design-a-blowback

[nerdcore]

Sure manufacturers like Kingman provide customers with a wide selection of markers but almost everyone ends up replacing/upgrading/modding parts. This results in extra parts you may never need again (or parts you can't use again, if there's been a modding disaster).

Then there's the different millings of all these markers - some are willing to pay extra just for looks while others aren't.

Now what if there were such thing as custom designing your marker before you buy it? It can be done with t-shirts, computers & cars (to an extent), why not paintball markers?

People can go to a website & access some flash program where they can choose body type (cocking preference, milling & ano), grip type (mech/electro, stickies/panels color), v/a (color, basically), foregrip (reg, xchamber:rolleyes:, neither), line/hose (macro or ssb), drop, etc.

Questions, comments, good idea/bad idea?

[pEnNyWiSdOm225]

there was a website where you could design your own Tippmann

e-paintballoutlet lets you do that with Rats, you just can't see what it will look like.

But with the Tippmann one you could see what it would look like but couldn't buy it.

I don't know it would be ALOT of work.

[nerdcore]

i suppose it would be a lot of work. couldn't leave it to an assembly line. it would be similar to todd mcfarlane toys - individuals working on each one.

[MrTiggleBitties]

Can you give me a URL of one of those create your own marker things?

[nerdcore]

Originally posted by MrTiggleBitties
Can you give me a URL of one of those create your own marker things?

well the ones pennywisdom is talking about are at tippmann.com & e-paintballoutlet.com, i'd imagine, but he'd have to clarify.

the design-a-marker idea i had doesn't exactly exist, really, aside from what he mentioned. i just thought it'd be a good idea.

[triggerhappy33]

i know www.4freeflow.com does it for there free flow cockers. Its pretty cool. I do it really just to look at my dream cocker sometimes

[nerdcore]

Originally posted by triggerhappy33
i know www.4freeflow.com does it for there free flow cockers. Its pretty cool. I do it really just to look at my dream cocker sometimes

so they do exist! how much does the average create-a-cocker go for, trigger? like how much would your dream cocker cost?

[pEnNyWiSdOm225]

Originally posted by nerdcore


so they do exist! how much does the average create-a-cocker go for, trigger? like how much would your dream cocker cost?

I just made one and it came out to be $1448

[nerdcore]

Originally posted by pEnNyWiSdOm225
I just made one and it came out to be $1448
:drop: hold on, i need to change my pants.

jeebus christ that's a lot. would one expect to spend that much total if he/she were to buy the base cocker then upgrade on their own?

[triggerhappy33]

i dont know. Ill go do it again now.


it would cost me, $1,813.00

heres the specs:

Our Price: $1,813.00 Quantity: 1

Options:
»Main Body Style: Rhythm
-Mini or Full Size: Full Size Frame;
»Anodizing Colors: Fades
-Colors: Black/Orange;
»Frame: Eclipse E-Blade Electronic
-Speed: 2 QEVs and polished parts($70.00);
»Regulator: Palmers Stabilizer
-Color: Chrome;
»Barrel Back Ends: SP Freak
-Insert Bore: .679;
»Barrel Front Ends: SP Freak Teardrop Tip
-Length: 14;
»Bolt Bore: True Bore and Arbor Hone;

and thats not even for the parts, heres some other stuff id put on it.
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i think that would make the total come out to...
$2265.99

[spor]

S.T.I.N.G. has a custom mod simulator with prices adn it shows what it'll look like. pretty kool.

http://www.stinggroup.addr.com

but it's only for stingray's

[nerdcore]

Originally posted by spor
S.T.I.N.G. has a custom mod simulator with prices adn it shows what it'll look like. pretty kool.

http://www.stinggroup.addr.com

but it's only for stingray's
something like that is what i'm talking about. clean it up a little, throw in more options, bring in other companies, etc.

[MrTiggleBitties]

Why can I not see the flash stuff? Its just a white screen and it says its done. I am clicking reload but it still goes to the white screen

[Raptorz922]

This is the link (http://www.bishoptechnologies.com/customizer/Customizer/?O=5&C=90&g_1=&g_2=90&g_3=&g_4=&g_5=&g_6=&g_7=&g_8=&g_9=&g_10=&g_11=&g_12=&g_13=) to the site where you could see what parts look like on a Model 98. It was an awesome site. It sucks that it just randomly disappeared. :(

[Forest Spyder]

This is a great idea, however there's a big drawback.


Price.

Yep. Even for a blowback.

I'm just making a prediction, but I'd say a customized and hand-built blowback would probably range about $500 dollars. Simply because it is not mass produced, and individual parts are very expensive.

[nerdcore]

Originally posted by Forest Spyder
Price.

yep, that's a drawback i (& i think some other people) considered, too. just look at the custom free-flow cockers trigger mentioned - well over a grand.

considering the price range you estimated maybe this isn't as good of an idea as i thought. there's a handful of higher end markers available for that much.:|

[triggerhappy33]

Originally posted by nerdcore

just look at the custom free-flow cockers trigger mentioned - well over a grand.


well, i did put the best parts i could get on it. Its my dream cocker for a reason :D

cockers
BTW: it was just one cocker, not plural;)

[pEnNyWiSdOm225]

Originally posted by triggerhappy33



BTW: it was just one cocker, not plural;)

I posted one

[nerdcore]

Originally posted by pEnNyWiSdOm225
I posted one

:nod: i'd make one, too, but i don't know enough about cockers to determine whether it was a good one or not.

[triggerhappy33]

doesnt really matter. You can usally tell which is the best by how much it cost. As for the body frames, you just go for looks really