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【IC】GMK Copper - Group Buy January 13th, Cables, Artisans and Giveaways

类型: IC
作者: fatboycarney
发布时间: 2019-10-14 00:47:39
更新时间: 2020-01-13 18:49:17
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=102917.0


Hello Geekhack I would like to introduce you to
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launching into Group Buy on January 13th
I wanted to share these amazing caps that Sodiecaps did for the GMK Copper Group Buy, more info will be announced during the group buy
Thanks so much to Sodiecaps for being amazing to work with and delivering these unbelievable artisans
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Inspiration

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My initial inspiration was coins, I collect coins including pennies. I love the varying colors you get with copper pennies, almost no 2 coins look alike.
This made choosing the right colour for copper a bit of a challenge but I am extremely happy with the look of the Copper colour I have decided on.
The second inspiration is Patina If you aren’t familiar with this I hope you enjoy a basic bit of chemistry. When Copper ages and is exposed to various natural elements it can form
a number of chemical compounds on its surface. The result of the creation of these compounds is a wide range of almost unbelievable colours. For this keyset I have taken inspiration from
the slightly oxidized aged colour of Copper the extremely aged and unrecognizable look of Oxidized Brown Copper and the almost luminescence
and likely more common Cyan Patina
Copper is the perfect fit as inspiration for a keyset, it allows for a ton of options to represent Copper and its many looks.
Kits
In an effort to cover as many boards as possible I have included numpad, physical ISO, and keys for a basic Ortho/40s in the base kit and have limited the kits to 3
Base
139.99 USD/ 134 EUR/ 195 CDN/ 205 AUD/ (Asia 160 USD/995 RMB)
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Novelties
44.99 USD/ 46 EUR/ 63 CDN/ 66 AUD/ (Asia 48 USD/322 RMB)
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Spaces
24.99 USD/ 27 EUR/ 35 CDN/ 37 AUD/ (Asia 27 USD/ 178 RMB)
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Vendors
US - Kono
Canada - DESKHERO
Europe - MyKeyboard
Oceania - Daily Clack
Asia - ZFrontier-EN ZFrontier - CN
Renders –> Will add more over the next coming weeks
Iron165 (Smith+Rune)
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Austin (driftingbunnies, PheonixStarr and Gondolindrim)
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45-ATS (Abec13)
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Deskmats
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:eek: Salvun Artisan - Copper Keycap with real Patina and sealed to retain :eek:
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Colours
I wanted to add a small description about the colour selection. Originally I had keyed in on the Pantone Colour “Copper Coin” ( https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/18-1537-TPX) as this seemed like a great way to achieve the copper theme. Using normal non metallic colours to emulate a metallic look is certainly
difficult and may not work for everyone. After continuing to look at colours and stumbling across a Pantone book at work I made the modification to change to Pantone 7522 C ( https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/7522-C) as this offered a lighter solution for the alphas.
Copper is not only tricky because of its metallic properties but because of its range in between pink/brown/orange hues. For the mods after making some initial changes due to recommendations in the community, I wanted a brown inspired by some of my sample patina/oxidation images that didn’t look black but also did look rusty (another great dark orange set is currently in IC)
I hope that gives some context and if you dig into some of the hidden sections of my post you can see that the more chocolaty browns do appear in oxidized copper.
The colours of GMK Copper
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/7522-C
https://www.ralcolorchart.com/ral-classic/ral-8017-chocolate-brown
https://www.ralcolorchart.com/ral-classic/ral-6027-light-green
Old Updates
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BIG UPDATES
Group Buy- set for January. The exact date is not confirmed but it will likely begin the 2nd week of January and run through the first week of February
Base Kit updated - I have updated the Base Kit to include the R3 |/ (while retaining the ~/# Jae!) and added an R4 1.5u Super as this was the most requested key to be added, things are pretty locked down but if anything overwhelming came up it might be possible to make changes
Deskmats - Thank you all for the overwhelming feedback on the deskmats, due to the number of responses and relatively close race I have decided to offer both of the new mats for a total of 3
Update - October 19th
My first crack at building out the kits (novelties still to come) Artist renders will be coming but wanted to get some feedback from the community first so took a crack at KLE and used kbrenders to get a great looking kit render I think
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Old images and renders

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Here are some images of the beauty that can come from Patina’d piece of copper
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Also to continue my inspiration I tried an experiment to see what kind of colour I could acheive on a pure piece of copper
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There are a number of other interesting and amazing things about Copper that you may or may not know, and hopefully as the set evolves this amazing metal will become something you want to represent on your favourite board!!
Here is a KBrender of the latest design
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Old renders
I present an early KLE render of G M K Copper (more renders to come - legends are not final and only representative of default KLE)
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Finally got my kbrenders render (thanks CQ_Cumbers) Thanks for all the great feedback, looking into options but here is the better render to continue the conversation
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Updated KLE render –> Please comment on the updated colourway. A lot of feedback around the black so for comparison with a dark brown that compares nicely with one of my inspiration pics
Using RAL 030 20 10 for the mods now and my main copper colour for the alphas (if feedback is positive improved renders will be coming)
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Updated with lighter accent which I like as I agree with the switch the TU2 was to dark Thoughts?
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Whats Next
Get Quotes from GMK
Finalize date
Finalize Artisans and announce
Maybe some more surprise renders!!!
Giant Thank You!!!
OneCreativeMind for everything he has done for me, working with me on novelties, kitting discussions, all things art and just anything he can to help make this set a success
Albec13 for consulting on kitting while I was building this out, absolutely amazing renders and final kit preparation and putting up with my general harassment
azhdar for being the OP on this thread and a number of commenters with some great points On the availability of ISO in GB
Agilr for early colour feedback and great recommendation on different colour direction
Nasp for a great kit discussion and all the time he spent explaining his process, so helpful
T0mb3ry and Moridin for being cool with using the elemental design
remendis for being harrassed randomly by me and turning out was following the set and giving feedback and helping with me bouncing ideas off him
All the amazing vendors who are supporting the set, such a professional, friendly, helpful group
And last but not least the community, such a welcoming, helpful, talented place to make great things happen
Comments encouraged
Thanks!
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