The big update is here!!!I want to start the GB in early March.I now have pricing for the Euro and Anachronism kits.
Both Euro and Anachronism should be $15 or less. My objective is to get as many of these kits made as I can, so I'm trying to get prices as low as possible while still making sure proxies will be paid for their effort, shipping is covered, sorting errors can be rectified, etc.
Speaking of proxy pricing,
the European proxy will be Mykeyboard.eu. Proxy pricing is in the final stages.
It's been called to my attention that the original PCE keyboard has
text + icon modifiers, whereas the ASCII and Gate Array keyboards have only text. Moreover, text+icon was used in the original Moogle kit group buy. At least one person has requested switching from text-only to text+icon. I'm attaching a KLE mockup here; note that the legends would still be standard SP legends, so the Shift key will have a closed bottom and the icons will be proportioned as usual compared to the text.
I've been convinced to switch to text+icon modifiers for the sake of historical consistency. If anyone has strong feelings about the modifier legends, now is your chance to speak up.For the 1u "windows" key icon, I'm still deciding on whether to use a diamond, a star, or a vintage Windows 95 logo. I personally like the retro Windows logo best, but I will only use it if SP has it in stock and can make it doubleshot. Otherwise I will use the star icon as a homage to the original kit. The original kit had all 3, but for cost reasons we can only choose 1. Here's the Windows logo on a Filco:
and here are the diamond and star options from a previous Moogle kit run:
These photos should give a good sense of how the new caps will look. I am planning to use the same stock colors (although I'm aware of the "batch variation" problem that Oblotzky highlighted in an earlier post).
Edit: thank you to LightningXI for some very helpful feedback, as well as the sexy photo of the Moogle kit on the Filco.