[IC] GMK Red Samurai

[RedSuns]

Red Samurai



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Description

A samurai themed keyset with colors inspired by the red armor of the legendary Madara Uchiha from Naruto Shippuuden.


Specs

• Designed by RedSuns
• Produced by GMK
• Doubleshot ABS
• MX compatible
• Made in Germany
• Compatible with standard, ISO, HHKB, 1800, FC660M, WKL, ErgoDox, Planck, 65%, 75%, etc

Included Kits



Base Kit

A base kit similar to the Nautilus, but includes an alternate color big 'Enter' button, barred F, J, 5, and a 2U Shift key.







Hiragana Alphas Kit

Depending on how the legends go for the Laser, here are the current possibilities.

Gaijin - Latin Legends & Hiragana Sublegends [Alphas Only]
Hiragana - Hiragana Monolegends [Alphas Only]




Novelties Kit

Not sure if it can be made. Suggestions/ideas are welcomed.

Inspired by:

• R1 1U Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo Head
• R1 1U Japanese kanji for "Ninja"
• R1 1U Shurikens
• R1 1U Uchiha Madara's Gunbai and Kama
• R1 1U Akatsuki Cloud
• R1 1U Samurai Helmet/Kabuto
• R1 2U Katana w/ scabbard
• R2 1U Samurai Armor/Madara's Armor/Chestplate
• R3 2.25U Katana w/ scabbard (2 colors)
• R4 1.25U Japanese kanji for "Samurai" (x2)
• R4 1.5U Japanese kanji for "Samurai" (x2)
• R4 1.25U Kakashi's Kamui Shuriken (x2)
• R4 1.5U Kakashi's Kamui Shuriken (x2)

Other:

• R3 1U VIM HJKL arrow keys
• R4 1U '00' key
• R4 1U 'Hack' key
• R4 1U Alternate color arrow keys

More

Past Novelties ideas:

1) First idea

• Sanada Clan
• Toyotomi Clan
• Tokugawa Clan
• Senju Clan
• Uchiha Clan
• Konoha village

2) Second idea

• Samurai helmet from the Amaterasu set head in MapleStory game

3) Third idea



Inspired by:

• Oni Genji's Samurai sword from Overwatch
• Genji's classic SHURIKEN spray from Overwatch
• Uchiha Madara's Gunbai
• Uchiha Madara's Kama
• Samurai Helmet & Menpo

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4) Fourth Idea

• Akatsuki cloud
• Genji's classic SHURIKEN spray from Overwatch
• Uchiha Madara's Gunbai
• Uchiha Madara's Kama
• Samurai Helmet & Menpo

4) Fifth Idea


Inspired by:

• Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo Head
• Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo Sword
• Kakashi's Kamui Shuriken
• Uchiha Madara's Gunbai and Kama
• Akatsuki Cloud
• Kakashi's Kamui Shuriken (Paired)

Other:

• VIM HJKL Arrow Keys
• 1U '00' Key
• 1U 'Hack' Key
• Alternate Color Arrow Keys

6) Sixth Idea



Inspired by:

• R1 1U Madara Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo Head
• R1 1U Japanese kanji for "Ninja"
• R1 1U Shurikens
• R1 1U Uchiha Madara's Gunbai and Kama
• R1 1U Akatsuki Cloud
• R1 1U Samurai Helmet/Kabuto
• R1 2U Katana w/ scabbard
• R3 2.25U Katana w/ scabbard (2 colors)
• R4 1.25U Japanese kanji for "Samurai" (x2)
• R4 1.5U Japanese kanji for "Samurai" (x2)
• R4 1.25U Kakashi's Kamui Shuriken (x2)
• R4 1.5U Kakashi's Kamui Shuriken (x2)

Norde Kit

The Norde kit provides a good amount of Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish characters for foreign layouts. Let me know if it is missing anything important.




DC Kit

The DC kit contains the usual keys for Dvorak and Colemak with the R3 homing barred and scooped H, U, N, T keys.




ErgoPlanck Kit

The ErgoDox and Planck blanks kit containing the modifiers for ErgoDox and Planck. Similar to the Laser. Let me know if you need something different here.




