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Re: NEW MOC's!!! Lego pellet guns!!!!
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lugnet.build, lugnet.technic
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Mon, 19 Mar 2001 00:03:40 GMT
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WOW!!
That is so cool! I think the rifle looks better without the extended barrel.
I've been trying to make a gun that uses the missile launcher from the new
castle. never-mind that idea, I'll just copy what you've built :-)
Again,COOL!
Gary
geordan ballantree <geordanh@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:GAF186.I6z@lugnet.com...
> been a while since i've posted, but i'm back. recently i've been building
> just small stuff, nothing worth posting to lugnet. I did finish a three • foot
> long pirate ship, but my camera screwed up and i lost all of the pictures • i
> took!!! oh well. I remeber quite a while back, (june) we got into a
> discussion about lego pellet guns that can fire. well since then, i've • been
> trying to conquer this and make a gun the can shoot at least three metres
> without glue and only with lego. here are the results, i'm pretty proud of
> both of them as they are the result of long hours of frustration and
> contemplation. well, here they are!!
> this page is just a temporary page, i was just dying to get it up. I'll be
> doing anew one with new photosand maybe a movie of both the guns firing • too,
> we'll see. I'm very proud of these.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/geordanh/temporarypreviewfile.html?984956190730
>
> they fire each fire
> about four metres( sometimes 5-6). one is a blunder-bust rifle and the • other
> is a hand gun.
>
> The firing mechanism is spring loaded and it fires a technic
> axle. they shoot technic axles of any size although the 1x3 works the • best.
>
> the rifle shoots via the wild west building exploding system using shock
> absorbers. pull the trigger and the shock compresses against the bottom of
> the barrel, then you hit down on the 1x8 tile and it pushes the shock up
> into the barrel which hits the bullet sending it flying.
>
> I wanted both guns before i made them to look somewhat convincing and the
> blunt ended blunderbust did not look convincing, so i added a removable
> machine gun front to it to make look like somesort of military gun.
>
> the scope on top works but only to a distance of two metres.
>
> both of the guns are front loading mind you as I couldn't figure out a • way
> to make a loading mechanism.
>
> the hand gun is works on the same premice, except it uses a pull-back
> push-in hammer thing on the back. this gun takes way longer to load and is
> somewhat less powerful than the rifle.
>
> to load and fire this gun, you pull back on the hammer thing that is in • the
> back unatil it is as far as it can go. than you open up the top and using • a
> one by whatever length piece you push down on the shock absorber and push • in
> the hammer again as far as it will go. then you put the pin in the side to
> hold the hammer, load thegun and pull the trigger!
>
> basically, it works the same as the rifle, except the hammer compresses • the
> shock absorber and the trigger pushes up on the shock which expands into • the
> barrel hitting the bullet.
>
> both guns are probaly smaller than normal guns, but they are sized to fit • me
> and i'm thirteen so...
>
> please please let me know what you think!!!!!!!!!! i spent alot of time
> working on these as well as figuring out how to make them fire so please!
> feedback!!!!
>
> thanx
>
> Geordan,
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