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GMK First Love (5-22-20: Waiting from RAMA)

by otanishock

$129.99

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Update 5-27-20: The set came in on Monday. Upas wanted to send me first out of all everyone so I can review before anyone did, but research took too much of my time, and I did not have the chance to open the package and took some good pictures for you until today. I failed Upas

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Final Verdict

The set came out really, really nice. It is exactly what I hope it would be, even better. The contrast is great, the dark purple is muted, the lilac is such a cool touch. The black has a tint of gray into it (this is a custom black and not the CR stock black from GMK). Its hard to capture the differences in person, but if you have First Love and GMK White on Black, you will see what I meant. Its really nice to go in a professional office setting, not as flashy like some of the other sets. Upas and I spent weeks and weeks sending so many color chips back and forth, then forward everything to Rama and all (didn't have to, but I really want to make sure the aluminum cap will be the same, or at least very close to the color chip) just to make everything right, but we did, and I'm happy. I'm excited to see everyone taking beautiful photos - if you post pictures on Instagram, tag me at @otani07. Nothing wrong to simp. Our first love is always a part of us to simp about every now and then

. I still talk to her every now and then, and I think I might actually fly over to maybe take her out on dinner or something after this hahaha.

If you bought a set during GB, really, thank you for helping me making it happen! Can't do it without your help. I know we didn't do so hot during GB, especially during November where we had 9009 to compete against, but we made it through, and I'm glad.

Pretty Photos

GMK First Love (with Spacebar Kit, and Novelties) + Purple TGR-910 and Purple TGR-Alice

Its hard to capture the purple shade of these two boards, but they are purple. First few iterations of TGR's purple weren't as lilac as the one from later one (Purple Jane V2 for instance). I'll show some pictures down here. I love both shades of purple, and I think either one will go very nice with First Love. Black will look awesome too. I just haven't gotten my V2 CE just yet. I will see if I can find some times this weekend to put the keycaps on my current purple V2. Might do it some times this weekend, and post some more pretty photos!

With Novelties

Versus pink Alice.

My Personal Favorite

Courtesy to Psyoshi

Courtesy to Danteh

Courtesy to Dank_Headies

Courtesy to Eleven

Courtesy to daftprophet

Courtesy to BubbleGumSmash

Courtesy to JackedHardwareJunkie

Update 11-19-19: I will be mailing out these sample chips to RAMA this week so they can get a perfect match on the anodized aluminum RAMA caps. I wasn't quite happy with the color mismatching between the color of the set and the color of the aluminum RAMA caps on some of the past run set, so I am set to make a difference this time. Cheers!

Update 11-17-19: Final color samples approved after final round! See below for detail.

Color Samples

Dark Purple

I received the sample on the left about a month ago or so from R1 sample. Although it looks nice under direct sunlight, I wasn't quite happy with how it looks under regular room lighting. Almost a bit too dark if you will. I requested another round, and it came in beautifully. The new dark purple looks exactly like what I've always wanted - a very rich, dark blue-ish purple. Doesn't look as pale as the purple from R1. I am very, very happy with how it turns out!

Lilac Purple

Was already satisfied with the R1 sample, so nothing much to say. I've requested a lighter tone for R2 just to see, and to my opinion, it looks much worse. The final lilac purple I approve is more saturated, and has a lot more character into it. The other looks quite plain and pale in my opinion.

Black

So as mentioned, I tried a gray RAL. Looks a whole lot like the faded, lack-of-character dark gray from a cheap aliexpress pbt set. The final dark gray/black I decided to go with is very crisp and bold. This is the same dark gray/black from Red Samurai. It is very, very nice!

Final Verdict

These are the colors that I have approved for production. Both I and the lead vendor (also a very good friend

)) Upas are very excited to see how everything turns out. I am very happy with the overall result. They look exactly like what I was hoping they would be. I hope you will be receiving your set soon! Cheers everyone!

Link to IC: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=100436.0

Xin chào,
Welcome to the official Group Buy ofGMK First Love! Final kits were posted in the thread. GMK FIRST LOVE WILL LAUNCH ON SEPTEMBER 1ST!!!!!. Since its a remembrance of a memory of mine, there will only be one single round for good. Please help me making it possible. Both Upas and I did our best to make pricing the most affordable to everyone starting at $129.99 per base kit for 250 MOQ! First day (24-hours) group buy backer will be eligible for a First Love Keypora raffle by AlphaKeycaps.

Wake me up, when September ends...

Kits

Renders

Special thanks to Oblotzky and Janglad for all these amazing renders.

TGR-910 RE

Keycult No.1/65

Rama M60A

Andromeda

TGR-Jane V2

Deskmat and Banderole

Beautiful work done by Adil.

Special Thanks

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to these following people for their unconditional commitment in this project and for helping me bringing this to you.

Kathryn - for always being a loving girlfriend back then and an awesome friend today.
Yuktsi - <3 senpai for teaching me so many things and inspiring me in keyset design.
biip - for your tremendous amount of help in this project - from kit revision, layout suggestion and advice for some minor tweaking to get the right color. This set will nowhere be near where it is today without you!
Oblotzky - for your amazing quality of renders work. This set will nowhere be near where it is today without you!
Enjoy - for putting up with the original idea and pushing me to pull it through (bro-love #1 <3)
maltedsoyamilk - for all the valuable kit feedback and suggestion. It was awesome to have a brother like you in every step along the way in this hobby (bro-love #2 <3)
Upas - for all the feedback and suggestion. Cannonkeys will be the NA vendor for this set. Other proxies are in discussion. (bro-love #3 <3)
JthaDestroyer - for always being my best friend and for all the good times we've had in this hobby together (bro-love #4 <3)
Emir - for the Icon Mods fiasco
Adil - good job son. Daddy proud of you