Spacebars Kit

Alternative color 6U Centered Stem(x1), 6U Off-Centered Stem(x1), 6.25U, 7U, and the basic spacebars in 1.75U, 2.00U, 2.25U, and 2.75U for split and 40% keyboards.


Render Gallery








Acknowledgements

Special thanks to potatobot, Arallu, livingspeedbump, and those providing me with advice and feedback for this project. And of course, thesiscamper, for the beautiful 3D renders.


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Updates

7/25:

Updated Novelties kit.

7/22:

Added DC kit. Updated Spacebars kit.

7/18:

Updated Norde kit and Novelties kit.

7/11:

Updated Base kit and Novelties kit.

7/7:

Updated Norde kit.

7/3 - 7/4:

Updated Novelties kit.

6/30:

Updated Novelties and Base kit.

6/29:

Re-added Spacebars kit and Norde kit.

6/28:

New 3D renders created by thesiscamper added. Made a few/minor changes to base kit.

6/24 - 6/25:

Added Novelties again. Updated Novelties.

6/23:

Updated the Base Kit near the big 'Enter' button area. Removed Novelties, Norde Kit, and Spacebars Kit.

6/18:

Opened a Massdrop poll for an interest check. Please vote here to help make this keyset happen!

[Myan]

Hohoho, Japanese!
Looks great !

[ns90]

I think this would make a great GMK set.

[scwoopz]

First of all: beautiful set! Original, for sure. Some things for you to know: GMK is a company that uses the original Cherry keycap molds (in Cherry Profile). SA is a keycap profile produced by Signature Plastics. I would not run it in SA. It'd **** I'm 2018-19. Hell no.

I'd say you could run it in cherry profile (gmk, maybe?). You could also run it in MaxKey SA profile which are the old SA molds that Signature Plastics sold to MaxKey in China. That has much shorter lead times and better prices. If you want cherry profile, you could also try JTK!

Just throwing out some ideas. It's a wonderful set, and I'd consider buying it (would be a definite buy if I had funds)

[Arallu]

Looks neat but there are few options for multicolor legends, with dyesub the most common.
Dyesub requires darker ink than the base color too. I'm not sure reverse dyesub would work either, pad printing may be feasible though.

[superdoedoe]

This looks hella sick! The colourways look really similar to GMK Plums Choice of Colours, but that could just be me. Either way these are awesome and along this interest process i hope they grow even more amazing!

[potatobot]

triple shot hopes and dreams

[ArchDill]

This looks amazing but.. Dyesubbing that would be impossible because of the dark colors. Triple shotting it would be hella expensive.

[..//dexx]

Beautiful set. I think the colorway would fit GMK better in Cherry profile.

[BlackInk]

Wowwwww, always in love with samurai theme, beautiful set..... please go with GMK

[..//dexx]

Has there ever been a triple shot ABS key set? Or this could possibly the first one?

[bthezebra]

This looks great!

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[potatobot]

Has there ever been a triple shot ABS key set? Or this could possibly the first one?

No tripleshot sets yet. But yuri was initially designed for tripleshot, but its going to be expensive.

[scwoopz]

This looks hella sick! The colourways look really similar to GMK Plums Choice of Colours, but that could just be me. Either way these are awesome and along this interest process i hope they grow even more amazing!

Yes but no. And the fact that this is so different I'm sure Jessica wouldn't care.

When can we get over the colorway meme anyway?

[pomk]

Do you plan on supporting some japanese layout with this set, or are the sublegends there just for the weeaboo aesthetic?

[RedSuns]

Do you plan on supporting some japanese layout with this set, or are the sublegends there just for the weeaboo aesthetic?

As of this moment, I am still trying to figure out what's possible here. It's still in the planning stage. I am reading the feedback to see which direction I should go.

[oatmicro]

I like it, hope it be GMK 

[elfick]

Is this a reference to the Renraku Red Samurai?

[kmba]

This looks nothing like gmk plum. It does however, resemble gmk burgundy pretty strongly aside from the sublegends

[dblack]

I'd love this on GMK, don't know if I'd be down if it was just added to the huge SA waitlist.

