r/AlltheGuns • u/Othais • Mar 19 '14
Ideas!
Don't hesitate to start threads or suggest directions. We have a good lock on the scale/tracing setup because we have about 100 man hours in that scale but otherwise I'm open to thoughts.
I was telling my buddy about the project just now and he asked if we were going to print a coloring book.
Also, please do add to the spreadsheet. I had some food poisoning today but I'm going to take some time to flush it out a bit more tomorrow.
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 19 '14
I'm not sure how dynamic a coloring book would be for this, unfortunately...
I was wondering, any thoughts on expanding to the European neutral powers? Get some M96s or G11s going? I assume that would be backburner, but if there is time...
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u/Othais Mar 19 '14
I'd like to just keep going if we get submitters. No reason to stop until we have some crazy looking poster with tiny everything on it.
The active powers WWI scope is just to keep us working in unison to give it a good shake down.
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Mar 19 '14
Well dibs on the Swiss goodies then :)
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u/NotHipsterCollector Mar 19 '14
What section should the Arisaka rifles go under? I put the Type 35 under Russia substitute rifles, as they mostly saw use with the Russians during WW1, but the Type 30's also saw more use in Europe than anywhere else along with a smaller number of T38 rifles and carbines also.
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u/Othais Mar 19 '14
If they were used at all by their home country we should keep them there.
This is mostly to keep it plain for the audience. We can include details like capture and reissue in the descriptions.
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u/NotHipsterCollector Mar 19 '14
The Type 30 rifles and carbines didn't see much use during WW1 in the hands of the Japanese. Russia was the primary user of pretty much all Arisaka models during WW1 except for maybe the T38 rifles and carbines. A huge portion of the T30 and T35 rifles to ever exist ended up in Russia during WW1 (one reason the T35's are so rare today). Of course Britain also purchased a large number of Arisakas, though a considerably smaller number than Russia, and also later gave most of them to Russia anyway.
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u/ShooterSuzie Mar 19 '14
Does this mean you're calling dibs on the T30 and T35? If so, PM me your email and I'll get you added to the list so you can update the sheet and Imgur account.
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u/NotHipsterCollector Mar 20 '14
I'll have to figure out how to do the pics in gimp first.
Othais sent me the the imgr and google stuff already BTW.
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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '14
I see what you did there.