Guns!?

[Redbeard]

here's what I thought of, it's not on the same wavelength as what you guys are talking about but... What about a case built to look like a fancy high tech (even futuristic?) gun case. Think of the cases in movies like The first Tomb Raider, Men in Black, and many others. You could obviously have a window showing a gun real or fake and a nice acrylic holder. I think if you wire your case accordingly you could make it work. Just an idea.

[Rankenphile]

Ever see those trick coin boxes they sell at gimick shops with the cube floating in mid-air? The trick is that it's mounted on a mirror at a 45 degree angle, so that it reflects the sides and the floor just right, but doesn't reflect the viewer. It looks like this (click picture to view page - you can buy one from them to dissect and examine):

If you could mount a bullet or two, or even a half a gun so that it would be perfectly reflected, you could create a floating gun illusion in your case window. It would look awesome.

[Smitten]

here's a thought. you mentioned having some bullets suspended in the window and others impacting it. what i've seen in a lot of movies lately (since saving private ryan at least) are bullets passing through water. how about recreating that ripple effect in the window with your bullets? so instead of passing perpendicular to the window, they would appear to be passing parallel with it. would look hella better than just suspending them imo.

[onelegout]

this seems realy stupid of me, but Im sure that I replied to this already! I hope that i didnt reply somewhere else by accident lol!
Anyway, my suggestion was to have some kind of remote control to turn it on. Im not sure how this would work but im sure its been done before! You could mount the remote in a replica handgun and have the trigger as the on switch! that way you would shoot the case to turn it on lol

[Rankenphile]

Actually, that would be pretty easy to do. You could just disassemble a remote mechanism and put the IF beam emitter in the barrel of a toy gun and have the trigger activate the switch.

The only problem would be if someone, especially a young kid, were to play witht he gun and break it or jsut disappear with it. I'd make sure you had another means to turn the machine on.

As a side note, I'm actually exhibiting for my company in the Shot Show this year in Las Vegas in about a week. The Shot Show is one of the world's largest gun shows. I'll look around and see if I can come up with some cool ideas for this mod while I'm there.

[Overconfidence]

Been busy for a while, but I'll be able to work on my case after I finish my three finals this week .

My friend was working on a remote control type device for me. It was either going to be a detonator (Flip up a plastic guard, press trigger, awesomeness ensues), or a pistol. Pistol would be infinitely awesomer... And I could probably put the battery (It needs a 9v battery, which would last a couple years at least) as the ammo clip.

Totally don't get how that coin... box... thing... works, but that'd be neat.

Bullets passing through water would be pretty cool.. but.. the acrylic isn't thick enough, I don't think, to make that kind of effect, unless you have further explanation.

I haven't cut into the case at all, yet, since I'm finishing up on my mini-watercooling case.

[Ohtarnehtar]

for the mirror reflector, if u cut a gun in half vertically, so the profile is the same, and mounted it in the middle of the mirror, it would appear that the gun is floating... it should work best with a pistol, and it would definetely would need to be fake, as you dont want to cut a real one in half. if you mounted bullets on a pedestal, perfectly vertical, probably some stiff wire, then they would appear to be flying through the middle of the case. (anything below the mirror would appear to be standing out from the back of the case the same amount they are above the ground. if its at a 45 degree angle) mirror placement is back lower edge to top front edge. + u can put all the components behind the mirror if its big enough.

[RangerDanger]

ok ok im sry i haev to say this think its wayy too ko0ol to pass up. If u own a gun, or know some1 who does....take off ur side panel...and FIRE AWAY! I'd say about 10-12 rousdn would be nice. then clean it up.cut off excess metal..sand down rough edges..and put plexi behind the holes......and if u want to cut a gun in half....use a glock since its not all metal.

[Cevinzol]

Cutting up a real gun would be expensive and hard (barrels are made of high grade tool steel).
Instead you could make a gun maybe like this one Make your own metal blaster

When i first read the thread I though maybe you wanted to make your case look like a gun. Like those over sized monstrosities in warhammer 40k. i was thinking of a way to make the magazine and action really do something like be part of the optical drives or something with the empty cartidges piling up outside the case like you've just auto-fired your oponent with your computer.

[CanaBalistic]

I have a sugjestion.

you could pick up an ammo belt like mine here and hang them over a cut out in your side panel. it would look sharp and act as a vent...

Ive been wanting to incorperate my ammo belt into a case mod but i like having them on my coffe table as decoration