Over the last few months we got some questions about possibly making longer table mounts. Especially people wanted to use the mounts with long extensions for the Warthog and Gunfighter Joystick. Of course we made custom length mounts so far on demand, but we wanted to make them available for everybody.
With the help of the great Sim community we assembled a few prototypes and found a good length that should fit most situations. The maximum vertical adjustability is now 38cm from the top of the table. This should fit well with all extensions for the Warthog or Gunfighter and get the perfect grip placement.
Let us know if you have any more ideas how to make the mounts even better, we are thankful for any kind of input.
So good news for everybody in North America. If you live in Canada, Mexico or the United States new table mount orders from now on will automatically get delivered with DHL Express International. That means instead of taking weeks the package will be at your door in a matter of days.
Well we will of course still have delays, (you guys order to much…!) but the transit time from when the package leaves our underground headquarters will only take days. Also there are some other free perks connected with that like parking the order if you are away from home, rerouting the package or planning a specific delivery date.
HOW DID YOU DO THAT, YOU MIGHT ASK?!
We were able to strike a really good deal with DHL Express and we can now get the same price as we got before for much slower shipping.
Thanks to everybody who ordered over the last 1-2 months for making our christmas and new years break more stressfull but giving us an almost bursting production book. We wanted to just let you know that wo are working heavy to get all orders out as fast as we can.
Also the majority of the work on the Sim Rig line is done but we are still working on additional expansions for flight and racing rigs.
We are also working on a pedal expansion for the Flight Stand. It should be available very soon.
We have been working hard the last few month to update the entire Sim Rig line. Our goal was to make it easy for users to build their own dream rig. Base/Wheel/Shifter or Base/HOTAS/TV, whatever you want is possible. I think our hard work paid off so far and we made some very cool improvements. But we are not done yet, a few pieces are still missing and we have some products under construction.
Also we are not just Marc and Olsen anymore, since the start of november our friend Alex helps us out with the production. Welcome!
That was desperately needed to cope with the increase in orders this year. Thanks to everybody by the way!
If you have some ideas or whishes how to improve the Sim Rigs even more, let us know down in the comments.
Here a quick look at all the new pieces from the Sim Rig line:
For the last few month we have been working on a complete upgrade of the sim rig line. It’s not ready yet, just to make that clear. Don’t write me a ton of emails. 😉
Our goal is to make the process of ordering a complex sim rig easy and fun. We are planning to offer a building set, where you can just select the parts that you would like to have on your rig. Everything is compatible with each other and can be added or expanded whenever you like.
The planned building blocks or components are: – Sim Rig base (seat mount, pedal mount)
– Racing extension (wheel, standard shifter)
– Rally shifter
– Handbrake
– Flight extension (HOTAS, armrests)
– Center joystick extension
We are still working on the images for every item but we are making good progress. Here are a few examples fresh out of 3D program. (still work in progress and subject to change)
Marc and Olsen, most famous for producing some weird joystick constraption, have not been seen in the last few months. If you happend to run into two beardy and slightly overweight men in their late fourties with aluminium scrap all over their hair please contact your local HOTAS dealer.
Well the rumours of our demise have been exagerrated, we just didn’t get out of the workshop for the last half a year. The amount of orders we received since the beginning of the year is hitting us hard where the sun don’t shines.
Okay kidding aside, we have been producing table mounts in all variations non stop for the last 8 months. A few weeks ago we finally finished the last missing mounting plate (hello Logitech G940), now we just have to make sure we have everything in stock all the time, which proofs more difficult than it sounds. We constantly have hundreds of mounting plates in order with our watercutting and anodizing partners but if even one piece of the chain has a delay, everything is delayed. I guess welcome to the business world… “Hey Marc, we need our own watercutting machine!!!11”.
We are also working on a revamp of our Sim Rig line for the last 2 months. We finished the design for a new Flight Seat / Racing Seat combo. We are almost ready to launch, but I have to finish the last renders so we have pictures on the page! I am slowly getting used to SolidWorks, the renders getting really pretty but still a lot to learn.
And we launched the Stand on the website, a little mix between table mount and sim rig, but maybe very useful for some people, I love it. We should be ready to ship the first few orders very soon.
Both me and Marc are super happy how everything progresses and we are having a lot of fun making and improving all our products. Sometimes it’s a lot of work and quite stressfull but hey that’s life I guess.
We got the first batch of the new Black Mamba mounting plates in recently. Thanks to our good friend Stefaan here is a little fotogallery. All foto credits go to him.
I was a bit nervous because we didn’t have a Black Mamba at hand when I designed the plate. But I am happy to announce that everything fits perfectly. Puh… The new Mamba plate has the same angle adjustmend feature as the Warthog joystick mounting plate but see for yourself.
Tested with a VKB Black Mamba Mk2 joystick.
All recent and future Black Mamba orders will come with the new plates.
We just finished a first prototype for a Joystick/HOTAS stand. The stand sits in front of the desk and holds the stick and throttle in a perfect position. It’s also possible to switch the right joystick mount to a center mount.
Here is the build video. I hope you like it, it’s as crazy as usual. Beware of german language!
The french gaming magazine Canard PC contacted us a few weeks ago about reviewing our Joystick Table Mounts. Of course we agreed and send out a pair of mounts with Warthog mounting plates.
If you can read french give it a go, if not look a the pretty pictures.
Thanks to Canard PC for the review, we are very proud. You can find the print version in Canard PC issue #337.
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