Jm419
Sr Member
So I was just sitting down one day to enjoy my cheeseburger for lunch at work when a friend of mine stopped by with a few pieces of paper in his hands. He'd found out about my AER9 build, and he wanted to do a build with me; he'd picked out the sniper rifle from Fallout 3. At first, I was like, "that's gonna be a tough build," considering that my AER9 took me the better part of ten months, but he showed me two images that completely changed my tune.
First, he showed me a photo of the rifle, to refresh my memory:
Then he showed me this photo of a Nerf LongStrike:
And I was in. Just like that. Two days later, we had a Nerf Longstrike.
So we ended up going to the lab and found some spare PVC sitting in a corner. Using our reference images, we counted out the number of barrel vents to cut in our outer barrel, and found an inner barrel which fit flush inside of the outer barrel.
After doing our cutouts, we found that, with a bit of sanding, our outer barrel fit right into the end of the Nerf gun, while still retaining the ability to fire Nerf darts.
At the end of the day, we had this:
Unfortunately, I don't have any photos of the middle stages of the build, so I'll just describe what we did.
First, we had to figure out what to do about the scopes. On my rifle, I ended up doing the math and finding the focal length of two lenses I had in my parts bin, which I custom mounted in a PVC based scope. After modifying the scope rail, I mounted the scope directly onto that, as you'll see in a moment.
My partner had his own Nerf scope, which got a quick repaint before being mounted.
The Nerf logos were sanded off the gun, and the stock was locked into place. At that point, the guns were primed in black, then painted using a pattern of spray and overspray of three colors of paint to achieve a gunmetal look. I maintained a more uniform, even coat on my rifle, while my buddy weathered his heavily.
Then, we took some acrylic pipe and masked them to give the appearance of a flash hider. We discovered after a few attempts that cutting the pipe in such a way to create the vents was more trouble than we wanted to deal with, so we just imitated the flash hider vents.
That's basically it. This was a quick and easy build - and it only cost about $45. I'll post that image again of the ingame model, and I'll show you what we came up with.
And here are our paired rifles. My rifle, with the custom scope, is in front. His is behind. Both have preserved the inner mechanism, so both still fire Nerf darts.
In front of the box to show how far the rifle came. These are some long rifles!
Some shots to show the detail on the gun body.
Our imitation flash hiders.
So, let us know what you think! It's a quick build if anyone wants to try it, and the product turned out pretty well, we think.
First, he showed me a photo of the rifle, to refresh my memory:
Then he showed me this photo of a Nerf LongStrike:
And I was in. Just like that. Two days later, we had a Nerf Longstrike.
So we ended up going to the lab and found some spare PVC sitting in a corner. Using our reference images, we counted out the number of barrel vents to cut in our outer barrel, and found an inner barrel which fit flush inside of the outer barrel.
After doing our cutouts, we found that, with a bit of sanding, our outer barrel fit right into the end of the Nerf gun, while still retaining the ability to fire Nerf darts.
At the end of the day, we had this:
Unfortunately, I don't have any photos of the middle stages of the build, so I'll just describe what we did.
First, we had to figure out what to do about the scopes. On my rifle, I ended up doing the math and finding the focal length of two lenses I had in my parts bin, which I custom mounted in a PVC based scope. After modifying the scope rail, I mounted the scope directly onto that, as you'll see in a moment.
My partner had his own Nerf scope, which got a quick repaint before being mounted.
The Nerf logos were sanded off the gun, and the stock was locked into place. At that point, the guns were primed in black, then painted using a pattern of spray and overspray of three colors of paint to achieve a gunmetal look. I maintained a more uniform, even coat on my rifle, while my buddy weathered his heavily.
Then, we took some acrylic pipe and masked them to give the appearance of a flash hider. We discovered after a few attempts that cutting the pipe in such a way to create the vents was more trouble than we wanted to deal with, so we just imitated the flash hider vents.
That's basically it. This was a quick and easy build - and it only cost about $45. I'll post that image again of the ingame model, and I'll show you what we came up with.
And here are our paired rifles. My rifle, with the custom scope, is in front. His is behind. Both have preserved the inner mechanism, so both still fire Nerf darts.
In front of the box to show how far the rifle came. These are some long rifles!
Some shots to show the detail on the gun body.
Our imitation flash hiders.
So, let us know what you think! It's a quick build if anyone wants to try it, and the product turned out pretty well, we think.
