[IC] GMK TeraDrive | gb closed

[Kingk22]

GMK TeraDrive
a joint project with yuzu#0108


A keycap set based off the Sega HTR-2106.

Group Buy: 17/01/22 - 17/02/22

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Inspiration

Yuzu saw the Sega HTR-2106.
Yuzu liked it.
We wanted the keycaps.
We made this IC.








Kits

The current colour codes are as follows

Alphas RAL 000 15 00
Mods RAL 7010
Legends GMK CP

Due to the rarity of the board we can't exactly get one in front of us as of yet, we're still going through as many photos as we can in various lighting conditions to match as closely as possible.

We are actively looking to acquire one.


Base Kit

US$140




Extension Kit

US$35




Latin Alpha Kit

This kit has been removed preemptively.


JIS Mod Kit

US$60



Thanks to 2Moons and Konstantin for all their help on this kit, go check out GMK JIS WoB.


Deskmats

Based on the nostalgic box art of the TeraDrive console. Courtesy of would from Finder Works

Light




Dark




Renders

Kig Bean








Finder Works En Dash








Finder Works Hyphen








Finder Works Hash Pad (WIP)



More to come soon


Pricing

Base Kit: US$140
Extension Kit: US$35
JIS Kit: US$60


Vendors

OCE: Daily Clack
NA: Mekibo
EU: mykeyboard.eu
SEA: iLumkb
UK: Proto[Typist]
CA: ApexKeyboards
CN/HK: Thic Thock
JP: Basekeys


To Do

1. Finalise kitting
2. More board renders
3. Finalise vendors
4. Finalise pricing

88. Acquire board for colour matching


Update Log

- 2021-12-30: Pricing added
- 2021-12-01: Vendors finalised
- 2021-06-29: Deskmats added
- 2021-03-18: Updated kit renders
- 2020-12-30: Vendors! Minor kit updates, more reference material
- 2020-12-22: JIS!! base kit overhaul, child kits, more board renders
- 2020-12-20: ic live


Contact

If there's anything not covered in this IC or if you have any other questions, feel free to ask in the TeraDrive channel or contact us at Kingk22#2222 and yuzu#0108 on discord.


Special thanks to Yuzu for coming up with this idea.

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[NoahJelson]

looks amazing! Would love to see 00 and maybe an = in the numpad

[L-Ron]

Looks fantastic, count me in for a set!

[snelltrail]

This looks almost as cute as Yuzu uwu

[kmao]

maochamp

[$W4GK!NG]

Look nice, any chance you will include a windowed step caps onto the base kit?

[Agilr]

This is such a lovely set by two lovely people.

All the best!

[Sunhwan Jeong]

Is this different from colors of ThinkCaps?

[yuzu]

Look nice, any chance you will include a windowed step caps onto the base kit?

That's a great idea! We'll look into adding this in the next round of kit changes.

Is this different from colors of ThinkCaps?

Both our colours are custom with the alphas being a very very dark grey (as opposed to Thinkcaps' black) and much lighter mods.

[sirieous]

this kinda lit

[BapoDonu]

simp for king  !

[goddream]

:hapbruh:

[Badmutha]

Nice and simple set. Good work guys!

[gilbert]

gj papa king!
but I would like to see a second b or 00 in base.

[of_sam]

This is really lovely. Would love to see it come to fruition.

[huey]

Are you going to colour matching from a NOS unit?

[Bunn3y]

Must cop.

[noodleman]

Chyrosran has one. Maybe you can work with him to try and get the colours right?

[powwu]

Jesus, this is a pretty set. No complaints. GLWIC

[konstantin]

If you want to take this idea to the next level, consider running a JIS compatibility kit. JIS tooling is being made for GMK JIS WoB, so all of the required molds (including 4.5c space) will be available by the time you run this.

[Kingk22]

Thank you to everyone for the early feedback, there'll be some immediate kit changes coming up very soon to address what we've heard so far, stay tuned!

