Working Class Villains

Thanks to the good folks over at the Fwoosh for sharing the news!

WCV CG Dungeon Grate Kit 2.0 by WorkingClassVillains on Shapeways

Hey gang, time for some good news (finally)! After close to a month and a half of full blown mold making disaster we're happy to report that new molds are up & running and production is back in full swing!

To give you some background on what happened, the Grate molds we were running in early December were really close to dying and it was inevitable that new ones needed to get poured. We estimated that we could probably get 5 or 6 (maybe up to 10) or so out of them before they really started to break down, but we were nearly out of silicone. Then our buddy Pixel Dan did his review of the Grate and we broke all previous sales records (both online & con sales). We immediately got our silicone ordered and ran the molds until their inevitable demise. Just about the time the silicone arrived The Fwoosh also did a review, and again, we had a giant boost in sales. So, just like we've done 3 other times before, all the parts were set up on claybeds in molds boxes and poured. What happened next (and 2 more times after) we'd never experienced before. The silicone bubbled and rose like a souffle' dispite being vacuumed & put under pressure. We got in touch with our supplier and worked closely with them to figure out what was going on. They sent us a completely new kit of silicone only to get the same result. We also sent back the first kit so they could run tests on it in their lab and we went back & forth with them on all of this for over a month. Finally, we broke the code and the before & after results are what you see
above. We have to give a big thanks to Silpak, Inc for their amazing support in helping us find a solution! Not sure what we would have done without them.

So, with that said, backlogged orders will begin shipping this week and they'll ship out in the order they were received. Orders will reopen when the number of outstanding orders becomes a little more manageable. Thank you so much to all of you patiently waiting for your orders and to those of you patiently waiting to place an order! Everyone has been very understanding during what has been one of our most difficult times in the shop during our short time as a company. So thank you to you all!

- Tony & Skot ~ WCV

Happy New Year from your pals at WCV!

The holidays were greeted with an unprecedented amount of orders! It seems since the new Castle Greyskull has been released, our grate kits have found a home! Thank you!

A combination of amount of orders, cold weather, and some material hiccups, we are still catching up from pre-Christmas sales. We were hoping to put the grates back up in the store on the first of the year, but there are already lots of customers still waiting for their kits. So hold tight, the grate kits will back in the store as soon as we wade through the backlog and get the existing orders taken care of!

New print available at PowerCon this weekend. It's part BSG Cylon, it's part Boba Fett, it's the Madalorian Centurian!

Just wanted to take a minute and thank a couple of recent customers who took the time to leave us some very nice words about our CG Grate Kit. Thanks!

Due a glaring oversight from our Online Store team (me), our He-Man inspired Chat Noir print, which debuted at Powercon 2012, never made it onto the Etsy store! This has been fixed, get yours today! Tell your friends!

Battle Cat "Chat Bataille" Chat Noir Parody Original He-Man Inspired Work, featuring Cringer, Prince Adams cowardly green tiger in a Chat Noir parody image. Halo Text Reads Cringer of