I'm glad people are finally starting to get their stuff! The Pete head does look a little on the small side, but not dramatically so. He looked okay when I held it up to a jump suited body. (whew).
The Proton packs are gorgeous, but damn, they ARE a lot of work! Painting and simple modification sculpting or sculpting monsters/aliens is about my only forte. Involved assembling of tech stuff just scares me!!! They may be sitting unfinished for awhile!
Okay, reaching into my weekly letter bag, lets take some questions!
A few questions that jumped through my mind because of the scoulpter-switch.
Did Ada not already start with sculpting Ray?
What will happen to the modification of the Ramis head?
And when will you receive the heads from Ada?
Will the prices be the same (for the heads done by Chris)?
-Chris
Hey ya Chris!
Don't worry. I wouldn't do the switch if it was going to mess our plans up.
RAY
This was kind of touched on in the main announcement about switching sculptors, but follow-through on people actually paying for the heads was limited to just our die-hard core, and enough money hadn't come in yet to pay for the RAY commission yet.
To explain more clearly, I lowered the ordering price on all of the heads from $35 to $25 after Peters big debut and everyone saying they wanted him, (that's the half I use to pay for the for the commissioning cost being halved- the other half is Adas cost to make the copy of the head, which can't be lowered except on her end), because it was theoretically going to be made up by more people ordering.
But then only a fraction of the people came though paying for Peter, most simply wouldn't even respond to PMs, and only half the Peter people ordered Ray (meaning I was dumb for lowering his price like Peters optimistically so early on).
The real problem as I saw it was people not placing orders through the people commissionning the heads (us), but waiting to let everyone else pay for the heads, then they'd just buy the head/s cheaper off of Ada afterwards.
That's you and I not getting our heads made because of potential contributors having a different outlet for the heads, competeing with the people who actually commission them. A bizzare situation.
Not anymore. With this move to Chris, this will be the
only place to get the Ghostbusters heads we commission and as we get to each character should see the contrubuting numbers on each head rise. The big picture is this is meant to help us all out in the long run.
Ray will be the first Ghostbuster Chris Howes sculpts, but now it is dependant on his busy work plate.
What will happen to the modification of the Ramis head?
And when will you receive the heads from Ada?
The Egon heads quickly took on a life of their own because we have such die-hard GB fans here, and it went from maybe asking her to modify her GB2 head into a GB1 head, to our planning to outright commission a whole new GB 1 Egon head from her because SO many people wanted a GB1 version we could afford it at the same price and get some variety on the heads. Egon was last on the list "to do" however, AFTER Winston, so now Chris will be doing him when we get there.
For those who still wanted a GB2 Egon head from her and sent me payment to get them as a cheaper group order, those are actually still coming. It's not like we've burnt any bridges with Ada. I haven't even had any communication with her about the switch, actually. I just not planning on commissioning any other heads heads from her. Normally I'd be tacking the GB 2 Egon heads on with a new head order so I'd get them in the same shipment. Now that I know there won't be any, I'll just be doing it seperately.
Will the prices be the same (for the heads done by Chris)?
Chris and I have both been so busy, we still need to talk details, but I will tell you this: I believe in rewarding the people who help these projects out, and hopefully I've shown that. Because you guys are making this happen. You guys are so passionate several of you paid for many character heads in advance. That ROCKS!
So in return, I try and do things like allowing you guys who do that to get multiple heads at cost, because in my book, you deserve it. Going forward, that won't be offered to just everyone. Thats just for you guys who did that.
And for those that paid in advance, if the price goes up, it won't effect you on the heads you ordered because you pre-paid. Newcomers would have to pay the new price, if there is one, but not you on the heads you already paid for, because again, you deserve to be rewarded. You are the legs commissions like this stand on and I can't begin to tell you what a joy it is to come here and see the same group of passionate people hanging out every day.
So on that, as I know more, so will you!
I was at Howes' webpage... Have you ever seen these two guys? We definitly need a Belushi...
:chew