If you want to take this idea to the next level, consider running a JIS compatibility kit. JIS tooling is being created for GMK JIS WoB, so all of the required molds will be available by the time you run this.

This is the plan for the proposed JIS mod kit, we're in contact with 2Moons and hopefully can work something out.

[ddrfraser1]

noice

[konstantin]

This is the plan for the proposed JIS mod kit, we're in contact with 2Moons and hopefully can work something out.

Ah yeah, he just told me you guys have already gotten in touch That's great to hear! If you need any help with kitting, JIS or otherwise, don't hesitate to DM us or come talk to us in the Basekeys Discord.

[highpur]

This looks very good. I simp for King

[nu_types]

So much yes

[Baka Bot]

really like the colors of this set. also icons + letter mods= cop

[keeganzero]

I like this a lot.  Adding to my watchlist for 2021.

[belgium_waffles]

ok cool

[treeleaf64]

I want it now

[zionsped]

This is fire! I want it so bad.

[_rubik]

I'm a broken record at this point but...

If you're basing this off a JIS board, are you planning to support JIS in a separate kit?

[treeleaf64]

I'm a broken record at this point but...

If you're basing this off a JIS board, are you planning to support JIS in a separate kit?

It says JIS mod kit in the first post

[Pach]

love ya king

[SwitchKeys]

Beautiful!

[guypigeotto]

Looks great! Nothing better than weird vintage Japanese boards for set inspo

[LightningXI]

Nice. I like it. Will keep an eye.

[_rubik]

I'm a broken record at this point but...

If you're basing this off a JIS board, are you planning to support JIS in a separate kit?

It says JIS mod kit in the first post

Ignore me. I skimmed and assumed. Usually pretty safe for most GMK sets, but (thankfully) not the case here.

[chriszhu]

Simple, looks nice!

[directheatedtriode]

Super nice set

[-janitor-]

big fan of this I have to say.

[Jaxxstatic]

Oooh. I like it. Interested.

JFYI, if you wanted to play Sega CD games in 1993, you couldn't just buy a Sega CD module from the Sears catalog. You had to already own a Sega Genesis.
My mom and I did not know this for my 10th birthday until it was too late...

Also fyi, the previous bit of information has nothing to do with this keyset.

[HungHingDaiLo]

Great job guys,
fantastic render as always Kingk22!

Will wait on latin alphas render to get myself convinced!

[Chippy]

I really like the tones on this, looking forward to seeing novelties.

[Arithmetics]

very nice. random request for japanese only mods like in masterpiece or kuro shiro

[Kingk22]

Hi everyone, based on all the feedback and advice so far, we've made some key kitting updates as follows.

Base kit:
- missing quaternary sublegends added
- 00 key added
- additional B key in the base kit
- split spacebars in the base kit
- additional 2.25U shift key in the base kit
- slight updates to correct some of the hiragana sublegends
- R4 ISO key changed
- R1 半/全 key added

Extension kit:
By adding split spacebars to the base kit and not having an accent colour, we've been able to make this kit relatively small.
It's still subject to change but we're hoping this will allow us to keep it fairly priced given it will be a relatively low MOQ kit.

Spacebar kit:
With the split spacebars in the base kit and the 1U keys in the extension kit, we've removing this as a separate kit.
The only thing missing compared to having a standlone kit is 6U spacebar support, this is still under consideration to be added to the base kit.

Latin alpha kit:
Pretty simple kit, includes additional tab and enter keys so that you can cover 2 boards with base + alphas.

JIS kit:
The current kit allows for full JIS layout support, we're also planning on adding some additional keys that would allow for JIS style support on ANSI layout boards.
Massive thanks to 2Moons (check out GMK JIS WoB) and Konstantin for all their help in developing this kit.

