"This is my fusion of ForsakenAngel24's Crooksbow and atomatron's Violet Lightning.
I
liked the trigger and pump placement of the Crooksbow and the handle of
the Violet Lightning. So I combined what I like along with new
improvements such as the homemade internals and custom trigger.
I made this with a scrapped BBB in poor condition, so I was not able to get it to have as much draw as you normally could.
If
I had used a new BBB I would have gotten it to shoot much harder as
well as function smoother. It still turned out great though so I am not
complaining. :)"
Check out the video for internals, firing demo, and more details.
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!
The snapfire 8 is and 8 shot semiautomatic pistol. The trigger pull primes the spring, turns the turret and fires the dart.
This is out in some countries but not in the US and hasbro has confirmed that it (and the stockade) will not be released in the US this year.
As you can see from this pic the snapfire 8 is actually powered by a extension spring rather than a compression spring. The spring can be adjusted by the knob on the bottom of the grip or by the switch in the grip.
This is a Barricon (a Barricade with a Recon mag well).
I got impatient for a stockade so I put some motors from a Power strike 48 in a barricade which should be somewhat comparable. For good measure I put the mag well on cannibalizing the tommycon which was just collecting dust.
First off let me give credit to numa-t49 because I used his writeup for modding most of the turret. Also credit goes to Windcalmer because I decided on where to put the rear-loading slots on my Berserker by using his as an example.
I still plan on doing many more different mods to this, but the basics are finished for now so I am putting up the writeup. I forgot to take a lot of pics, but you should get the general idea. When I open the gun up again for updates I will take much more pics to add into the writeup. Now onto the mod...
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First open up your Berserker. If you have the older one there is a screw underneath the sticker.
Now carefully remove the airgun/BB part. Now unscrew the rotation mech, and remove it. After that cut down the stock barrel so that when you put your CPVC coupler over the stock barrel(After sanding) you can have it inside your rotation mech. Make sure you put on the back of the rotation mech before you attach the CPVC coupler.
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PB120030.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PB120031.jpg[/img]
Now glue on the CPVC coupler and put the rotation mech back together.
Side Note: I did this mod on another Berserker but with a PVC coupler also. You will need to widen the hole in the turret and rotation mech for it to work though.
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Now we will start working on the springer portion. Remove the entire springer part from the blaster. Pull out the plunger rod. Now add about a 1/2" of hotglue on the plunger rod so that it compresses the spring fully when primed.
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC230040.jpg[/img]
The stock seal was great so I didn't see the need to replace it. Now take the plunger tube and cut off the orange part for the stock turret seal.
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC210032.jpg[/img]
It should look something like this now:
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC210033.jpg[/img]
Now drill a hole as wide as possible through it. This improves the airflow greatly, helping range. It should look like this now:
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC210034.jpg[/img]
Then I wrapped the end of the plunger tube with duct tape until it would just barely still fit in the shell. Then I put a few layers of craft foam on top and made a hole through it for the air to go through. This was done because the stock seal is too small to work if the turret is rearloading.
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC230038.jpg[/img]
From the front:
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC230039.jpg[/img]
Now we will work on the actual turret itself. My camera died here so I don't have any pictures right now, but I will update this section with pics when I open the blaster up again. However most of this is the same as modding any other Berserkers turret so follow numat-49's write up for making the turret. However make the barrels 3" long and widen the back of each hole so you can rear load it.
Make sure that when you glue the turret together that all the barrels are glued evenly so each barrel makes a perfect seal. If you screw this up it won't work. You will have to adjust the seal by experimenting.
Now its time for the rear loading slot. First remove the stickers that are in the way from the shell. The rest you can probably figure out from the pics.
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC230035.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC230036.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i1038.photobucket.com/albums/a463/greenwing1/Overhauled%20Berserker/PC230037.jpg[/img]
Now reassemble the blaster. It should look something like this:
Now screw it together, make a barrel for the airgun and test it. It takes a lot of experimenting with the seal to get the turret right, but when you do it should shoot about 60' flat with slugs(How far mine shoots with a decent seal).
