I would definitely suggest a new thread for the color requests, Barry. This one is fast approaching 10,000 posts, and requests may get lost in the mix with all the questions that seem to get asked over and over again.
Perhaps SigShooter could create a color interest list once the thread is started.
Before I forget, I want to thank you as well for keeping us up to speed on what’s happening on your end.
Thanks for the updates Barry. It helps to mention the reasons for a delay, things are often more complicated than people think.
Before starting a colour thread it is a good idea to sort out with Barry/Sofirn what colours can be realistically expected. Starting a poll with colours that will never happen is not very useful.
Because of major workload at the office and volunteer work during the 4 day thanksgiving holiday, finally got around to ordering my BLF LT1 on amazon with the groupbuy code. Expected arrival… drum roll….
Some time between Jan 7 and Feb 3 2020.
So the wait begins (will not anxiously think about it).
If I need a lantern, I’ll find a white tranlucent cone to stick onto my BLF Q8…
I would also definitely prefer to wait for the orange version for my second lantern. I don’t mind waiting as long as it takes but I would hope we can still get it at group buy prices once available.
^^FYI, when I ordered mine from Amazon it arrived earlier than the earliest estimation and that was after a delay where it got a little lost for a while. I think amazon errs on the side of caution with items shipped from China so hopefully yours arrives sooner.
Since there are issues getting the number of the colored versions with the anodizing factory, we asked Barry if it is possible to do a number of clear/bare aluminum versions too in place of some of the plain black. Maybe a bare shiny non-anodized aluminum version like the FW3A was done in, (or as a sand-blast/satin bare aluminum variant) like in the pic below.
I could definitely go for a bare aluminum lantern. If that happens though, I really should make a small change to the firmware to make factory reset easier without anodized threads.