The beginning

Well, I guess I should start at the beginning

I will tell you my story…..

I was always interested in Nerf, but not as a hobby. Oh sure, I’d go and play with my friends, but as we got older, I started feeling that something was lacking….

so, I sort of began to dislike it, only a bit, but it just wasn’t good.

Low power, inaccuracy…. so many bad things about Nerf right? plus, there wasn’t much you could do with them….

WRONG!

So, then something happened that changed everything.

I could no longer play sports because of [MESSAGE REDACTED]

Huh. guess someone doesn’t want me sharing that part of the story… Oh well, let us continue.

Anyway, as I said, I could no longer play sports. so I had a lot of time on my hands. I was browsing youtube over the months that followed, when I eventually stumbled on a video. It was labelled: “Ultimate Nitefinder Mod guide”

I, not having anything better to do, watched it. It was amazing. The video covered one of my big problems with Nerf blasters, the range! I was hooked, looking up video after video, eventually thinking I could possibly do it for myself.

I had horrible tools, with only some really bad screwdrivers, and a hobby knife.

so, I did the old starter mod for many people, the Maverick. I did everything I could to this blaster, adding 5 cent coins behind the blasters spring, making the cylinder drop out further, air restrictor removal and a really bad “paint job”

After I put it back together correctly (it took so many tries), I Fired it a few times, and man was it better than a stock blaster. I was amazed, and ever since then I did bigger and better mods.

I saved up some money, went to the store, and bought myself a screwdriver, a really nice one, and it’s still in use today.

I eventually was not happy with just spring upgrades and air restrictor removals. I wanted more power. I also realised my current tools were not enough, so I headed over to the store and bought a Dremel.

Using that and my ever expanding tool set I made a rebarreled firestrike with two springs and a steel barrel. (Yes, I said steel, that’s all they had at the store ok?)

Anyhow, it was amazing. I was actually banned from blasting it inside (don’t worry, I fixed that)

After that, I kept getting better at modding, step by step.

Eventually, I decided to try my hand at electrical modding. Only problem was, I had no soldering iron.

Come Christmas, and boom, answer to prayer, I got my first soldering iron. (thanks mum and dad)

I was really excited, I ordered some parts off of Blastertech, our local nerf supplier and waited an agonising week for it to come. Every hour I’d go to the letterbox and check for my shiny red motors, only to realise that I had only waited one day… yeah.

Anyway, the parts arrived eventually (within the week they said they would, but time is relative) and I tried my hand at modding my Demolisher…. this was unsuccessful.

I could not get my solder to stick no matter how hard I tried.

so, what did I do? I gave up of course!

No not really, I’m not going to give up that easily.

So, what did I do? well, I asked my dad what to do. He told me he was friends with an electrician, and that he may want to help. so we set up a time with him to do it.

Huzzah! The blaster was now functional. Turns out, I just had bad solder… easy enough fix, got a good supply of it now.

Everything is going well, with all sorts of mods under my belt now.

And then, quite a while later, I got asked to do something that was amazing.

Someone wanted to pay me to make them a blaster…. I was amazed, and excited, getting paid to do what I love doing? Sign me up!

I still remember my first commission build. It was a Rayvenfire, an extremely cool, bullpup flywheel blaster, with improved internals and Aurabesh writing on the side. (Star wars writing for you less cultured folk)

I was very happy with the results of this blaster, and was so excited to hear that the buyer was too.

Since then, I have done bunches more builds and commissions, ranging from Expanded Plunger Tube Retaliators, to swordfishes, to hand cannon builds (all of which will be shown in good time). I have started a local club and am ever expanding my builds and the people I show them to

I have even started writing for nerf news on foamblast, and that has been awesome. Maybe you can check them out some time?

Thank you all for reading this very long post, that is all for now

ALPHA

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