Callsign: Longbow May 2026 Campaign Update

There’s great news to share from the team at Grindstone Toys regarding their CALLSIGN: LONGBOW project! The team shares that there’s a lot of visible progress, with updates on just about the entire roster. Check it out –

Hello CALLSIGN: LONGBOW® Backers!

We’re posting this from the DFW G.I. Joe and Action Figures Show. Thank you to everyone who came out to the show. It was great to meet everyone in person. 

Unfortunately, Bill Young was unable to attend as the show approached. We hope he can make it out next year! 

This month, we have a lot of visible progress to share from the factory team.

Lancer & Krasny-Ninja

• The factory has started molding parts on the Lancer & Krasny-Ninja!
• They shared images of all the ABS parts for Krasny-Ninja.

• We also got to see some of the upper body ABS parts for Lancer. 

• We were also informed that the factory is staffing up the paint department, which hopefully will help keep these figures moving forward without delay. 
• And on that note, they’ve started painting Krasny-Ninja! Check out all these left hands with painted gauntlets.

Volk, Uptown, Spetsnaz, & Outlaw

The same corrections that they’ve been working on for better waist and leg movement function have been updated on these figures as well. 

Steel Web Shock-Trooper, MTF: Retro-Ops, ADAPT Trooper, & Henchmen

• The model shop has completed the modifications on the 3D files for these three figures.
• At this stage, these are still 3D prints. The files used to create these prints will be used to cut the new tooling.
• These new versions have corrections to prevent the issues we saw with the waist/leg movement on the other figures. Creating these models is intended to head off those issues before the tooling stage.

JOEFEST

Come see us at JoeFest Toy and Comic Convention, June 26-28, at the Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center in Augusta, GA.

ASSEMBLY REQUIRED

And we’ll round out the year at our home show, Assembly Required presented by CODENAME: IOWA, November 13-14, at the EMC Expo Center at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, IA.

We hope to see as many of you as possible at these conventions around the country!

Thank you again for making this project a reality!

-GRINDSTONE TOYS

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It’s great to see so much progress, as each update brings us closer to that moment we’ve all been waiting for, SHIPMENT!

Thanks as always to the Grindstone team for keeping us up-to-date. I’ll be sure to share any updates along the way, so make sure to keep it locked!