the search for the space mag

[MarkM]

Ok progress!!!

Ian was not the owner of the Space Mag his brother was, I have his telephone number and will be ringing him once I finish this post.

Information regarding the Mag's themslves,
Totally hand made, no milling machines, the pic above was after it had been sold and then anno'ed at Planet Paintball in Manchester.
Ian was the guy who installed the timer.

More updates when I get them....oh and Ian is now looking for some other pics that he took (all the ones except the splash anno'ed one where his pictures to begin with)

[MarkM]

Right fantastic progress!!

I have found the last one that was made and yes it can be for sale!

So Tom or Maghog get in touch with me as I have both the email address and telephone number.

For the record there were 3 only made the splash one was the first (though as I have said this was anno'ed after it was sold on), then the other two...one is still on the MIA list.

They were made from a solid piece of Billet ally on a lathe and drill press they took approx 3 month each as the hand finishing took that long.

The timer was infact a shot counter as I remembered when talking with the maker. Who is now no longer interested in paintball

[Doc Nickel]

Great! Somebody write this up as a story...

And keep us informed!

Doc.

[Maghog]

Unbelievable!!!
So then you found two of them? Am I understanding this correctly? You rock Mark.
Pics are a must!!!
Mark, I will PM you my email and you can give me the info on the owners.
You're right Doc, this is worth writing a story about

[Maghog]

If those are hand made
I bow down to the awesomeness that it is.
I'm really going to have to meet this guy...

[MarkM]

Unbelievable!!!
So then you found two of them? Am I understanding this correctly? You rock Mark.
Pics are a must!!!
Mark, I will PM you my email and you can give me the info on the owners.
You're right Doc, this is worth writing a story about

No, not two as such just the last one which is RT based and still in the makers possession. As I understood the conversation it is the last pictured Space Mag that is for sale, however it may well be the first one or if it is the other other way around, there is still one to be found well two actually since the location of the Spashed Anno'ed one is currently unknown.
Doc, the anno job was done by Planet NOT owned by Planet.

The Order of Creation is




But was orginally raw not splashed anno

[SlartyBartFast]

I'm sure that I have an old issue of "Paintball 100%" with the second one in it.

"Paintball 100%" was a French paintball magazine that was available for a short while.

Lots of good articles included Mags. Topless girl on the front cover of one issue if I remember correctly.

I'll look in my boxes of old magazines...

[Maghog]

Alright gang, I've struck gold thanks to Mark. After being ready to give up and imagining custom mags as can openers, I've spoken to the creator personally.
Alan was surprised that anyone remembered his work, and it almost seemed as though he forgot about it himself. He still has the last of them, the RT on the bottom that Mark shows in the order of fabrication.
Sadly he does not know where the other two guns are, as it has been near to 15 years since he created them and sold them off. According to him, the RT was the complete version, while the other two were prototypes. Pretty nice prototypes as far as I'm concerned.
This find is simply electrifying for me. I not only found one, but I got in touch with the maker. I want to thank Mark and Doc for helping me so much. Even if I don't find the others, I feel as though I've accomplished more than what I set out to do.
Today was an awesome day for me.
DaN

[Will Wood]

This is the power of AO, people!

I'm just suprised it took so long for someone to want to conquer the mystery of the space mags...

[AGD]

Nice job Mark and AO!! I will let Maghog have that last one but if you ever find the middle one......


AGD

[Arstron]

congratulations maghog and mark, you guys did a great job of bringing information about the space mags back to us. I hope that atleast one of them will make it back to the community for good.

[bunny5]

Get detective work guys Now lets try and find all the SFL emags :) It couldn't be as hard as finding the spacemags can it?

[Will Wood]

It's been done :)

[Creative Mayhem]

Nice jobe Mark!!

Here's my limited contribution...





I have had these for a long time and can't remember where i got em, but i had to dig through my old laptop(P2 200 32megs ram... ugh)

[phantomhitman]

so where is this guy located at?