Sean
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Still looks bad ass awesome!
Nerf Gun Props? YES!
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This is stunning! I gotta get onto those laser toy guns I bought...
Spring has well and truly sprung here in NZ, the temperature is climbing steadily back into the double-digits, and once again the paint is flying. Can I get a Huzzah!?
May I introduce to you, the Corsair; a WWII-era navy pilot sidearm, named after the Vought F4U Corsair aeroplane.
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This blaster employs an experimental technique for the oxidizing of the paint as well as my usual corrosion techniques. It's achieved by leaving all of the salt used for the rust in place, applying more salt over the metal coat, and then spraying a light coat of white before the top primary is applied. The top coat is applied by spraying predominantly from a single direction (similar to the water droplet effect technique), in this case, from the top down. This allows the salt to act as a rough mask, allowing the white to show through the blue around the salted areas.
I had no idea if this would work or not, but I think I can mark the experiment a success!
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Thanks for looking, and I hope you found something in this you can take away and apply to your own work.
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Bro, nailed it! Big fan of the F4U and I love this concept. In fact I did a custom Weta Dr.Grordbort Manmelter in the Corsiar paint scheme...
NZ colours of course! #represent #aotearoa #middleearth #proudkiwi
Keep up the amazing work!
Vim Fuego
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Hi Kylash,
It's drybrushed with 3 shades of brown enamel (I just add a little more white to each successive coat) over the black undercoat, and finished with a dark grey spirit-based acrylic wash.
Bro, nailed it! Big fan of the F4U and I love this concept. In fact I did a custom Weta Dr.Grordbort Manmelter in the Corsiar paint scheme...
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NZ colours of course! #represent #aotearoa #middleearth #proudkiwi
Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks man! You too
I wish I could afford more Grordbort rayguns - I have a Righteous Bison, but there's no way I'll be custom-painting that anytime soon - unless I get another one some day...
DFC Props
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I know I have posted a couple of these before but here are some I have done:
This was for a customer that wanted one for his sons birthday. He had seen one I brought in to work and asked me to make him one.
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One for me, that I ended up selling to the customer as well.
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My first, I ended up giving to a freind for his birthday.
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My RPF Secret Santa giveaway(2009), went to propologist.
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These were quicky builds maybe two-three hours for both of them. A customer needed them for a Halloween party, and I only had one evening to crank them out
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I just got two new Nerf guns and I hope I can tear them down and repaint them soon. Also looks like I have lots of brown, black, and silver paint.
I have that Star Wars Nerf Gun blaster too. Picked it up at a really cheap thrift shop for .25ct. lol I'll have to share some pics. I cut mine shorter and made a pistol.
Screws and glue! Lol. Was a mission getting screws through the gun body into the scope prior to final assembly, but worked out in the end. They are on there pretty good.
DFC Props
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You did a superb job! At first glance, it was hard to tell it was a Nerf gun and that's definitively an achievement. Also, you took some nice, professional quality photos.
ajaxjones
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First Nerf Mod, based on the reflex IX-1 , restrictor removed and spring stretched and a bunch of 3D printed pieces. Favourite part was using truck bed spray for the textured grip
files available @ DISTRICT 9 Inspired NERF Remake
files available @ DISTRICT 9 Inspired NERF Remake
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DFC Props
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Nice job. I'm sure you have a simple answer, but what did you use for the ammo counter? Small, programmed LED panel? Like the one you might find in a clock? Or did you use something more complex?
DFC Props
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Love those squirt guns... I bought four bags or so and they're great for practicing painting.
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Forgot to ask... how'd you do the ammo counter?
It comes stock. There is a reciprocating action too when you pull the trigger. You get 3 round bursts. It's a pretty cool function. I'll post a vid with more details on this build soon.
DFC Props
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Nice. I look forward to the video.
DFC Props
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Hello again
As an experiment, I decided to see just how far I could push this salt-mask rust look.
I started with an undercoat of rust brown, and then another coat on top of that, but while it was still wet, I sprinkled it liberally with sea salt from a grinder so that it set into the paint, and then a coat of matt aluminium on top of that. When the aluminium was dry I rinsed the salt away with warm water. The pitted, speckled look I was hoping for came through perfectly.
I then masked the bits i wanted red with tape, and then used rock salt in the usual way to achieve the chipped paint appearance (the more I think about this, the more I am convinced that I should have dropped the rock salt onto the aluminium while it was wet. That way it seems to give a much sharper finish, and as I found with the rust-base, it's also a lot easier to manage than the usual method of trying to affix it with water. Next time...), more masking and a bit of dry-brushed matt black for the handle and the muzzle, and finally, all of the aluminium and red parts got an all-over wash with a combination of rust-brown and grime.
Alterations to the bodywork include; the rails (mostly) removed, the dart holder was chopped out, and the redundant iron-sight from above the muzzle are all gone. I also filled in the logo roundels and the grill in the back of the grip for extra streamlining.
Another relic dug up from Nerf's past!
Amazing job on the texture and paint! You have really mastered that technique... I need to try it on my props. I recently made a flame thrower and I wanted it to look really worn/rusted/banged up. My rust didn't turn out so well. I ended up putting too much acrylic paint on the surface (no texture at all). After lightly sanding it, it looked a little more convincing. I'm going to try your method next time.
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This is awesome! I'm literally working on a D9 pistol Nerf mod myself. Early days...
Vim Fuego
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I did a video on this technique which you might find useful - I made it quite a while after this blaster, so the method is more refined by this stage:
DFC Props
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Nice. I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks mate. They turned out pretty cool I reckon. Now for sale in the Junkyard if you want one. ;-)
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