Looking for prop ideas to build for events

[Stray]

I am looking to help a team out by trying to build props for practices and events for milsim and well basicly goof off games.

I'm looking for stuff like disarmable bombs

anti tank things like C4 bombs or RPGs

I need ideas and everything. What would pu like to see at events what would be a good objetive type game?

Let's hear those ideas! And if you know how to build anything please! PLEASE! let me know so I could try to learn and build it

[Sir Stubby Eyre]

I have been wanting to build some claymore mines. When you trip them they would make a loud explosive noise. Don't know if they should shot a bunch of BB's thou.

[Jester316]

I built a disarmable bomb replica. However I will not show ANYONE how to do it. It's scary how easy it was, and with the right substitution of parts could really hurt someone. I suggest if you do build things, make them bright colors, and make them say PROP or REPLICA all over them. Even so, keep them in a bag, in the trunk of your car, and only bring them out at events, or walking from your house to your car. There are just way to many issues that can come up with these types of things.

[Payback]

I've made 3 rat trap claymores. They aren't that hard to assemble, but the tripping mech can be to get it to hold the trap set and be light enough to trip.

For a loud noise, you could put a strip of those pop cap gun strips and when the trap goes, it "pops" the cap gun things.

[Stray]

I built a disarmable bomb replica. However I will not show ANYONE how to do it. It's scary how easy it was, and with the right substitution of parts could really hurt someone. I suggest if you do build things, make them bright colors, and make them say PROP or REPLICA all over them. Even so, keep them in a bag, in the trunk of your car, and only bring them out at events, or walking from your house to your car. There are just way to many issues that can come up with these types of things.

I can understand that. And that's kind of why I hvent started any prop projects yet. Such as the bomb I agree with te work prop everywhere and bright caution orang paint job. I'm just looking to have a digital counter with 2 buttons like on and off and a siren something real simple but haw to do te display and program it idk.

[Switchback]

Cut off top of soda can, cut hole in bottom. Slide party popper in, tie a reef knot from the pull-fuse to make a "tripwire". Spray the shine off of the can with some OD paint, and tie that sucker down. Even if it doesn't hit them, it is fun to hear stuff like that.

As for props, I'd stay away from them. If a few event organizers have them, that's enough. We don't need fake C4 to be a part of the everyday loadout.

@rbm33: Sir, I'd love to see some how-to's on the rat trap claymores!

[Transition]

we built like 5 o 6 of those claymores, ask chesty we used them as IEDs for a game, worked better than the store bought ones.

[gprather]

If you want the wait of a IED, then use a few cans cutting off the tops and bottoms, making the top one look like the top of a artillery shell, then fill them with cement to add a lot of weight, with a spray of grey no shine paint, set it up so you can put wires into the top of the shell.

[Night_Stocker]

you could find some sort of timer to activate this:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/e200/

rig the timer to this (if you're good with electronics) and slap it into/on to a briefcase, and you're golden

the guys who used to host Deadrag radio talked about how they had a bomb rigged up for one of their games. you could ask them.

[DJ]

. There are just way to many issues that can come up with these types of things.

This^....As a retired LEO, I will tell you that you are playing with fire when contemplating anything that looks like a explosive device. The "prop" or any such marking will have no effect whatsoever when stopped by a LEA. You will get the full meal deal, bomb squad, etc... You can do what you like, but you might want to research incidents with "hoax devices" etc before proceeding, just so you can get an idea of what you are about to stumble into. The term "fools errand" comes to mind when I contemplate this.

[Payback]

@rbm33: Sir, I'd love to see some how-to's on the rat trap claymores!

I'll see what i can do for some pics. I have a mouse trap one, and a single rat trap one, and 2 double large rat trap ones.

One of them i put the arms, and springs onto a metal plate, welded loops and put it in a plastic tackle box to keep it small. All works great, shoot about 100ft, but again, with that much spring load, getting a light release is hard, i gave up on finishing it, but i'll post some pics. I found the directions on youtube from what others were making.

[Stray]

This^....As a retired LEO, I will tell you that you are playing with fire when contemplating anything that looks like a explosive device. The "prop" or any such marking will have no effect whatsoever when stopped by a LEA. You will get the full meal deal, bomb squad, etc... You can do what you like, but you might want to research incidents with "hoax devices" etc before proceeding, just so you can get an idea of what you are about to stumble into. The term "fools errand" comes to mind when I contemplate this.[/quote]

This is what I am really afraid of. Also my team has a feild and wanted to put on a smallobjective based event. Props as part of our kits was deffenitly a no go. I want to make this stuff fun for these guys so I'd be tenonly one setting and everything and keeping all at home. But if everyone says don't do it then I'll have to talk to the teams. The owner of the feild is trying to help set everything up get the feild cleaned up and everything for this its going to be a 2 day thing with a maybe a night game inbetween the 2 day games but we are sketchy with it because people could get hurt. We are also looking into those thunder B land mines that spray water or powder to set up in the sandy part of the feild. It's the easiest to Dig and the only way to get to the main pillboxes without being in direct sight of the gunners. Has anyone had any experience with them? I would like to see the claymore photos too. Maybe we could build some for traps for the bunkers or something.

We are looking to do this mid November so there is no rush on anything just was wanting ideas. If props would cause that much trouble during the event are there any ideas for other objective based games besides VIP? I want to have a veriety for everyone to choose from.

[Matt]

I've known plenty of folks who built realistic working bomb props for Airsoft games - they were smart and safe about it so nothing came of it. You don't want to be driving down the street with a missile on a flatbed, obviously. Or posting youtube videos with "bomb" in the title when you show off how it works. Keep it under wraps until you use it at the game you intend to use it at. Most of all you want to treat them like your Airsoft guns. You don't want to be "building a bomb" in the front yard in a busy suburban neighborhood. Common sense works.

[Stray]

Thanks for that Matt! We Are going to build it all in the barn and keep it in the conex till the event and since the field is behind his barn no roads needed For transport. All props would need to be able to fit on a little trailer on his ATV. we are looking for a place that might sell ammo boxes or rifle boxes to put stuff in for transport and hidden cashes of ammo we are gonna buy two rice bags of ammo to help.

[DJ]

I actually have a number of the water mines. They work well and are easy to place. The only downside is that they are static, that is they take a bit to place and must be used for static positions like your bunker.

Regardless of what Matt or anyone else says, I would caution you against anything remotely resembling an electronically detonated bomb or anything that looks anywhere realistic. My advice stands. Look up the Woodburn bank bombing that occurred about 3 years ago. Because of that, local LEA's take a pretty dim view of Hoax stuff. 2 of my friends are EOD techs. One 10th mtn and one OSP. They have a pretty dim view of fake devices, and people who make them, particularly the OSP guy ....They had to bury a trooper over a "fake" device.


Do what you need to do, but do so being fully informed of the risks that you take. Look up the ORS on "hoax " devices.
I have found a large percentage of airsofters and people in general pretty naive with regards to this kind of stuff. It sounds like harmless fun. I have sen many well intentioned schemes turn to crap in a hurry.