Wing Commander... keyboard?!

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Long Live the Confederation!
Allright -- here's the latest idea for my never-ending Wing Commander Computer project: a customized Wing Commander keyboard.

I'm thinking it'd be pretty radical to take the design for the Prophecy keyboards (below) and apply it to a 'real' keyboard instead of just laying it over as a flimsy rubber mat. So... does anyone have any idea how I might go about doing this?

For the 'circuit board' background, I'm pretty sure I can do one of two things -- either scan the existing one and have it printed up on heavy cardboard or plastic... or actually play around with materials to create a 3D version. If anyone has any reccomendations for how to go about doing either of those things, I'm all ears.

I'm pretty sure I've seen 'kits' for labelling keys... but I need some source of colored replacement keys to start off with. Are there companies that sell green, yellow and black keys?

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Well for one you could just remove key by key from your keyboard and paint them yourself. Then get yourself decals that can be print on with a printer and label the keys the way you want. Then cover with several layers of clear paint.
As for companies selling colored keys - the only thing remotely there is a company I saw that makes 'original' IMB keyboards that allow you to pick the color of every key basically. I contacted them for something similar, but never got any response :-(
 
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