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REGISTER YOUR INTEREST/VOTE HERE!

What?

This an interest check for UKKeycaps group buy #3 - GMK Escape Pack (4 Escapes of different colours)

Material = ABS
Profile = Cherry
Legends = Doubleshot
Colours = You get to choose! - Red keycap with white legend is 100%, the remaining 3 depend on voting

Here are some examples:

Range of colours

White, purple & green(credit to nubbinator)

Classic Red & White (Included in this GB - credit to elite KBs)


Where?


This is a UK based group-buy with the UK in mind, shipping will be free to the UK and available at a fair price to the EU, Russia, the US, Australia etc.


When/how long?


This interest check will run for 5 days. The group-buy itself will run for 3 weeks, the lead time will be around 2 months, hopefully less.


How much?


The price for one escape pack (4 keys) will be £12 with free shipping to the UK.

Shipping to all other countries will be £3.50

The escape packs will be sold on the UKKeycaps store


What is the MOQ / What if MOQ is not reached?

The MOQ for the escape packs will be 65.

If the MOQ is not met (unlikely), you will be refunded in full!


How will I know when the group-buy starts??

Follow the UKKeycaps facebook page! Or you could just keep an eye on this thread


REGISTER YOUR INTEREST/VOTE HERE!

THIS WILL NOW BE FOR 6 KEYS! PRICE WILL BE £15!

£2.50 SHIPPING TO EUROPE

£3.50 SHIPPING TO EVERYWHERE ELSE!

GMK in the UK, nice! I'll stick a vote in when I'm back at home.

I'm in! please make the rare ones (white on Purple, white on Cyan, white on Magenta which was never made)

Voted! Well, last night anyway. Can't remember what for, but I know for sure that I voted .

THIS WILL NOW BE FOR 6 KEYS! PRICE WILL BE £15!

£2.50 SHIPPING TO EUROPE

£3.50 SHIPPING TO EVERYWHERE ELSE!

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING

I don't know

I just voted for 3 caps and cannot change my vote to include others :/

Mmm! This seems promising! I think I need some GMK escapes

Prelim wrote: ↑I just voted for 3 caps and cannot change my vote to include others :/

Just let me know here

UKKeycaps wrote: ↑Just let me know here

here it goes:
► white on Cyan
► white on Purple
► white on Magenta (never made)
► white on Blue V4 (Olivetti lettering real color - never made)
► black on Green AE (never made)
► black on Orange (never made)



people asking for "funky" Esc's with colored lettering... remember these are just fine to look, but then when mixing with white or black lettering keysets, they just look awful (I have a CMY Esc pack and I know what I'm talking about)

Gonna re-add mine here as well:
- white on purple
- white on cyan
- white on magenta
- white on blue (V4)
- cyan on black
- white on black

white on Black (WoB) is the most common Esc!

Where do i get them, and to add to that a whole white on black set?

effectiveduck wrote: ↑Where do i get them, and to add to that a whole white on black set?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cherry-Quality- ... B0041KJKAG

EDIT: Not sure if these caps are made by GMK/Cherry actually

If we get incredibly boring stock caps like white on black or black on beige (ie the ones that come as part of standard keysets!), then this GB is going to be fairly poor value for money.

UKKeycaps: That board is indeed Cherry, with Cherry caps, but they're lasered --> different material, different feel, crap quality.

UKKeycaps wrote: ↑

effectiveduck wrote: ↑Where do i get them, and to add to that a whole white on black set?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cherry-Quality- ... B0041KJKAG

EDIT: Not sure if these caps are made by GMK/Cherry actually

I'm pretty sure these are laser etched keycaps, but thanks

effectiveduck wrote: ↑Where do i get them, and to add to that a whole white on black set?

there are lots of cheap G81 board with WoB's on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-3-USED-C ... 4af0e9f606
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-MY-7000- ... 419bf053ef
etc

I think I will increase the number of keys (again!) to 7! This is the absolute maximum and I won't be adding anymore

Price will be £16 for 7 escapes, it's looking like these will be the colours:

Red w/white legend
Purple w/ white
Green (N7) w/ white
Blue (v4) w/white
Orange w/white
Pink w/light blue
Green w/pink

no Cyan w/ white legend? shame on this!

I guess I prefer to buy only some from shop afterwards then.

Pink on Green? Ok I'm out. I don't want to see that in person.

indeed, awful choice... and those repeated available caps like "Red w/white legend" :/

Hmm thanks for the feedback. I threw in the Green w/ pink casue I thought it would look good, kinda like watermelon colours.

I might have to get rid of the red w/ white legend, it's getting a lot of backlash, replace it with cyan w/ white legend

Yup, White on Red and White on Green even are available from other sources, don't really see a point in those. I'd have like to see the White on Cyan, nice fit for Dolch.

UKKeycaps wrote:I might have to get rid of the red w/ white legend, it's getting a lot of backlash, replace it with cyan w/ white legend

Now we're talking!

Liking the second updated choices, hoping for white on magenta now

guk wrote: ↑Pink on Green? Ok I'm out. I don't want to see that in person.

Agreed:

Red w/white legend -- very common already!
Pink w/light blue -- my eyes (also aren't there "miami" sets that already have this?)
Green w/pink -- MY EYES

guk wrote: ↑Yup, White on Red and White on Green even are available from other sources, don't really see a point in those. I'd have like to see the White on Cyan, nice fit for Dolch.

Indeed, but feng (geekkeys) have "white on Green" only in limited quantities AFAIK. I would love to see "black on Green" since it wasn't ever made yet.



again, although I love funky color caps (including "funky" Esc keys), one thing is how these keys look separately, other is how they look on a keyboard with normal caps or even with CMYK/W or RGBK/W mods which all of us like to use.

also, be aware that "Green (N7) w/ white" will look like poo since that's a very shaded green!

that said, I would go for normal white/black legend Esc's with vivid colors only.

I'm rethinking the colour options! For those curious here at the top 10 voted (Red w/white not in the voting as I said it would be included)
(These are all Key colour w/ legend colour)

Purple w/ white - 32
Green w/ white - 16
Blue w/ white - 15
Orange w/ white - 11
Pink w/ light blue - 11
Light blue w/ pink - 9
Yellow w/green - 8
Light blue w/white - 7
Pink w/ white - 7
White w/ red - 6

thanks for the status!

I can't even understand what "blue" or "light blue" are... maybe people were referring to "blue N5/V4"? and "cyan"?! also there's no "pink" man, it's magenta