How to paint a paintball gun?
Well first off you need to try and remove as much of the original paint that is on it. I believe the pmi piranha's are powder coated but it is thin. Best is to use a dermal or 3" grinder with a wire brush wheel or take it into a paint shop and have it either sand or bead blasted. Next sand down the body with a 400 grit sand paper to ruffin it up so that the paint will hold onto the metal good. Make sure you try and keep it nice and even and a household sponge with sand paper wrapped around it works well for getting into those lil spots. Once you have most or all the original paint off you need to make sure to clean the marker down. Break cleaner or acetone works the best and will dry leaving no residue behind. The cleaner your marker is the better you paint job will be. Now make sure you tape off all the parts of the marker you don't want painted. Best is to remove as many of the parts as you can and use like cotton balls to cover up the internals from paint getting in when you paint. Make sure you don’t paint any threads otherwise you could be spending a lot of time trying to clean them. The pmi piranha is one of the easiest markers to paint just because this isn't much to it and there are not a lot of small parts. Now it is time to start your painting. Best is to use a primer first. Best primer to use is self etching primer that will hold really well to metal. Also make sure whatever primer you use is the same brand as the paint color you use. Primer and color of the same brand are made to work together and will hold a lot better than if you use two different brands. The best paint to use is Dura coat, this stuff is very very durable and is actually the paint that is used to paint real guns and will last a long time and look great, but it is expensive. Another good paint is krylon or rustolium. After you prime your marker you want to do a light sanding with 1000 wet sand before you apply your color. Also between color coats you want to wet sand with 2000 or 4000 grit. The sanding will keep the paint job nice and smooth and also the paint will hold better. If you have any questions email me at sparky57fire@yahoo.com I have done a lot of paint jobs for paintball markers, computers, cars, and other things so I should be able to answer just about any question you have.
Is the Gameface Vexor paintball gun a good gun?
lol good is a relative term. it depends what you compare it to. personally i think it's a really good entry level marker. keep in mind it's still an entry level marker. you're not going to win popularity contests from having it since it's not like a big brand name marker but it's going to do what you expect it to do. you put paintballs in the hopper, you gas it up, and it'll shoot paintballs. it comes apart pretty easy for cleaning and that's pretty much all you have to worry about. are you going to be shooting perfectly straight and consistent everytime? probably not. are you going to notice? haha probably not until you play a lot more. don't worry about it. it's good enough if you're starting out.
Is a VL Triton 2 a good paintball gun for starters?
This is basically a cut/paste from a question I answered about the VL Triton, but it applies the same: It's a very good starter gun- cheap, pretty well made, simple to maintain, and fairly upgradeable. If I had a few more $$ to spend, I'd probably go with a better electro gun that fires faster, like a Kingman/Spyder or Smart Parts marker if I played regularly, but this is a very good value. VL has always made good loaders, but until recently, the guns were not so hot- the Prodigy and a few other models,Triton included, has changed that perception. Keep in mind, this gun is best for speedball- if you play in the woods, better off w. a Tippmann, but this is a pretty durable gun, so it'd be OK for the woods. I'd probably step up to a Prodigy for a few bucks more. Don't just take my word for it, though, go here and see what other owners think: http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews... http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews...
How do i make my Paintball gun shoot straight?
Im looking how to shoot more straight with my tippmann a5 with a flatline barrel. i do clean it and im just wondering how to make shoot straighter without getting a longer barrel?
How do you clean a paintball gun?
what gun do you have ill post some common paintball gun cleaning videos. but for basics just run the squeegee threw the barrel and chamber. tippmann 98 custom-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxBMWnWJx... spyder pilot-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDKYaPIyc... shocker nxt-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3P2uQMUB... ion-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71s7VbT4AEE that little kid knows his stuff a-5-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWebAxw8YUU phantom-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9kpIyxXU7A you will need a barel cleaner, gun oil.
I want to paint a wall in my toom with a paintball gun will that work how many paint balls will i need?
