Soaker Aesthetics - 'Beauty in the eye of the beholder'
Different members definitely have different opinions on what looks good. I've always had certain thoughts on what make a soaker look like a serious soaker.
If you factor out performance, what soakers do you find most appealing?
Soaker designs I've found particularly appealing to me include the XP310, SC500, CPS1000, CPS1500, XP215 (darn cute ), Helix, and the Flash Flood. I've tended to be a sucker for more flat-faced soakers like the CPS1500 and XP310 while the down-to-business styles of the SC500 and CPS1000 also attract me.
If you factor out performance, what soakers do you find most appealing?
Soaker designs I've found particularly appealing to me include the XP310, SC500, CPS1000, CPS1500, XP215 (darn cute ), Helix, and the Flash Flood. I've tended to be a sucker for more flat-faced soakers like the CPS1500 and XP310 while the down-to-business styles of the SC500 and CPS1000 also attract me.
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I feel that almost every design up until last year's lineup represented a "Super Soaker" pretty well, to varying degrees. I wasn't a fan of the "Super Weird Angle" of the XP-220 and others that shared the same shape, but it was certainly better than the "Rejected Phaser Rifle Concepts From Star Trek: Voyager" look of 2004.
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Slick and organic/long and angular/compact and somewhat firearm-like are my preferences. In the first category there's my favorite soaker-design of all time, the 2700. In the second there's the best soaker of all time, the CPS 2500, and for the third category there's the Pirahna.
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My preferences are very similar to Adrian's. I love the long, but narrow serious shotgun-like style of the CPS 2500 and CPS 2000. The CPS 1000, XP 310, and MD 6000 styles are also appealing to me. I generally don't like soakers with weird, curved, unrealistic, or gimmicky designs like the CPS 2700, all of the 2004-2005 lines, CPS 1200, and some XPs.
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I am really liking the blasters that have the shape of the Secret Strike, Flash Flood, and Arctic Shock. I think they look like an assault-rifle and feel very good in my hands.
I also loved the Splashzooka with its foward trigger, and how I could hold it on my shoulder like an RPG or real launcher.
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I also loved the Splashzooka with its foward trigger, and how I could hold it on my shoulder like an RPG or real launcher.
~SO
I just need to try the FF. Sigh*
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CPS 4100 *in repair*
MI Flash Flood w/Aqua Pak
SC Big Trouble
Blazer
Xenon
Splat Blast
STE Arctic Shock
Vaporizer
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Currently I think my favorite soaker for looks (as well as in general) is the CPS 3200. I like the unornate yet imposing appearance it has much better than the cartoonish look of say, the CPS 2100. Also, it is very nicely sized, not too big or too small, similar in size to an M16.
BTW sharp, how does and undersling style reservoir gun look like an assault rifle?
BTW sharp, how does and undersling style reservoir gun look like an assault rifle?
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CPS 2000
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SS 100
CPS 2500
CPS 3200
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The CPS2000/2500 has a tough, pretty bare-bones look. Then comes the XP310, looking like a more child-friendly air pressure version of the CPS2000/2500, except for the hidious coloring. Then, perhaps the undersling reservoirs like the Flash Flood.
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I like the CPS 1500/1700 design as well as the CPS 2000/2500 design.
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SS20, SS50, SS100, SS200, SS300, MXL and MX are aesteticaly the most apealing to me.
Colour skeem makes a big difference also. As a colour combo I like:
Neon Yellow+ Neon Red,
Neon Yellow + Blue,
Black + Neon Red,
Black + Plum Red,
Black+ Green,
Black + Blue.
Those are very fitting for waterguns.
Colour skeem makes a big difference also. As a colour combo I like:
Neon Yellow+ Neon Red,
Neon Yellow + Blue,
Black + Neon Red,
Black + Plum Red,
Black+ Green,
Black + Blue.
Those are very fitting for waterguns.
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Well, a definite one I like is the sub barrel look on guns. Like the FF, AS, and MD:SS. COlours that realy appeal to me is either camo... or black and orange.
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The motto of the story... If your not on on my team and your staring at the nozzle on my gun.... your probably already soaked.
The motto of the story... If your not on on my team and your staring at the nozzle on my gun.... your probably already soaked.
As far as soaker colors go, I really couldn't care less what the company puts there. I end up painting them anyway. Those ugly yellows, oranges, reds, and other bright colors get converted into a nice camo-ish black/green/brown.
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