The Life of Captain Xerxes

[Poseidon2000]

From now on, this will be the thread to anything related to Captain Xerxes. For those of you who do not know, CX(Captain Xerxes) is what i call the modification of replacing the PCs of a Classic or XP with CPS bladders or LRT.

Anyway, on to the beginning!!!

Chapter 1: The Base

Finally, the XP 250 has arrived!! I was so happy Firstly, the box was fantastic, even having a picture of the Rare XP 300.


The Gun:

The XP 250 seems to be great overall so far. It has about ~40 feet max range and 20 to~35 feet effective range. Shot time is 8-12 seconds of great pressure, then 10 of dribbly droppoff. I was very surprised at the performance versus size. It worked similar to a SS/XP 300, just slightly weaker, however is as light as my CPS 3200(just gun), even when the XP'S filled and precharged!!!

This will be a great base for Captain X.... Muahahaha!!!

[Poseidon2000]

More stuff, not enogh file space for one post....

[soakinader]

It's.... so... beautiful... <OO>

Please post a picture of the box where it shows the illusive "XP 300". I just don't understand how/why the SS 300 would be on the box/the XP 300 was never released.

[marauder]

I was thinking the exact same thing Soakinader, "that is a beautiful gun." I look forward to seeing this at Downpour next year, or hopefully Connecticut this year!

[Poseidon2000]

It's.... so... beautiful... <OO>

Please post a picture of the box where it shows the illusive "XP 300". I just don't understand how/why the SS 300 would be on the box/the XP 300 was never released.

well, the odd part is... there is a picture of an XP 300,however there's no SS300!

[soakinader]

No one has ever seen an "XP 300" in physical form, the only place it has ever been seen is on the boxes of certain XP's. Please post a pic!

[Poseidon2000]

soon enough, just not now. My box is in another house for similar reasons. It will be back monday

[DX]

The XP 300 does exist, and I'm pretty sure that one of our collectors had one in the mid 2000's. Soakologist? Dark Annihilator? Chris Reid?

[Poseidon2000]

Soakoligist i know has it. He says so im ye olden pages of Your Armory Thread.

[SEAL]

I was thinking the exact same thing Soakinader, "that is a beautiful gun."

True, that. It's not my favorite design, but I actually like it better than most of the Nerf soakers. While cool-looking, I don't think that N-Strike design works well for water guns. Not sure why everyone likes them so much (the Electrostorm and Rattler are probably the only ones I really like.).

I know XP270 had an XP 300, but I think his cousin sold it or something. Aside from him, I don't know of anybody else who has or had one. They could have been a sort of limited edition of the SS 300.

[Poseidon2000]

UPDATE:

just opened up nozzle selector.
The ball valve opening is about 8x. When firing, it had barely any lamination, but lasted for a good 5 seconds until droppoff. I think i should drill to exactly that diameter for more lamination, range, and power than the fan blast.

[marauder]

What's the range like that?

[Poseidon2000]

'bout 32 feet. not bad for flamethrower pitter patter blocking the actual stream.

[marauder]

Sounds like a good alternative to the fan blast. Will be interesting to see how it reacts after the CPS conversion.

[Poseidon2000]

one main problem is that the selector is very small. About the size of the 3200 20x setting. I might make my own

[soakinader]

It's not that small.... and I don't care what you do to this gun, you will not get more than 10-12X out of it. You might as well use the nice little selector.
Actually, I would really like to experiment with making the nozzle selector the laminator... have each nozzle setting with a different number of holes. All I need is a solid block of plastic and my drill press. Or, maybe if I filled the back of the nozzle with epoxy, then drilled holes... hmmm..

[Poseidon2000]

Well, i meant that the selector is the size of the 3200's 20x, outside ring and all, i have both.
I want a bigger selector for more options and laminaton; the regular 3x is a bit flamethrower-ish. Plus with the convertion, i have to have at least 5x to have use for the power. My ultimate selector options for this:

1x,3x,shower,5x,8x, ?typhoon thing?


Anyway, i tried opening it up, it's a pain! I'm at the final screw, it's stripped. time for liquid grunge! :/

[marauder]

I love that y'all are doin' all these mods so I can use the successful ones on my 275 in 2 months Soakinader I didn't know you were modding your 250 as well. I'd be very interested in seeing how a nozzle laminator works on this gun. I don't plan on adding laminators to my 275 since I wouldn't be able to keep the original nozzle selectors, but then again I may need them with the CPS power mods I plan on doing.

[Poseidon2000]

So far the first mods planned will probably be the internal reinforcing and nozzle drilling. I might be making laminators, not sure.


QUESTION: If this mod goes well, should i make a CX series? CX 250 ( This one), CX 300 ( SS300), CX 150 (XP 150, Probably the simplist one, just pc swap n' reinforcing.), CXD (double) 275(XXP 275), CX Triple Charge ( SC Triple charge, just CPS'd), and the homemade CX Better Pak( reincarnation of power pak). Whaddya think?

[marauder]

If this goes well I see no reason not to convert other guns, except that you will want a few air pressure blasters for air pressure only rounds in the community wars. Then again, maybe we end up phasing out those rounds. We only had 1 air pressure only round at Hydropocalypse.