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A project log for vector-06c mini

A 50% size replica of my favourite 8-bit computer

svofskisvofski 07/18/2020 at 20:280 Comments

For me one of the most striking visual aspects of v06c is the keyboard. A strange palette of greenish-beige colours that are pretty difficult to match. On top of that, even the keyboards coming from the same factory used to vary wildly in colours. Other factories used different plastics entirely, and would often use plain white keys.


I did some amateur colour matching, checking out what's available locally and came up with this list of colours, which is pretty close to my particular sample but may be very different for others.

Ordered the paints in epoxy variant, in 250ml spray cans. Time passed by quickly, and here's the colour probe on a mockup keyboard:
The spacebar seems strangely off, I even suspect that there was some mistake at the paint shop. But it's also of the strange baby stool variety, so it's going to work.

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