Oh look! An update!
Before we get into the update, we would like to give some perspective on why this is taking so long for anyone who wants an explanation.
Dracula has 8 custom colors that had to be matched. Last year, sets with 2-3 custom colors would take about 4 weeks to receive each sample round. The combination of Dracula having so many colors to be matched, GMK already being overloaded last year, COVID-19 shutting down GMK and the plastic supplier for a few weeks, and regulatory safety measures even after they opened back up have all resulted in how long this is taking. 90% of the time has been us waiting to get the samples or just waiting for the samples to arrive to Nebulant and Pikku once they arrive.
Because the timeline of these samples is spread out amongst all of our weekly updates, we will compile it all here for you.
ROUND 1: + Oct 2019 - Colors submitted.
+ Early Feb 2020 - Received the first round of samples. 4 month wait.
+ Early Feb 2020 - Sent samples to Pikku.
+ Late Feb 2020 - Approved red and blue. Submitted adjustments for a second round of alphas, mods, pink, green, purple, and yellow. Right after the pandemic really started to shut down everything.
ROUND 2: + Late July - Received the second round of samples. 5 month wait.
+ Early August - Sent samples to Nebulant to measure and to Pikku.
+ First Week of Sept - No approvals. Submitted adjustments for a third round.
ROUND 3: + Mid Oct - We received alpha, modifier, and yellow samples. Within 5 weeks of submitting them, which seems to be back to the original timeline of samples from 2019.
+ Mid Oct - Sent samples to Nebulant and Pikku.
+ Early Nov - Approved modifiers and yellow(tentatively). Submitted adjustments for a forth round of the modifiers.
Now onto detailed information about the R3 samples.
Pikku and I have gone through the data from Nebulant for the latest round of samples. We are currently still waiting on the third round of the pink, green, and purple samples. We do not have an estimated arrival time, but we hope to have them soon because these were sent in around the same time as the alphas, modifiers, and yellow.
The three colors that we received this round were the third round of the alphas, modifiers, and yellow.
The alphas are approved and look fantastic.
We will be getting a 4th round of the modifiers because the color is just too dark at the moment. It meshes really well alongside the R2 alphas, which were also too dark, so we are going to ask that the R4 modifier be adjusted the same amount that the R3 alpha was. It is very important that the contrast between the alphas and mods be correct.
Because the pink, green, and purple arent too far behind, we are waiting until we receive them before we 100% confirm the approval of the yellow. We want to make sure it meshes well with those colors (if they are approved) first.
Below you can see which colors have been approved.
Alphas - R3 APPROVED ✔︎
Modifiers - Getting an R4
Red - R1 APPROVED ✔︎
Blue - R1 APPROVED ✔︎
Pink - Waiting for R3
Green - Waiting for R3
Purple - Waiting for R3
Yellow - R3 APPROVED TENTATIVELY ✔︎
White - STOCK COLOR ✔︎We have not started compiling the color-matching document for this set because it is much larger and more complicated than others. We will try to get this done, but it may not be done until the color matching is complete.
We post weekly updates on all of our projects at news.dixiemech.com and here is a link to our most recent >
https://dixiemech.com/news/11-6-2020
