Paintball war with friends.

One of my friends and I are designing homemade paintball weapons to fight with. He currently has many more teammates than I do, and I need to design some weapons to give me the upper hand.

I am already going to use homemade paintballs.


These are the things that I already have designed, or am going to use:

1.) a spring powered combat rifle. It has sights, can be reloaded quickly, and should have decent range and accuracy. It is also capable of using either a hopper for regular paintballs, or an "ammo tube", which which lets it use 1.5 inch by 2 inch ammunition, which are most likely going to be larger cylinder paintballs, or shotgun style paintball ammunition.

2.) A spring-powered cannon, which uses a 3-inch wide barrel. This would shoot either homemade smoke bombs, or very large paintballs.

3.)a landmine. It has a button on top that, when pressed, fires small spring-powered guns that shoot several small paintballs out of each.



I just need some more ideas. I have an idea for a hand-cranked machine gun, but I am having trouble figuring out how to give it sufficient power without making a large crank to pull the springs back a large amount.

That sounds awesome! What are the guns made of?

PVC piping, except for the springs and launch mechanism. Those would be made out of metal and a very smooth plastic.

blowguns. 'nuff said.

Well, I can't really use blowguns. I have asthma.


Also, they aren't the best choice are they? Wouldn't they be shorter ranged that a spring launched gun?

Paintball trebuchet! XD

Is spring the only allowed power source? If not, you can certainly launch paintballs with a flywheel attached to a motor.

I'm interested in knowing how you make paintballs by yourself.

I'll just make a mould out of wood or Styrofoam, then pour in melted plastic. Once the plastic is almost completely hardened, I will poke a hole in it, put paint in, then cover the top.


Ta-da! paintball.



Also, spring power is not the only allowed power source. there aren't really any rules to what you can use. My friend is actually making a paintball gun that shoots flaming paintballs.


Don't worry, his design will most likely backfire. It uses a flammable lubricant which coats the ball as it leaves the barrel, which is then lit by a lighter hanging off of the end. I think that it's just gonna set the inside of his barrel on fire.



I don't really understand what you are talking about when you say "a flywheel attached to a motor". How will that fire paintballs with any knd of accuracy or range

that would generate enough useable energy, which can be used to power a mechanism, maybe through a clutch.

i really hope the subtle moment of inertia transfer doesn't throw the gun in a random(or not) direction.

Oh ok.



Well, I don't really want to use anything expensive at all. All of my designs are in the 5-10 dollar price range. I am trying to come up with the cheapest but most effective I can.


One thing I was thinking about was a "sound grenade". Basically it is just some mega loud speaker thing that you would throw at your enemies, causing them pain, or at least flustering them.

Maybe, you could make a gun that is like a mechanical pencil so that if someone gets close you can get them quickly.

http://kipkay.com/featured/wacked-prank-pack-volume-2/
http://kipkay.com/featured/wacked-prank-pack/
https://www.youtube.com/user/kipkay#p/u/32/aObEq2kEINk
These have instructions and some other helpful gadgets.

I don't think I would need a special weapon for when they get close. I'll just shoot them with my combat rifle.


One thing I do nee, however, is something with extremely long range. I have a design for a paintball sniper rifle that uses compressed air and has a rifled barrel, but I don't think I could afford the air tank and the compressor for it.

I meant something like this: http://www.kadtronix.com/tennis.htm

bwansy wrote:I meant something like this: http://www.kadtronix.com/tennis.htm

-smile grows larger and larger-



Now THAT is awesome! I'll just turn it 90 degrees, and add a barrel to the entire thing, and a hopper.



I'll also hook it up to be crank powered, with an arm brace so I can hold the entire thing with one arm, and crank with the other.

make a minigun lol

Doc wrote:make a minigun lol

I looked up how to do that, but I would need a vacuum cleaner small enough to fit on my back, yet powerful enough to propel large amounts of paintballs at a high rate.

@bwansy:i don't think that would work with paintballs.

@RA2lover: Have you tried it?

It should work if I add a little panel onto either side so that it doesnt fly out the sides. I might make special, smaller paintballs for this one as well to prevent jamming. I tested it on a 2D physics simulator called Phun and it worked quite well.

As nice as Phun is, I don't think it could provide a realistic enough simulation, especially since it's 2D. Interesting Idea, though; a paintball minigun... I feel like making one now...

Sting Auer wrote:

Doc wrote:make a minigun lol

I looked up how to do that, but I would need a vacuum cleaner small enough to fit on my back, yet powerful enough to propel large amounts of paintballs at a high rate.

Dyson, the small one, it may be expensive to produce, but the posibilities...whoa...

http://objectthinking.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/dyson-vacuum-cleaner1.jpg

lol. I thought of that.



I actually found ouyt the other day that we have a shop vac in a box in the living room XD.


But my parents won't let me use it .

Sting Auer wrote:
But my parents won't let me use it .

Would it be perchance the fact you'll be destroying it(?) for comedic use? xD

I wouldn't need to destroy it.


I just strap it to my back, set it to blow, attach an barrel and a hopper, and I have a rapid fire, long range, uber powerful paintball gun.

Ahhh, I though Vacuums sucked air... unless I'm mistaken... How would that work?

I thought that shop-vacs could be set to blow.