Hello everybody
This is the Group Buy Thread for GMK Midnight Rainbow, A dark but colourful set, designed to be the showpiece of your board.
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Design & Inspiration
This idea originally began to form in the back of my head in 2017; some of you may remember the old run of GMK Rainbow on zFrontier (https://en.zfrontier.com/products/gmk-rainbow). This was a set that divided opinion, and is rarely talked about today in the western community, but still managed to make MOQ when the community was significantly smaller. I wanted to pay homage to the set, but also bring a modern, more usable set for the majority of boards. The main idea was to tone it down, and bring some clarity and order to the colours.
However; as happens with many projects, this fell by the wayside, and it was only when I saw the amazing festivities of the Manchester Pride (https://www.manchesterpride.com) event a in 2019 that I was reminded and re-inspired to bring this set to life.
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Kit Design
Base
This kit supports all the most popular custom keyboard layouts from standard TKLs to 65%, WKL bottom rows, HHKB, a numpad and more. There is also UK ISO support in the base kit (as I知 an ISO user).
Due to the nature of the colourway some usual key duplication allows further kit optimisation (Mod coloured \| on ANSI for example).
Spacebars
A small kit designed to give split board users the ability to adequately cover the bottom row, as well as an extra B key for those Alice type layouts.
Base Kit
(https://imgur.com/xwzWxeu.png)
Spacebars kit
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Group Buy Details
Dates: June 5th to June 26th, with estimated shipping Feb 2021
Pricing & Vendors:
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Cables
ZeusCables: Proud to announce an awesome collab with Zeus for cables:
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Artisans
Latralium: Meika has kindly offered to make some of her amazing caps to match this set!
Alphakeycaps: Yohan has designed the below Keypora to match the set!!
(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/548916552444018691/622859433818587167/keypora_rainbow_a.jpeg?width=1413&height=1364)
Deskmats
Novelkeys:
Constellation
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Midnight Rainbow
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N E More Renders Avail?
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J-01 by Jae
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J-02 by Jae
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Bauer by Dixie
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J-02 by Jae
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Lodestone by Flex &Jae
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Thanks
Many thanks to the following for your help and support during the design of this set:
- David and Yullia from MyKeyboard and Mike from NovelKeys for their ongoing support and help in getting the set into IC
- The community and everyone in it, for all the support and feedback (both good and bad) that痴 helped me to grow
- MacSurfy and UndercoverBrother for the amazing renders
- Konstantin for the Kit changes
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