Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Where the Magic Happens

It has been requested that I outline a day of work at Privateer Press or as I like to call it "Arbeit Macht Fun!"

Actually, I don't have a super-typical day at work right now but I probably spend at least some time pulling product to fill orders for our distributors, the Press Gang or employee comp purchases. At some point in the day I will likely have to spot build some kits that we have a low shelf stock in to fill an urgent order. I may also pack a number of blisters or boxes for shelfstock and I will almost certainly be packing during the time each month that we process the following month's wave.

I've also been re-scanning a number of kits like the old Winterguard or Acolyte units to improve our mold books (the mold books are basically visual/written instruction manuals that demonstrate how to build every figure we produce). Basically, I function as a facilitator for a number of tasks that are necessary in production/casting/shipping.

Now I will post a picture I found at http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=723 of hilarious russian-mob tombstones.














I like to imagine that is an image of the car that hit them.

3 comments:

45caliberidea said...

Who gets to see those mold books? Why not publish them in a compiled book or something? Sounds handy. I've only see the generic ones included with some jacks.

45caliberidea said...

Oops... Iskander = Norbert.

Simon Berman said...

They're useless to anyone but packers. They're just low DPI scans of all the parts in a kit with their catalogue numbers. Not actually instructions on how to assemble the models, just which parts to place in the package.