[gilbert]

Thank you for updating the kitting, looks pretty good now... uk iso would be nice tho

[kidviddy]

JIS kit:
The current kit allows for full JIS layout support, we're also planning on adding some additional keys that would allow for JIS style support on ANSI layout boards.
Massive thanks to 2Moons (check out GMK JIS WoB) and Konstantin for all their help in developing this kit.

Very excited to see this, and thanks as always to 2Moons and konstantin for their efforts in this area!

A couple of comments (I mentioned this in the IC form as well):

• The ]}む key is missing its quaternary 」 legend.
• The 無 in 無変換 has the lower-left square filled in, in the render. Same for the top-right of 換.  Is this a mistake in the render, a stylistic choice, or a compromise to deal with GMK's tolerances?
• While GMK JIS WoB provides a fully compliant JIS kit in the base as its entire raison d'être, this kit demonstrates what a comprehensive add-on kit supporting both Latin monolegend and kana sublegend sets could look like, and I think it does an admirable job! I hope that it succeeds, and if it does I expect that it will serve as an immensely useful reference for future sets which want to explore this kitting. Bravo!

[Kingk22]

JIS kit:
The current kit allows for full JIS layout support, we're also planning on adding some additional keys that would allow for JIS style support on ANSI layout boards.
Massive thanks to 2Moons (check out GMK JIS WoB) and Konstantin for all their help in developing this kit.

Very excited to see this, and thanks as always to 2Moons and konstantin for their efforts in this area!

A couple of comments (I mentioned this in the IC form as well):

• The ]}む key is missing its quaternary 」 legend.
• The 無 in 無変換 has the lower-left square filled in, in the render. Same for the top-right of 換.  Is this a mistake in the render, a stylistic choice, or a compromise to deal with GMK's tolerances?
• While GMK JIS WoB provides a fully compliant JIS kit in the base as its entire raison d'être, this kit demonstrates what a comprehensive add-on kit supporting both Latin monolegend and kana sublegend sets could look like, and I think it does an admirable job! I hope that it succeeds, and if it does I expect that it will serve as an immensely useful reference for future sets which want to explore this kitting. Bravo!

Those are both oversights on my part and have been corrected, these are all new render models I created for this kit so they still need some touching up.

Thanks for the kind words, we're glad to help offer something new to the community!

[parablol]

JIS Kit

[2Moons]

I'm glad I could help make this project a reality.

[Retne]

With the kitting as it is now I don't see how I couldn't buy that base kit.  The support in the base is amazing and I really dig the theme.

[Techichi]

I see a black and grey set...I am interested.

[ephemeral25]

Those new JIS mods are really nice.

Definitely considering this keyset

[udller]

having a sega logo novelty would be cool. or like a metal artisan of some kind

[kidviddy]

Between the Japanese retro inspiration and the comprehensive JIS support, I think this set might be pretty popular in Japan! Have you considered approaching a Japanese vendor? Yusha Kobo is the biggest player, from what I understand. GMK JIS WoB lists them as a vendor already, so maybe speak to 2Moons about the best way to get in touch with them.

[2Moons]

Between the Japanese retro inspiration and the comprehensive JIS support, I think this set might be pretty popular in Japan! Have you considered approaching a Japanese vendor? Yusha Kobo is the biggest player, from what I understand. GMK JIS WoB lists them as a vendor already, so maybe speak to 2Moons about the best way to get in touch with them.

I'm happy to help in any way I can. Just contact me when you need something.

[kidviddy]

Hey, sorry to keep bumping this thread with extra posts!

I took the liberty of posting this in the Self-Made Keyboards in Japan Discord, to double-check the JIS kitting, and they pointed out one issue which I'd missed. In the number row, you have a "0, わ, を" key for the hiragana sub legends version, but no "0" key for the latin mono legends version in the row below.  This is necessary because if you try and use the standard ANSI 0 you'll end up with the top legends being "(", ")", and ")" for 8, 9, and 0 respectively, with two right parentheses.

