I've had an order in limbo for close ot two years now. I'm a little grouchy, but at the same time, since I know Cal, I've been keeping up on his life and know how messy things got for him when he started working with ANOVOS to help master the hard parts. Took him a bit to realize he couldn't do that AND stay on top of his own business, as the approvals process was dragging things out far longer than he was used to with his own efforts. And the backlog built as they were getting things sorted. I've held off on placing any further orders more to avoid adding to the pileup than out of lack of faith. My order is now close to the front of the queue, and he's also mentioned roughly how much of a lineup there was behind it, and, through, dialogue, I'm probably going to place my other order around my birthday this fall.
And that's not even getting into things like sculpts that he's had in his workshop glaring accusingly at him for not finishing them while he's been busy with all this other stuff.
And as for the post above mind, from @
TooMuchBBQ... Even with
out all the extra work he's taken on, it's hard to find multiple hours in a row during a day to work on this stuff. Some things, like ordering the plastic and cutting the sheets to size for the vac-forming frame, can be done in bulk. But "just vac-forming something you already have bucks for" consists of: putting a sheet in the frame, putting the frame in the oven to heat, mounting the frame to the table, doing the vac thing, taking the formed sheet out of the frame and setting it aside, putting the next buck or group of bucks on the table, repeating all these steps one or several more times until all the pieces for a particular order or group of orders for the same item are formed... Each of those steps only takes a few minutes, granted, but those minutes add up fast. And that's not even getting into cutting the pieces apart, or finishing them to whatever degree was offered/requested (rough, clean, assembled). Now that he's got a couple people helping out, there should be more collective hours available for doing all that...
--Jonah