Hi, I’m Luke. Today on Out of Darts, we are checking out
the RadioSilence187 Cagefighter. Let's get going.
I’ve been running Out of Darts for nearly six years now,
and part of running a 3D-printed design shop is designing my own products,
and the other side is licensing and working with people like Tarik.
RadioSilence187 happens to actually be my very first licensed [designer]
that I ever sold. He designed this really great stock mount point for the Artemis,
which has been tremendously popular over the years, and we still sell to this date.
When he recently reached out with a new design, I was really excited to see what he did.
This is the Cagefighter. The Cagefighter is a miniature bullpup flywheeler. It's got a
two-stage trigger up front, which can also be an instant on trigger depending on how you actually
set up the trigger, and these files -- I’ll say right up front, are freely available online.
This is a very unique design. he went with a very minimalist cage design that shows and
plays off that namesake. You can see the pusher inside here, and if you print and translucent
like a few of the ones we've got here, you can kind of see the cage and wheels inside as well.
[It’s] got a battery compartment in the back with a thumbscrew, and we've got a detent
style mag release. That currently either uses a dart head, or you can also use a piece of dart
body (the foam), or finally, you can use an actual elastic band.
It's got a yoke-style pusher, so it's very similar to a rapid strike.
It is full-auto only, though, in the current configuration, I find it very controllable.
We've got an on/off switch down here, so that acts as your safety, essentially,
and there are options to put a voltmeter and a sling point in the back.
This is, of course, a talon-compatible magwell. It only works with the standard 18s, the 15s,
and the Tachi mags. You can't put the angled ones in here due to the size. And honestly,
as much as I like the angled magazines, they just don't have a place in here
because you'd have to make the whole blaster longer just to accommodate them,
and really the sweet spot of this blaster is its tiny size.
While we're on the subject of magazine compatibility,
if you are building one of these and you're using the Tachi -- which personally, I think
looks awesome. It's just it's just sweet. When you're running around with this as like a little
tight form factor, I never had this bump my leg, or get in my way, or
cause me any issues even when dropping down to my knees, and so it felt really good.
It is worth noting that if you're going to use the Tachi, definitely get the low
rate of fire spring. That will keep up with this 10 rounds-a-second just fine,
and because if you do the high, you're compressing the darts a little more than you want to,
and really the high spring for these is just for the really high rate of fire -- if you're
trying to shoot 25 rounds-a-second, you want to just dump the whole thing.
I had a really good time playing with this blaster. It's definitely a
very specific kind of blaster. we printed a couple different ones here;
we're working through the iterations and giving feedback
I love working with other designers because they approach things in a way that I
probably never would have. I would not have designed something like this,
and I mean that in the best possible way. Diversity in designers brings
us a lot more variety in our actual final products, and that's sort of the next step.
This version you're looking at here is available on Thingiverse. I’ll link everything down in the
description. I will also link hardware kits. We're going to sell full hardware kits so you can print
your own blaster and then go ahead and assemble this. I will do a mod guide and a full build
guide on this in the future, and ultimately, we will also offer printed parts and kits.
we'll have a little bit more on this later
For now, we're just going to have the hardware kits for the printed version, and then down the
road, we'll be offering a variant that's been custom-tailored just for our shop that's exactly
the way I want it to be, and that version that's been customized and tweaked will be one that
we offer for print and for sale as a completed blaster, so look for that later this fall. I guess
we are now in September, so we're probably looking at some time like an October release for both the
printed kits and the assembled, and the hardware kits for this will be up when this video posts.
It's got a nice high rate of fire depending on which rpm motor; we do
have either a 300 or 600 rpm motor. Any higher than that,
and the motor doesn't have enough torque to actually push the darts.
This itty-bitty tiny toy size of a blaster is probably the most unique selling point.
With the battery back here, the weight feels very good. we've got a flywheel cage in the
center and the pusher… You can't get much more minimalized than this, but it still
has this really cool industrial space blaster sort of futuristic feel to it, and I love it.
I mean, you look at the Payara (which is not a big blaster, by the way), and you can just see the
size comparison. It's really tiny. It also weighs about a pound and a
half less because this blaster's got a lot of extra plastic and, of course, has a solenoid.
Since this doesn't have a solenoid, you get a higher rate of fire, and ultimately we'll
probably be looking at a three-switch setup with a return switch, so you can do a little bit more.
RadioSilence has a couple of different options when it comes to the flywheel setup,
which makes this blaster and this platform really customizable for your FPS and performance goals.
The base configuration (what I’ve got here) is basically a single-stage,
and this is a Daybreak flywheel setup, so this gets about 140 in the current crush setups. It'll
be available in all the different crush options that you could possibly want for that setup. He's
also got Pulsar wheels for single-stage that actually reduces the side profile since the
width of the entire blaster is reduced, so I think that's a really neat option as well.
And then on the high-end, if you really want to go crazy -- which is ultimately what he
built this for was to play in some of the Bay Area super-stock games or ultra-stock games,
where they're playing up to 200 FPS -- and that's a dual-stage cage. And a dual-stage Daybreak cage
in this blaster can hit over 200 FPS on average, so there's really something for everyone here. you
can get this all the way down to under 100 FPS if you want to play with stock blasters, and then you
can get it all the way up to 200 to 210, even for those games where you really need to dish out the
range to compete with Caliburns, and Talonclaws, and Lynxes, and other blasters like that
It's definitely not a blaster that's tailored for sort of open field play. If you're firing
at someone with a springer who is 100 feet away from you, and you've got clear line of sight,
probably not the greatest blaster unless you can work your way up and around and get closer.
Where this blaster excels is its sheer tiny size, compact form-factor, and maneuverability
because I found that you can just come around corners and really quickly pick your targets,
and I found that it was really a fun blaster to play with.
I actually had more fun playing with it than I thought I would because it is kind of a goofy,
unique blaster. I was a little pessimistic going in, but after one day of playing with it, I was
immediately sold on not only offering the kits and printing these, but then offering them pre-built,
and kind of doing “the whole nine yards” as far as it goes, and having them on the shop.
I did have a chance to pass this around a little bit. Perry, did you get to play with
it? Perry's nodding his head; he got to play with it some. and I did also pass it
out. We were playing a Three-Fifteens game, which is like every person for themselves,
and you get three lives, and you respawn in 15 seconds. And after I actually
got out (because I tend to play kind of aggressively and get tagged out a lot),
I passed it off to Lance, and I think he had a good time with it as well.
At the end of the day, I’m gonna give this a very biased five out of five. I think it's a really
awesome 3D-printed platform, but again, keep in mind we are going to be selling
these on the shop. So, take that review as you will; it's not a completely unbiased review
certainly, but I think it's going to be a really fun offering to have as well.
I’d love to hear your feedback because we are still making designs and tweaks and little
manufacturing improvements to make this better for the version that we'll sell in the shop. We're
doing a lot of extra work that maybe wouldn't benefit a normal person that was just printing
a one-off but will help us when we're printing a bunch of them and assembling a lot of them.
What else would you like to see? We have talked about putting a rail up top for Picatinny,
potentially, and we're going to offer a few backplates where you could put in
a display or an LCD and a sling mount. But, anything else you'd like to see with this blaster,
or any questions you have for us, let us know in the comments because
this is a new exciting little product line for us, and I would love to hear from you.
RadioSilence, thank you so much for sending us over the files to print these,
and for all of your hard work designing these! I’m very much
looking forward to getting these in the shop soon. Until next time, I’m out of darts.