weekend.

What does all this mean? Well it means that we are busy. Busy is good. With my part we re finally getting to where we can release more product (as well as re-mold old product)…

So, here; I’ve opened the door to new releases. In the way of new releases, I’ve just finished up the work on this weeks release in the Blasted Planets line – Human Light Infantry. By Friday’s release date we will have pictures, prices and listings posted on the Blasted Planets website. Next up for Blasted Planets will be “Animal Guys” – OK, we need a batter name for this one, but that’s what Lance calls them, so for now that is what we will call them (I smell a contest brewing). Anyhow the Animal Guys are kinda nifty; they too have swappable heads. I expect that the default shipping head will be the minotaur head. However that will not be your only choice; another good choice is the moose head. We have others too… If all goes well, the Animal Guys will release within the next two weeks – just need to finish off a few bases and make the production mold for the bodies. After this the next release will likely be a bits bag – I’ll be needing the bits for future releases, so now is the time to get these done.

While still on the subject of new figures – work on the next Resistant Roosters release has picked up again, a few pieces are back with the sculptor, plus a few more have been mapped out – in the end, I think these will be worth the wait. The casting shop bottleneck is hitting the 40mm AWI figures, but we are just about past the worst of it, so we will be seeing these by mid February – patterns take more clock time, so the work windows are smaller than for production molds.

Two other projects are waiting in the wings – “New” Scruby N-gauge figures as well as some more new figures (18mm) and a new brand to go with them…

My only current personal projects are a couple of speed painting projects. One in 15mm and the other in N-Gauge/10mm. In 15mm I need hordes of Russians, so they are the focus of that project. In 10mm, I’m finally getting around to my Africa Korps project, so this will be the focus of my 10mm speed painting project. For sure we will see new molds for the Scruby figures, additionally we may see a few brand new figures added to the range…

Well, that about wraps things up for today – next time I’ll have more pictures of the new Blasted Planets releases…