Some people have been asking what AI is up to...

[MadMax]

I might be a couple weeks away from starting a preorder for grenades to be delivered 6wks from now. I've still got a lot of issues to deal with like the machined parts and some mould adjustments, but at least I'm not worried that my mould is completely dysfunctional which sometimes happens. Something catestrophic like that would have set me back by a year to make the dough to make another mould.

[dutchydoc]

Awesome news Max, I as well as allot of others I'm sure; cant wait to get my grubby little hands on some of these!

[Kimbo]

+1 - KUDOS.

[made Man]

Any updates?

[Pip]

+1 to all the above Max, good on you to get something in the works. Can't wait to hear the feedback from the display Good luck and keep up the good work!

[MadMax]

Sorry, not much to say in terms of updates. I've been working on some last minute improvements that look feasible. One is a safety related fix to the design. The other is to deal with an amateurish mistake I made.

I just got an ultrasonic welder which should be arriving today. I'm pretty excited as it's a pretty cool piece of equipment.

[dodger_me]

^?! Nice Purchase man, ARe you planning on building stock for release so you dont just have people getting turned off by the only ones on the market being taken by like 3 people?

[MadMax]

I'm going to have to finance the first manufacturing run with some help with an advance preorder. The preorder will help me gauge how much $$$ I have to borrow for the first major manufacturing run. As much as I'd like to survey players to get an idea of how much they'd pay for a grenade (to estimate demand), nothing is as accurate as a count of cash brought to the barrel head.

Preorder grenades will be injection moulded in a special colour which will never be made again for those who got in on a very special first order and helped me launch my product.

I'll be posting very good video footage and detailed photos of my product as I open the preorder for my first grenades. I'm renting a high speed camera that wings off a blazing 4000 frames per second at megapixel resolution to showcase this product. I won't be asking people to buy into an imaginary product.

[Styrak]

I probably won't even use the grenade in a game, but just buy it for the cool factor! Even though a video will be nice, I don't think most people will need it to be satisfied about buying your grenade MadMax .

[Pip]

I'd be down for the pre-order, looking forward to the vid/piccies, see what you've been slaving away at lol

[dodger_me]

Also i think you should do the preorder off your website that way people like me can use e-commerce rather then attempting to EMT you money

[MadMax]

Does anyone have Escort and PFI grenades that they can loan me? I'm going to be blowing a big chunk of dough on a days rental of a high speed camera. Filming my product won't take the whole day so I'd like to use the rest of it to shoot some interesting comparison footage. I also plan to get footage of GBBs in action. I might even have enough time to show some common malfunctions in slo mo to make it more clear how our stuff breaks.

Of course I'll be shooting the obligatory bb thru an AOL CD and a bunch of other neat things to maximize my day's rental.

So, can anyone loan me some competitor grenades? I had a PFI once, but it broke early in it's life and I tossed it. I've got a DeepFire but nothing else.

[Maelstrom]

i really want to see the videos! watching stuff from high speed camera's is cool. seeing stuff drop tested and recorded with them and seeing what you thought was a pretty rigid material having waves throughout it is very entertaining. especially when the goal is to wait for it to break. just let us know when to throw the monies down

[onem]

Do you have an ETA on that video your making?

[seabass]

whats the word on this?