With the recent re-interest in the Vee-Twin, I've been thinking about some of the other multi-barrel markers this sport has seen over the years, so just for the giggles of it, lets see if we can put together a list of all of 'em!
Photos are mandatory- yours or stolen at random from the internet.
Descriptions and details a bonus.
To start with, there is, of course, the aforemementioned Vee-Twin, my first one shown here mocked up with a Racegun frame:
I made my first one on '04, but had a couple people insist, back then, that mine wasn't the first. ('Cocker, that is, of course the Nasty Typhoons predated it by several years.) I have never seen any other evidence of a single-body, double-barrel 'Cocker from before that, though....
Before that, however, back in... around '97, I think, I came up with what a buddy of mine called the DOC9000:
That was a play on the "Cyber 9000", which was in the PB news at the time as being the "next generation" 'shoebox' Shocker. (Before SP bankrupted PVI and stole their IP.)
At it's core, it's just an adapter that holds a 'Mag on top of a 68 Carbine, and spaced so that when the top op rod of the Carbine comes back- all the way back, and hits the bumper- it trips the sear of the 'Mag. It was easily one of the most fun markers I ever built, there's a few millisecond delay between the shots, so the paint is spaced out more- it's not two balls side-by-side.
A fellow that went by the name Bror Jace even took it to a Castle Conquest event, probably about '99.
A year or so after that, a customer hit me up for one built off a Model 98. This one, of course, was then the DOC9098:
I made a couple of those for customers, and this one actually made it into... I think Paint Magazine.
And finally, several years ago, I was given this:
That, ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, was actually a manufactured product.
The story is- and I'd never heard of such a thing before I got that monster- that there was a small shop that would take F1 Illustrators, and literally glue a second bolt-and-barrel tube to the side of the gun, making kind of an oddball double barrel. The whole thing was then typically nickel-plated. And, according to rumor, at least one triple was attempted, with a tube on either side of the original.
What happened to this one? Same thing that happened to most of them, I'm told: The glue eventually failed. The owner of this one glued it back together- a couple of times- and had repainted it a couple of times to knock down the nickel-plated shine.
I have never aired it up myself, but when the fellow gave it to me, he insisted it still worked.
What other doubles are there, out there? Wasn't somebody making a kit to hold two Phantoms together like a Deuce? Who made those? (And can I still buy one?
)
Who's got that famous double Automag that was on the cover of APG about a million years ago?
And I think we can do two or three pages of all the double-barrel Palmer's guns... PGPs, Paladins, Typhoons, Strokers, Hurricanes...
Doc.
Photos are mandatory- yours or stolen at random from the internet.
Descriptions and details a bonus.To start with, there is, of course, the aforemementioned Vee-Twin, my first one shown here mocked up with a Racegun frame:
I made my first one on '04, but had a couple people insist, back then, that mine wasn't the first. ('Cocker, that is, of course the Nasty Typhoons predated it by several years.) I have never seen any other evidence of a single-body, double-barrel 'Cocker from before that, though....
Before that, however, back in... around '97, I think, I came up with what a buddy of mine called the DOC9000:
That was a play on the "Cyber 9000", which was in the PB news at the time as being the "next generation" 'shoebox' Shocker. (Before SP bankrupted PVI and stole their IP.)
At it's core, it's just an adapter that holds a 'Mag on top of a 68 Carbine, and spaced so that when the top op rod of the Carbine comes back- all the way back, and hits the bumper- it trips the sear of the 'Mag. It was easily one of the most fun markers I ever built, there's a few millisecond delay between the shots, so the paint is spaced out more- it's not two balls side-by-side.
A fellow that went by the name Bror Jace even took it to a Castle Conquest event, probably about '99.
A year or so after that, a customer hit me up for one built off a Model 98. This one, of course, was then the DOC9098:
I made a couple of those for customers, and this one actually made it into... I think Paint Magazine.
And finally, several years ago, I was given this:
That, ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, was actually a manufactured product.
The story is- and I'd never heard of such a thing before I got that monster- that there was a small shop that would take F1 Illustrators, and literally glue a second bolt-and-barrel tube to the side of the gun, making kind of an oddball double barrel. The whole thing was then typically nickel-plated. And, according to rumor, at least one triple was attempted, with a tube on either side of the original.
What happened to this one? Same thing that happened to most of them, I'm told: The glue eventually failed. The owner of this one glued it back together- a couple of times- and had repainted it a couple of times to knock down the nickel-plated shine.
I have never aired it up myself, but when the fellow gave it to me, he insisted it still worked.
What other doubles are there, out there? Wasn't somebody making a kit to hold two Phantoms together like a Deuce? Who made those? (And can I still buy one?
)Who's got that famous double Automag that was on the cover of APG about a million years ago?
And I think we can do two or three pages of all the double-barrel Palmer's guns... PGPs, Paladins, Typhoons, Strokers, Hurricanes...
Doc.
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