You will need exactly: A LOT of paintballs! hahaha. I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself! That is indeed a fascinating question that you ask! and will require a few more details! How big is the room that you want to paint? Are you painting just the walls? The walls and the floor? The walls, the floor and the ceiling? Are there windows in any of the walls? What about doors? Will those be painted too? There are other variables as well. What kind of paintball gun do you have? How far away shall you stand? What kind of 'design' or 'splatter effect' do you want? My suggestion would be to but the colors that you would want to have in your 'planned' design. Load your paintball gun, stand a few feet away and fire off a sample round. Measure the overall diameter or the splash of the paintball. From here you can approximately decide on how many paintballs that you'll be using! Other things to consider: As with any other painting method, be sure to prep and/or protect other areas that you don't want to 'accidentally' paint. I suggest a heavier type of plastic (folding of thin material works too) to cover the windows. The splatters might be a bit different from different manufacturers. Gravity's effect on the paintball splatter themselves. Expect some paint to run down. Depending on your planned 'effect', I would suggest that you spray off your base coat or under layer of paints first. There is also the blending of the colors to be considered. Firing off still wet paintballs may or may not mix colors, depending on the opaqueness and thickness and wetness of the underlaying paintball paint. Experiment! Shoot a few rounds. Move on to the next wall to get those rounds to dry off a bit, fire off a few more... then fire off a few more while this group is still wet. Fire a few rounds in a variety of patterns, wide, close, random, etc. Good Luck! and have fun!!! I would be! =)
How to turn on/off a ion paintball gun?
Alright. There is a red button on the side of the grip frame. If you are looking from the back of the gun, the button is on your left. You want to hold that button down with a decent amount of pressure for 2 seconds. The button should flash.The gun is now on with the eyes on. If you push the button down for another two seconds, the gun will shut off. By the way, if you did not buy the gun in th US, the button will probably be green or some other color.
Paintball. What tactics can be used to counter someone who hides away and shoots from the back of the game.?
Easy. Attack.Shots from afar is laughable. Keep moving up from the right since 80% of the people are terrible at shooting with left hand. Let's go to more details shall we? 1. Game starts. Everyone is in place shooting the hell out of each other.2. Play cautiously. Wait for the intensity to die down. 99% of the game there's always someone in the waaaaaay back lobbing rounds at you but that's not a threat. Eliminate closers opponents first.3. Somehow it ends up being you and the last guy in the back. Classic 1vs1. Most likely he's unskilled simply because more skilled players are aggressive. Pop out to the right or left to take 2 shots. You don't even have to hit him. But you need to observe his reaction.4. If you see his head go back down in cover, RUN. Move up to the right side of possible. As soon as you get to your next cover, stay low and pop out to your right of left and wait for him to pop up again.If he pops back up next time, he will be looking at the spot you were at last.5. Proceed to blast his goggles with paint. If you miss, repeat step3-5. You can run left or right to keep your enemies guessing where you went.Lastly, it's important that you shoot from a lower position. Besides the fact that most people are terrible shooting left hand, imagine if you brought the gun to your shoulder and looking down the barrel. It's much harder to notice anything below your plane of sight closers you get to your opponent. His gun or arm even block his vision to see you.
What do you think about paintball?
Personally love it. Got addicted to it right away. It's good fun, and can teach you lots about military tactics, pneumatics, maintenance of paintball and real guns, in addition to being decent exercise. But paintball has 2 really huge flaws;A) Cost: even a cheap setup costs a couple hundred, and many more competitive plays can be carrying over $3000 in equipment just what they have with them on the field. Paint is crazy expensive, $50 last time I got any and that was the second cheapest stuff at the sporting goods store. And forget going to field or indoor paintball places, a day almost always costs over $100 after entrance few and paint. If you want to go play at a field with your kid twice a month it will likely cost you the same as a car payment…B) What the sport left behind: In the 90s and early 2000s paintball really picked up as a sport for a few years and professional teams started popping up until final there was even tv coverage of the tournaments. Sounds cool right? And it was but it had a lot of bad side effects on equipment and public outview. People got scared when they saw the marks and bruises and even bleeding from the paintball hits. Pros playing speed ball really got nailed sometimes, have an opponent run by your bunker and hose you down at point blank can hurt pretty good. This turned a lot of people off to the sport, especially parents who were worried about their kids. Even then what parent would want to drop $300 to watch their kid get beat up and then never go back. Second and worst of all it the equipment that companies designed to be used for the professional sport. Guns capable of fire rates over 30 balls a second, guns that require 3000+ psi compressed air, which is expensive and hard to find. Paintballs that are eco friendly and super brittle costing as much as $100 a case (2000), loaders that can keep up with the guns and hold more rounds in less space, clothing that's breathable protective and easily washed, the list goes on and on. And what happens is that all that gear can create such a price and performance gap that the few rich people who can afford it make it hard to get into the sport. Its sad but without professional leagues for those people to play in they get mixed in with the new people and tend to scare them all away.