Author Topic: [IC] GMK Thai Tea (GB November 20) (Read 57560 times)

pwade3 · « **on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 07:58:29 »

GB will run from November 20 to December 18

Kits

Base

Orange Alphas

Spacebars

Which alpha kit will depend on pricing from GMK.

Old Kit Renderings

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Base

Orange Alphas

Spacebars

Vendors
US: Panc.co (for those who don't know, the runner of GMK Taro R1)
CA: Deskhero
UK/Non-EU Europe: Proto[Typist]
EU: Mykeyboard.eu
AUS: Daily Clack
CN/Asia: zFrontier
SEA: Monokei

Pricing
Panc.co:
Base: $135.00
Alphas: $70.00
Spacebars: $36.00

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zFrontier CN (CNY)
Base: ¥989.00
Alphas: ¥490.00
Spacebars: ¥249.00

zFrontier EN (USD)
Base: $165.00
Alphas: $77.00
Spacebars: $38.00

MyKeyboard.eu (EUR)
Base: €135.00
Alphas: €75.00
Spacebar: €34.00

Deskhero (CAD)
Base: $182.00
Alphas: $95.00
Spacebars: $49.00

Daily Clack (AUD)
Base: $203.00
Alphas: $105.00
Spacebars: $54.00

Proto[Typist] (GBP)
Base: £119.00
Alphas: £65.00
Spacebar: £30.00

The Colors

As with the previous version, this is still my inspiration, so don't come at me about thai tea not being purple, cause there's definitely purple in that pic.

After struggling to get Pantones to render as I was seeing them, I picked up a RAL book and decided to switch to that. While I do feel better about these, remember that all renders are an approximation and all of our screens can vary in how well colors are represented.

Alpha Base: RAL 075 90 20
Alpha Legend: RAL 050 50 60

Mod Base: RAL 350 20 15
Mod Legends: RAL 050 60 60

Accent Base: RAL 050 50 60
Accent Legend: RAL 350 20 15

Note that the alpha legends and the mod legends are two different shades of orange, the reasons for this were twofold, one it adds a bit more diversity in the oranges in the set, and it also helps with the contrast.

I set up a profile for my camera in lightroom using an xrite color checker, but I'm far from an expert. These are in no way guaranteed to be 100% color accurate, but should be used to give an added idea of what the color should be in addition to the renders

Renders
I did these renders with a variety of lighting, to hopefully give a rough idea of how these colors will fluctuate based on your particular desk setup.

Here we have a burgundy Campine mk. VII by Panc.Co

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Next up is a black J01 by Proto[Typist] Keyboards

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After that we've got the orange alphas on a bluegrey Haus by Handengineering.

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Last is a Mech27, mostly in silver, one in poly. Some with base, some with orange alphas.

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What's that? More renders?
How about some luxurious suede?

Or perhaps a towel material, so you can use your keyboard to dry off.

Foam for an extra quiet board?

Or maybe you'd prefer an open sound.

Or if money is no object, maybe a board made out of topaz.

If you wanna keep tabs on this project and more, feel free to join my discord server!

Thanks to pnkpanther, Dalesnail, and Nathanalphaman for all the rendering tips, Jae for letting me tarnish the J-01 model with this set, and alexatpanc for for some reason believing in me.

No thanks to jacobsmirror. You did this. You're responsible.

Don't let your memes be dreams:

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As the premier beverage-themed keyset designer it's my pleasure to introduce GMK Thai Tea.

What's that? "But you just did a tea-based set with Taro?" Too bad! You're not my supervisor!

After Taro R1, jacobsmirror came told me to do Thai Tea, but I said "no, that's ugly" and never gave it a second thought. Until about 2 days ago, when I was like "oh yeah, I've been messing around with Fusion I guess I can finally mess with this without having to pay for someone else to render it". And here we are.

Base

Spacebars

"Only 2 kits? But pwade, Taro had so many kits, I need more!" To which I say, did you see where I said "2 days ago"? Holy crap laying out kits is tedious. Oh and the 1.25u spacebar might look like it's not r4c, because it's not. Didn't have a model for that one, oops. Just go ahead and use your imagination.

Vendors
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Artisans
No artisan collabs from anyone with good sense, surely.

Deskmats
I said I was learning Fusion, not InDesign, you think I got a desmat designed in 2 days?

Renders
Oh yeah, time for the payoff

GMK Thai Tea on a white J-01, so lovely.

