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All this nerf gun stuff is very contagious nerd! I have been drawn into this new madness as well, (havn't painted any yet, but now that i've seen yours its just a matter of time!)

By the way was that gold terminator your working on come from your bitsbox? If so why on earth do you have that beautiful, (but more importantly hideously expensive) forgeworld body lying around unused!

 J-paint wrote:
All this nerf gun stuff is very contagious nerd! I have been drawn into this new madness as well, (havn't painted any yet, but now that i've seen yours its just a matter of time!)

By the way was that gold terminator your working on come from your bitsbox? If so why on earth do you have that beautiful, (but more importantly hideously expensive) forgeworld body lying around unused!

Firstly, to Ovion, thanks for your concern dude but you needn't worry as I won't be shooting these at any children or people except for my mate who lives in another state from me and is the only person open to a game of 'adult' Nerf as I would be this will in all likelihood just be used on my days off work banging away at paper targets etc. and if i do ever play a game properly then I will make sure i have my 18 shot clip full of un-modded darts to be safe!

Now, J-Paint, you mean to tell me you don't have random FW bits in your box? I seem to have Huron's body as well as Culln's and you better keep an eye out for the Chaplain i'm building then as that uses yet another random bits body from FW!

and you need to get on this Nerf thing man! i'm not a young child and yet I am finding the modding and painting and tinkering with this blaster very enjoyable, it's nice to have and just pop a few darts every now and then, set up a target and while your paint dries on your mini's see if you can knock some chaos or eldar off the shelf


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Oh I also have found 4 pre heresy shoulder mounted resin lascannons too! I love my bits box!

I think bits box is the wrong term for what you have then nerd, I think thats more of a liquid investment, a pension in disguise.

I am very jealous.

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And I am now googling nerf gun mods...this cant end well.

Bear in mind with mods, simply removing the Air Restrictor is often a reasonable enough boost for regular wars, unless you want to go nuts, learning the science behind them and redoing internals.

All my guns have the basic AR removal and a few minor tweaks here and there, but I just don't see the time and money I'd have to sink into them to get just on average 5-10-20 more feet out of it as worth it...

Most of my guns average 40-60 feet flat, with more work I could probably up that to 60-80 feet across the board, but at that distance - if they see you they can dodge it.
Hell at 40-50 you can dodge it without much trouble, and if you're trying you can reliably dodge at 10 feet.

You also have to remember the payoff between range, accuracy and rate of fire. You can generally only pick 2.


Nerf is a fantastic, addictive and relatively cheap hobby, and almost anyone who picks up a gun enjoys it.
On a side note - what part of the UK are you in J-paint?

i am still trying to convince myself that i have too much already on my hand to bother myself with anything "nerf" related...arghh... also... my kids are way too young to use them with me...i convince myself...yeah...

oh nerd... no not this right now^^

awesome... have been lurking... but i am well ontop of everything you produce... the gun and your fighters.... delicious!!!

I just finished reading through this thread over about four days. Some lovely work here. The only bad thing has been seeing such nice looking armies being sold away...

 scipio.au wrote:
I just finished reading through this thread over about four days. Some lovely work here. The only bad thing has been seeing such nice looking armies being sold away...

Hi Scipio, I know, I do get the odd twinge of regret sometimes but I am happy I finally have settled into an army I really enjoy and i'm in no danger of selling them off! well, all except that one model.....

I should have an update early next week with Pyriels finished Sallies Devs and hopefully my new Chaplain all finished (if the bits arrive in time) and I may start on a couple of rhino's that need painting too!

and maybe my finished Nerf gun and a whole bunch of new furniture I just bought! Woo Hooo!


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Oh and Scipio, the Contemptor is all boxed up and ready to go, I bubbled him and packed him better than I thought able! he's excited about meeting you and killing your friends armies! :-)

No worries. Payday is tomorrow. There's only one problem with your last sentence..

Lol, Ah... yes, those with dirty minds eh! lets try that again shall we?.... "I 'packaged' him better than I thought able"

Dirty minds? I was referring to the fact that I have no friends!
Oh yeah, I've sent the monies through.

 scipio.au wrote:
Dirty minds? I was referring to the fact that I have no friends!
Oh yeah, I've sent the monies through.

LOL Oh well..... that could have been awkward! ...... looks like I'm the one reading into it ......gosh darn dirty mind I have........

One of my favourite things about your blog is the occasional detours. Obviously your painting rocks and that's the bread and butter that keeps me coming back but the caviar that really interests me are things like your current Nerf exploits.
I just thought I'd tell you.

Anyway the Nerf gun is a cool project, it falls into an interest of mine that I like to call toycutting because it doesn't have a name that I've found.

I drew up plans for scratchbuilding an air rifle a few years ago but the project started to turn into building a firearm because I didn't set an upper limit so I kind of abandonned it. I think it's an interest a lot of guys have from a young age. My friends and I used to buy cheap bb guns and spends days shooting each other to bits in the local park as children. Even then I used to dismantle them, rifle the barrels and attempt to extend the clips and such.

Well that was a random but enjoyable trip down memory lane... Keep up the great blogging goodness!

