New Proto Gun Body Need Your Design Help!!!

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  • AGD
    The man from AGD

    • Oct 2000
    • 5916

    #1

    New Proto Gun Body Need Your Design Help!!!

    AO Design Team,

    Once again I turn to your collective knowledge to help us make a killer looking gun. For the new guys I have to make it clear that THIS IS A PROTOTYPE!! It is not meant to look great but give an idea of which direction to go. Any comments should include suggestions on improvements.

    The proto body shown here is made from plastic so it's easy for us to machine. The final version will be aluminum so you can have it in any color you want. It has some meat on the sides so you can carve it. We purposely went with a square look to get away from the tube on a frame thing. We experimented with a little C&C shown here. We will be able to offer them cut up or plain so you can hack them yourself.

    This body will go on all our markers except the Xtreme and is meant to retrofit to existing markers. The general shape is limited to what we are showing you but the details can be changed.

    The body goes from round to square and back to round. The problem is that without a sight rail or SOMETHING on the back end it looks UGLY. Since many people take off their sight rails we didn't want a bunch of ugly guns running around.

    To fix this we came up with the idea of putting a dovetail in the top of the body only in the back. This way you can slide different stuff into the dovetail and lock it in position above the valve. We see how much people like to put covers on the Angel micro valve and we think this offers the same thing.

    I am looking for cut and carve ideas as well as different things that can dovetail into the back of the body. Please cook up, cad up, draw or photoshop any ideas you have.

    Different pictures are included below, please read the captions so you know what I am gettin at.

    Thanks

    AGD
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  • AGD
    The man from AGD

    • Oct 2000
    • 5916

    #2
    This is the new body with a small sight rail dovetailed into the slot on the back of the mainbody.
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    • virus
      AO's dirty little secret
      • Oct 2000
      • 1524

      #3
      hmm.... now that wait for the pic begins =)

      EDIT:ugg... posted right on top of tom....

      hmm... first impression... ugg... that from the vertfeed tube...
      after a a good look... deff. shows potentional..... the body rail and forgrip look out of place.... same for the sightrail (then again i've never been big on sightrails)

      body minus the feedtube looks pretty good and i can just see the different milling that can happen with it.... but that feedtube still IMO kills it all....
      Last edited by virus; 03-26-2002, 08:55 PM.
      Virus, King of the Basement Trollz has spoken

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      • AGD
        The man from AGD

        • Oct 2000
        • 5916

        #4
        This is the sight rail removed from the dovetail. You can see the dovetail slot in the back of the body. The good thing about the dovetail is it doesnt show without the sight rail.
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        • AGD
          The man from AGD

          • Oct 2000
          • 5916

          #5
          closer view showing the squareness of the body.
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          • FooTemps
            HURRRR
            • Sep 2001
            • 6702

            #6
            EEEWWWWW! IT LOOKS TOO STRANGE-ISH!!!

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            • AGD
              The man from AGD

              • Oct 2000
              • 5916

              #7
              Here it is with an RTpro sight rail attached. I reall like this look but then again I don't count.
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              • PaInTbALL zAcH
                i am a ninja turtle!!!!!!
                • Sep 2001
                • 678

                #8
                I like the shape but personally a different mill design would look better

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                • theraidenproject
                  Registered User
                  • Jun 2001
                  • 1240

                  #9
                  well, i just don't like it. i actually like the tube on a frame design, in addition to nicely milled "traditonal" designs. it looks kind of awkward, like you tried to stuff another markers body on it. im not a big fan, but a real life, finished version might look different. its got potential to develop into a great looking gun, but i dont like the look of it now.
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                  • Paintballer86
                    Proud E-Mag User
                    • May 2001
                    • 1000

                    #10
                    That looks SOO slick tom, you are definetley haeding inthe right direction. I would buy one of those in a second. That looks so cool.

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                    • FooTemps
                      HURRRR
                      • Sep 2001
                      • 6702

                      #11
                      Ok, you need some creative juice... i'm gonna sketch a body for you!

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                      • AGD
                        The man from AGD

                        • Oct 2000
                        • 5916

                        #12
                        Remember the rules, comments must also contain sugestions!!

                        AGD
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                        • PotatoBoy
                          Hamburgers should be high

                          • Sep 2001
                          • 2533

                          #13
                          I like it as a proto, but how is this going to look with a powerfeed or warp feed body?
                          Potatoboy!

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                          • virus
                            AO's dirty little secret
                            • Oct 2000
                            • 1524

                            #14
                            hmm... still that feedtube and sightrail still dont do anything for me... the RT rail helped it a little....

                            now the pic w/o the rail... if both sides of the feedtube had that diamond cut into it that would look pretty good.....

                            Tom, how about a pic with a non-cut RT bodyrail.... the cut one looks a little out of place cut down like that
                            Virus, King of the Basement Trollz has spoken

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                            • synreal
                              code monkey
                              • Oct 2001
                              • 1051

                              #15
                              i really dig the milling, definately worth holding onto.

                              i can do without the rt pro sight rail though.

                              very flintstones/dinosaur rib looking


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