Nice kit!
Used to do a lot of paintball and airsofting.
I was not a fan of Smartparts though. I had a Bob Long Intimidator, Vice, and Marq (my favorite). Still have it actually.
I actually ended up buying a rig thinking I was going to get back into it, and I never did :/
I miss it, but it's insanely expensive. Especially with the newer hoppers and guns.
Did you ever attend any major tournaments and have your markers serviced while there, SlvrDragon? Because if you did, I probably worked on them. I was one of Bob's touring gun techs for years and attended every major event held in the U.S. where he had a presence. In fact, if you were part of that scene when the Intimidator was king, you might be able to guess where my user name came from.
Since You mentioned the Marq and the Vice... Here are a couple of mine from back then. Bob paid the touring guys that didn't work at his shop (I live in Texas) in guns. I've lost count of the Bob Long guns that went through my hands. Most I sold immediately as compensation, but for the ones I intended to keep and shoot, I would have my buddy (that was also a traveling tech and good friends with Bob) go by the shop cherry pick bodies and frames in red and either ship them or bring them to an event and I'd build them from parts.
The red guns I put together were always special builds with hand selected parts. When I was finished playing with them, I always was able to get a premium for them when sold locally. Most "gun guys" don't realize that these paintball markers were selling for big money when tournament paintball was at its peak. I had an offer of over 2k for the red Ripper2 in this picture (bottom right) after it was completed. That was for just the gun with no air system or hopper.
