Or if you're in China, "the hermit has come down the mountain."

Rafael Grampá recently posted some work Grassetti and I did for him.  Grampá is an Eisner award winning comic artist (the academy awards of illustration) who is famous for his work called Mesmo Delivery.  It's a work in progress and we can't say much about what is going on behind the scenes but you can already see him hinting about the possibilities of Ownage in the comments.  I'll translate for you, "Ownage is in China.  Imagine what's going to happen."

To clarify, Ownage is a multinational company with manufacturing operations in China founded in the US but incorporated on an island in the middle of the Atlantic with people working on it from 4-5 different countries. 

So if you're a design, toy, or comic company.  Or maybe you're just an indie artist trying to make something cool.  We're building something here that's going to change the game for you.

If you're a gamer, oh... I want to tell you guys!!!  But stay tuned.

A lot of people are having upload problems on the website.  We're looking at it!  In the meanwhile, to get something made, upload at the anonymous FTP server (ftp://www.ownage.com) and send us an email at support@ownage.com.  The FTP is upload only, so people can't download your files.  This is a temporary workaround, we're setting up private user FTPs soon.

Thanks guys!

Hey all.  We've recently made a decision to pull Full Color Paints as an available offering for the next two or three weeks while we retool the factory and retrain the workers.  It will be back! 

This is good for us because we can focus on unpainted and simple metallic finishes (bronze, pewter, chrome, etc) and spit those out fast (< 2-3 days) and we can already do those grade A. 

This is good for you, because we'll be using this time to make sure we can do fully painted models perfectly, repeatably, and FAST.

So, keep those models coming.  We'd love to do your primered or metallic (bronze, etc) models.  This doesn't apply to our partners and beta testers, you guys can still get paints in.

Many of you wondered, "where are the updates?  what's happening with Ownage?"

We suffered a little downtime the last 2 weeks of January due to Chinese New Year.  AKA the Spring Festival.  AKA factories just shut down and tumbleweeds start blowing through the empty streets.

But we're back.  First thing is that we've moved to Posterous from Tumblr as a blogging engine.  Great thing about Posterous?  Email a blog post to post@posterous.com and it takes care of everything for you.

The king is dead, long live the king.  Huzzah!  And happy Year of the Cow.  Mooo!