[MOTM] MAY - Non-Mainstream

[BrickHaus]

RTP viper.

[F1FX]

Original owner, built it 25 years ago. This was my first of many custom scratch build.

Spanky Supercharged mini Fishbone body
OTP barrel
OTP bolt
Palmers quick ram
Palmers quick switch
MacDev sonic LPR
MacDev gladiator HPR
AKA Tornado valve
Belsales hammer
Belsales rex dialer
Benchmark 45
Countless hours spent on Trigger job- Polished trigger, sear and sear lug along with trigger and sear spring matching. flatten timing rod. Only thing that have been changed since original build was HPR, changed from Palmers to MacDev and a few o-rings otherwise this sits as it did back in 2000/2001

[JeeperCreeper]

Oh that looks so clean

[F1FX]

Thanks. The upkeep is for sure a labor of love but she has held up pretty well over the years.

[Frmrspec]

Let’s go ahead and open it up for nominations!

[F1FX]

I will start the nominations with JeeperCreeper’s R7. I’ve been wanting one for a while, that dust purp is killer.

[BLachance75]

I'll give a nod to NONOBLITUS and the Montneel

[Chuck E Ducky]

I’m going with F1FX with the Fishbone. Not many of those still alive and kicking.

[JeeperCreeper]

JeepDVLZ45's Niche. The Celtic knot milling is rad (zoom in on that lower tube) and because Boondock Saints.

[cougar20th]

That knot milling was on the original body design. It took alot of time to layout.

The original name for the Element was Banshee but we found there was another company using that name at the time.

[cougar20th]

BLachance75.s palmers lance.

[scottieb]

I nominate cougar20th and his AKA VLM Spyder.

[scottieb]

latches109 I disagree. If it were a Kingman Spyder marker than I would agree with you. What Keith has though is well beyond a mass produced Spyder. His entry is specifically is an AKA. AKA being non-mainstream as FBM would be. Only 30 AKA VLM Spyder bodies were produced. They are cocker threaded, take cocker VA's, have wire detents, are vert feed and have press fit feed necks.

[latches109]

scottieb using this reasoning, does that mean any “limited” production mainstream marker would have qualified? 1/5 PL autococker, or 1/30 eclipse cS3?

[scottieb]

latches109 I argue it qualifies. It is strictly an AKA body and has much less to do with Kingman and everything to do with AKA. AKA at the time certainly wasn't mainstream. In my opinion they never were. Fantastic ideas. Remarkable products. But never main stream.

Two suggestions for this month were FBM and PPS. An AKA VLM fits right in with them.

[Chaos]

I nominate Ragu310's Hurricane

[XEMON]

Cal ordinance mercenary

The Cal Ordnance gets my nomination 🤩

[JeepDVLZ45]

Gotta go with BrickHaus ‘s Viper

[BigRed]

I’ll go with woouulf and his custom Walz!