Who else likes to make keycap mock-ups for fun?


Making it worthwile to doubleshot, I guess.

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I like to mess around! I’ve got one or two I want to do for real, but some like this are jut for fun as a throwback :slight_smile: .

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Really like this peach one. The next step is to work with GMK/SP approved colors, or look into getting custom pantone colors and make a keyset group buy. I think you have what it takes to make a great keyset.

Oh, thank you! One day I hope to be able to come up with an attractive set to run as a GB, but as of right now I have 0 contacts and knowledge on how to get it made. For that specific colorway I would have to get custom pantone bricks ordered to be satisfied, as this is as close as I get wtih GMK colors (far from satisfying).

I’ll keep trying to come up with sets, and maybe one day one will be good enough to put in the effort to get it made. Thanks for the kind words and feedback!

It’s getting closer:

Taking inspiration from the red planet:

GMK MARS:

Now, who wants to run this thing? I got it look close to how I imagined, but then started to wonder if it looked too much like Jamon. However, I looked again and I believe it’s quite different. Jamon is reversed with dark alphas and lighter mods. Jamon is also a much more cool tone. This red is somewhere between red and orange.

Anywhoo, just trying to imagine some cool space themed GMK novelties.


Also, there is a more orange version, but I figured it wouldn’t go over as well

Inspiration from this NASA image of Mars on the surface:

GMK MARS No2:

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yo, No2 is on point! that is real martian stuff

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Yo hiney what’s your render setup like

Solidworks models, KeyShot rendering

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I have to start learning this stuff. Are you self taught? Have any resources for somebody who’s done some cad work but never industrial design?

Yeah I’m self taught. My background is electrical engineering but I’ve messed with Inventor/Solidworks since high school. For keycap stuff, I just started messing with techniques and asking others how they did it. I have a repo of blank caps on my github in both .sldprt (solidworks) and .step files: GitHub - hineybush/CherryMX: Solidworks (.sldprt) models of Cherry profile MX keycaps.

I don’t release my legend ones because 1. they aren’t perfect yet and i’m a perfectionist and 2. i’ve spent far too much time on them to justify releasing them for free. However my technique has been adding the legends/text/whatever and doing like 0.0001mm extrusions so they’re basically still flat. You can assign different materials to different faces/features and that’s how I separate the colors when I import to KeyShot

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Ordered a bunch of Keys from Round 6 and playing around with KLE as well as KLE-render to figure out how they’d look on a Planck.

So I had a friend render the ligt set with custom colors (with incorrect font), what do you guys think?

A friend in the Swedish MK community noted that it looks like a box of makeup, GMK Rouge Palette? :smiley: I will also render some more sets and see if people like it, perhaps move on to an IC!

KLE render:

I like it! Although, I’d be a bit worried about the contrast between legends and cap colour on the mods.

GMK Keebelline

Seems fine in KLE-renderer, but yeah the actual render does spark some doubts. I will tweak it some and see what I can come up with.

Threw together this pink-and-grey colourway, taking some inspiration from the uniforms of the wait staff at a restaurant I went to last night

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necro for my ugly baby boy, GMK Dirty Swimming Pool

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Thanks for the links. That’s time I will never get back–nice distraction. :slight_smile:

I guess this would be my proposed endgame–in a black case. Nothing fancy but I got to keep my beloved PrintScreen. I did shrink down some keys (backspace, enter, etc.) to save on some space. Since it’s something that would never be a reality, I figured it would be fun to see it rendered.