In a JIS layout, there is no punctuation symbol above the 0, and with no kana sublegends, this means that the key will have only the single legend "0".  The usual thing to do here is to align it the same way as the rest of the numbers, so in this case it would go at the bottom-left. Here's a pretty representative example.

[Kingk22]

Hey, sorry to keep bumping this thread with extra posts!

I took the liberty of posting this in the Self-Made Keyboards in Japan Discord, to double-check the JIS kitting, and they pointed out one issue which I'd missed. In the number row, you have a "0, わ, を" key for the hiragana sub legends version, but no "0" key for the latin mono legends version in the row below.  This is necessary because if you try and use the standard ANSI 0 you'll end up with the top legends being "(", ")", and ")" for 8, 9, and 0 respectively, with two right parentheses.

In a JIS layout, there is no punctuation symbol above the 0, and with no kana sublegends, this means that the key will have only the single legend "0".  The usual thing to do here is to align it the same way as the rest of the numbers, so in this case it would go at the bottom-left. Here's a pretty representative example.

All your help is appreciated!

You're right, that 0 key with no subs is needed and I've updated the JIS kit to add it in.

[kidviddy]

A couple more points about JIS (I realise there is more to this set than JIS, so sorry to keep focussing on just that kit!):

• The Japanese discord users noticed a couple of other errors: the - and = symbols are the wrong way round (= should be above the -, not below), and the underscore _ looks more like a hyphen.  It seems you inherited these issues from GMK JIS WoB, so I spoke to 2Moons about it this morning and he said they were already fixed in the version sent to GMK, so it's just a case of updating the renders.
• The ¥ symbol looks like a wide-character ￥ rather than a single-width ¥ in the render. I think this, too, may be more to do with the render than the spec itself; I'm not sure if GMK already has moulds for the ¥ key but the spec that was sent to them used a single-width character so I'm sure it'll be ok.
• If I could make one request, it would be to include 1.25U versions of the 変換 and 無変換 keys in the JIS kit alongside the 1U versions you already have.  I know this is a difficult choice as there are already a lot of keys and you have to decide to make the cut somewhere, but I think there are enough keyboards utilising 1.25U keys in these positions that not including them will limit the usefulness of the kit overall.  If you have to cut something else to make way for them, I would suggest that the 1U 英数 key you have currently is less important than 1.25U equivalents of these keys.  The 英数 key is functionally equivalent to 無変換; it is just an alternate legend used by the Mac.  As a Mac user myself, I appreciate having it, but if push comes to shove I can always use 無変換 instead, whereas somebody who only has a 1.25U slot available for these keys has no option to fall back on. The かな key you have currently doubles as a 1U alternative to the カタカナ/ひらがな key, so if you can possibly keep it, I would.

The one other comment I heard from the Japanese Discord was by someone who sounded as if they might actually own a TeraDrive -- they said that the keys used on the original TeraDrive are quite cheap-feeling, so if you ever decided to do a future release of this set with full compatibility (ALPS stems, 1.5U 変換 keys, etc) they'd definitely be interested! They also said they don't really think this will ever happen, but the thought is there at least ;-)

Sorry again for cluttering up this thread with lots of JIS-specific requests! JIS kitting on GMK sets is fairly new, so I'm hoping that if we can get it right here it will also serve as a guide to future set designers wanting to add JIS support.  If you'd like to speak in more detail about any of these specifics off-thread, feel free to contact me on Discord.

[Kingk22]

A couple more points about JIS (I realise there is more to this set than JIS, so sorry to keep focussing on just that kit!):

