7 Years and 10 months... and going straight to the Junkyard* (for the warped pod, that's literally).
*Nevermind that, forgot the Junkyard was now for premium members only.
Edit: If you can see the attached pictures below - received a new perfect hull (grey) from Steve, as replacement for the old warped hull (beige); took 7 years 10 months.
Seeing as everyone and their neighbor is giving you advice, I think I earned enough patience-points to add mine to the mix:
You'll have every right to feel some to sense of accomplishment once you're done with the owed kits, but don't come out of this feeling proud and relieved - your ways made A LOT of people feel A LOT of grief these past years. I think you're the type that needs constant pressure to perform - pressure like this thread; everyone can
see you getting back on track, and I think it has a lot to do with it. You can't slack off once you're done here, you need to keep the pressure on; you have a chance to evolve this from a "public/social shaming type pressure" to a "goal setting accountability type pressure". Your goal should be to continue adopting good business practices, and to never ever ever slip back to your old ways. Transparency, and making yourself accountable,
publicly, is key. Start a new thread, with a link to this one; call it something along the lines of "Nice-N Model Design's Accountability Buddies"; but use it not so much as a place to report, explain, and justify hold-ups and delays - I can't speak for anyone else, but I sure am tired of those from you. Instead, use RPF members and customers as your public support group to motivate you to stay efficient in your business dealings and to keep you from falling short of your goals. State your goals publicly in that thread, announce new kit projects, delivery dates, sales and shipments made, etc.; let everyone
SEE what you're doing, and how you're doing it all efficiently and transparently. Beyond the real need to address an issue, don't give any more excuses - focus on what you will do to improve or do to make things right, and say it
publicly. E.g., you're late on a production delivery date you announced here? Accept you will be "reminded" in the thread; own up to the fact and thank them; propose a plan to make up for the lateness and what you will do to prevent it from happening again (hire temp help, work more hours, work less projects simultaneously, revisit delivery dates, keep a production/project calendar to prevent over-tasking yourself, etc.), then do it.
Your last few posts in December, those where you give updates and make your commitments and good practice statements public; keep doing that, for every project/deadline/sale/shipment, but in more details, for as long as you're in business.
Would report here when it is completed.
