So here's my -custom- Alps collection that I've amassed over the past year, aside from the very last one which I sold. It was falling out of favor anyway, but I showed it a lot of love before selling it.
My heavyweight Alps TKL with its tenkey Alps companion. Blue Alps + Brown Linear Alps for indicators. Hot swap modded. The Lightpad has a carbon fiber plate. Dyed Dell AT101 PBT key caps.
The Retro-Modern: My NCR with a Leeku 3000 PCB with Alps compatibility. Using a modified Acer 6011 plate for mounting the switches. Brown Linear Alps. Full backlighting. FAME Cherry-profile Alps caps.
One of my Duck Eagles in an FMJ design #1 case. Alpine Winter. SKCM (tactile) Brown. Hot swap modded. Carbon fiber plate. Gold plated Cherry stabs.
The Duck Eagle I built first: Genuine Hammer case, caps from a korean-made Visual board and Badwrench's Alps DCS mod. Same mods as above, carbon fiber plate. SKCL Green, backlit.
And my first Alps custom-ish board, the Infinity whose case I painted up. This one can actually take Alps switches without soldering, which was one of the inspirations for hot swap modding my other boards (used holtite sockets).
Sold though. This board gave me RSI when I was using it with SKCM Orange. Case was way too stiff.
Anyway, that's my Alps custom collection. Just felt like posting it. I mainly did the hot swap mod was for longevity of my boards and so I could always swap switches if I got bored of a certain type. Also, it was just a cool mod to do, really. Also, making a complicated Alps bid with backlighting was just a neat concept to me.
The NCR is the only custom Alps board that's soldered, all the rest are solderless because of the socket mods.