Heh, midwife isn't quite right. I'm more like Granite's nosy mother in law. So much nagging!
I read the opening page of the Granite inception thread yesterday when I found the URL. It was as long ago as that? And I was in favour of a Round 5-like ABS SA over PBT DSA? And all the same row profile? What was I thinking!
Those were early days for me here. Granite's design was one of my first real deep dives on DT, and Matteo was of course a saint to involve us lot so much, with our squabbly desires and clashing ideas. I got pretty much everything I wanted, once I adjusted to the idea of PBT DSA. Damn good thing I did, too, because Granite's even more special than Round 5 precisely because of those gorgeous legends.
If you were to be crazy enough to read through the Round 5 thread — which 7bit didn't separate at any stage of progress, so it's massive — you'd see my paws at work again. SP's doubleshots don't allow nearly as much customisation as dyesub, though, so our focus there was in dreaming up new kits with various specialty uses in mind. I had a common theme: monolegends!
I changed my mind about uniform profile with time, as SA's sculpted rows are actually one of its great strengths in my view. That was
thanks to Matteo, too. As chance would have it, I got my SPH set from him right at the time we were going deep on specifics in Round 5. Once I had the caps on my keyboard, I knew a lot more about them. Perhaps Round 5 would have come out quite differently I'd I had not? Depends how much 7bit was really leading the agenda in any case!