Initially I viewed the diorama items as a nice add on to the product line but not really important. I’ve changed this and will now be offering diorama themed kits alongside the military kits from the very start. I mention this to assure anyone who is interested in any of the larger LSA offerings that I’ve mentioned before that those will be coming out in fairly short order once we get up and running good.Īlso, FYI, the diorama products line was initially intended to be added only after the entire military branch of LSA’s product line was fully in production. Again, the number of kits that will be available on the initial rollout has been kept small to allow any bugs to be worked out of the production and shipping process without getting bogged down by the larger kits. That’s the part you guys will be able to see when I unveil the LSA product kits list and you start to see the big kits come online. The results of all this should mean that after the rollout then the additional kits will be able to be added to the product line far easier and in a much shorter timeline. I know you guys can’t see this kind of stuff that’s behind the scenes but I can tell you I am really super happy with the results of all that work. With a better organized workstation and a (at long last) good product storage system I can eliminate much of the time wasting struggle that made the original form of LSA much harder work. That is why I spent so long developing the shop and storage equipment and organizing the product line. I’ve decided on a small rollout of a number of what I believe will be well received kits and want to be able to add the larger ones in fairly short order thereafter. So whereas it has taken far to long already, I am immensely proud of how far LSA has come and how close we are to finally reopening. Every evening and every weekend I have and will continue to spend countless hours on doing what I can when I can to get LSA off the ground. Please remember that all of this, the 3D design commissions, the prototype fine tuning, getting the prints made, the creating of the molds, the casting and even the building of the shop equipment needed to get LSA off the ground is being done by me alone, every week and financed out of my weekly paychecks. But sadly it means that sometimes the progress is painfully slow at this stage due to the insane costs of materials. This is by no means a death blow and LSA is still moving forward with measurable progress every week. The price has roughly doubled, sometimes more, for the silicones and resins that we were using to create the production molds. It seems that the materials cost for creating the molds has increased quite dramatically. Now that I’m back to finally getting the production molds created we seem to have hit another unexpected roadblock. During that time I was also able to considerably develop my own design skills which resulted in quite a few new generation pieces to replace some of the original LSA lineup. I spent a lot of that time working on and reworking on LSA’s digital library and filled in a large number of the gaps in the product line that were preventing kits from being put into production. We took a HUGE hit during the pandemic but have managed to hang on and slowly get back on track.
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