Monday, August 29, 2011

CO2 Magstrike

 Ahh the Magstrike. Great for defense of the Alamo, except for the pumping and lack of clips. So I acquired a total of 9 magazines and a few paintball parts. A regulator, a tank, and a female adapter mates into the body of the magstrike after the original pump and tank were cut off. Some epoxy putty smooths the joints and makes sharp edges dissapear. The great thing about the CO2 is that you don't have to pump the gun, making reloading time much faster. The sizes of the gun is the same, and the CO2 tank make s a great stock.












Beardo

Nate is a great friend of mine. He has helped with many modding projects over the summer. We built the first Shotgun Recon together and now that evolved to a few golden guns. A Maverick, Longstrike, and Recon all fully modified to pride a great trio of blasters.







MrStoneburner

This Alpha Trooper was painted in the new camo that I devised, called Square Camo. This is a base of OD green with black sprayed on top of them. All of the camo colors will be offered with the Urban, Woodland, Urban, and Color Camo options available. A great gun to pair with the pink camo shotgun recon that we build a few months ago.







Jeebers

Jeebers ordered a few guns for him and his friends to play.

Out of a total of four guns, the Transformers Barricade with the matching stock is my favorite.

Here, we have the Captain America Maverick. Ranges are 45' flat on average. I'm very impressed with the looks of the gun. Th drum has been seethed with .030 styrene sheet making a smooth finish for two Captain America vinyl logos.  I painted the blaster to look like the American flag, finishing off the theme and making this thing awesome. I'm planning a Batman blaster for the future in the same manner.










 The second was the Special Edition Gear Up edition with a 9v mod. One of my favorite repaints, but I still like the yellow and black scheme. Works great! I love the barricade and am planning on a personal clip system blaster with the raider well from the Gear Up Series, giving a natural look to the yellow/ orange/ black scheme that I like so much.

 The Transformers Scheme is a special edition blaster from Comic Con 2011. I ordered a few of these and modified this one with a 9v battery pack. I also added a one of a kind stock, taking Autobot emblems and attaching them to the stock.


The final blaster is Jeeber's personal Maverick. The look we went for was a style modeled after a Colt revolver from the old west. It loks great with a few coats of black weathering pver the silver paint and brown handle.





Painted Raider


 This is a Raider that I painted yellow to match the rest of the arsenal. Standard package of internal mods and a great addition to the guns.





Tuesday, August 23, 2011

ereznj

A cool looking Stampede that deserved a paint job. Woodland camo was the call this time.
ereznj requested that I put his name on the blaster, so I took some lettering and applied some green paint, the color of the requested text. The other color were applied over the mask, and when I was satisfied with the paint job, I peeled off the letters and gave it all a clear coat. Just the paint here for this gun, but it was a great addition to an already awesome blaster.


xcapitaljackx

A new idea here, painting a gun to match the blue of the current Nerf line. Usually, it's the other way around, making the blue guns yellow, but totally fine here. xcapitaljackx bought a Longstrike, only to find that they are terrible unmodified. So here, I painted the longshot to match the Longstrike's blue. Of course, it's not an exact match, but the color looks great compared to the Longstrike. the photo below compares an original Longshot to the painted Longshot. Some problems with the plastic make the left side look a bit intriguing, but the blaster functions beautifully with the internal package and a non moving stock, that will have to be put together when it arrives. Just a few screws, that's all. I painted the Jam door orange to add some extra looks and detailing to the gun.


Saturday, August 20, 2011

dommaz

I discovered that my neighbors had kids that were well into nerf too, so I decided that today would be a great day to give them the nerf bug. We started out on dommaz's Raoder with just a paint job. I didn't want to give him too much of an advantage with his friends, but he'll need it for when they play with us.

A new idea came to as we decided that a replacement can of red for brown in the urban camo wouls look awesome. It is now offered as color camo, where you can choose any color and have it incorporated into a slew of black, grey, and white. I did this with MrStoneburner's gun with the color pink. Looks prety cool, eh?

We painted the raider in red color camo and it looks great! I can't wait to see what the other colors look like when you guys order them!




Thursday, August 4, 2011

adam85907

Awesome longshot! Urban Camo, can't get much better than this.

I hope the UK can handle this beast. It's the first one sold to England and I hope you enjoy it Adam!


rodozza

This stampede looks awesome. I really like the look of the trimmed barrrel and such, but the way that the silver was applied to the flat black looks amazing on the gun. A painted ACOG scope rounds out the gun with sling points and a quick release battery sled. 14.4v battery powers it all to a dominating killer on the battlefield.

Nerf Grenade Launcher and Shotgun

So something that we have all been waiting for. A foam safe alternative to the M-203 or the M-79. I have accomplished just that. First we start with an Airzone Rocket Storm: The box says flies 40', and they got that pretty good. All 6 rockets that I fired in the tube from 45 degrees got somewhere between 38 and 43 feet outside. Nice. When I mod them, I give a nice spring strech and got a few rockets to go as much as 50'.
I also cut the tube and the rod down, making loading of the tube efortless. All that needs to be done is to push the rocket onto the rod until is snaps into the launching mechanism. Using your palm, anybody can do this. Below are some different guns that I built using the tubes, as well as other guns that have gotten the M-203 treatment.

New in package

Original firing mechanism, very long.

Modded firing mechanism

elarianm's Stampede GL in Urban camo





TheCreamyJif's Longshot GL in worn black/silver

Gun 1 of 2, an old recon was fitted to the trigger assembly system making a
push button trigger into an actual trigger

Sticking with the original push button trigger, but using more recon for a detachable stock.
A raider priming handle was cut and affixed to the stock.



This is a promo for the nerf shotgun. It actually works, rather than shooting darts and rubber bands.
Four balls, a trigger ball, and a peg is all that you need to make this awesome piece work. The best uses are in a elevator, stairway, or wallway. I can't wait to get this out on the battlefield. Our target was standing 25' away from the gun. Angled, the shotgun balls fly up to 40'.