类型: IC
作者: pwade3
发布时间: 2018-01-01 13:28:05
更新时间:
2018-01-24 11:54:29
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=93313.0
News!
Updates below: proxies, packaging, and possible
novelties, oh my!
Tentative GB Date: January 26,
2018
Make sure to peep the tie-ins section below!
Hello and Happy New Year everyone, it’s my pleasure
to finally present something I’ve been working on for quite
a while now behind the scenes: GMK Taro.
Yes, this is a preview of what we’re hoping the
packaging will look like, big shoutout to outragedpudding
for doing an amazing job and zambumon for a nice render to
show off!
About the Set
The theme is simple
enough: taro bubble tea. I was drinking some one day and
thinking about how much I liked the color and it dawned on
me that it might make for a pretty good looking keyset. The
purple tones were nice but I thought it needed something
more, so I went with cyan and yellow accents, which
represent the crazy-colored straws that most boba places
have.
This set will be cherry profile, produced by GMK,
using good old doubleshot ABS. The purple colors will be
custom, hex codes of /#8E71A2 and /#170B19, the cyan and
yellow are TU2 and CV from GMK.
The group buy itself
will be run by Alex of Panc.co.
Kits
We’ve got 3
kits: Base, Spacebar, and Novelties, I’ve moved the fancy
kit renders below, but here’s our GMK renders, just so
everyone knows what we’ve got lined up with them.
Our tentative pricing is as follows:
Base (at
250 moq): $155
Spacebars (at 100/150/250 moq):
$30/$28/$24
Novelties (at 250 moq): $20
Shipping
will be $10 Conus. We are currently ironing out proxies, if
you are interested in proxying, feel free to contact either
of us.
Confirmed Proxies
EU: Mykeyboard.eu
China:
zFrontier
As far as the GB itself goes, we’re hoping to
shoot for the end of this month if the interest is there. If
you have any thoughts/feedback regarding the set/kit please
feel free to offer it below, I’m by no means an expert.
Tie
ins
I’m also proud to say that we’ve got some very
awesome people collaborating with us to offer even more Taro
goodies, with hopefully more to be announced.
GAF
For starters, one lucky purchaser of GMK Taro will
win a Boba Burbs Garbo Puss, created by GAF. This colorway
was produced using the hex codes for the set, so while it
may not wind up being a 100% match to the finished product,
it should be an amazing addition to any board using Taro.
Keyforge
I’m
happy to announce another tie in, this one brought to you by
Keyforge. He’s going to be conducting a raffle for
Taro-themed caps for GB participants when we open the GB!
He’ll be conducting the sale in his typical format
otherwise.
Unfortunately we won’t have pictures, but
that’s because he’s going to be waiting to make the caps
till we have samples and production colors confirmed so that
the colors can be as well-matched as possible!
More
Renders!
More
Last but not least, a special thanks to so many
people for helping me get to this point. Alexatpanc for
being open to taking this project on. Livingspeedbump for
offering some very helpful advice to a complete newbie.
Kudos and Koala of keykollectiv for supporting this in a way
I never could have anticipated. Keyforge for similarly
unanticipated support. Oblotzky and Zambumon for the
renders. Outragedpudding for doing amazing work with all the
artwork and novelty designs. Lightningxi, jacobsmirror,
thegreaticedrake, gajible, shinz0, shell058, i_need_a_bath,
kelly, and countless other friends and purple lovers who
encouraged me to keep at this to hopefully have it see the
light of day.