Video showing a range test and a firing demo:
Overall I am very happy with the finished product. Rear-loading makes the turret [u]Much[/u] nicer to use, and now that it shoots 60' it is much more effective. The airgun works great too. I still have a lot more plans for this and some of the next mods I will do to this are:
-Pump Replacement
-Titan/other airgun integration in the turret
-RSCB the BB
I will update this post once I finish those other modifications.
Orange mod works is now selling springs that will fit the Elite Retaliator and Rampage. Buy them here
The spring is a 5kg load and costs $6.00
They will also be coming out with a kit for $12.00 that includes the spring along with an unnecessary replacement metal catch and plate for parts that no one so far has managed to break. The kit also comes with a metal trigger which might make it worth the cost for some.
I feel this spring is worth the cost due to the fact that despite the direct plunger system the Elites are very inflexible in what springs can be used. Read more after the jump!
I talked to Slydev a couple months back about designing parts for his site. Now that I have settled into a new place/schedule I have time to design some parts.
My question is what do would you like to see? Is there some smaller (cost effect, 3d prints aren't cheap) part that you feel people would buy if it was available? If I think that you have a good idea that is able to be printed there is a good chance that I will design it and make it available on Slydev or on Shapways.
I made this a while back as a present for my sister. It's a supersoaker Max D 500 modded to shoot glitter and single fire 1 dart muzzle loaded. This was really just for fun and to see if I could pull it off.
More pics and info after the jump
This was a little project I had to do since this everything about this blaster is totally steampunk other than it's stock colors.
I took it apart and did a very quick rang mod of removing the ARs, which just fall out like those in a maverick, and plugging the little holes in each barrel.
The ranges are good, just like you'd expect out of an air blaster. It takes about 15-20 pumps to get full range. I did have some problems with this thing exploding darts and I'm not sure why it was happening or why it stopped.
For paint I just used a satin black base and used the cheapo dollar craft paint you can find at any craft store for the metallic brass, silver and copper.
This was going to go up as the pic of the day but it was to small to see. This is director Tim Burton about to unload a vulcan onto his wife Helena Bonham Carter as she primes a longshot on the set of Alice in Wonderland. I thought to see the queen of hearts / Marla Singer vs the creator of the Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice was worth a quick post.
And so it begins....
Kicking off my first post of LGCs work with his Rotator X-8s
These are lanard blasters which are hard or overpriced to get your hands on which just makes me want one even more, especially when they are made to look like this.
These things just look amazing when painted and look like they were made to be steampunked.
More awesomeness after the jump!
My personal favorite cosmetic modder, bar-none has allowed me to host his work on this blog. The man seems to have many names and alias' on the interwebs but apparently his real name is Spencer so I'm going to go with that for now.
He is incredibly prolific and incredibly talented so I plan on doing a posting once piece a day of his work for a while so check back often.
BlackboarderV Has kindly agreed to help keep an eye out for news to keep the news part of Nerf Mods & News fresh and up to date. He does a good job of keeping his eye out for new stuff and keeping his posts to the point so I look forward to having him contribute.
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,
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
I gutted an RC car I found at a thrift store to make this set of flywheels. The wheels are 2.5in in diameter. The cool thing about big flywheels is that the linear velocity, or the speed of the outside of the wheel, is in direct proportion to the diameter. This means that all else being equal doubling the size of the flywheel will double the the velocity of the dart.
The big flywheels along with bigger motors and running it at 12-18v got ranges of around 100ft with some going way farther and some going way shorter. I stripped 2 gears for the full auto mech before I realized I need to just run it with a 9v and power the flys separately.
This could fire both streamlines or fathead darts.
"This is my fusion of ForsakenAngel24's Crooksbow and atomatron's Violet Lightning.
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