I got the key caps looking pretty... great? I dunno, but it's definitely a look. But that was days of fiddly effort and i don't know if the look is what i want in the finished product. So i started hating the whole idea and getting anxious, wasting time, getting that how-does-one-say executive failure. So f'it, i'm setting something else as project no.1 for a while.

Using various techniques i cut bits out of some old books and affixed them to the caps and sealed them. Mostly i was using CA (because that's what my brain is made of, i guess) and the lovely part is that it polishes down magnificently with an emery board. But some of them i was also coating with nail polish which is also fine but results are inconsistent. I kinda dig the ransom note steeze, mixing blocky cyber-letters (GAMEMASTER The Complete Video Game Guide, 1995) with olde schoole printing typeface (Lincoln Library Of Essential Information (travelling salesman's example ed.), 1949).

This is definitely going in something that's going to cycle into project #1 status in the short term.