Chronograph and Elite mods, 28 days later...

So it's been awful dead here.

I guess all the action has moved over to NM&R as of late, but I do know this place still exists and I am still a member. I'm not sure what the plans are for this place or if this post should be placed here given the NM&R deal, so if you want to move it or me over, that's OK. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to post much of anything back in the day due to being busy and having a distinct lack of new mods or any other nerf-related material, so sorry to Darthrambo for not being the contributor I should have at the time.


Anyway... now to business.

First of all, this is the latest addition to my nerf gear, a Chrony F1 chronograph.

More Elite Pinpoint Sightings

SGNerf found it first , but there have been more sightings of the Elite Pinpoint Sight!

Credit goes to Drizzdo at Baidu.com

He has some explanation on the sight , translated here for you


'Nerf guns do not have to put a blue and white color, or with them look better.
This nerf red dot sight is a white-blue color, it is estimated that such color to match the new Elite Series this year. The aim needs to put the two batteries, the following picture is located in the battery compartment lid aiming front direction, lettering displayed above is produced in 2008'

'Aiming mirror with a transparent plastic sheet, printed on a scale. Back end aiming a red laser transmitter emitting laser side switch is open, this time red points will be projected onto the the aiming mirror plastic piece. The figure below shows the aim of the left switch'

From this we can tell that Nerf/Hasbro are using the same molds for the Elite Sight , as with most of the Elite Blasters- Sneaky Nerf!



Picture Time!

Pyragon Drum Internals

Pyragon drum internals

I just had to see how this thing worked.  It's much more simple than I was expecting, which is pretty impressive from a design standpoint.

I do not recommend taking this thing apart.  There are a total of 11 springs, most of which do not want to cooperate.

Just take a look at these pictures and save your self the time of having to figure out exactly how to put this thing back together to get it to work.

Retaliator Unleashed!

So I was browsing on the OMW website and looked at the unleashed section

What Do I see: RETALIATOR UNLEASHED! 

Elite Triad EX-3 (Elite Jolt)

So here is the most clear image I could fine so far.  The image is from Urban Taggers.  The shell is much different from a Jolt.  The only thing that looks the same is the tube size and plunger rod.  Pic to the right for comparison. --->

In the vedio (After the jump)  you can the triad looks  like it shoots only 2 darts from the top then 1 dart from the bottom.  The kid in the video reloads a dart into one of the top barrels and without the other barrel plugged up it looks as if the dart is getting very little range.  This makes it look like the 2 top barrels are linked and the bottom barrel is separate.  You can see that when he shoots the bottom barrel he still seems to get good power even though the top 2 barrels are empty.  If you have ever played with a triple shot you know that this can't happen if all 3 barrels are linked.

Neither of the pics has the Triad with elite streamlines. 

The pistol in the mesh pocket of the elite vest also does not look like it was the same as the triad





One interesting thing is that in the Wired article they say:
 "Several models to be introduced next fall are nearly finished—namely the Strife, a semiautomatic pistol, and the Ruff Cut, which is only the third blaster ever that’s capable of shooting two darts at the same time"
This begs the question as to if this might actually be a Ruff Cut with a named that decided against or if the Ruff Cut is something else all together,
 

More after the Jump

Elite Pinpoint Sight!!!

Elite Pinpoint Sight

Yup, it's back, and it's blue.

Stockade, Internals & Review

The Elite stockade will be the elite version of the barricade. At this point (9/4) it's still only available in the UK.

Here is what we All care about, the guts

 These motors are NOT the same as the hailfire or the rayven.  These are stubby and short and not the standard size motor you see in rayvens barricades or any other flyweel that I know of

More pics after the jump.

Elite Draw Extention & Spring compression (with recon to retaliator conversion)

These mods will cover how to:

• Remove ARs
• Increase usable volume of the plunger tube
• Preload the spring
• Install the Retaliator internals into a Recon

The power mods have this blaster (Retalicon?) hitting about 75ft flat as long as the darts don't swerve into the ground out of the barrel.  Angled the ranges are over 100ft.

To install Retaliator internals into a Recon shell Very little work needs to be done.  It only needs some of the ribs to be ground down and a plate in the back to hold the spring in while allowing the plunger rod to go through.