I'm surprised this guy responded at all. That being said, I have severe doubts of any date being made. Granted this is what Krahn said, but his update claims that the "factory" was supposed to finish these in October and Krahn promised a shipping date around Christmas. By August, we will be almost a year off of that. The other end of this is can this "factory" actually handle something like this?
From his website:
We are here for you, a full service Commercial and fine Art resin casting company.
A complete studio for mold making, Resin casting, sculpture, prototype and model making with 30 years of experience.
We can take your art work or prototype and reproduce as few as 1 up to 1000
with the highest precision.
We are located in Fort worth TX but we have customers all over
the USA, Canada, and the UK. We produce high quality
urethane resin castings , from small gaming miniatures to life size figures.
Garage kits, Dinosaurs, animals, and western sculptures.
We have over 20 years working on architectural art work, fountains, moldings,
statues, and fireplaces for cast stone.
We can easily take you rapid prototype , make a silicon mold and
cast in resin in a short time.
We can work with all most any material, wax, clay, wood, stone.
There is not much we can not mold and cast.
We also have a complete sculpting house in case you have a ideal but
don't know how to bring it to life, let us help.
Contact me if you have any questions or wish to have castings or molds made.
-Christopher Lynch
Static resin models doesn't really line up with what the Bantha is supposed to be. Looking at his product for sale, I would say the quality is on par with those little holo figures that were pack ins with Star Wars figures all those years ago.
As I'm going down this rabbit hole, I reread some of the updates from TFSB. He claims the wave of 13 was one of the most ambitious crowd funding projects of all time and a lot of them take this long to be finished. Of the 13, I would say Beru, Owen, RFT, Antilles, Spaceman, and Thrawn are more or less unique sculpts. RFT and Antilles are pretty close to each other. So the remaining 7 are rehashs of existing. Holo Leia is just a vintage Leia. Sandtrooper is slight mod to Stormtrooper. Wedge and Bigss are X-Wing Luke with new heads. The astromech is just R2 with a new head. Motti is just imperial officer with a new head. ST Han is just ST Luke with a new head. Not as ambitious as he makes it out to be. SS has put out a ton of product in the same timeframe. Granted, a lot of his stuff is vintage replicas or based off of R2, C-3PO, or Death Star Droid. However, he made Garindan, Slave Leia, Oola, and RFT which are all new sculpts. That is four new sculpts right there compared to the six new sculpts in the 13. I believe his Fetts are also a new mold compared to the vintage one. He also made the speeder and Bantha and got them out to customers.
At this point the excuses are pretty lame and don't hold water. Even if this "factory" completes some sort of Bantha. I doubt they see the light of day. Krahn is done shipping out anything else at this point.
