tank kill?
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Topic: tank kill?
Posted By: an94
Subject: tank kill?
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 10:52pm
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I was playing around in my backyard and I was using a large cardboard box as a target. (had a blast!!! 20bps A5 egrip vortex mod)anyway I was looking at the box after I was done and thought that a cardboard box would be great for the ARMOR of a tank. Other wise known as an old golf cart with a cage on it. You could put the cardboard in front of a kill switch. the cardboard will stand up to the paint at first but when it starts to get wet it will let the paint go though to hit the kill switch. which in turn will knock out the tank for that round... you could put one one each side and front and back. but to kill it you have to hit all of them (or just 2, or whatever...) what do you all think about this? Or is that already been done? ------------- 1 paintball gun package=$150 1 case of paint=$50 air & entry fee=$15 lighting up newbies all day long= Priceless |
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Posted By: tippya5extreme
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 11:01pm
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good idea but..i wouldn't use cardboard for the water reason. you dont want to change the carboard everytime you play. insted of carboard use sheet metel or something that wont decay. ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: an94
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 11:21pm
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but sheet metel will not break down after so many hits that is what i was thinking. what water reason? rain? just put some strips of tape (not alot) across it. will hold up to rain but not repeated shots from a paintball gun. see? ------------- 1 paintball gun package=$150 1 case of paint=$50 air & entry fee=$15 lighting up newbies all day long= Priceless |
Posted By: tippya5extreme
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 11:33pm
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i guess... you could just use a small hole netting. that way you my get paint slatered on you. or you could just build a tank and then on the back of it have a switch that makes you stop in a certin amount of sec.
idk i dont like the cardboard idea ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: an94
Date Posted: 12 July 2006 at 11:38pm
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yea that could work too and it would solve the rain prob ------------- 1 paintball gun package=$150 1 case of paint=$50 air & entry fee=$15 lighting up newbies all day long= Priceless |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 12:06am
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Actually they do have kill switches, and they are in a hole the same diameter as a paintball. So unless you have exteme accuaracy, you just luck the sucker in there. It seems to work great, becuase it is so rare that it happens. Plus all tanks are suseptable to missles, and there are always a few people that have one at a scenario. |
Posted By: tippya5extreme
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 12:11am
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it would be sweet have a tank. i dont have the land to do it though ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Posted By: an94
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 12:22am
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Tanks are cool but they have to go walking speed and you have to prove you have something like $30.000 worth of ins. on it.
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monk what is a PGP anyways?Posted By: Squishey
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 1:22am
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i like the cardboard idea to get to a kill switch, the tanks at my local field just have a piece of paper taped, to the side of it and as soon as the papper is shot off the vehicle is dead, i think its stupid because the paper usually falls off before you get a chance to shoot it. but if the cardboard was secure and would fall off from the wind or the bouncing of the tank then i like it.
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Posted By: tippya5extreme
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 1:33am
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what? ah..oh. you box in a kill switch with cardboard. lol i thought you were doing somthing else. i like that idea ------------- http://imageshack.us">
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Squishey wrote:Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 1:48am
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PGP is a pump pistol. Love it. My goal in life is to be the grenade-laden, mine settin', ordanance wieldin' woodsball junky with a cheap pistol. That = fun. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Jawa_Nz
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 7:23am
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Its a little too much mebe but you could get some relatively cheap LDR's (otherwise known as Light Dependant Resistors), they basically work like LEDs in reverse. It wouldnt be too hard to setup a small network of them to a panel (like 10 or so spread out) with a plastic shield about half an inch above it, and just program a basic 8 pin chip to set off a peizo alarm/kill switch when light levels get too low (i.e. after being covered in paint). I made something like this in 4th form electronics (I dunno wot that equates to in americania... I was 14 so thats grade something...). Only cost me like 10 bucks in parts, so if you have uber basic know how it can be done. Thats a bit more of a permanant and effective way, but ghetto-cardboard works too  ------------- People who are organised are just to lazy to look for things. |
Posted By: an94
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 7:44am
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DO WHAT???????????????????????? ------------- 1 paintball gun package=$150 1 case of paint=$50 air & entry fee=$15 lighting up newbies all day long= Priceless |
Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 9:50am
Here in the states, we call them photoresistors. But seriously, why would you need cardboard or even paper. A kill switch is just an electronic switch that shuts off the engine. Just stick it in a hole. |
Posted By: kman1898
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 11:38am
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 1:06pm
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I get what he is saying. Light armor vehicles with replacable cardboard as armor. The armor would stand up to the first few shots in that area, then gradually weaken, then pierce it. When they pierce, it can hit a kill switch representing the engine, or take out the people inside. I actually think that's kinda nifty. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 5:13pm
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yeah good idea ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: barn_user
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 8:41pm
| It does sound like a good idea except you would have to change the cardboard alot. |
Posted By: sniper6
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 2:05am
| how about you run a couple layers of tinfoil between two connections, and when you shoot the tinfoil enough, it rips off and kills the engine |
Posted By: an94
Date Posted: 15 July 2006 at 1:06am
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So what.. just go to your grocery store they give the stuff away. at least here they do... ------------- 1 paintball gun package=$150 1 case of paint=$50 air & entry fee=$15 lighting up newbies all day long= Priceless |
Posted By: adblink
Date Posted: 15 July 2006 at 2:35am
| cardboard is easy to come by |
Posted By: Squishey
Date Posted: 15 July 2006 at 2:36am
tin foil will rip with like the first shot, and what if you have a camo tank, the tin foil will give you away lol. ------------- Canadians do it on top.
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Posted By: Frobs
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 6:26pm
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I personally like the Photoresister ideal. just make a cube out of six sheets of plastic. One is transparent and lets light in. Shoot it until it has no more light, and it shuts off the engine. If you seal it up all good, it will stand up to rain and everything. Its a relatively simple and inexpensive idea that might just broaden your horizons of electronics. |
Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 23 July 2006 at 10:39pm
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they have the nerf guns or like a foot wide hole w/ pressure plate, that you shoot a bunch of times, if you hit it enuff, it cuts the battery on the vehicle......
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Posted By: ekeboo
Date Posted: 02 August 2006 at 1:03am
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Any body heard of a law rocket that is how tanks usually die. At least at TAW Scenarios.
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Posted By: TEHGANGSTER
Date Posted: 02 August 2006 at 5:52pm
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or a nerf launcher..........
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Posted By: gegger
Date Posted: 03 August 2006 at 5:44pm
ya ------------- tippmann A-5 (camo) Flatline R/T J&J Ceramic basic Rufus Dawg double trigger X-Chamber |
Posted By: sniper6
Date Posted: 07 August 2006 at 12:36am
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what if with the tinfoil you scored the tinfoil so when the balls hit it would just ri[ out a small piece, and you have to hit it accurately, say 10 times, and then the connection is broke I like the photoresistor cube idea. Just get like 1 on each side (2) or on up on top, and have it so you just have to blackout one side of the cube. Make 6 seperate insulated panels and screw them together. You'd need some handyman skills but it would be better than only being able to blackout on side. |