Base images to work your Custom milling ideas on!

[Gecko]

manike anyway you could post some ruff dims? Trying to make a basic 3d solid to play with. Mainly just overall length and width at widest point. I understand if you can't do this.
thanks
Gecko

[manike]

Originally posted by Gecko
manike anyway you could post some ruff dims? Trying to make a basic 3d solid to play with. Mainly just overall length and width at widest point. I understand if you can't do this.
thanks
Gecko

It's roughly about 230mm long 44mm high, 32mm wide at it's thickest and 20mm thick at the rail. Is that enough for you?

manike

[Vegeta]

Yes, 3D Studio MAX files.. I can get .max, .3ds, and .dxf files easily. I sometiems have trouble convertign the dxf files though, Every now and then I get face loss.

I'll try and find a lion..

[manike]

Vegeta if you can convert to .iges (also known as .igs) that would be best if not I'm working on other conversion processes.

Let us know what kind of stuff you can find. A dino would also be hella cool... huh Tom

manike

[Arman/XPM]

Did this in 5 minutes. Have to run off to eat dinner, but tell me what you think.

[manike]

Hey Arman,

That could be done very easily. As could the module machining but I think it still needs to be taken further. This is after all for the Extreme! We want designs to stand out as being different and 'extreme'.

manike

[JanStah]

Here's my old ideas...

A few months back, when you first posted the Modular Mag CGI pix, I had a play around with them to see what could look cool.

I posted them in a thread here, but no one seemed to see them, so I'll post them again here.



Dark Extreme Mag. Based on the V1 Dark angels; everyone I know thinks these were the best looking angels ever.


Concentric circles milled into the body. (More smoothly than I've drawn here.)


Another play on the 'stripes' theme. I like this interpolation effect; makes it look like it's fast!


I love this one. It reminds me of the cool Ripper Milling. Mmmmmm Nice.


My original GigerMag idea. This is the one that evolved into my Fantasy Mag submission.

Anyway, lemmy know what you think Simon!

Cheers

Jan.

PS. Did you get the PM I sent to Sostas account?

[manike]

Jan I didn't get any PM's sent to Sosta's account. I wouldn't have even looked at them because I wouldn't have expected them to be for me.

If Warped Sportz decided to do a Dark Extreme then I would write the programs for the top one, but unless they sanction it I will not.

The one with the curves that reminds you of the ripper is cool. Again I do not want to do something that looks too much like someone elses intellectual property (idea). We could do such sweeping curves into the body but in a manner like the fishbone milling... hmm that would be cool... It's like an Idea that John Sosta wanted to try.

The Geiger mag is possible if you can find some surfaces or a scan file of such work in 3D... or if you have a 3D part like that I could get it scanned...

manike

[Dave]

Here is the original X-Mag design, as you requested, from the side. Sorry about all the erased lines here and there, but after trial and error, I was finally happy with the version you see here as it most closely resembles what I am seeing in my mind. I will be working on a battery pack soon. Also, if I need to email you, could you put down your address? Thanks, and enjoy!

-Dave

[Dave]

I'm sorry, for some reason it told me the image was too big at the exact size it needed to be, so i had to scale it down an inch or so. Let me explain a few things. You see some littles 'X's on the picture. All those do is to distinguish the raised up parts of the mill from the sunken in parts. Also, I did this drawing right over an unmilled X-treme body, so it should be very accurate. If you have any comments or questions, maybe you'd like to see me change something on it, just let me know:)

-Dave

[Dave]

I drew this one in a hurry, but this is what it kinda looks like to have the 'X' on the back of the gun instead of the module.

-Dave

[Dave]

Also, it was curious to hear people talking about milling animals onto the X-treme, and I thought about it for a while, and when we were doing our monthly drive down to the base to get groceries, I was drawing some pictures, and I drew one that had actually been in my mind for a while, an Eagle! Its hilarious to think about but to me, it looks like the coolest thing ever, its so different. I'll try and do a nice drawing of it and stick it up here:)

-Dave

[Bluntman]

Also someone should do a lion, like one the AGD logo. I'd like to see Dave do it, but I don't wanna overwork him.

[KayleAGD]

Ok , what if you bored the back where the valve goes 1/8" larger and slide a 1/16" walled tube in it . This way the tube could be personalized with color or text without changeing the whole gun. It would be kinda like the freak sleaves.

[manike]

First up, Dave I love what you are doing, the concept is fantastic and the shape flows beautifully. It's a lovely smooth ergonomic look to it. We may need to just do a few iterations to make it very viable. At the moment there is not an outstandingly large amount of material around the vert feed tube. Also unless we mill the modules before adding the tube we need to be careful about machining into the tube. This may mean we need to leave a slight border of unmilled metal around where the tube is... I may be actually be able to get it to mill right upto it but it depends on tool size and clearance and set up. We are still working on the jigs. Hang with me and I'll look at that as soon as I can. The concept is great!

Originally posted by Bluntman
Also someone should do a lion, like one the AGD logo. I'd like to see Dave do it, but I don't wanna overwork him.

I've been asking people to try and find surface or stl files of such things. If they can we will look to do it. We are trying to get one of a dinosaur to mill for Tom, but shhh don't tell him A lion would be cool too! I would need a surface file of such a creature though. I don't have time to model one up. I can fit it to the body but not scratch model it.

Originally posted by KayleAGD
Ok , what if you bored the back where the valve goes 1/8" larger and slide a 1/16" walled tube in it . This way the tube could be personalized with color or text without changeing the whole gun. It would be kinda like the freak sleaves.

Way ahead of you Kayle, but great idea :) We have talked about reaming the body hole out further and having annodised valves or sleeves inside. The gun I am working on for myself (and Bill from Warpig) will actually be like this. The one from the Cup if you remember? I'll post a pic once I have it modelled up to an extent that I am happy with it. I think my gun is going to be dust blue with shiney black valve inside and shiney black accessories :)

manike