During the very late 90’s and early 2000’s the choice in body kits was pretty limited, which posed problems for those looking to build their own or build something like a Sandridge. Enter Ontario Paintball’s Spanky Paintball products. Ranging from mild to wild and custom, Spanky developed a fast following that eventually faded due to rumors and bad press over the quality of their products. Eventually, fireball mountain would take over operations and revamp the line, adding more mundane milling styles and annoes, though doing some custom order stuff.

Spanky offered a selection of gun lines, made to order or for some lines purchased as a kit, later in the line, complete guns faded to just kits.

The basic line was sold under the name “Fat Boy Series”, which was a basic line that was then built to order. One option was to have an airbrushed scene done then clear coated on. Although special orders were taken, the graveyard series is by far the most famous of these.

Perhaps the most famous and infamous of Spanky’s offerings were the fishbone series, one of three tubed body styles often with excellent marble anno. By boring out the bodies far larger then normal and inserting an annoed or chromed set of tubes, the tubed bodies took on a distinctive look. This was not without price though, as the tubed bodies quickly took on a reputation for separating and leaking. Once this happened, the bodies were basically trash, and no air smith was willing to attempt a repair more then once. Although there were claims it was only one bad batch of glue, the reputation stuck.

The fishbone supercharged (claimed to have 3x times the air volume of a stock pre 2k cocker) was the top end of the offerings, starting at around $1200 (far cheaper then the custom cockers of a few years earlier). The other offerings were the Yin Yang and Cobra cockers at around $1050. Despite being cheaper, neither had the popularity of the fishbone. A cheaper version of the fishbone was also offered as a body kit that found frequent use on home built guns and was the most popular body for the Sandridge frame.