Just been perusing the past couple of pages and saw you lot talking about Nerf guns. I use this within 50ft and up to 100...



BOOM!

Elnibbus are you sure your not getting confused and actually killing people? That looks incredibly real!

Awesome though.

Nice. Looks like an M4A1 with an almost-XM177 moderator on it? That's surely not a nerf weapon, is it?

(A fair few of us would probably have the real thing if they were legal out here.. I had to hand in my guns quite a few years ago now.)

Holy C**P Elnibbus! that looks amazingly amazing! is that a pure 'airsoft' gun? or something you've engineered to look that amazing? and fire so far......

@Casey: dude, i'm stoked the occasional divergences keep you amused :-) I always worry people just skim over the words and wait for models lol! if you haven't been able to tell yet, I'm one of those guys that finds something that interests me then goes totally full on and buys everything i can! usually it's 40k but the Nerf thing is cool, I just bought for my rifle a red dot laser sight, a bipod for the tac rail and a tac light for night Nerfing! :-) as well as some camo rifle tape for the grip and base of the stock and some reflective orange tape for the end of the barrel so it's semi legal! and i'm looking on ebay at the recon C-S6 I can get 2 in box for a really good price......

Haha! It is indeed an airsoft gun! It's an M4A1 SOCOM with a short barrel, an XM177 flash hider and Aimpoint replica red-dot. It's supposed to resemble the armalite from Blood Diamond.

Would love to have a Nerf gun- I can't exactly shoot the girlfriend with this ^^ because I'd never get a sandwich again... I am in the process of building a Kimber Tactical Entry II though!

This is me with all my buddies from a couple weekends ago (I'm the one with the beard in the middle):


ANYWAY: Liking your minis as always Nerdy, very inspiring. I'm in the process of re-assigning my Land Speeder Typhoon to some Fire Hawks instead...

Nerf Guns are nice and cheap (relatively), and not hard to find - if you want I can PM you with details for getting it in the UK - and if you're anywhere near Leicester potentially give you somewhere to Nerf / come try some guns out anyway. (Always need more people for the Wars.)

Firstly..... Yay Elnibbus has a beard! more power to the hirsute! :-)

and second! I just 'discovered' more nerfy goodness! while researching the problem of not being able to one hand prime my Longstrike with the 6kg spring I found the Xplorer overhead shotgun pump grip! and new bolt sled! with both these additions i should be up and Nerfing reliably!

and now for hobby news..... only hours to go until my days off after what has felt like weeks straight! I shall finish Pyriels Sallies completely and also assemble and paint my new chaplain and start some more work on the rhino's how's this sit with everyone? sound good? :-)

Hirstuteness FTW!

 dsteingass wrote:
Hirstuteness FTW!

Yeah! That's what I'm talking about now we need king cracker and we nearly have the whole set next thing I'll be derailing my own thread with beard talk and pictures lol! Not that that's a bad thing, I've found every bearded dude I know is proud of their chin squig whether its sculpted or patchy or a veritable landscape of its own like kc!

My beard is mighty.....my talk is small

I'm actually a member of a sub-team called The Beards. My call sign is Beard-13...

Ahem. Airbrush paints turned up today so I'm hoping to have something to show that I'm not entirely bone-idle and that I don't just derail other peoples threads...

These young guys who shave their entire body are among the sickest people I've ever heard of.

For all us 'Beardies' out there! band together, be strong don't forget to condition your face and sit back relax and listen to the sweet dulcet tones of the beards!

we still need a 'Beardmoticon.......'

http://youtu.be/KlgbKIswpzI
http://youtu.be/RmFnarFSj_U

BEARD ON BRO'S!

Does a chinstrap count?

 Casey's Law wrote:
Does a chinstrap count?

Hell yeah a chin strap counts! as long as it's connected to your hairline and joins at the bottom it's fine by me! I rocked a chin strap for 6 years!

Yay!

What's up dudes! a little more Nerfy goodness and also some model supplies and a little shot of my cupboard shelf! sounds exciting eh!

anyway I went to Kmart and saw a Nerf Maverick for only $10.00 so of course I grabbed it and went about modding it

removed all the air restrictions and gave it the full open barrel trick and shoved 5 coins behind the spring for more power, goes a bit better for sure but it was the painting I wanted to get too! I also found some velcro and stitched myself a couple of straps to hold a led torch as a tactical light!
here she is:



Next up in the what's been happening to Nerdy story, I got some post today, and I was pleased to see it was my table top lightbox studio! awesome value and great quality too, so it's a 40cmx40cm light tent with a camera stand and 2 lights on stands and 3 interchangeable backgrounds, as soon as my Digital SLR arrives I'll try it out! I can't wait, I managed to win an ebay auction for a Canon eos 400D dsrl with lenses and bag and accessories for $208.00


And lastly while i was waiting for all my new furniture to arrive I dusted all my army and popped them in the cupboard to keep them dustless (or not quite as dusty) seems my force is coming along nicely!


So what's y'all been up to?

Nice work on those guns & congrat's on the light box. Had one of those myself... they work really well (especially for the price). The army looks great all laid out like that!

What am I doing?? Same old, same old. Workin' for tha man, marines up the giggie.