• The Japanese discord users noticed a couple of other errors: the - and = symbols are the wrong way round (= should be above the -, not below), and the underscore _ looks more like a hyphen.  It seems you inherited these issues from GMK JIS WoB, so I spoke to 2Moons about it this morning and he said they were already fixed in the version sent to GMK, so it's just a case of updating the renders.
• The ¥ symbol looks like a wide-character ￥ rather than a single-width ¥ in the render. I think this, too, may be more to do with the render than the spec itself; I'm not sure if GMK already has moulds for the ¥ key but the spec that was sent to them used a single-width character so I'm sure it'll be ok.
• If I could make one request, it would be to include 1.25U versions of the 変換 and 無変換 keys in the JIS kit alongside the 1U versions you already have.  I know this is a difficult choice as there are already a lot of keys and you have to decide to make the cut somewhere, but I think there are enough keyboards utilising 1.25U keys in these positions that not including them will limit the usefulness of the kit overall.  If you have to cut something else to make way for them, I would suggest that the 1U 英数 key you have currently is less important than 1.25U equivalents of these keys.  The 英数 key is functionally equivalent to 無変換; it is just an alternate legend used by the Mac.  As a Mac user myself, I appreciate having it, but if push comes to shove I can always use 無変換 instead, whereas somebody who only has a 1.25U slot available for these keys has no option to fall back on. The かな key you have currently doubles as a 1U alternative to the カタカナ/ひらがな key, so if you can possibly keep it, I would.

The one other comment I heard from the Japanese Discord was by someone who sounded as if they might actually own a TeraDrive -- they said that the keys used on the original TeraDrive are quite cheap-feeling, so if you ever decided to do a future release of this set with full compatibility (ALPS stems, 1.5U 変換 keys, etc) they'd definitely be interested! They also said they don't really think this will ever happen, but the thought is there at least ;-)

Sorry again for cluttering up this thread with lots of JIS-specific requests! JIS kitting on GMK sets is fairly new, so I'm hoping that if we can get it right here it will also serve as a guide to future set designers wanting to add JIS support.  If you'd like to speak in more detail about any of these specifics off-thread, feel free to contact me on Discord.

Thanks again, I've fixed those 2 keys and you should see it reflected in our renders and GMK JIS WoB shortly!

As for the kitting change, I'm not entirely sure on this but I'll look more into it and talk to 2Moons about it further

If someone does indeed own a TeraDrive, I'd be very interested in getting in contact for reference and colour matching purposes.

[nsmk]

Much interested! Especially the JIS kit. Hope it happens soon!

[hottrout]

UK ISO possibly in the base or latin alpha?  Looks superb.

[nu_types]

Any thoughts on using "System" instead of "Super"? That's what Beta did for the JS set, so the molds should exist for this set. I think it fits the theme really well, too.

[Kingk22]

Big update, we have secured a number of vendors! Still a few pending but this is a big step for TeraDrive.

Small update, we've made some minor kit changes along the way based on recent IC feedback.

We've also managed to get in contact with someone that owns a TeraDrive and are trying to get as many pictures as possible so we can nail the colours, many thanks to @rzwv and kidviddy for helping make this happen.

[Kingk22]

Any thoughts on using "System" instead of "Super"? That's what Beta did for the JS set, so the molds should exist for this set. I think it fits the theme really well, too.

I have been thinking of using Sys/System after seeing it on GMK JIS WoB, will be discussed further.

[ephemeral25]

Just wanted to point out that Prototypist can't be considered as EU vendor anymore.

I don't want the transporters to cuck me more than VAT on top of the VAT.

Please consider another vendor

[Kingk22]

Just wanted to point out that Prototypist can't be considered as EU vendor anymore.

I don't want the transporters to cuck me more than VAT on top of the VAT.

Please consider another vendor

Sorry, I had the UK/EU labels flipped.

[ephemeral25]

Just wanted to point out that Prototypist can't be considered as EU vendor anymore.

I don't want the transporters to cuck me more than VAT on top of the VAT.

Please consider another vendor

Sorry, I had the UK/EU labels flipped.

Oh my bad then I should have paid more attention, thought you didn't have any EU vendor lol. Well done then !

[Reshala]

They will look amazing on a case swapped realforce rgb

[koolaidpapa]

As a fan of vintage keyboards, I approve. Very nice!

[paperassgasket]

I see mention of a spacebars kit in the IC form, but not this thread.
Otherwise I am really liking the base kit compat as well as a not awful basic 40's kit.