GMK Thai Tea on a poly Campine mk. VII by alexatpanc

GMK Thai Tea on a black Mech27. What do you want from me? The files are easily available and I didn't have a TKL model to work with, okay?

jacobsmirror · « **Reply #1 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:01:10 »

Screw the IC, I want to buy it.

mydens · « **Reply #2 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:01:45 »

white J-01...wow, how i miss that group buy?

proboy84 · « **Reply #3 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:03:42 »

Thai sub legend plzzz

Pach · « **Reply #4 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:04:01 »

So looking at some caps in the title image i assume that you will offer a low-profile kit? awesome

pwade3 · « **Reply #5 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:10:52 »

Quote from: Pachriksu on Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:04:01

So looking at some caps in the title image i assume that you will offer a low-profile kit? awesome

Some caps may ship with noclip enabled.

mta · « **Reply #6 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:11:04 »

After the loss of Forge, I actually want this...

Are you going to break my heart, too? ;-;

Shell058 · « **Reply #7 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:11:42 »

Alternate name: GMK Overlook.

hello danny

pnkpanther65 · « **Reply #8 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:13:59 »

Amazing

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konstantin · « **Reply #9 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:35:26 »

Wouldn't be a pwade set if it didn't have some kind of purple in there.

godinjointform · « **Reply #10 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:39:15 »

dis hot tho

futurecrime · « **Reply #11 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 08:50:40 »

Is nice

nasp · « **Reply #12 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 09:52:27 »

How about southern sweat tea set next? Arnold Palmer? Darjeeling?

pwade3 · « **Reply #13 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 09:53:33 »

Quote from: nasp on Wed, 01 April 2020, 09:52:27

How about southern sweat tea set next? Arnold Palmer? Darjeeling?

Sweet tea maybe, sweat tea hell no.

amarotea · « **Reply #14 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 09:57:05 »

Quote from: nasp on Wed, 01 April 2020, 09:52:27

How about southern sweat tea set next? Arnold Palmer? Darjeeling?

+1 to all of this

Onocron · « **Reply #15 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 09:59:19 »

you made me break my geekhack silence so i can say

i want this

the end

pwade3 · « **Reply #16 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 10:01:15 »

Quote from: Onocron on Wed, 01 April 2020, 09:59:19

you made me break my geekhack silence so i can say

i want this

the end

ho ho ho we got him boys

Coneree · « **Reply #17 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 10:34:53 »

give immediate

fishbiscuit13 · « **Reply #18 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 11:53:53 »

This isn't really for me, but I can see this being really popular. If a regular beige set is a cubicle, this is your wood-paneled study with a warm fire.

That metaphor worked better in my head.

Vadurr · « **Reply #19 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 12:23:48 »

Very unique!

Rumblehotep · « **Reply #20 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 12:33:02 »

Sweet Teasus

delet_d · « **Reply #21 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 12:36:55 »

one of the only april fools interest checks that actually is not a complete joke

D3LTA · « **Reply #22 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 12:41:03 »

Alphas with Thai mono or sub legends?

pwade3 · « **Reply #23 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 13:20:19 »

Quote from: D3LTA on Wed, 01 April 2020, 12:41:03

Alphas with Thai mono or sub legends?

Thai subs could definitely be cool!

outsider · « **Reply #24 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 13:41:12 »

I saw the picture on my Reddit feed and thought.. that looks interesting. Then I clicked and saw Pwade.... damnit.

I'm in!

depletedvespene · « **Reply #25 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 14:34:41 »

Weeb sublegends, Hangul sublegends... Zhuyin, Cyrillic, Greek...

If there is ONE keycap set that should come with Thai sublegends, this is it.

konstantin · « **Reply #26 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 14:57:14 »

Quote from: depletedvespene on Wed, 01 April 2020, 14:34:41

Weeb sublegends, Hangul sublegends... Zhuyin, Cyrillic, Greek...

If there is ONE keycap set that should come with Thai sublegends, this is it.

+1

pwade3 · « **Reply #27 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 15:45:01 »

Quote from: depletedvespene on Wed, 01 April 2020, 14:34:41

Weeb sublegends, Hangul sublegends... Zhuyin, Cyrillic, Greek...

If there is ONE keycap set that should come with Thai sublegends, this is it.

Zhuyin for sure.

I just didn't have models on hand to mock that up.

depletedvespene · « **Reply #28 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 15:49:46 »

Quote from: pwade3 on Wed, 01 April 2020, 15:45:01

Quote from: depletedvespene on Wed, 01 April 2020, 14:34:41
Weeb sublegends, Hangul sublegends... Zhuyin, Cyrillic, Greek...

