Simon's "RKL X-mag" History Lesson (New Pictures)

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  • Bunny
    AO Archivist

    • Mar 2002
    • 3472

    #1

    [AO Archives] Simon's "RKL X-mag" History Lesson (New Pictures)

    AO: While at Tunaball X (which everyone should go to btw...), Simon pulled the RKL Xmag from his gear bag. If you have no idea what the RKL Xmag is, feel free to head into the AO archive for more information. Simon and his friend Bob worked on an Xmag to commemorate his time spent in England. According to Simon, it took him a very long time to reverse engineer and work on this gun. He spent so many hours on this marker, that it probably has more time in it than other other gun he has worked on (correct me if I'm wrong Simon). Simon used a few different techniques to scan a wall decoration to convert it into CAD.
    Unfortunately, his friend no longer plays and he wanted to make sure it went back to Simon.

    If you are interested in reading the original threads that Simon posted about it, head over to the AO archive....

    The RKL X-mag was made by Manike for a friend. Goto the RKL page for more details. http://xmagworld.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/rkl01.jpeg?w=870&h=653 OK Guys, I checked with Bob (RKL) and he is happy with me to show you some pics off the mill of his custom gun. The gun is in the raw so it’s hard to see some of the work due to cuttermarks which will be gone when it is anno’d. This gun is I believe a first off in the World Of Paintball gun’s ever! Why? Let me tell you about a process called ‘scanniing’ Bob had a wall plaque of a face image that was about the size of a dinner plate. He wanted something similar to commemorate his time spent in England (he’s from Canada as you can tell from the gun ) on his gun. So we scanned in this wall decoration to make a virtual CAD file of it as




    I was a bit surprised when he pulled it out to show me. It felt like uncovering a barn find











    Looks like it got the AGDE battery on/off upgrade. It also looks battle tested as well :-) I did forget to look at the serial # tho...
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  • mpsd
    Crazy Brazilian P8Baller

    • Nov 2005
    • 2778

    #2
    Interesting. What is that cord hanging from the grip? Is it to plug the board to a X-Mod USB programmer?

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    • Fred
      AO Zealot
      • Feb 2002
      • 2624

      #3
      Originally posted by mpsd
      Interesting. What is that cord hanging from the grip? Is it to plug the board to a X-Mod USB programmer?
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      • mpsd
        Crazy Brazilian P8Baller

        • Nov 2005
        • 2778

        #4
        That makes sense. Thanks.

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        • Bunny
          AO Archivist

          • Mar 2002
          • 3472

          #5
          It was called the "X-Power" kit from Airgun Designs Europe. Not sure how many are floating out there.

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          • Xmagterror
            Custom Automag parts

            • May 2006
            • 872

            #6
            Originally posted by Bunny
            It was called the "X-Power" kit from Airgun Designs Europe. Not sure how many are floating out there.

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            • Bunny
              AO Archivist

              • Mar 2002
              • 3472

              #7
              Originally posted by Xmagterror
              Tell me more. interesting


              UThomas does a good job explaining it at the very end of this video.

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