[lluvia]

Finally, a set that can justify having JIS.

[Kingk22]

I see mention of a spacebars kit in the IC form, but not this thread.
Otherwise I am really liking the base kit compat as well as a not awful basic 40's kit.

You're correct, the IC form was put up before we put some thought into our kitting.

We decided to split the keys from a traditional spacebar kit into the base kit (Alice bars and second B) and the extension kit (smaller convex keys).

[crestia]

an organic bump for this keyset

[JewishYoda]

Bump, this set looks amazing, glwic

[actress]

Love everything except that the JIS alphas are not in the base kit.

[dimo]

mod kit is so gorgeous

[Kingk22]

Love everything except that the JIS alphas are not in the base kit.

As all the JIS stuff is pretty new I don't feel like there's sufficient demand to force them into the base kit, of course this is still subject to change pre-GB.

Thank you all for the support, we're finalising some JIS-related details behind the scenes and will hopefully have some more news to share soon.

[chung]

i am in!

[Extra-Cwispy]

Nice! I'll be keeping an eye on this one, glwic!

[murderbymodem]

I love this. Sega does what Nintendon't.

[actress]

Do these colors match Gmk WoB? Color of text looks a but more grey-ish to me.

[chyll2]

Wow
.what a heavy base kit with really good looking safe colors.

Really interested

[Kingk22]

Do these colors match Gmk WoB? Color of text looks a but more grey-ish to me.

Unfortunately not, the key colours are custom and the legends aren't WS1.

[murderbymodem]

Love everything except that the JIS alphas are not in the base kit.

As all the JIS stuff is pretty new I don't feel like there's sufficient demand to force them into the base kitm of course this is still subject to change pre-GB.

Thank you all for the support, we're finalising some JIS-related details behind the scenes and will hopefully have some more news to share soon.

Did this change? I see the JIS Alphas in the base kit render now.

I'm not sure if it is logistically possible, but if you ask me it should be offered as a full JIS kit with both JIS Alphas and Mods, and then a full Latin-only kit with Latin Alphas and normal mods. Those are the two options I'd be personally be going for when using this set.

[Kingk22]

Love everything except that the JIS alphas are not in the base kit.

As all the JIS stuff is pretty new I don't feel like there's sufficient demand to force them into the base kit, of course this is still subject to change pre-GB.

Thank you all for the support, we're finalising some JIS-related details behind the scenes and will hopefully have some more news to share soon.

Did this change? I see the JIS Alphas in the base kit render now.

I'm not sure if it is logistically possible, but if you ask me it should be offered as a full JIS kit with both JIS Alphas and Mods, and then Latin-only kit with Latin Alphas and normal mods.

Nothing has changed recently with kitting, the base just has standard Hirgana alphas and all dedicated JIS keys are still in their own kit.

The vision of this set was inspired by the original TeraDrive keyboard so the base kit will always have Hiragana sublegends, but the JIS layout isn't popular enough to force it on everyone with standard mods in an additional kit.

At this stage some potential kitting changes under consideration are adding the Yen symbol to the backslash keys and adding an extension kit (relegendables, windowed keys, XT keys, etc).

[actress]

Love everything except that the JIS alphas are not in the base kit.

As all the JIS stuff is pretty new I don't feel like there's sufficient demand to force them into the base kit, of course this is still subject to change pre-GB.

Thank you all for the support, we're finalising some JIS-related details behind the scenes and will hopefully have some more news to share soon.

Did this change? I see the JIS Alphas in the base kit render now.

I'm not sure if it is logistically possible, but if you ask me it should be offered as a full JIS kit with both JIS Alphas and Mods, and then Latin-only kit with Latin Alphas and normal mods.

Nothing has changed recently with kitting, the base just has standard Hirgana alphas and all dedicated JIS keys are still in their own kit.

