NEW !! Take two! Vote for your favorite Fantasy Emag!

[Webmaster]

Who designed #36? While there are ALOT of great ideas I have to take the hat off to #36 for thinking out of the box. His/her design is not only way different and creative, it mixes in the AGD lion element and its looks to me while it is a machinest nightmare - it would be possible to do!

Tom - if we can make these, I want one!

Hats off! The one complaint is that your rederings dont do your idea justice!

[wyn1370]

I didn't even get a close look at #36, that is amazing.

[Snappy]

Webmaster, Shaft and wyn1370,

I really appreciate your compliments. Getting one from the Webmaster is worth as much as winning the contest. I wish I was able to use the high level graphics programs that others did, that stuff is amazing. When you consider what I used, I think that it came out really well. Believe it or not, that image was created in MS Paint. What you see is the product of about 40 hours and a determination to get my idea across. The body is a compilation of ClipArt and a picture of a lion. The rest came from various paintball sites, including AGD Europe and the gallery here. The "anno" job comes from a psychedelic background file and a picture of a tie-dye shirt. The original idea came from wanting to paint my concept Tiger Stripe. Then I thought, why not make it a tiger? Well, tigers are cool, but I've always loved the AGD symbol. It's like putting your family seal on your products. Anyway, I'd have to get one if they were put into production.

Great job everyone, and thanks for the compliments!

(Here's the ClipArt)

[IMG]C:\My Documents\Images\Paintball\AO Contest\Cats\Cats.bmp[/IMG]

[synreal]

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i must say, amazing work all around, i am impressed with quite a few of the entries. kudos to all

with that said..vote for me

[Snappy]

And here's the lion...#36...

[IMG]C:\My Documents\Images\Paintball\AO Contest\Cats\Lion.bmp[/IMG]

[LoveMyMag]

Wow. I had to go for 36. That lion body is amazing. Sure, others look more realistic, but none are as origional as this one. Awesome.

[omni]

If you voted for me, Thank you

[Paintchucker]

#33 rear feed emag

I guess if everyone is pimping, I let her go for 5 cents a pop. LOL

My Cad graphics doesn't look so hot comparied to these others, but the concept is cool. A clear tube goes from behind the valve to a center feed barrel. The new main body tube can be cut in a number of designs, and makes it two tubes high similar to a cocker or angel. This would make a great warp demo gun, as you can see the balls go out of the warp, up the feed tube and across the top of the gun until they are fed in to be fired.

[Have Blue]

May as well explain mine... I'm an engineer, so I admittedly spent much more time than I should have making sure that some things can actually work... The main design feature that I came up with (as some others did, too, I see) was a grip that can swivel forward to a Z-grip position. This can actually be done, and I had to test for clearance in all positions as the grip is swung forward through 60 degrees.

One of the big problems with swiveling the grip forward is that the air system attached to the bottom of the grip will then be angled forward really strangely. So I decided to link the foregrip/battery pack to the grip via a dropforward bar. Thus, the air system will _always_ remain parallel to the bottom of the gun.

Unfortunately, the solenoid can't be kept in the grip frame anymore, as it would always be angled differently, thus an engineering nightmare to get it to trip the sear. So I made the solenoid housing lay flat along the bottom of the body (unfortuantely, the angle of the shot obscures the housing). It should still be possible to flip the gun into manual firing mode, but only if the grip is in standard .45 position (as the sear would always have to be kept in the same orientation to be toggled by the solenoid).

The other big thing I wanted to change was how the gas line is routed - having to plumb hose all the way up to the side of the valve on the E-Mag makes for a lot of airline in the way. So by routing the airline through the battery pack via 90 degree swivels (with a stainless hardline exiting the top of the pack and supplying the valve), hoses are kept nice and clean - the user only has to plumb their air system to the bottom of the battery pack. The Flatline cradle shown can also be swung up to the left like the ACI Dyna-Mount.

Having the display right under your hand is one of the most unfortunate places that you can have it - ICD has the right idea with it on the rear, but I think it should be made into its own module that can be mounted by the user onto the gun wherever they like.

Not having my own Warp Feed, I couldn't model one very well in CAD for the rendering. So I decided to incorporate the Warp into the feeder itself for the blue gun - you'll note the cylindrical housing at the bottom rear of the hopper for the feed drum. The other hopper is just a boring agitated loader, but the breech has twin foam rollers to forcefeed the balls into the chamber (you can just barely see part of the drive motor behind the rollers).

And of course I had to toss in other goodies like crazy color schemes and coverings for the hoppers and tanks, marble and agate grip panels, an LP valve, and of course custom milling on the foreground gun (note the sponged Aurora finish and matching 2 piece barrel).

Also, here's a high-res 1024x768 version of just the rendering (no text): http://airsoldier.com/~haveblue/fantasemag.jpg

Just a quick note on the tools I used - the modeling was done in Cadkey, exporting of the meshes was done in IronCad, and the raytracing was done in Pov-Ray. Note that Pov-Ray is entirely free, and is a fantastic program (go to www.povray.org and check out what you can do with it). In fact, if anyone wants to play with my source files and try rendering the scene at different angles or with different textures, be my guest - my source files are all zipped up here: http://airsoldier.com/~haveblue/femag.zip And if anyone wants the CAD files, I can zip those up as well.

[Manuel_FZR]

Superlight EMag - my dream!

I would like to see a superlight EMag with aluminium body and aluminium valve, to reduce the weight dramatically ...
This would be my dream of a perfect EMag!
So please Tom ... think of something like that! I think, the design of the EMag is already great and needs nothing to change ... but my dream would be a realy light EMag!

[Temo Vryce]

Well my vote went to #29 as it was the closest to the design I thought about creating but never got around to.

I thought about a double Z mag.

Z-Grip Emag frame in back with a Z-Grip without the trigger for the battery pack as the front grip. If enough people PM me I'll throw a pic together and post it.

NOTE TO ALL THAT CREATED DESIGNS:

You guys all did a great job. It was hard for me to pick just one.

[BTAutoMag]

i would want the body and z-grip of #12 coupled with the battery placement of #15 and the front grip of #19. hows that sound?????

[Manuel_FZR]

great milling

I voted for #12 ... especially the last/red one.
Great Miling of the Body ... and great display.
I would also have this body with a normal grip, the big display and DYE stickies...
This FantasEmag only needs a lightweight valve and batery and my dream comes true!

[manike]

Originally posted by Webmaster
Who designed #36? While there are ALOT of great ideas I have to take the hat off to #36 for thinking out of the box. His/her design is not only way different and creative, it mixes in the AGD lion element and its looks to me while it is a machinest nightmare - it would be possible to do!

Tom - if we can make these, I want one!

Hats off! The one complaint is that your rederings dont do your idea justice!

Steve or Snappy if you can find an .STL file of a Lion in a similiar position to that one then I can possibly fit it into an Extreme body material and you can get it machined. My CAD/CAM software is very good for machining STL files and very intricate detial.

There may not be enough material in an Extreme body but it wouldn't be that hard to machine from a raw lump if you can find me an STL.

Anyways if someone finds a Lion STL I'll look to model one up properly...

I know there are databases of STL files some places on the internet...

manike

[Hexis]