Panzerfaust 30k project

[SEAR]

Hi guys

I'm considering starting the Panzerfaust Klein (Faustpatrone) build for anti-tank and anti-bunker roles. It will shoot the whole 10 cm warhead (will be lightweight and the front part fragile) that will mark the impact with a color "chalk" powder. The range should be ~25 meters against vehicles, similar to the original weapon. I want to make it an accurate steel body replica.

Now I've got a plenty of experience with paintball ammunition for cannons and mortars and with custom higher-pressure HPA systems. The trick with the 'faust is that it has very little space inside (inner diameter is less than 30 mm) and I will have real trouble fitting something with manual actuation inside.

Approach No. 1) Using small screw-in CO2 cylinders to power each discharge/shot. I know there were paintball launchers and even mines powered by something similar and more or less manually triggered. Does anyone know whether there is any air chambers from these things "readily" available and which valve to use to release the gas? The valve part is more important for me.

Approach No. 2) Use HPA. This is the more straightforward approach for me, yet the more expensive one. There are a couple of question concerning this approach as well, but I can just ask on Spudfiles.

Thank you

[NONOBLITUS]

I have no helpful suggestions but really think what you are doing is awesome and will be following this thread for sure.

[Rainmaker]

Agreed with NONOBLITUS.

And also, since the old forum posts were lost, can you repost some of those videos of the other canons you have? Super cool!

[SEAR]

Thank you, guys! I really appreciate it. How about my youtube channel? It contains all the captured fun so far. My latest video will be out before this Christmas.

Our recent cooperation with high-quality replica WWII armored vehicles' and cannons' manufacturer opens quite a lot of possibilities for us.

[Spydercam]

"Best Buy" would be a cheap 98 or in same style marker, use the engine(valve+frame+sear etc.) get a 90° and modify the trigger so it should fit into. A 12g Cartrige should be good for a few(may 10) shots !?!?!? Should be possible to build it slim enough to fit in the small pipe, also a realistic trigger hlps too.

LegionerCustom build thoose lunchers, i think best on market, better than thoose trash nades you have to fill up with gas for example !!!







Simple and good ! 👍

[Spydercam]

If the nade fit´s well into barrel, there is enough force ! He made videos but his YT Cannel is dead i don´t know why, but i have seen him shoot this thing in a vid. may 50 yards ca. 45° but pressure is also a factor for distance. He is using: Ammunition production TAG INNOVATION GAME

[XEMON]

Those look great!
I have an A5 that would be a good donor ...
Is there any valve modification?

What do you shoot with those?

[Spydercam]

Yes they are very cool and cheap to build your own. I don´t think he did something like a valve modification ! Looks like he cut the tube tip of the powertube and running her with no bolt to get as slim/short as possible. He is using thoose 40mm rounds TAG INNOVATION GAME

[SEAR]

Hey, I'm back with some updates. I hadn't done anything in the first two months of this year. But it starts to get better. Not only I have at least some progress with my Faustpatrone, but I realized a potentially simple principle how to make our AT guns go optionally boom using 9 mm blanks.

Now back to my current project, die Faustpatrone.

Projectile
After several experiments I can make it as light as if it was milled from the XPS, but with a better shape options and its surface alike. Most of the body is final.

What is not are final are two things:

• Stabilizers (they are plastic and bendable; not from the spring steel), yet they can scratch. Unless I manage to find bendable material that is soft as well (I doubt that), I would need to cover their edges with some soft material.
• Warhead - which is in my case the most frontal part out there. Currently it is hard, but once I make the mold, it will be soft and fragile and filled with a cyan marking powder. This is what cracks, the rest of the projectile remains intact and will be reusable

The "unbreakable" part of the body without the marker fill weights 50 grams, which is so-so. My aim is to get it towards 40 grams. It has 12 mm of XPS foam (100 mm in diameter) in the front, that will absorb this energy. I need to shoot it at 30 meters only. The rest of the weight will be in the powder-filled and fragile warhead front.

HPA system
I'm in the beginning here. The trick is that I need to fit everything within a 30 mm diameter tube! My very first attempt with very slow and tiny diameter valve did no go well, I only got 13 meters of distance.

The projectile's flight was stabilized enough. The small wiggling was caused by the extra mass in the front of the warhead which was not centered (I glued a bunch of stuff there)

The progress will be quick now; I'm switching to more powerful valves to see what it takes to get it to the desired distance and then I will try to solve how to put it into such limited space.

My ultimate aim is to not only make shoot the "faust", but ideally partially simulate the "backblast" as well with a white powder. This will require quite complex air system and I have to see whether I eventually get there.

[Flounder]

This is very cool, following with great interest