[switchnollie]

Since the number row isn't black like the alphas that might cause some inconsistencies.

If you did doubleshot with pad printed sub legends the orange plastic fonts may look a shade off from the orange printed ones.

[RedSuns]

Is this a reference to the Renraku Red Samurai?

Nope, it is anime-related, but you guys can refer to whatever you like.

Since the number row isn't black like the alphas that might cause some inconsistencies.

If you did doubleshot with pad printed sub legends the orange plastic fonts may look a shade off from the orange printed ones.

Well, if that matters then I'll change that later today and update the images again. So, it is possible with pad printing...Can GMK do this? I read if you do pad-printing, it lowers the longevity of the keycap. But then again, if it works, the set can happen. Pad-printing is also more affordable right?

[..//dexx]

Well, if that matters then I'll change that later today and update the images again. So, it is possible with pad printing...Can GMK do this? I read if you do pad-printing, it lowers the longevity of the keycap. But then again, if it works, the set can happen. Pad-printing is also more affordable right?

Yes, pad printing is a lot more affordable. In sacrifice of quality. It's not exactly up to par to double shot. Personally, I think pad printing the sub legends would ruin the beauty of this set. Why not have the legends and sub legends be the same color?

[ideus]

You should contact GMK for the available colors.

[a_ak57]

Pad-printing would be kinda eh.  I think the best option is to just use the light brown for both legends like you have on the number row.  And tbh I find the black legends to be pretty hard to read anyway.

[..//dexx]

Pad-printing would be kinda eh.  I think the best option is to just use the light brown for both legends like you have on the number row.  And tbh I find the black legends to be pretty hard to read anyway.

+1 I agree. The two tone legends would look nice and give the set character but if the choice is to make it work is pad printing, just nix the entire idea and go with a single color for both.

[RedSuns]

Since the number row isn't black like the alphas that might cause some inconsistencies.

If you did doubleshot with pad printed sub legends the orange plastic fonts may look a shade off from the orange printed ones.

Updated. Images 1 and 2.

You should contact GMK for the available colors.

Will do.

Pad-printing would be kinda eh.  I think the best option is to just use the light brown for both legends like you have on the number row.  And tbh I find the black legends to be pretty hard to read anyway.

+1 I agree. The two tone legends would look nice and give the set character but if the choice is to make it work is pad printing, just nix the entire idea and go with a single color for both.

Added Images 3 to 6. I was thinking of keeping it black for the look I was going for, but I guess I should just go with the light brown/yellow.

[bciamny]

here to say i want a keyset with these colors in my life and preferably in gmk.

[a_ak57]

Added Images 3 to 6. I was thinking of keeping it black for the look I was going for, but I guess I should just go with the light brown/yellow.

Well, there's no harm in throwing up a couple more pics showing what it'd look like with black legends instead of the light brown.  After all, while you should listen to feedback, you shouldn't really run a set too different from what you wanted to do thematically.


By the way, while you're waiting to get someone to do some high quality renders, you could use this to create some placeholder renders:

http://kle-render.herokuapp.com

[RedSuns]

Well, there's no harm in throwing up a couple more pics showing what it'd look like with black legends instead of the light brown.  After all, while you should listen to feedback, you shouldn't really run a set too different from what you wanted to do thematically.


By the way, while you're waiting to get someone to do some high quality renders, you could use this to create some placeholder renders:

http://kle-render.herokuapp.com

Thanks for the link . Added the high-quality renders. I decided to keep the legends yellow/light brown instead of the black to see it easier since that site needs better font support. Without it, the black is almost non-existent with the current red base color.

[xantiema]

Any chance for an 'only' japanese legends version? 

[RedSuns]

Any chance for an 'only' japanese legends version? 

I've added images of what that might look like. I think most people would prefer the both English and Japanese legends just in case they don't know which key they are pressing. On the other hand, the Japanese only legends looks cool too. It could be more expensive, so there might be a poll in the future.

