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MW CALICO - PRE-ORDER LIVE, MOVED

by stellaidoscope

$85.00

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Meow. Mrau mrrp meow.

PRE-ORDER THREAD

IC FORM
Meow and welcome to the Calico IC thread.
If the set catches your eye or gets you in the zoomies,
kindly fill up the IC form so that we can fine-tune our feline systems ahead of the purchase period.

PRICING
PRE-ORDER / IN STOCK (tentative pricing):
Base kit is $85.
Novelty kit is $28.
NorDe kit is $21.
EsFr kit is $21.
Deskmats are $20.

Pre-order is from September 17th to September 25th, shipping in October 2023.
A post in the GB thread will be made once I get confirmation on the final vendor list.
The keycaps (Base, Novelty, and NorDe) will have a short pre-order period to help finalize the numbers for the in-stock sale.

CALICO is a grey on white keycap set with orange accents, aptly coloured and themed after the calico cat swatch. 179 keys in base.

The set doesn't need some long description about what it's inspired by. I just love cats.

Kit renders. Thank you to dededecline for the kitting help in the 40s section. Thank you to Manu and nopunin10did for the ESFR kitting.
Thanks as well to hali, nopunin10did, and bub for previous kitting help in Evil AI which I have just used again for this occasion.

kit-unique legends
the opportunity was a red laser dot and i am the cat that managed to take it.

Packaging Design

MW Calico's box features artwork of my friends' cats, top to bottom, left to right:
Turtle, Athena, Frisbee, Milo, Rafiki, Soybean, Flip, Bubbles, Katsu, Kona, Winnie, Henry, and Hennessey.
The collectible cat for the set is Dixie, courtesy of Alas.

PRE-ORDER THREAD

What's decided:
PBT dye-sub due to the colors of the novelties as well as lead times.
Side print and cat sublegends.
No dark modifiers.
Pre-order and in-stock sale.
UKISO, Ñ, and a wider 40s/ortho support is integrated to base kit.

This IC aims to collect data mainly for the following:
Regional interest.
Deskmat?

Changes that might be made:
Thinking if I should still make a second deskmat. Hmmmge.

Changes to be made:
No changes to be made yet.

Have some scene renders.

CALICO on Liv and I's LGBTKL

CALICO on hali's Nyawice

CALICO on my Calicortho

CALICO on bachoo's Ouroboros

IC FORM

DESKMAT
Catmat by lampmk

This is the Catmat deskmat for MW Calico, designed by lampmk (l.amp on Discord)
Your standard deskmat size at 900mm x 400mm.

Sussy by stellaidoscope

This is the Sussy mini-mat, which I designed for smaller workspaces.
It should still accommodate up to double-XT keyboards at 420mm x 200mm.

COLLABORATIONS

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Maison of the West

For interested collaborators, you can find me at stellaidoscope on Discord.

PRE-ORDER THREAD

VENDORS
We have a list of vendors that we would like to work with, though you may contact me at stellaidoscope on Discord if you would like to be a vendor for the set.
The following is a tentative list of vendors, which I will update when I get confirmation from Milkyway.

MILKYWAY - CN / INTL
DIVINIKEY - US
MAXGAMING - EUROPE
DELTA KEY CO. - EUROPE
QWERTYQOP - SEA
MECHALAND - INDONESIA
GEONWORKS - KOREA
ZION STUDIOS - PHILIPPINES

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IC FORM

PRE-ORDER THREAD

Special thanks to:
hali and liv for giving me keyboards to render with.
alas, turtle_kat, dededecline, keef, lampkb, wtfleels, choo, boohbat, rongdongs, pupper, keebnewb, andromache, and fruitykeeb for letting me draw their feline friends for the set's packaging.
dededecline kitting help.
nopunin10did for the NorDe kitting help.
strikemods, nainaigogo for letting me meow in your twitch streams.
blenderkit, and imperfectlink for having made life easier with resources for blender.