It may not have matched the renders exactly, but KAT Specimen still came out gorgeous!
Posted Dec 21, 2020, 4:58 PM UTC
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They are gorgeous.
It may sound super weird but some combinations of colours, shades, textures and materials give me some type of ASMR. They just scratch some itch.
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Hahaha I know what you mean lol.. It's very satisfying
I think my deskmat adds to the experience. It looks much better in person, my camera isn't very good and it was taken at night under low lighting lol
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What artisan is that?
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Laser Parallax by Rascal Caps :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/gs7jra/artisan_parallax_sale_and_giveaway_from/
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Looks great!
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Where do you get these custom escape keys, is there a big brand or just certain people
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You can find big brand (more aptly, mass produced) ones on Drop, KPRepublic, KBDFans etc.
This was part of a small batch. It's called Parallax by Rascal Caps. It's in Laser keyset colorway, which happens to share colors similar to Specimen. You can find tons of artisan makers in r/mechmarket
Small batch artisans are a deep rabbit hole. A lot of them are raffled instead of FCFS. Sometimes prices go mid - high 3 figures in the aftermarket lol.
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Im newbie, which kind of keyboard base it is?
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That's an Ikki68. However the part of the keyboard case you see in the photo has a pretty common design, you can find many keyboards that look like that.
Visually the interesting stuff on Ikki68 is on the right side 😉
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very different from the renders. to be honestly. darker than expected.
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Looks sick dude! what are those keycaps?
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KAT Specimen
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I remember seeing this set in GB a while back, is it really that different from the render ? Just curious
It depends on how picky you are, I suppose. It's certainly not as controversial as Nautilus Nightmares or Necro
The overall colors are more saturated than render. The yellow in render is more orange in person. The magenta is also more reddish.
Here's a render: https://i.imgur.com/NxpagUl.jpg
Unlike Nautilus Nightmares, all the colors here go very well together. I think the orange works better than a yellow would have.
I can see now, as you said, not really disturbing and overall pretty nice color scheme. But what's the story about nautilus nightmare, I remember drooling over the render, was it really that bad in reality ?
I found the NN renders very attractive too.
Unfortunately the mods ended up having a different hue than the alphas when they were supposed to be the same hue but darker.
You can see for yourself in the drop review photos:
https://drop.com/buy/drop-zambumon-gmk-nautilus-nightmares-keycap-set/photos#photos
Oh ok, it was really bad in real life compared to the render, happy that I didn't have money for gmk's a this time lol