FMAS 1:1 (p8ntball)

Howdy,

> I wonder what a Paintball mortar would look like... lobbing balloons of

Loads of people mention this, but I don't know whether they would work, trying
to get a safely bursting shell, plus paintball elimintations only

count if the ball breaks ON you. So it would be tricky.

> heavier weapons would be hard to represent in 1:1 scale... now I dont

Um... I have, they are illegal in the uk, but any electopneumatic marker

with an automatic setting would do, as an alternative have everyone using site
markers except those with their own kit who could play the roll of SAW (I can
manage two or three rounds a second and with a faster
finger/better
trigger I could do 8+, but electros can do up to 16). Belive me a guy
with his own kit is soooo much more efficient at paint chucking than a guy
with a site marker.

Alterantively, give all players a pump marker then give the saw guy a semi.

Snipers, plasma guns, artillery, and so on are harder (though mines and
grenades have been done!).

But if you hire out a site for the day and think of a way of running an all
day scenario (noting that you don't want the guys who get eliminated in the
first 30 seconds to be out for the rest of the day) it could be great
(prizes for the best/silliest/closest to GZG uniforms).

If its in the UK, I'd play (I have my own kit as I said, so I'd be a SAW

:D).

From: "Richard Kirke" <richardkirke@hotmail.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:35 AM
Subject: RE: FMAS 1:1 (p8ntball)

> Howdy,

Actually, there was a paintball mortar on the market about 10 years ago. It
held about 20 or so paintballs held together during launch in Styrofoam cup
(not a standard size one I believe). I saw it used only once, but it had about
40 yard range, and cover a nice area on impact. It could be handled by

> Actually, there was a paintball mortar on the market about 10 years

there was particular device intended as a barrel mount "shotgun" and used
twin CO-2 cylinders to fire paintballs that had a "grip" at the rear
that
allowed for use as a mortar - it just happened to fire anything else
that
was stuffed into the breach as well so they took it off the market -
then
came the "Airmaster" which was a mortar/bazooka - which was
simultaneously
marketed for paintball and big game hunting - it used a styrofoam sabot
for
paintballs and a plastic one for steel darts - it's been removed from
production too.