[panitballTommy]

"ProPaintball insiders report that Thin Air Paintball is developing a new paintball gun. Incase your not familiar, Thin Air Paintball has been responsible for the Quest 4B Bolt Kit and GnB (underbore) Barrel Kit. According to ProPaintball insiders, this gun is targeting the high end market and is slated for release in 2012. The following is a photograph taken by someone associated with Thin Air Paintball of a prototype marker.



According to Thin Air Paintball’s website;

'The rumors are correct – we plan to launch our first marker in the upcoming months. It will be the flagship of our product line, standing out as a heavily-equipped high end tournament marker sure to gain attention far and wide. We will stop at nothing short of a complete revolution of the way electronic markers operate. Our products are US patent pending.'

The information from TAP has caught our attention. Especially the part about revolutionizing the way electro markers operate. What does TAP have up their sleeve? Share your thoughts on the new paintball gun."

-Pulled from ProPaintball

[The_Leech]

I know its a prototype, but I love the color. I hope they keep it as one of the standard colors.

[jim4130]

Interesting. Never heard of them before. Gun looks altight so far

[Vegard]

Read this on pbn yesterday so unless there's another thread it must have been deleted.

[AznPballin]

Hmm very interesting. I would love to see a shooting video.

[chillinspyder2]

Not sure how I feel about the grips, or the giant on/off switch.

[R3L]

From the link:

"My name is Andy (Ydna) and I designed this marker. We did not expect that the pictures would be released this quickly so I have to mention that nothing seen here is “finalized”. These markers were actually made in July 2010 as a testing platform for the new ideas, so literally *everything* seen in the picture has been changed. If you have questions visit the TAS facebook!"

[jamest91]

Glad they supposedly changed it cuz that thing is uuugglyyyyyyy

[YeloSno]

This is a prototype from 2010. From what the Podesta and Bronc said, it looks not much like this at all.


I just want to say one thing about the marker and what it needs: A big *** hole in the trigger guard. I HATE taking apart guns without them. It's such a small thing but it wastes so much time and energy not having it.

[Dyeshtr17]

is there going to be something for the feed neck? it looks tin. and it looks sweet

[walktheBoard]

can't wait to see the operating system

[NJKillaZ]

all it needs is a feed neck and some milling details on that reg

[ladd_17]

Ok, I'm interested.

[smokeage]

Aren't there a lot of the people from the original FEP crew part of TAP?

[L_x]

There appears to be some bitterness between PbN and Thin Air Sports, which might explain why the thread disappeared (and will do so again).

[smokeage]

Originally Posted by L_x

There appears to be some bitterness between PbN and Thin Air Sports, which might explain why the thread disappeared (and will do so again).

Wasnt there beef between FEP and Nation?

[outkast kid]

Anything Andy helps work on is going to be prime

[John]

Originally Posted by L_x

There appears to be some bitterness between PbN and Thin Air Sports, which might explain why the thread disappeared (and will do so again).

Really? Not that I'm aware of. Ydna is even a moderator here! I think the worst you can say is they had some issues with spamming the FEP forum years ago. We never appreciate that, so hopefully they are over it. But I think that might have been even before Andy got involved.

The other thread is still here too btw: https://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=3723466

Originally Posted by smokeage

Wasnt there beef between FEP and Nation?

Again, not that I know of. I just talked to Chris Cole at Cup and I talked to Jon-Paul regularly on the phone too. You have to realize, I've known many of these people a decade or longer.

[L_x]

Ah! Apologies, was just going on hear-say.

[eatafetus]

Originally Posted by John

Again, not that I know of. I just talked to Chris Cole at Cup and I talked to Jon-Paul regularly on the phone too. You have to realize, I've known many of these people a decade or longer.

I dont think this comes from either of those two guys.

[John]

Originally Posted by eatafetus

I dont think this comes from either of those two guys.

No, those are the guys I associate with FEP now that Dave has fallen off the map.