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Things that keep me up at night: Part 1

After studying the factory samples for days, I finally figured out why they were 1 mm shorter than the models. The factory installed the neck plug wrong and ground off the little socket the ball of the neck rests on. Its things like this that can send you into a tailspin and start chasing issues that aren’t there. The engineer said they were easier to assemble this way. ARGGGGH. Don’t get creative. The samples are finally signed off and I got this picture today, so now everyone understands how things are assembled. – Jason

Factory samples and custom stands

Just got the samples in from the factory and I’m reviewing them now. They look awesome so far. Looks like some of the heads are sitting down too far on the neck, so we will need to fix that. This caused some of the characters to look a little shorter. I will be adding some photos in the next couple days. In the meantime the factory sent these pictures last night.

I’ll be including a free stand of each style and a few other freebies to everyone that pledged in the Kickstarter. John Kukovich did a fantastic job modeling the stands for us. Also shown is a Alpha trooper Pilot head we added to the molds.

New pics from the factory

Posted by jason w schiermeyer May 16, 2022 View on Kickstarter
Its a great time to collect O-ring figures will multiple projects coming to light. Just got some pics in from the factory. These are Engineering samples from the factory. The factory has mailed all the samples for the Strike Force Alpha project, I should have them within a week. Once they are in hand, baring any unforeseen issues, they will finalize the mold making process. This first part of the journey has been all work with no fun pictures to show. I think from here on out the updates will be more exciting with more pictures and fun things to talk about.What have we been doing with our time? Lots of engineering and working with the modelers and the factory to improve the design and work out issues. It would have been much easier to just use the Hasbro proven design but that’s not the approach we wanted. That being said the move from a modern inner structure to our figures to a vintage O-ring style was riddled with problems. The good thing about going through this process was it allowed us to examine and improve each part for every figure. There are over 185 different parts that had to be worked on and this has been a huge undertaking.We are working on packaging and paint apps now as well.  We will be at Joefest this year with the engineering samples as well as some paint designs Matt Lecroy has been working on. So far from the pictures I’ve seen the figures are looking phenomenal. Hopefully there are no hidden problems, but so far I like what I’m seeing. We lost a lot of time with design changes, but we are starting to gain ground and get things back on track. Here’s a little sneak peek of where we are at. I’ll take pictures of all the figure samples once they arrive.One last thing, we added a couple of surprises in the molds for some stands and additional heads. – Jason

Sample Progress

Lots of engineering and email exchanges with the factory to try and get everything perfect. I’m in constant communication with them answering questions and making sure things are right. The just sent me a picture of the finished samples. This a milestone In the project. We are working on colors now so they can start painting samples. I’ll share more photos as I get them. The parts are looking great. – Jason

Larger test figure progress

My O-ring is bigger than your O-ring. After adding the O-ring design and some other tweaks to the strike force figures I thought it would be cool to make a larger version to test out everything. This character was the first Strike Force character.

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