The vision of this set was inspired by the original TeraDrive keyboard so the base kit will always have Hiragana sublegends, but the JIS layout isn't popular enough to force it on everyone with standard mods in an additional kit.

At this stage some potential kitting changes under consideration are adding the Yen symbol to the backslash keys and adding an extension kit (relegendables, windowed keys, XT keys, etc).

Relegendables and windowed keys sounds great!

[Kingk22]

Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of updates, not much has been happening as we await quotes to finalise kitting and set pricing.

In saying that, I'd like to show you the deskmats we have planned to run with the set





We're also currently pursuing some artisan collabs with some of our favourite makers, more details to come soon!

Apparently I forgot to mention this earlier but TeraDrive will be running in August 2021 on all our regional vendors, you can find these listed in the main post.

[HungHingDaiLo]

I love the first deskmat! 

[hottrout]

Both deskmats are FIRE!!!

[Pyroo]

Looks sick, this is a nice use of weeb legends. GLWIC

[actress]

First deskmat is growing on me.
What a banger of a set! Are the kits final? Assuming no windowed or relegendables planned anymore?

[Kingk22]

First deskmat is growing on me.
What a banger of a set! Are the kits final? Assuming no windowed or relegendables planned anymore?

Thanks for the support, kitting is mostly final, as much as I would like to add some windowed keys the base kit is already pretty large as is and I don't think a small child kit of those would sell well. There'll be some minor changes to fix some sublegend intricacies and possible to move compatiibility around.

[sup3r170va]

Nice set
I understand the greys are a custom colour. Can I confirm that the blacks are CR? Thanks.

[audax989]

I like  it.

[Kingk22]

Nice set
I understand the greys are a custom colour. Can I confirm that the blacks are CR? Thanks.

Currently both are a custom colour, we're toying with making the black a stock colour but neither CR nor N9 are a perfect match, the idea would be to allow for compatibility with existing WoB extension kits but our legends aren't WS1 anyway so that won't work.

[sup3r170va]

Nice set
I understand the greys are a custom colour. Can I confirm that the blacks are CR? Thanks.

Currently both are a custom colour, we're toying with making the black a stock colour but neither CR nor N9 are a perfect match, the idea would be to allow for compatibility with existing WoB extension kits but our legends aren't WS1 anyway so that won't work.

Damn. I was indeed hoping for compatibility with other WoB kits. Guess not…

[Kingk22]

Hi everyone, due to some unfortunate circumstances the GB will be delayed, I'm not sure of an exact date yet but I'm hoping it's sometime this year.

Thank you all for the support and I hope I can give a better update soon.

[hottrout]

I will wait on this running, just don't cancel it.  Good luck with 'unfortunate circumstances'.

[_rubik]

I will wait on this running, just don't cancel it.  Good luck with 'unfortunate circumstances'.

Ditto. I’d really love to see this make it over the line. In the mean time, stay safe and be well King

[actress]

Yeah I'm gonna be so sad if this set is cancelled. Hope you're well King!

[Kingk22]

Yeah I'm gonna be so sad if this set is cancelled. Hope you're well King!

I appreciate the continuted support, at this stage I'm still hopeful we'll be able to go ahead <3

[tovbeast]

Noice  Looks great

[kkd_20]

since you don't have spacebar kit, you should add 6.25 and 7u spacebar in the alternate alpha kit

[Kingk22]

Hello everyone, if you haven't seen already, TeraDrive is back!

We will be going live on 17/1/22 so get prepared!

I'll have more info soon regarding collabs and pricing. Thank you all for the continued support.

[hottrout]

Hello everyone, if you haven't seen already, TeraDrive is back!

We will be going live on 17/1/22 so get prepared!

I'll have more info soon regarding collabs and pricing. Thank you all for the continued support.

Superb news, I love this set.  Make sure UK ISO stays in.

[EdgeOfInfinity]

very happy to see this back!

