So, this is a basic overview of the blaster and what I've done to it. It has an eleven inch PETG barrel, no gaps or anything, so it has to be ram-rodded. I put a little tape around the barrel where it slides through the remaining fake barrel, so it'll stay centered. I really don't like tape on blasters, but you can't see it, so it doesn't matter. I killed the dead space with a small piece of PETG and hot glue. The trigger is reinforced with epoxy putty, although this was mostly because I was bored, I don't think it'll ever break. There are three catch springs, not sure what they are, just random ones I had lying around. On the plunger rod, I have a stock Longshot spring, a Recon spring, a Long Strike spring and a Nite Finder spring. Up the front, I did have a front gun intergration, but it was useless so I pulled (smashed) it off. I now have the.. foregrip? Off a Double Shot. I swear, it fit so well, it's like it was made to go there. Painting is kind of essential, though, as the two yellows don't look so good together. It's actually just held in with hot glue, I didn't feel the need to epoxy it as it looked so clean.
To load the blaster, you have to insert a dart in the front of the barrel and ram-rod it down, which is not practical at all, but I wasn't exactly going for practical. To prime, you just pull back on the exposed part of the bolt sled, which I feel alleviates the stress caused to bolt sled when primed with a bolt handle, as this puts all the stress on one side of the bolt sled. I also cut off the tactical rail, which is why you can prime it like I do, and left off all the little orange bits and anything that isn't essential.
I know Black isn't a good colour to paint toy guns, it's misleading and I just don't really think it's a good idea. This blaster will never see the light of day, so I don't see that it matters. I happened to have black and it turned out f*****g nice.
Mis-matched colours
Bolt sled
Foregrip
'Nerf' logo
Top of blaster
Blaster
Back of blaster
It was mostly to teach myself about the physics of nerf guns, which it did, I learnt a fair bit from it.
Cheers,
Cody