Portal: Golden Maverick

We're closing out 2011 with some shiny blasters, thanks to our recent submissions.  Spread the word and have your blasters featured here on the blog!  It's what we're here for!

Though I'm personally not a fan of "Dowse the blaster in one color" paint jobs, this Maverick that was given to Portal has that "Trophy" look to it thanks to the Golden paint job.  All it needs is a pedestal and you could give it up as an award of some sort!  It's not a perfect repaint, but it's still nice.  Portal had this to say about it>

"This is a golden spray painted maverick that a friend gave to me. You have no idea how cool it looks in person. It still has stock internals although I plan to change that. As it was spray painted the paint job wasn't done correctly. It serves its purpose but it needs to be refurbished. No areas were missed accept the barrel here. It's pretty cool. When and if I refurbish it it might have a little easter egg here or there. If I do that a little hint is that I got the new Zelda game game. Gold and Zelda equals awesome."

See you all next year!  Have fun on this last day of 2011!

DarthRambo: Glitter Gun!

I can't say I've seen anything like this before, but Darthy has submitted a blaster that I think is quite festive!  Especially since it was made for someone else!

I made it for my sister for christmas.  This gun can shoot one dart by loading it into the front of the barrel.  You might be asking what that thing is coming off the barrel.  Well this gun shoots glitter and/or sprinkles depending on what the situation calls for.  The clear bottle unscrews and can be loaded with the particulate matter of your choosing.  
It works using the Bernoulli principal, deals with air flow mechanics and might actually be useful to nerfers in some way because shooting glitter is not.  Faster moving air actually drops in pressure when it is flowing freely.  This creates a vacuum in the barrel.  Hole in the top of the clear canister allows air to flow in as it is pulled by the vacuum.  The air forces the glitter up the tubing inside the bottle and up into the barrel where the air stream shoots it out. 

The dart gets ranges of about 25ft, The glitter gets about 6-8ft

So yeah this is pretty much just for lols

I'll say I'm a fan, especially considering the amount of know-how he has to build something that is, inevitably, silly!

Happy Holidays from the UN Staff!!  Keep those submissions coming!

Icicle: Minimized Firefly

This was a giveaway on the blog "Tactical Tag" that was built by Icicle of Arctic Nerf.  The blaster has been cut down a bit and has incredible power.  Firefly's in general are excellent blasters, but the strength of 3 springs in there plus an O Ring seal improvement really punches those darts out there.  Icicle reports that it achieves ranges over 100 feet.  While the Minimization may not look like it removed a whole lot, retaining the stock on there helps the user hold it steady to increase accuracy.  Also, for those with bigger hands, the trigger grip can get uncomfortable, so I'm glad the minimization covered that issue.  More pictures after the jump!

TestamentSeven7: Tactical Light

I've seen a lot of these done, but everyone seems to do theirs a little differently.  Here's TestamentSeven7's take on a useful-ified  Tactical Light.

"One day I had an idea, gut my recon tac-light and put in the parts from a gutted flashlight, it worked, but not well, and looked ugly from where I added an external switch.  The housing still bares that scar.

Recently I got a better ides, inspired largely in part by the Tactical Light Bazookafied gave away to a lucky winner not too long ago.

Instead of a gutted flashlight, it's a custom built light circuit consisting of 4, count them 4, High-brightness LED's from radioshack, soldered to a round pcb, also from Radioshack, and making the whole thing look as clean as possible, though it clearly still bares scars from my earlier work done to it.  The pictures don't do justice to how bright this thing is now, but I tried anyway."

And for additional Pic Spam of this fella...

TestamentSeven7: Maverick Mod

Another submission! Thisn's done by TestamentSeven7, just in case you have an irrational fear of titles and automatically skip them. ;0)
Also, just in case you have a strange aversion to photos along with your fear of titles, it's a Maverick, painted redn'black and with all yer yummy internal mods done an' the barrels separated.

TestamentSeven7 says,

"This maverick was a thrift store find, and was inspired by Drac's "Fanger" maverick, minus the LED's

The AR's and dart pegs have been removed, barrel drop mod, 3 pennies behind the spring, barrel separation mod, and black/red paintjob thats...fairly mediocre but i like it.

The tactical rail on the priming handle is unpainted, because it worked.  The barrel piece is also unpainted, for obvious reasons."

I like this blaster. The color scheme is a nice choice, and I really like the rings of red around each of the barrels. Nice job, Testament!

Pause: Minimized Nite Finder

Once again, a nice, clean mod by Pause, this time a Nite Finder minimization. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Nite Finder minimization (I'm still not completely sure why, either...), but I really like this one.  Something about how it's cut really appeals to me. I also like the priming arm. It looks a lot cleaner than your standard ring pull style.






Pause says:

"The goal of this mod was to out-do my previous Nitefinder, which (I think) I achieved with flying colors.

This one is smaller, more accurate, shoots farther, and will last a lot longer."

Also, if you didn't notice, this is prepped for painting... He just doesn't have a color chosen, and isn't sure what color to go with. Any suggestions?

Rolley: Custom Gear Up! Recon

While this wasn't officially entered, I thought I'd share something neat that I've found as well as a plug for a great blogger, Rolley.  He heads up Street Tag Warfare and has done something similar to my Yellow Longstrike barrel repaint to match his rare Gear Up! Series Recon CS-6.  In fact, I got the initial idea to do that repaint because of his Longstrike Barrel.  Not only is it nice rare proof of this blaster's existence, but it's a neat-yet-simple repaint of one piece that changes the whole look of the blaster.

I pulled these pictures from his Strikefire Review as well as his Gear Up! Recon review.  He's a great photographer and certainly has a knack for aesthetics, which I can appreciate.  That Longstrike Barrel is simple to repaint if you just remove the blue panels and paint them on their own.  These photos are just proof of how much potential it has to make any stock blaster unique.