SA By the Sea - Shipping Now!

Hey guys, exciting stuff! I got a second round of color samples for the set and I'm REALLY stoked on them.

with the original colors I was pretty stoked and happy! However I wanted to see some them pop a bit more, a little bit lighter and not so flat/muted. We definitely got that 100% with the latest batch


Inside lighting conditions:



Natural lighting conditions:



E-mail sent to Melissa to confirm selections
Materials ordered for manufacturing

Hey guys I just received color chip samples in from SP!

I'll let you all peep the album, I tried to cover as many different lighting scenarios throughout the day to best capture how each color changes in different settings. Will add more when I get home so everyone can see what the colors look like in a mildly bright computer/gaming room.


https://imgur.com/a/6jeh3Ia


Overall I think these are a good start! In bright light all the colors are near bang on with the pantone guide and are quite accurate to the render! That being said, I noticed throughout the day as lighting changed, that the color samples also varied quite heavily from being near-bang-on to "that doesnt seem right?"

Fortunately with a production slot of Q4 this year, we've got plenty of time to nail down the colors, and while this was a good start, I think I'm going to do my due diligence and see if I can refine these to be more accurate


To be more specific, I'm going to request chip samples in a couple near-identical pantones to see how they compare, and ask to see if they can provide the current pantones but with their bases (magenta/cyan) a bit brighter, just so we have something to compare to!

But yah like I said, I still think the colors look great, really captures the palette of the film and really look great together!

Cheers!

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^Picture in my comp dungeon - SA Camping for color scale (Camping also uses WCK alphas)

Hey everyone sorry for the lack of update since our GB ended, been busy fine tuning the details with SP, but I wanted to give everyone an update on where we're at!


Final Kit Numbers
Base Kits: 108
Novelties: 82
Numpads: 53
Non-Standard Adapters: 56

We sold quite well with our basekits and fortunately JUST cracked the 50 MOQ for the numpads and NSAdapter kits! Thank god too, because if we didn't crack the 50MOQ for the 2, then we'd have probably had to refund the entire groupbuy, so hooray for making it everybody!

Production Schedule
Payment was submitted officially to Signature Plastics on 04/10/18 so we've secured our spot on the production schedule

With Pulse R2 and a crapton of other SA set orders coming in just prior to ours, our spot on the production schedule got bumped down to Q4 of this year 2018


Artwork/Novelty Tweaks
and finally, just minor tweaks to some of the novelties had to be made due to SP's tooling restrictions

mainly, parts of the sisters and boat novelties being too thing

I've submitted revised artwork for SP to work with, so I'll hear back soon enough whether the revised works or not!



-so in the original, the mouth on the sisters was too thin and thus became a block outline, I also smoothed out the eyes a bit so she's less derpy lookin
-then the boats rudder handle was too close to the boat so it had to be raised, but raising it goofed with the scale of the boat itself, so I had to raise the cabin up, and make it look a little rounder to balance it out! kind of what I wanted it to look like in the first place, the original was a bit too thin which wasnt really keeping with the movie
-artwork was also split on the boat novelty, so for the 1u boat novelty, the rudder handle will not have a hand-hole on it for the 1u novelty

again these are tentative changes, for all I know these revisions might not be good enough and more will have to come, but I thought I'd keep everyone up to date with any revisions that need to be made since we got a ways until we enter production stages


Thanks for bearing with me guys! Apologies for the lack of updates the past couple weeks, hopefully this one answers enough questions

TLDR

• Payment submitted to SP 04/10/18
• Production tentatively scheduled for Q4 2018
• Artwork needed updating on Sisters and Boat novelties
• Kit numbers were good!

here's an incredibly rushed/lazy render of the set on the upcoming Espectro for your patience!

I'm stoked guys we made it through the groupbuy phase! Looks like we've met MOQ for our most important kits. I hope to provide total kits sold counts and other details about how the buy went asap, just bare with me while i sort numbers and other details out with Dave from Mechkeys.ca.

Again big thanks to all those who supported this set from the very beginning and every person who joined the gb. I hope we can get this bad boy in everybody's hands as soon as possible

March 26th Update Continued

Attention all those who purchased the Blanks and 40s kit...

I sadly regret to inform you that we unfortunately undersold on the 40s kit, and after careful evaluation of our numbers, couldn't find a justifiable way to get the 40s set made

An e-mail will be sent out from Mechkeys later tonight asking those who bought the 40s set if they wish to refund JUST their 40s set, or their entire order


I'm really sorry guys, I really tried my hardest to sell the 40s kit to prospective buyers (I think 50% of my reddit posts highlighted BTS on a 40%) and I truly believed that the great coverage would be enticing enough to get the MOQ met, but unfortunately it was just not in the stars for us on this run!

Believe me when I say we evaluated our options of buying up the remainder of the sets at the bare minimum MOQ, however we found that it would mean the groupbuy taking on a huge loss, and would leave us with a handful of 40s kits that would have to be sold at nearly double the original sell price in order to break even

And to the few who bought blanks kits, thank you so much for believing in the sets color scheme enough to get blanks! I honestly wasnt sure there would be a single set sold, but to you who believed in the set that much, much love you're my heroes!

All this being said, I'm ecstatic we made it with the rest of the kits, and as the recent owner of a beautiful silver Pearl, and the equally unique CONTRA, I was really crossing my fingers that the 40s kit made it, but my mama always told me to never give up on something you believe in, so maybe not today but in the future, us 40s freaks can figure something out

Again sorry for the inconvenience everyone, and I hope you understand that we did everything we could to try make it happen

Cheers
Cody

Forgot to update this one, but due to losing a couple days off the kit-revamp we decided to extend the GB finish date to the 24th!

Hey everyone sorry I've been stingy with the updates! Have been waiting on kit sales from our proxies before I provided an idea on how we doing! But can't wait forever since theres only 6 DAYS LEFT!!! wooooooah time flies!

Current numbers of our NA groupbuy can be found here

These numbers dont include our vendor purchases or personal purchases! Hopefully we'll get up to date numbers from our EU proxy and we'll be able to give a more comprehensive look into how we're doing!

Right now I'm hopeful that we'll meet MOQ on a few of the kits! I'm prepped to do whatever I can to make sure the other sets get made as well, for now I'll just do what I can to promote the set and try to get as many last minute buyers as possible in on this beauty!

Thanks everyone for your patience!
2/20/1 - Kit Revamp Update

TL;DR - Refunds issued on original kits across all proxies, so don't be alarmed if you see a refund on your account - it's so you can purchase the set at even cheaper price than before!

I know theres a lot of confusion because we are selling from a Canadian website in Canadian dollars, here are the prices in USD for all you folks wondering how much our Canadian dollar is worth (spoiler, not much)

• Base kit - $102.78 USD
• 40% kit - $75.10 USD
• Non Standard Adapter Kit - $47.10 USD
• Novelties Kit - $43.46 USD
• Numpad kit - $39.50 USD
• Blanks Kit - $63.23 USD