[hali]

it's happening

[aicyborg]

I am terribly sorry if I'm being dumb: There are replies that suggest UK-ISO support has been added but I'm not seeing it in the renders. Is it simply that the renders are outdated?

I'm interested in this if UK-ISO support is available (I don't personally expect it to be in the base kit, but I would like it to be in any of the other kits) and am considerably less interested if it's not available.

[Kingk22]

I am terribly sorry if I'm being dumb: There are replies that suggest UK-ISO support has been added but I'm not seeing it in the renders. Is it simply that the renders are outdated?

I'm interested in this if UK-ISO support is available (I don't personally expect it to be in the base kit, but I would like it to be in any of the other kits) and am considerably less interested if it's not available.

It was added at one point and then removed again, it's still in contention as I have a some other small kitting changes to make.

[x45]

Instant cop for me

[J3ff_Leopard]

I don't see it happening, but is there any possibility for R5? Would make the set absolutely perfect but not a deal breaker. Just thought I'd ask since pricing hasn't been announced.

[WHAT!?]

This is the only hobby I've been into where I feel angry when I see something I like. I guess I'll spend more money. Looking forward to getting this one... I already got a board waiting on 'em.

[Kingk22]

I don't see it happening, but is there any possibility for R5? Would make the set absolutely perfect but not a deal breaker. Just thought I'd ask since pricing hasn't been announced.

Unfortunately it's not going to happen, given how niche this set already is, the price increase would hurt it even more in terms of sales.

[Gvalch_ca]

Need an actual JIS kit.
And maybe some Japanese mods, like those featured in GMK Masterpiece.

[kidviddy]

Need an actual JIS kit.

The "JIS Mod Kit" listed in the original post is an actual JIS kit. However, in order to get the moulds made to make this kit a reality, the best thing you can do right now is support GMK WoB JIS, which ends in a couple of days.

[kisstheringz]

This is quite nice!

[Kingk22]

Hello everyone, we are getting close now so I've added some pricing for the kits which you can see the in the OP, regional pricing will be confirmed closer to the GB, we've also decided to drop the latin alphas kit based on the performance of similar kits with other recent sets.

I appreciate the support from everyone and hopefully we get to see this set in the flesh in a (not so) short while.

[J3ff_Leopard]

Hoping this will be my only keyset purchase of 2022 

[derpturtle]

Hoping this will be my only keyset purchase of 2022 

As if anyone in the community has proper self control 

[WHAT!?]

The Latin Alphas Kit has been removed?

[Kingk22]

The Latin Alphas Kit has been removed?

Yes, after discussing with vendors, based on the performance of similar kits with other sets it's not worth running the kit unfortunately.

[_PixelNinja]

This might be too late, but please consider adding proper HHKB MX bottom row — 1u Alt (x2) + 1.5u System (x2) keys.

[andreiborisov]

R5 is out of the question?

[gMit]

R5 is out of the question?

I don't see it happening, but is there any possibility for R5? Would make the set absolutely perfect but not a deal breaker. Just thought I'd ask since pricing hasn't been announced.

Unfortunately it's not going to happen, given how niche this set already is, the price increase would hurt it even more in terms of sales.

[Kingk22]

R5 is out of the question?

Yeah not happening at this stage, kitting is pretty much final.

[WHAT!?]

The Latin Alphas Kit has been removed?

Yes, after discussing with vendors, based on the performance of similar kits with other sets it's not worth running the kit unfortunately.

Eh that's a bummer. I seem to be the opposite of most in that I kind of despise sub legends so I guess that's me out. Too bad, I really dig it otherwise. Its a cool set.

[Kingk22]

GB thread is up and vendors should start going live soon!

[meawto]

 

[Kingk22]

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What are these caps from?

[meawto]

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What are these caps from?

Keycaps 1 Modifier - Mitsubishi MP-2120 MP286L (Old Laptop)
Keycaps 2 Alpha - NeXT Keyboard (Japan)
Keycaps 3 Spacebar - Datacomp DFK-191 (Black)