i was listening to this, while blogging do enjoy! if only i had such dexterity. miss those days when i could practice the piano everyday! :/


WOAH the smaller the blaster, the harder it seems to get! it sounds kinda retarded that a smaller nerf gun would be harder to do than a big one is'nt it so? i usually have this kinda problem with plastic models because the smaller it is, the harder it is to do any correction as a minor cut would have a major difference on the model. well little did i think that this would also be true for a smaller nerf gun! okay actually till this point, even though things kinda went awry, i still think this is probably an isolated incident, and that my stand, that the size of the nerf gun doesnt matter, still stands true -.- argh still kinda angsty that i didnt manage to paint the gun well. For this week, Jerome jr, the smaller jerome wanted a modded nerf gun from me! (remember what i said in my post last week?) i was confident in pulling it off, since its really hard to be able to make such mistakes in this kind of simple modding -.- as in if you are talking about the integration of shells or dealing with air pressure ie. connecting air tubes and allowing them to sustain high pressures, or integration of another system, then YEAH the failure of such modding is way more present than for simple mods like spring replacements or air restrictors removal. anyhoo, the internal modding went well for the firestrike, despite the massive change in design as compared to its predecessor, the nerf nitefinder!

Oh yes, i am going to be trying out this new large font size, see if its better because after viewing my posts a couple of times, it seems as though a larger font would be pretty beneficial. Though i would prefer a font size that is in between THIS and this.


this, is what i was working on for Jerome's birthday present. oh yes, the paint job crapped up, and i was bloody unhappy with that. and the weather really sucked for spray painting, as in it was so humid and cloudy, the paint scheme didnt really exactly turned out the way i wanted it to be -.- yeah humidity affects the colour tone when spray painting.

i will still be doing a write up here on exactly  what i did to the internals, however i have no photos of the external cover after being painted! zzz the paint actually ran onto the surfaces that i didnt want to be painted/ kept original. SIGH. will elaborate further later.


so here is the photo of the internals, extremely simple design, just a plunger rod and air tank system. anyway, see where my screwdriver is pointing at? that spring may come lose at times if it wasnt lodged in nicely, so beware when opening up the blaster! :)


THIS is what makes the blaster work.


open up the blaster and voila! this is what you get :) it took quite a fair bit of prying to get everything apart, especially for the air tank (leftmost). what i did was to twist the assembly, allowing it to fall apart pretty smoothly. :) the clips, as you see in the middle of the photo is a total pain in the ass :)


OKAY first up, we have the barrel. right at the front, i noticed this massive hole in front, its located pretty front of the barrel so....technically it wont really affect the power that much as air will only be lost at the later stage when the dart leaves the barrel.

lmao, no glue required, just let your PVC tape make its round around the barrel. uh two to be safe! three to be as paranoid as I.



this is located at the end of the barrel, after this,

its actually the air tank already. i notice that this piece appears in all the new elite blasters, which doesnt support magazine-style (clip) reloading, like this, and also operates on a plunger system. this is also the "intelligent" system that many are talking about, which is present in blasters like the triad, whereby there are three barrels but if you load a dart in ANY barrel, the blaster sends air only through that barrel.
this is the nerf strye, clip system!

no modding to the air tank is required, leave it alone!


i cut off the rod, and here as you can see, is where the magic happens. when a dart is inserted all the way in, the dart actually pushes in those stubs into the assembly, allowing the holes in front to be opened, hence allowing air to pass through :)


HUGE air restrictor!! thats the back of the part in the previous photo btw. the whole circular plastic piece is actually restricting the air flow through the entire tube. this piece is a must go piece man. do justice to the poor air molecules and remove this air restrictor.


so after cutting away the restrictor, this is how it looks like! now can you imagine all the air flow passing through this as compared to the previous one?? BIG difference huh!!

now, we are actually pretty much done for the front portion of the assembly, the barrel portion! so now, lets head over to the back, where the plunger rod is located.


this is it, so if you take a closer look at the front,

there are actually two holes in the plunger, how it works is that when the plunger moves forward and smashes the front, the sudden gush of air causes the dart to fly out given the change in air pressure inside. so of course as this plunger moves forwards, with the two holes, air will escape real quickly the moment there is a change in air pressure within the air tank :) so i used hot glue! yes i know it looks messy. i aint really good friends with hot glue.


this is how it looks when you actually piece everything back together. this time round, i didnt do a spring replacement as it feels as though this blaster would be grossly overpowered if i did so!

The main thing that i want from this mod is to allow this blaster to shoot further, but not to the extent of causing harm on others. so we cant always go all out on modding as we shouldnt risk hurting others if the blaster is to be used for playing purposes. if its for experimental purpose, then definitely go all out!! :D but dont shoot it at others duh.


be careful not to lose this teeny weeny nut which can be found at the end of the handle of the blaster, where the battery tray is located as this is used to screw back on the battery cover.


this is the last photo that i have, which is the spray painting process! weather was really bad this time round, as in it was really humid, so the colours werent coming out they way they should, and they were taking way too long to dry. if each coat takes a whole lot longer to dry, multiply that with the number of coats that i need to do and bam! burn midnight oil i must. but i didnt because i accidentally sprayed against the parts that i wanted to keep in the original form :( parts that undergo heavy usage and the handle are usually left untouched as that is where lots of wear and tear happens, and when the paint is all torn off, it looks really messy, so yeah avoid those areas when painting! :) unless you're damn sure that the coats wouldnt fall off and that you also put a layer of primer on top of everything.

sigh sigh! jerome also went off earlier this time round, so all that was passed unto his hands was the original blaster, although i intended to show him how i piece it all back together. hence yeah i would be mixing the parts that i have modded, with the new blaster shell! :) then i will probably have to paint it on another time or something... i already painted some detachable parts so it should look milkdly different from the usual nerf blaster! :P frankly speaking, even though i covered the blaster pretty well, i guess i was overconfident that i got all the areas covered up already, and forgot that i had to keep in mind the angle of spraying. one wrong angle and bam its gone! :( oh yes i dont have thinner and seldom use it, as it may remove the original layer of paint. sigh, just that one extra stroke is good enough to send me scurrying for a replacement all over :( working within the timeframe of a day is way too tight for me man, this whole modding work, along with the spray paint job will require two days at least, and with me being in camp for the weekdays, (although my spirit isnt exactly in camp at times trollolol) it sets a really time-restraining and stressful period to work within, of which this time round, i wasnt successful :/  well at least this is a learning experience for me as i now know which areas to be more wary of :) there is always something to learn from such experiences. so i guess the plan now would be to wait until the next time we meet, probably during the next after sunday service fellowship before i can show jerome how i do it! :) he has always been having fun playing with nerf guns with his friends, and after hearing that he had so much fun for his birthday having a nerf war at home, he also did tell me that he always wanted to see and learn how to do modifications, so i guess...next weekend would be an interesting one for him! i hope ;)


How can people not know about Thepianoguys?!?!?!? to think that there are such talented people showcasing their talents for others to enjoy but yet there are many who are oblivious. i kinda prefer their non-pop songs though!


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