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geekhack Marketplace => Group Buys and Preorders => Topic started by: ttom on Tue, 02 November 2021, 10:23:03
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Hi Geekhack. This is a set I thought of a little while back when I was much newer to the hobby, that I never got around to checking interest for at the time. Originally it was to be GMK stock colours, however now it's using two custom RAL colours instead. No long inspiration here - it's just two colours I enjoy very much. Without further ado, here are the details:
When?
GB November 15th - December 15th. Estimated shipping Q1 2023.
Where?
USA: Cannon Keys (https://cannonkeys.com/collections/featured/products/gb-gmk-villanelle)
Canada: Deskhero (https://www.deskhero.ca/products/gmk-villanelle)
Europe: MyKeyboard (https://mykeyboard.eu/catalogue/category/group-buys/keycaps/gmk-villanelle_628/)
UK: Proto[Typist] (https://prototypist.net/collections/live-group-buys/products/group-buy-gmk-villanelle)
China: Zfrontier (https://www.zfrontier.com/app/mch/lApkkzOW5zX1)
Asia: Zfrontier EN (https://en.zfrontier.com/products/gmk-villanelle)
South Korea: Swagkeys (https://swagkeys.com/products/gb-gmk-villanelle)
SEA: Ilumkb (https://ilumkb.com/collections/live?page=1)
Oceania: Daily Clack (https://dailyclack.com/products/gmk-villanelle)
(product page links added as they go up)
How much?
Base: $126/€129
Addition: $34/€34
International: $76/€65
HIBI: $41/€40
(see product pages for other regions when they're up)
Next, some renders by my good friend, the talented pikku-allu (https://www.instagram.com/kinnalek/):
Base:
My personal preference is no accents, so that's how I've kitted the base. Similar compatibility to most base kits these days, though I've included split bars and some further bottom row options.
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Addition:
Accents with some more bottom row compatibility. Pretty straightforward.
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International:
Your standard kit for European layouts - support for British, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and German keyboards. MOQ not reached.
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HIBI Collaboration:
I've teamed up with HIBI to bring an aluminium keycap with GMK Villanelle. The anodisation colour will be the same as that of GMK Fuji's aluminium caps, as the pink is the same. The cap is called 'Pudding'.
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Keyboard renders:
Ellipsis by Tom Works
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Tengu by Finder Works
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No. 2 by Keycult
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Colour information:
As mentioned above, both colours used in the set are from the RAL Design catalogue. The pink will be the same as GMK Fuji, and so is in the process of colour matching already. Renders have been matched to physical samples, and plastic samples will be matched to RAL swatches using spectrophotometry.
Special thanks to ilikerustoo and the rest of BK for the feedback, as well as pikku-allu for all the hours of work. I feel very fortunate to be in this hobby making things with such supportive friends.
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Approved, Gl with the GB :thumb:
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Love the colors and the Hibi.
How far is the burgundy from GMK Perestroika?
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Are you making a copy cat?
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looks great, nice to see a different sort of hibi caps coming out
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Cute set. Definitely considering
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Really like the colors and the Hibi keycap is very interesting.
Another set I'll have to get.
GLWIC & GB.
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Good set by big stinker
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love this set! hopefully it all goes great!
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Kinda down
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that hibi cap is wildin'
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Big brother approves of this set
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Love this set. Any renders with a white board?
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Oooh, that Hibi artisan is pretty wild.
Wonder how an alt inverted base kit would look like.
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Ngl the pink kinda kills it for me. While I like pink itself, it really pushes the kit into s much smaller use case scenario for me personally. But if it was white instead then it would just be a perestroika clone. Maybe I can keep the lights dim, hmmmmmm....
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This is very nice
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Why most of GMK sets come out without R5?
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This looks lovely. I'm in.
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Love love love the colours
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I like the dual 3u bars, but no 40's makes me sad. 3-key support would have been great in this.
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Fastest R2 in the history of GMK. Also, Villanelle is Russian.. Where is your Cyrillic kit?
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Looks great! Missed GMK Perestroika so might as well grab a copy of
this that.
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Finally an International Kit for my GMK Perestroika!
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Beautiful set but no 40s is tough. It's your vision; but I feel like 3-key here would have been great here...even the inclusion of just R3 1.25u tab in base like Hallyu or in addition like Masterpiece would have been nice for those using 12u/13u boards
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I've included split bars and some further bottom row options.
Lit base kit, very much appreciated
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I like the dual 3u bars, but no 40's makes me sad. 3-key support would have been great in this.
+1
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There's no accents on the base kit, but then the international kit has extra keys that differ just in the accent, like three <> keys - why not keep the same no accents theme there and get that kit to a lower price?
Edit: whoops, seems I thought accent meant the sublegends...
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This set looks great, and has just enough kits. Excited for this to launch
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Looks very good, I have to say that is the best looking Metal artisan I have ever seen. I love the shape of it
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GB set to begin tomorrow. Will be updating with vendor product pages as they go up!
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edit: sorry I got confused with another set 😅. please ignore this message.
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Dear ttom, love the set and considering entering the GB. The only thing stopping me is not knowing the specifics of the base color. After referencing a printed RAL catalog, I can see how digital representations can be VERY misleading. Could you provide the RAL code for the red, or at least say which RAL classic/design color is the closest?
After all, we are paying here for a specific shade of red :D
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Dear ttom, love the set and considering entering the GB. The only thing stopping me is not knowing the specifics of the base color. After referencing a printed RAL catalog, I can see how digital representations can be VERY misleading. Could you provide the RAL code for the red, or at least say which RAL classic/design color is the closest?
After all, we are paying here for a specific shade of red :D
Hey, totally understandable request. The set uses the following:
Burgundy - RAL 010 20 25
Pink - RAL 330 85 15 (this is already in colour matching for GMK Fuji)
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fanstastic set ... im in ... would you be sharing the numbers and how far along the way we are to hitting the MOQ?
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Thank you for the information ttom! A very nice shade :thumb:
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Love the set. Base color is very nice, soothing to me personally. And the kit!? WOW. F13 and Alice and Numpad in base kit? Amazing. The only thing that's missing is a stepped ctrl but absolutely nothing is perfect. The ONLY thing that makes me hesitant is the lettering color. I dont own many pink keyboarding products to match this with and the boards I do own arent near this shade. It might be a kop for me but I must needs think on it. Still, a fantastic design and one of the best kits to date.
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Hi all - one more day to order. International has unfortunately been cancelled due to lack of sales but everything else will be made :thumb:
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color matching was finished according to cannonkeys.
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color matching was finished according to cannonkeys.
Funny how you need to give updates instead of the designer.