Toruk's armory: Guardian PDW

This is a Stampede build done a few months ago.

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.

Greenwing's BBB AT2K Integration - The Hazard

"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.

Vid and picafter the jump.

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!

The Snapfire 8

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.

Barricon!

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.

 A bit of a write up after the jump.

 A bit of a write up after the jump.

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.

LGC Mavericks!

Some more of Spencer's work


Who would have thought that a mav with a recon barrel would look so good?


"The Dissenter"

"Martyr Steam Revenant"








 More after the Jump

The Octo-Shot by MIG

This is the octo-shot!
(which is a modded triple shot)
With the right spring and proper modding it can get ranges of 140ft
Here is the vid to prove it

Full write up after the jump!

Glitter Gun

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

Steampunk Spiderman Wrist Blaster

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.

More after the jump!

Rotator X-8 "Piece of 8" by LGC

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!

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.

RC motor/flywheel tommy 20

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.

Longshot slamfire preview

I messed this up a bit while cleaning up the action.  After fixing it a snapped a quick vid.  My phone is was wedged and balanced in a way that forced me to fire in a very awkward position, so if it looks a little wonky, that's me not the blaster.

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.

BlasterPro Auto Fire E5000

The guys at Maya Group were nice enough to send me a Blaster Pro try out and review for the greater good of the internet.

This thing is pretty impressive.  If you were turned off by Xploderz because of their lack of trigger or the tendency of the breech to destroy ammo, both of those problems have been fixed.  What these things do have in common with Xploderz is a nice strong spring and big plunger tube.
Overall the great ranges and rate of fire along with a much cooler look make this blaster worth checking out.