Hi, some of you may remember me from a few years ago, others may not.
While I had never really been able to participate, except for identifying a few props and submitting a pin up image, I always loved this place, and I loved the work you lads and lasses did.
Well I was finally able to get into it myself a little, as well as decorate my gaming (tabletop roleplaying games) with my old toys and weapons.
Here is the result...
Ok yeah, they are all just repainted nerfs, but I dedicate them all to Matsuo...
Please forgive the poor quality pictures, all I had was my cellphone, and the lighting just wouldn't work right.
The Firefly was the second nerf gun I bought, and the first one I painted. I screwed it up and the paint came out kinda thick, the gray even cracked. But thats ok, it ended up looking kinda cool anyway, and taught me a lesson about waiting till whatever I am painting is the same temperature as the environment I am painting it in. The only real modding done to it is the Air Restrictors were removed, but I would like to mod it so the barrels spin like a Gatling gun. Perhaps being able to switch between normal mode and cosmetic, so it will still work.
The second gun I painted was my Recon, the third Nerf I bought. It has had the plunger hole plugged and the AR removed. I also modded the stock, condensing it all down to look like one piece, and cutting a hole through the pieces so the bolt of the plunger moves through them. Wouldn't mind getting a second Recon and trying a similiar but different paint scheme., would also like to try a mod to reposition the slide to the back of the weapon. It's my favorite gun performance wise. The paint job isn't inspired, just black with the original accents, a hammerred finish barrel, and some silver accents, but I wanted it to look basic.
Here you can see the stock mod, and how the plunger bolt slides through... sorry for the fuzzy quality. I wish I had had a dremmel for this, it would have turned out much cleaner, as it was I did it with wire cutters and toenail clippers, if you can believe that.
Next up was my Longshot. I see it plenty, but I love the Pulse Rifle look, and I wanted one for myself. Other than plugging the plunger hole and ar removal, the only thing else I really did was add-on a soda bottle cap to the front gun to make it look more like a shotgun, and cut the "up" clip on the front gun handle to allow it to be removable because sometimes I want it to look more like a Morita. I also used some PVC pieces I had and an ibuprofen bottle to make a secondary "sniper" style barrel extension. When my new longshots arrive, I have some new things I want to try, mostly cosmetic, but I do have an interesting mod planned for the frontguns. I didn't do anything major to this one because I like the idea of a modular, multi-purpose weapon.
Then we come to my Mavericks, the first nerf guns I bought and modded, and second to the last on the paint list. I had seen them done silver and black, and I dug that concept. So I gave it a shot myself. The black one has a crazy "shimmer" texture, which is kind of cool, kind of reminds me of rough iron.
Finally, on a whim I bought a RFR from buzz bee. Silver casing, but with a hammered mettalic black barrels and accents. No real modding of any kind, though I did take an extra stock from an old entertech m-16 watergun and add it to the stock of the RFR to make it long enough to actually be useful. After painting, I really have come to love this cheap ass gun. It just has this post apoclypse vibe, so I adorned it with crap. I like the way it turned out, and I love the shell ejection. I think there must be a pretty big spread for quality with these guns, because I hear a lot of bad about them, but out of the box I was shooting my cat from across the room. (Cat has eaten like 15 darts, so it served him right
) I cut the suction cups off the darts to give it a wierd "bolt" look, I painted the shells and the tips of the darts as well, just because. I also added the sight thingy from the recon, because its utterly useless and antiquated, but it looks ok on this post apocalypse style rifle...Before decoration. You can see the longer, thicker stock...
After
detail shots of the crap hanging off it...
And thats what I have done so far. I did them all in about a week. I don't LARP, but I do play roleplaying games, and these serve more as decoration for my custom gaming room than they do for shooting, though frequently during games a skirmish will break out between my friends and I.
I realize my paint jobs are pretty cliche by now, but that's fine with me, I wanted them too look either "cyberpunky" or "post-apoclyptic", and I think I achieved that.
These pics are more recent, and so are done with better quality...
my vulcan...
I also repainted my Recon. I hated it in all black, looks much better now I think.
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And my girlfriend bought me a doubleshot, woot.
When I got the vulcan, it came with 2 longshots, I love the pulse rifle look, but decided to go with gray to match the recon for the first...
But for second I stayed with the PR style, but I tried my hand at some advanced cosmetic modding. Wanting a fully modular LS, I removed the foregrip bit, as though I were going to do a fg integration, and instead glued a rail on there (taken from the recon barrel extension) and I covered up the hole with a cover of a hand held game I got from mcdonalds.
Then I set to work on accessories.
The first accessory is just the top front half of a ls fg, it doesn't do anything, it just looks neat to me.
I kept the top half from one of the other FG's to make a sniper barrel extension. I had seen this done before, however, I haven't seen anyone add a rail to it, not have I seen anyone do a removable bipod... (recon target light mounted under the ls as well)
And here is the bipod mounted to the LS.
And of course it never would be complete if I didn't add the FG intergration...
The problem with that was, the connection mech for nerf accessories is kinda weak and wobble, I fixed that for the fg by inverting the leftover rail from the recon barrel extension, now it fits smooth and tight.
Here is my display for them in the gaming room...
And for shits and giggles, I put my replica swords, and all my old toy guns (mostly waterguns from the 80's) up above the garage door... ( however If you look to the far right, you may see 2 familiar props made by this awesome guy right here among you....)
Hope you enjoy, and I just wanted to say thanks for the years of inspiration you have provided me...
nice pics!!!