If there is ONE keycap set that should come with Thai sublegends, this is it.

Zhuyin for sure.

I just didn't have models on hand to mock that up.

Well, get on it, then.

Slash Emperor · « **Reply #29 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 16:12:34 »

I'd love to see Thai sublegends or monolegends, for sure. This set is making me miss my grandma's house...

pwade3 · « **Reply #30 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 16:20:50 »

Quote from: Slash Emperor on Wed, 01 April 2020, 16:12:34

I'd love to see Thai sublegends or monolegends, for sure. This set is making me miss my grandma's house...

Thai subs would be neat too. That one would require some more research though for sure.

IReallyLikeBacon · « **Reply #31 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 20:11:54 »

Feel like the main shade should be a little bit more orange and less of the dark salmon/orange mix it is now. Also boba novelties would be amazing

depletedvespene · « **Reply #32 on:** Wed, 01 April 2020, 21:11:58 »

Quote from: pwade3 on Wed, 01 April 2020, 16:20:50

Quote from: Slash Emperor on Wed, 01 April 2020, 16:12:34
I'd love to see Thai sublegends or monolegends, for sure. This set is making me miss my grandma's house...

Thai subs would be neat too. That one would require some more research though for sure.

Tell me where to send you IBM's spec for the Thai layout (it's a small PDF file).

pwade3 · « **Reply #33 on:** Thu, 02 April 2020, 09:07:29 »

Quote from: IReallyLikeBacon on Wed, 01 April 2020, 20:11:54

Feel like the main shade should be a little bit more orange and less of the dark salmon/orange mix it is now. Also boba novelties would be amazing

If a vendor actually shows interest in this set, I would definitely work more at nailing the colors, time was a bit of a factor and as I mentioned, still new to using Fusion so my color accuracy isn't quite perfect yet.

portbaron · « **Reply #34 on:** Mon, 06 April 2020, 18:02:00 »

Would buy.

oldcat · « **Reply #35 on:** Mon, 06 April 2020, 19:13:19 »

Very interesting

MdotMaxson · « **Reply #36 on:** Sat, 11 April 2020, 06:31:45 »

Never have I ever....... had a Thai tea that was purple.

What? No one out a finger down?

IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES · « **Reply #37 on:** Sat, 11 April 2020, 15:35:39 »

This is a bit more orange and a little less pink than the two favorite colors of an atomic pathologists everywhere, hematoxylin and eosin.

FreshCake · « **Reply #38 on:** Mon, 13 April 2020, 06:06:49 »

First of all, I do love the color. But this is not quite really Thai tea, a lot of comments on this in Thailand mechanical keyboard community.

Totally in for Thai subs!

pwade3 · « **Reply #39 on:** Mon, 13 April 2020, 11:20:10 »

Quote from: FreshCake on Mon, 13 April 2020, 06:06:49

First of all, I do love the color. But this is not quite really Thai tea, a lot of comments on this in Thailand mechanical keyboard community.

Totally in for Thai subs!

The colors are something I'd want to fine tune if this were to come to fruition, for sure!

Deanington · « **Reply #40 on:** Tue, 14 April 2020, 08:57:20 »

I like the colors as is, theyre unique. On the other hand I am curious as to how they would look when tweaked. Come on vendors!

KEYGEM · « **Reply #41 on:** Tue, 14 April 2020, 14:23:22 »

I like the colors. Looking forward to how it turns out with the tuning on the color and some novelties

glazeds0n · « **Reply #42 on:** Tue, 14 April 2020, 18:06:08 »

I don't feel like the purple fits - I have never had/seen purple Thai tea. Could add some more cream / condensed milk color
Thai subs would be amazing

BigBabyJesus · « **Reply #43 on:** Wed, 15 April 2020, 05:01:42 »

Amazing!

Flymetothemoon · « **Reply #44 on:** Thu, 16 April 2020, 04:53:53 »

Nice!

anatworkaccount · « **Reply #45 on:** Fri, 17 April 2020, 20:30:40 »

In for one.

SMOKEY · « **Reply #46 on:** Wed, 22 April 2020, 14:53:39 »

Dunzos · « **Reply #47 on:** Wed, 22 April 2020, 15:02:03 »

I'm interested.

ilikerustoo · « **Reply #48 on:** Tue, 28 April 2020, 19:37:05 »

Interesting

aclassynerd · « **Reply #49 on:** Tue, 28 April 2020, 23:25:29 »

Interested!

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