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pwade3:

DCS Windbreaker
GB Will Run May 20th to June 24th!
GB is LIVE


So here we are, one year after the IC for GMK Windbreaker. After seeing the way people were interested in the set, I really wanted to figure out a way to make it happen. Unfortunately between things like Covid, massive queues, etc. etc., going through GMK just didn't seem to be the best path forward for this keyset. So GMK's out, I have no faith in being able to dyesub this properly, many other manus make me nervous about matching so many custom colors when they're so new, and some manus' process is simply incompatible with "handarbeit" style color blocking (e.g. JTK shoots all their alphas at once, so you'd need full sets of alphas for every color").

So that brings us to this: DCS Windbreaker. I'm opting for cherry-style legends, because while I appreciate the historic value of the Gorton ones, I think they're simply too thin for the already pitiful contrast on some of the caps.


Kits






Renders













Colors

Expect pictures soon, but for all but the lime green, I've purchased plastic Pantone chips and really love how these colors look IRL.

Pricing

Tentative US Pricing

Base: $125
Novelties: $35
Numpad: $30
Bars: $25

Vendors

US: PWade3 Productions
CA: Apex Keyboards
EU: Oblotzky Industries
UK: Proto[Typist]
AUS: Switchkeys
SEA: iLumkb
CN/World: zFrontier


Thanks

Thanks to Jacobsmirror, HungHingDaiLo, and everyone who has harassed me over the past year about making this set come to life (yes Sparklepony, you're included in here).

Join My Discord or follow me on Instagram to follow along as we try to make this beautiful bastard of a set happen for real.

Thanks for looking.



Old IC for posterity:
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GMK WINDBREAKER

A set inspired by those lovely neon windbreakers from the 80s and 90s, what else is there to say?

Kits

We've got a base kit, with kits to build out the keyboard windbreaker of your dreams.

Base


WASD+Arrows+VIM


Punctuation


Mod Tilde + Pipe


Numrow


Numpad


Nav Keys


F-Row


65


Pink on Pink Alphas


Bottom Row Mods


Spacebars




Alright, I think that's enough kits, now let's take a look at how it all looks on a board!

Renders



Base+Numpad+Nav Keys+Punctuation+Spacebars+Bottom Row Mods+F-Row+WASD+Arrows+VIM+Numrow on a Polycarb HBCP by Hineybush


Base+Punctuation+Mod Tilde+Pipe+Numrow+Spacebars+Pink on Pink Alphas+Bottom Row Mods on a silver Dalesnail HHKB


Base+Numrow+Spacebars+65+Bottom Row Mods+WASD+Arrows+VIM+Mod Tilde+Pipe on a white Satisfaction75 by Cannonkeys


Base+WASD+Arrows+VIM+F-Row+Punctuation+Nav Keys+Spacebars on a black Horizon by Hand Engineering


Base on a Polycarb HBCP by Hineybush


Base+Mod Tilde+Pipe on a silver Dalesnail HHKB


Base on a white Satisfaction75 by Cannonkeys


Base on a black Horizon by Hand Engineering





Vendors
TBD?




Collabs
Does anyone know who to ask to get custom Starter jackets made? Asking for a friend.




FAQ
Why GMK?

Why Not?

How expensive will this be?

If you have to ask..

What will MOQs be?

Since a lot of the colors aren't featured in base, I'm pretty sure the child kits will be 250 each. Them's the breaks!

Hey how did you write an FAQ if no one has seen this and had questions to ask, let alone ask them frequently?

Woah this is getting too meta, enough questions



Thanks to Jacobsmirror for the inspiration, if you like the set shout out below, if you dislike the set shout out below.

Feel free to join for updates on... this set? Or other sets that I do.

bthezebra:
I honestly love it.

Shell058:
pretty sure i had the "Base+Numpad+Nav Keys+Punctuation+Spacebars+Bottom Row Mods+F-Row+WASD+Arrows+VIM+Numrow on a Polycarb HBCP by Hineybush" windbreaker when i was a small lass

Visionaire:
Reserved

pwade3:

--- Quote from: Visionaire on Thu, 01 April 2021, 07:11:02 ---Reserved

--- End quote ---

I'm sorry sir, we're over booked and have to cancel your reservation.

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