There's no blank 1u key in any kit (to use as a 1u spacebar on an ortho board). This seems like an odd omission given that every other ortho MT3 kit I've bought included the blank.
I hope "ortholinear as add-on to a full TKL/104 set" isn't the start of a new trend. One of the things that drew me to MT3 was that it was one of the few sculpted profiles offering alternative layout support at a reasonable price.
Also it's odd that there are light & dark alphas, but only dark modifiers.
Seems like an odd choice that the R3 'Fn' and 'Ctrl' are yellow instead of the same color as 'capslock'. I'd just want to replace the name, not make a weird color mismatch. Even moreso because the non-step 'ctrl' is turquoise as well.
Right- every novelty is yellow regardless of where and what legend. For some keys that may make sense, but if you're swapping out caps that aren't really 'novelty', like caps/ctrl/function/alt then having a mismatched color screws up the look.
Back to my original example- I want to replace capslock with 'control'. Base kit looks great, the 1.75 control key matches the row. Lets say I want to use the stepped 1.75 control, now its yellow, doesn't match anything else on the board, and in your face.
psxndcIt is using ABS, so there was no other option there. Given that they even have reverse dye sub for PBT available, I'm not sure why this has to be ABS. I'd guess it's a cost thing
"It'd make more sense if the alphas were sold separately.... it just seems like a waste"
I don't disagree.
"None of the other MT3 sets do this with their ortho kits."
Ya know, I didn't believe you, but I went back and looked and you're right. I guess I should amend my comment to say "it's not that uncommon with other vendors".
I totally get where you're coming from. I'd much prefer to buy one all-inclusive ortho kit without numpad etc. But honestly, with other vendors ;-) dropping ortho support altogether, I'm personally not that mad that this is the way Drop is handling ortho this go-round. I'm avoiding it because it lacks R5, but that's another thread.