Strange Micromag?

[Walking Stick]

I didn't catch the standard feed on the double trigger at first - frickin all around awesomeness. Especially dem Micros.

[Bunny]

Junglepeanut: Awesome Micromag!! Things are about to get a bit nerdy, but I think you would appreciate it anyways...

What type of Micromag do you have?

Below is the pricing breakdown of a Micromag. This info was pulled off of the PTP many years ago. I like to start to ID the gun with what you currently have. After reviewing the website, I believe you have a Competition Model Micromag. I'm not sure if the SP grip and tourny lock were original. You could pick both parts up individually from either Smart Parts (S.P) or Planet Eclipse (P.E). Both companies would have similar splash parts back in the 90's.

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Where did you buy it?

If you say Europe or overseas somewhere, I would believe this gun may be a Planet Eclipse Micromag. I have only seen (1) other Micromag that PE made. Check out my AO Archive thread for pictures from PE advertising.

If you say USA, I would believe this gun may be from Florida Paintball Center (FPC). Team Strange worked with FPC and it would make sense with the ties between the anodizing scheme.


Anodizing:

To ID, we should define your gun first. To me, it looks like a Red Base, Black Sponge, with a Silver Splash.

PE: Here is a quick chart of what PE offered for anodizing schemes.
Smart Parts: Here is a quick chart of what SP offered for anodizing schemes. If your parts have a gold splash they might be from the mid 90's era.
PTP: Here is a thread that has a ton of information about PTP finishes. Most of the schemes have been well documented.

Team Strange Anodizing:

Baccipaintball put together a few articles that really highlight the relationship with FPC and Team Strange. They have a few well documented team guns that give us a baseline for what we can compare your gun to. Check out the quote below about the anodizing scheme...

Baccipaintball: https://www.baccipaintball.com/oldne...er-mini-sniper
Baccipaintball: https://www.baccipaintball.com/oldne...amateur-photos

"At one time we required any player that played for [Team Strange] to get their gun anodized that color. It was never really a problem getting players to do that cause everybody wanted to play for us. We were the hot local team."

The guys over at Custom Cockers also had a great discussion with pictures and videos of the finish.

Custom Cockers Thread: http://customcockers.com/forum/showt...o-Thread/page5

If you look closely, the team strange pattern has a Black Base, Silver Sponge bottom with Red Sponge on top with a Silver Splash. It does look to be a bit different than your micromag. We do know that PK Selective changed anodizers at some point in the mid to late 90's. It could still be that pattern, but the original team guns do look a bit darker.

Nashville Masters 94: I just finished posting the Micromag gallery on AO and bumped into a Magazine scan that I had. Interestingly enough, it looked like a Micromag with the same anodizing scheme was on display in the Nashville Masters in 1994.

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*Rough Translation in Google..

At the forefront of Nashville novelties is the annual showcase of the latest products: the arrival of "Splash" colors on all launches (above, Cocker, above, Micromag body for Auto and Minimag). It is also an opportunity to open new companies like BOA.

I remembered that a person uploaded a youtube video with a walk through of the vendor area, but unfortunately, the video does not contain the PTP booth. It does have a nice selection of SP Splash Automags/Minimags though.

My opinion: Without proper provenance (yes, I used an art term ) It is hard to 100% say that it was a team gun. The color scheme looks different then the other guns so it is hard to say for sure. Every company in the 90's sent their stuff to PK Selective to get done. Since Red/Black/White goes together, I'd figure it would be a top seller. I think this scheme could have been offered by PTP back in 94. We could always ask PTP on Facebook to verify, but the magazine article did show that other splash Micromags did exist. The chase continues, but I hope this posts help you with your journey.

[swe_crazy]

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[junglepeanut]

Wow, that is great info. Thank you so much for that write up. Regardless of its history I love it but I really like learning what I can about old markers. I am learning everything I can about mags and installed a lvl 10 bolt kit that seems to be functioning well. Only issue at all right now is it has a very slow intermittent leak that immedialty stops when I put slight pressure on the trigger. I still plan on replacing all seals and such anyway because of how long it's sat so hopefully that fixes the problem.

Thank you again, I truly appreciate it