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  • The Action Figure
    Im back for now...
    • Sep 2003
    • 3255

    #1

    Which do you do (paint pricing)

    Poll vote or post
    70
    Get the nicest you can afford
    0%
    10
    Get decent mid priced paint
    0%
    40
    buy economy paint to save $$$
    0%
    20
  • teufelhunden
    Registered Bamf
    • Jul 2003
    • 2691

    #2
    Depends what the situation is. If I'm playing stock, I'll buy better paint than I will if I'm playing semi [rec, mind you]. If it was a BYOP tourney, I'm buying the best paint I can afford.
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    • Lohman446
      Useful posts: 7
      • Jun 2003
      • 9315

      #3
      It depends on the price. Around here I buy the best paint the field has assuming its under $70 a case (I only shoot a case or two a day). If its something special like IAO I figure I spent a lot of money to get there and buy the best I figure they have. If its not a special event and its more than $70 a case I shoot very conservatively. I have played, and placed in a tournament where in nine three man games my team shot less than a case of paint. I have also played and failed to place in similar tournaments where as a team we shot half a dozen or more cases.

      Given a choice of paint I shoot Kickn Metallix by choice (and yes I've tried the vast majority of paints) - unless you get the occassional bad batch it seems to be a very very good paint on par with Evil and I get a very good price.

      Edit: I seldom pay more than $50 to $60 for the "good stuff" when I don't can't use Kick'n.
      Just thought I'd add that, but to me, $70 is the line that effects my play style.
      Last edited by Lohman446; 01-25-2005, 01:31 PM.
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      • Eatem Alive
        Wait...What?
        • Aug 2003
        • 1150

        #4
        Originally posted by Lohman446
        more than $70 a case .
        holy crap! that's expensive
        out here, our paint is anywhere from $19.99 for really cheap stuff to $49.99 for hellfire and such. i kind of base it off of the weather, tourney, practice and/ or how much money i have.
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        • Conversekidz
          Just a guy with a gun
          • Dec 2004
          • 634

          #5
          If its field only paint I buy the cheap whitebox stuff.

          If its bring your own, I find the best white fill paint for $40

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          • jamescell
            IBEW local 498
            • Aug 2004
            • 367

            #6
            Originally posted by Eatem Alive
            holy crap! that's expensive
            out here, our paint is anywhere from $19.99 for really cheap stuff to $49.99 for hellfire and such. i kind of base it off of the weather, tourney, practice and/ or how much money i have.
            WOW, that's cheap. $50 gets you crappy seconds where I live. Any low end non seconds paint runs me $65. Friching sucks
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            • 68magOwner
              Registered User
              • May 2003
              • 3475

              #7
              for practice i get cheapest half way decent paint (usally kik'n rec sport) for tournaments- X-ball, menace, or evil usally

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              • MonsterMag
                Got Emag? I dont...Dm4 :)
                • Aug 2004
                • 1093

                #8
                Usally for normal play (every weekend ) I buy field paint for 45/case. Tounerys around 60 a case.

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                • CKY_Alliance
                  Team Deranged
                  • Jan 2005
                  • 1695

                  #9
                  i shoot evil

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                  • REDRT
                    Mags, Y use anything else
                    • Apr 2004
                    • 1854

                    #10
                    I get the nicest I can afford. Sometime it isn't the top paint there, but close. Normally it is the best though. I find the better you get the less you use. The balls fly straighter and brake better, using less to get the job done.

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                    • Lee
                      Team Trigger Happy
                      • Nov 2002
                      • 2395

                      #11
                      if it's round and it comes out the end of a barrel, i'll shoot it

                      best price around here is 29.99$ for zap and it's by products so i get that.

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                      • _tMAN
                        Wisconsin
                        • Jun 2004
                        • 789

                        #12
                        When I'm using my Tippmann, which is for sale in my sig , I usually get a good medium paint, i.e. PMI Premiums. But When I'm using my Emag, also for sale, imagine that , I can put some pretty cheap stuff through the gun and it will be fine. I heart Lvl 10
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                        • barrel break
                          Too much time
                          • Dec 2003
                          • 643

                          #13
                          Theres realy only one choice here, $55 a case blaze.
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                          • WenULiVeUdiE
                            Force of Nature Staff
                            • Jan 2004
                            • 1982

                            #14
                            Aroundme I can get a decent quality case for around $50. I dont need some super high quality paint to play. And the whitebox stuff doesnt work well in my dad's 98.
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                            • mcdkid
                              Offical PB Ref
                              • Mar 2003
                              • 845

                              #15
                              what, the guys that get it free don't get a vote? lol
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