That's a fair point, that it's much more about your playing style than it is about what equipment you have. Cleats and sneakers for any sport always try to market themselves as being useful for a specific type of player: Nike Mercurials market themselves to be for the speedy soccer player, Adidas ma...
I've never shot an XP 90, but the EES Turbine has a pulse setting and yeah, somehow it's more satisfying to have your gun do the pulsing! What kind of spray nozzles? I've been thinking of a shotgun type of blast that can cover multiple targets, without being as soothing as a fan blast, and could def...
Oh yeah, absolutely, there's no one "point" to a hobby. The point of a hobby is to enjoy it, however you choose to do so. Though I'm often away, water warfare has been a hobby of mine for about 18 years. My other dominant all-consuming hobby is Warhammer, which has a similar breakdown of collector, ...
Vague question title, I don't have a more specific way to put it right now. I've been slowly looking into paintball, which got me thinking about the umbrella category of imitation-gun hobbies. Water warfare, paintball, nerf, airsoft; I feel like none of these hobbies would actually exist if we could...
I realized I've abandoned this for a month. Basically, I tried it out, pump worked great but the the PC was leaking badly. Then the hose barb and end cap shot off the PC and I haven't gotten around to putting them together. It was quite deflating. I've been... busy... Discovering new video games to ...
I'll be honest, I loved the Hydroblade and Helix! I've handled them, I've shot them, to this day I think they're some of the most fun blasters I've used. Another one, though I never got to shoot it, is the Triple Aggressor's tiny pistol, that I started thinking about building a homemade version of (...
Here's a CPH I started building in 2008. I got it working in 2011 or 2012. Last week, I needed to do some maintenance on the pump because the seal had broken, but I decided to address a major design flaw as well. http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3/aws_waham/IMG_2031.jpg Basically there was a lot ...
Thanks! I finally decided not to Netflix or PS4 yesterday and today, which gave me opportunity to work some more on this. It leaks pretty badly still so I'll have to look at the PC connection. Performance doesn't seem great right now, I'll see how it looks once I address the leaks. As for handling, ...
Thanks! I like Hydropower blasters, but they definitely lack that extra kick. They can get good range and output, but they do it so gently. I'll see if I can bring myself to post a shot vid in the coming few days.
9 years later, I was browsing and found this topic again. I did a little dig to see if the times have given us new technology to make this idea more feasible, and I remembered edible water bottles/balls! This video shows a nice way to make them at home. It's basically a water balloon but made with s...
I'm going to resurrect a six year-old topic to share my experience with this. Granted, I was much younger when I tried a balloon-only PC, maybe there are some details I missed, maybe I'd miss more now. Who knows? You really need high quality balloons. The balloons I used ended up breaking inside my ...
https://i.ibb.co/KyfXN55/Snapchat-2059198863.jpg https://i.ibb.co/Jc517C4/20200322-185702.jpg https://i.ibb.co/0tV1NsM/20200322-190801.jpg SO HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED However many years ago, I decided to power mod my WW Lightning. If you remember the Hydropower series (Lightning, Blazer, Orca, etc), th...
I'm currently looking at treating the Max D valve like any hardware store's ball valve and not really bothering with a trigger, I'll cook something up if it gets really inconvenient. The nozzle does have plenty of spare plastic attached to it, I could set up a little return spring there and find a p...
Four years ago, I picked up a broken Hydrocannon of the side of the road. I outlined what I did with it here , (in case you're wondering, no, I haven't touched it since my last update there; I's a busy busy boi). However, the side project I talked about, I've been inspired to work on again. The idea...
In order to answer that question, I decided to watch a few videos of rhinos giving birth, they don't do much, just sort of chill there while the baby comes out. So I guess I used a bad example, the WW Scorpion is loud, apparently significantly louder than a rhino in labour. As for the nozzle selecto...
For me, it goes: -Lightning ('05 remake): Lightweight, but still busts out a thick 5x which, at least on mine, pretty reliably hit 40'. I find it very comfortable, although others may dislike the handle. Pumps up relatively quickly too. -Blazer ('05 remake): Like the Lightning, better at most things...
My experience with soakfests was mainly a collection of Blazers and Flash Floods facing off, with the Blazers having the upper hand the whole time except for when it was time to actually pull the trigger. After that point, it just became a game of whether the FFs could connect the hit then run quick...