[BlackInk]

We need this set to be drop as soon as possible i would pass everything just gor this set

[..//dexx]

The Hiragana characters only is beautiful. But it might not be a popular choice for everyone. I don't have a problem if the set goes hybrid or just Hiragana. I'm just so excited for this set.

[superdoedoe]

I'm with this set all the way! Renders look amazing, now i'm just waiting to see the renders for the rest.

[Quakemz]

Japanese legends....Please give me.

[rm-rf]

this is a nice set, i really like the colors.
it might be difficult to get the exact results that are in the pictures you have right now. especially with gmk.
good luck with this.

[..//dexx]

@RedSuns If you want more feedback, you can try to post an IC thread in Reddit, either in /r/mechmarket or /r/mechanicalkeyboards. We've got a huge community over there.

[xantiema]

The colors are so fitting for a Samurai theme.
Any chance for Japanese novelties on the number row?

[RedSuns]

We need this set to be drop as soon as possible i would pass everything just gor this set

Depends if it can reach MOQ.

The Hiragana characters only is beautiful. But it might not be a popular choice for everyone. I don't have a problem if the set goes hybrid or just Hiragana. I'm just so excited for this set.

We will see how it goes.

I'm with this set all the way! Renders look amazing, now i'm just waiting to see the renders for the rest.

I am currently having trouble 3D rendering the Hiragana legends.

this is a nice set, i really like the colors.
it might be difficult to get the exact results that are in the pictures you have right now. especially with gmk.
good luck with this.

Updated images and working on making it possible. The legends in the 3D renders are suppose to be Cherry profile like in the layout, but I am just working with what I have.

@RedSuns If you want more feedback, you can try to post an IC thread in Reddit, either in /r/mechmarket or /r/mechanicalkeyboards. We've got a huge community over there.

I think I will do that soon.

The colors are so fitting for a Samurai theme.
Any chance for Japanese novelties on the number row?

Possibly...uploaded some ideas for novelties just now.

[..//dexx]

Some of the novelties look to be too complicated to be printed on a 1U key. I'm no expert to novelties but if you would notice, a lot of novelties stick to very simple designs. Right now I'm looking and the Toyotomi and Tokugawa emblem have too many details in them. What about foregoing the lines in the emblem and just go with the outline?

[RedSuns]

Some of the novelties look to be too complicated to be printed on a 1U key. I'm no expert to novelties but if you would notice, a lot of novelties stick to very simple designs. Right now I'm looking and the Toyotomi and Tokugawa emblem have too many details in them. What about foregoing the lines in the emblem and just go with the outline?

That's what I thought too, but the Black Lotus keyset also has tiny lines so I thought it might be possible. Maybe we can fill in those lines. Would that ruin it too much? Do you have a suggestion for a novelty?

[BlackInk]

Can you make a least a samurai helmet or face symbol for novelties

[RedSuns]

Can you make a least a samurai helmet or face symbol for novelties

I will try. If you know someone who is good at making novelties, let me know.

[Asbrodeus]

Wow I really like this combo. Would love the jp legends but I'd buy it either way tbh.

[..//dexx]

Some of the novelties look to be too complicated to be printed on a 1U key. I'm no expert to novelties but if you would notice, a lot of novelties stick to very simple designs. Right now I'm looking and the Toyotomi and Tokugawa emblem have too many details in them. What about foregoing the lines in the emblem and just go with the outline?

That's what I thought too, but the Black Lotus keyset also has tiny lines so I thought it might be possible. Maybe we can fill in those lines. Would that ruin it too much? Do you have a suggestion for a novelty?

I did a few quick edits trying to simplify the crests.

[..//dexx]

You'll probably gonna need high resolution vector for this, but it's a start.

[RedSuns]

I did a few quick edits trying to simplify the crests.

Hey dexx. Thanks for trying to make the emblems. I really appreciate it.

You'll probably gonna need high resolution vector for this, but it's a start.

Thanks. I'll try to make it higher res.

[hikasaki]

Will there be 1800 support with Gaijin base kit?

[ppp]

Looks great!

Any chance at a spacebar kit/other kits?