I wouldn’t want to be the one staring down the barrel of this monster! Made by Rick Galinson, special effects man of Snakes on a Plane, the Paintball Minigun contains 1200 psi of paintball-pumping pressure. Just how powerful is that you asked? Well, check out the video of it in action WITHOUT paintballs, just air.
Scared yet? Better know when to run when you see Rick armed with this on the street. He probably finished the gun by then, and it would be pumping more than just air into your face.
November 22nd, 2006 at 12:32 am
i wonder if he would make you one if you paid him enough. If so i can go without food for awhile. lol
November 22nd, 2006 at 3:31 am
Why would you want a gattling paintball gun? The whole reason to have a gattling gun in the first place is to stop the barrels from overheating. There is no reason you couldn’t fire just as fast with a single barreled paintball gun. Still looks pretty cool though.
November 22nd, 2006 at 3:42 am
Nice paintball marker. Just hope the fps comes in under 275fps for play (: would love to take this out and play with it.
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:22 am
The problems with ROF on a paintball gun is feeding the balls fast enough without chopping them up or crushing them with to much pressure. It’s easy enough to make a marker that can spit out 20 to 25 bps (1200/1500 per minute). You could easly speed this system up basicly by attaching extra guns to the side (I have seen paintball tanks with 2,3,4 barrel weapons in the turrent but they are normally only firing about 15 bps each for reliablity. (Remember the faster your rps the more likley you are to chop a ball and fowl the barrel and bolt) Even at 15 bps, 4 barrels is 3600 bpm. The gau-8 (The gun on the a-10) only fires at 3900 rpm. Point being that a very fast marker is easy. (BTW at 200 feet or less, 25bps is plenty fast).
What does he go and do? Makes a gun with a rotating barrel which is only going to increase his feed issues because they all have to use a single, bulky feed system. (Feed systems on a traditional paintball gun are very small. Normally taking up a few cubic inches or less. It’s holding all the paint that takes up so much room)
Oh and last but not least. High pressue (1200PSI) is only going to make the balls break in the barrel more often unless you loosen the tolerence is the barrel which just makes the balls go all over the place. Good markers use around 400psi and cheap ones use around 850psi. Guess why the good ones use lower PSI?
I guess what I am saying is that I don’t know why anyone would want to do this. Now if you want to launch rubber balls that’s another thing (Although I still think putting paintball guns together would be more practical and smaller) but that would just be deadly and you might as well buy a SAW.
November 22nd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
“I guess what I am saying is that I don’t know why anyone would want to do this.”
Look up the definition of ‘Hobby’
Its the same reason why kids like to spend 36 hours a day playing XBOX or PS2 games or why some people like to tie there own flies before they go fishing…to them it is simply fun.
“Oh and last but not least. High pressue (1200PSI) is only going to make the balls break in the barrel more often unless you loosen the tolerence is the barrel which just makes the balls go all over the place. Good markers use around 400psi and cheap ones use around 850psi.”
Look up ‘Pressure Regulator’
Anyone who has the time and effort to build something like this has obviously done some designing; and before design there must be some research. Its safe to assume that this guy knows that 1200psi will do nothing than cause paint balls to explode within the barrels. Also, 1200 psi is obviously the bottle pressure, releasing 1200psi out of a bottle that size (you can see it in the center of the cluster of barrels) would expend all of the bottles useful pressure within the first 2 or 3 rotations, a pressure regulator would easily reduce the pressure to a more useful 400psi before the compressed gas reached the chamber.
“I have seen paintball tanks with 2,3,4 barrel weapons in the turrent but they are normally only firing about 15 bps each for reliablity…Even at 15 bps, 4 barrels is 3600 bpm.”
Assuming 3600 bpm, thats 10 bps per barrel with this paint marker.
“Remember the faster your rps the more likley you are to chop a ball and fowl the barrel and bolt.”
A simple, yet precise and well-timed paintball feeding device would solve this problem. Not a gravity feed system like most paintball markers have, more like an actual gun’s ammo feeding system would work; where the bolt has to strip the paintball out of a magazine and guide into the chamber.
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Umm, dude above me, a day has 24 hours, you are an idiot.
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:31 pm
http://thirtyhoursaday.ytmnd.com/
November 27th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Yeah, Josh… I think you’re an idiot too. It was a joke… but yet you spent time to go and post the second link just to make your point.
Enjoy your life as a speedbump on the internet…
January 1st, 2007 at 9:03 am
Nathan, you most definitely are NOT an engineer and have obviously no qualifications to be speaking about this, as “Me” made pretty clear above.
I also am pretty ceratin , being just slightly mecahnically/engineering inclined, to think that the rotation device is also gas driven, which of course is going to take some of the pressure off , plus you can bet the guy (with his past experience) knows enough to know what’s going to break paint in a barrel.
I also am quite shocked with your ego here in claiming this man’s design is “only going to increase his feed issues because they all have to use a single, bulky feed system.”
How is it that you know this gun’s design? Funny I’ve seen some prototype mini gun type bb guns as well as paint ball guns that all fed from one single feed system. Not saying that’s the best but it can be done, and you (onviously) and I don’t know how the guy is doing it yet, or how bulky ot will be, etc.
Complexes where people have to cut down others ideas to build them self up are pathetic, especially in cases where the idea’s and projects obviously to most anyone with any mechanical/engineering experience, (or even none at all), are as promising looking and well thought out as this one appears to be.
And Josh up ther , who demonstrates a state of learning beyond comprehension by mere mortals… you are most definitely an idiot, to put it nicely.
Nothing like 12 year old logic when it comes to ignorance in figures of speech that are everday language to the rest of the population.
Just paint a bulls eye on your forhead and get it over with, because with that much determination to look like a jackass there’s no reason to wait any longer.
January 1st, 2007 at 9:27 am
I have to amend my last statement by saying that the way the feed ports on the barrels look , this very possibly is fed by one feeding system , and by the looks of those ports could be a very streamlined system.
After viewing all of this guys work in the designs and creations he’s made in spiderman 2 , Jurassic Park, AI , and many more movies, and other work, I have no doubt this will work when he finishes it, regardless of the genius 15-20 year olds we have out there like Nathan and Josh. ;o )
January 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
you can scale down the pressure anyway, and anyway, thats pretty damned awesome
April 24th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
nice i like it….but its been done….. here: http://scenariodreams.com/productpages/minigun.htm
Damon of Scenario dreams completed a fully functionable gatling gun (able to be carried by one man) capable of reaching 118 BPS (going on sale soon
December 14th, 2007 at 1:01 am
dude why are you dumping on him this thing rocks. are you mad because you didnt think of it first.
December 14th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
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There’s no reason, except that it would be impossible to do without chopping up balls like there’s no tomorrow.
Just because you could never comprehend how to build one is no reason to try to convince people there’s no reason to build one, (same to other jealous jerks).
It’s fun to build things and there’s no reason not to have one. It cpuld fire way more balls than a single barreled marker anyday.
If you have ever been on a paintball field in a battle , especially “woodsball” and seen or been through a “mortor effect” attack, you’d know just one excellent reason to have one of these.
Insead of using half of your team you could accomplish the same thing with one guy, and use the rest of your team and win bigtime.
We have guys build their own guns all the time around here. One example is a hell of a sniper rifle that is basically silent when fired and super accurate. Noone seemed to think those were worth building until they got nailed from the other side of the field with a silent round out of nowhere.
It takes a little kid mentality to “dis” this guys hobby and work on this excellent idea. Even if it wasn’t practuical , sop what. It’s still fun to build stuff and more fun to shoot them.