Monday, January 13, 2014
Steampunk Gun
A while ago, one of my friends brought me a nerf Maverick which he had broken trying to modify and he wanted me to paint it to look good. He gave me no hints to what he thought "good" was, so I was temped to paint it pink camo and put a hello kitty logo on the side (the only reason I didn't is because I would have to go and buy a bunch of pink paints. So I just went with what I thought would look good. First I did a black base coat. Then taped up the handle, except the grip, and painted that tan. Once that was dry, I taped up the priming mechanism (the slider on the back of the gun that you pull back to load) and the grip that I just painted tan. And did a light gold mist over the rest of the gun. I'm very happy on how this gun turned out, plus instead of paying me for it my friend gave me a limited edition nerf gun that I'd been trying to get for a while. To this day, this remains one of my favorite guns I've ever painted.
Experiment
This raider, like many others, is painted like this because I had an extra gun with only a base coat laying around, extra paint and a LOT of time. I spent only 10 minutes or so taping up the raider the first time (I taped all the parts I wanted to stay black) and then did a gold coat over it. When I took the tape off, my heart sunk. I hadn't spent enough time making the tape perfect, so that the gold wouldn't get on parts I didn't want it. I spent a while repainting the gun black. Then spent a good hour making sure the tape was perfect. I did the gold coat again, and took the tape off, yet again, the gold had gotten on parts I didn't want it. No less then 2 tries later (and a lot of tape) I got it how I wanted it.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Horror story
Today, I decided to take a break from nerf and right a horror story based on event that happened to me.
"ASH" I hear my mom yell from the other room. "Fuck" I think to myself, I walk over and open the door and reply "Yeah?" "Maggie just woke me up, I think she needs a walk" my mom says. "Maggie never wakes people up... she probably just had a nightmare.. do dogs have nightmares?" I think to myself "Ug... ok I say" I put leases on both Maggie and Jackson (my two dogs) and start to take them outside. I get about half way down the drive way and Maggie starts to pull back... this is normal.. she just doesn't like to walk sometimes... So I go and put her back inside. I continue to walk Jackson, there was freezing rain yesterday, so the ground is slippery and its winter, so its almost pitch black. There are a couple house lights and street lights on allowing me to see a little. I blink and i notice its slightly darker then before, I turn around and notice that a couple street lights are off at the end of the block, a chill runs down my spine. Suddenly Jackson takes off, almost yanking my arm off with him. He's wining and pulling at the lease as hard as he can. My heart rate increases, he turns his head and snaps his jaw looking at something in a tree. "Ohh," I Say, feeling MUCH better now, "Jackson, its just a squirrel or bird or something, calm down buddy." He continues to yank at the lease, whining more then I've ever heard him before, and he's still looking up into that tree. Out of the corner of my eye, I see another light go off, I quickly turn my head tword it, and it comes back on as if to pretend it was never off. Then ( I swear on my soul) it acted like it realized i had seen it go off, and turned BACK OFF. Another light across the street went off and a snapping of branches as Jackson barked at something. Several things are wrong with that, 1. No squirrel or bird could crack big enough branches to make the sound i just heard 2. Jackson is no longer looking up in the tree, but digging his claws into the ice trying to pull me forward 3. Jackson VERY rarely barks. Another light goes off. "What the fuc..." I saw but am cut off as i gasp at another light, closer, going off. I take off running, Jackson seems so relived. I notice he's shaking bad. I run a good block and a half, then realize that a wire was probably broken or something, causing the lights to go out. Ignoring the fact that all the lights would go out at once then. Jackson seems calmer, so I pop one ear bud in, so I can still hear if i have to, just in case. I take another 10 steps, and then a cold wind passes me VERY quickly, and a light in front of me goes out, I turn to see all the lights, on the entire block, are out. I then hear a crunch a few feet in front of me, a crunch made by something HEAVY stepping, landing, crushing, who the hell knows what the ice on the ground. I turn and RUN, I hear more crunching behind me, and I notice a car is coming. I will be able to see what it is, right before the car is getting close enough for me to see (I'm still running) a hear a deeper crunch, meaning whatever was behind me went into the snow, in some trees. "HELP" I yell to the car, but whoever it was is playing their music much too load for them to hear. However, in the light caused by the cars headlights, I notice that the distance between the road and trees is too great for a human to cover in that short time. I keep running, faster, I'm almost home. As I sprint past my neighbors house, to my horror i see some shape on top of their house, that's not supposed to be there, and it moves. I've never run faster in my life. Thank god that Jackson is in shape, and that the older dog Maggie wasn't with me. I make it inside and something SLAMS against the door. I reach around for a flashlight, trying to find one. I grab one, point it out the window as i hear crunching meaning whatever is out there is moving down the driveway, and push the "on" button. Nothing, no light comes. I'm to happy to be unhurt and alive to try to pursue it, and not brave enough, I head back to my room. I walk over to my computer and set the flashlight now beside it, as I start to type this very "story" about half way threw (at the part "digging his claws into the ice" suddenly the light turns in. I didn't press the button or anything. Out of curiosity, i check out the window, the street lights and porch lights are back on. I don't know what happened to me tonight, I don't know who I'm going to tell and some close friends. I do know, that no one will believe me, because that's how paranormal stuff works. I also know, that next time Maggie wakes up someone late at night, I'm not going outside.
"ASH" I hear my mom yell from the other room. "Fuck" I think to myself, I walk over and open the door and reply "Yeah?" "Maggie just woke me up, I think she needs a walk" my mom says. "Maggie never wakes people up... she probably just had a nightmare.. do dogs have nightmares?" I think to myself "Ug... ok I say" I put leases on both Maggie and Jackson (my two dogs) and start to take them outside. I get about half way down the drive way and Maggie starts to pull back... this is normal.. she just doesn't like to walk sometimes... So I go and put her back inside. I continue to walk Jackson, there was freezing rain yesterday, so the ground is slippery and its winter, so its almost pitch black. There are a couple house lights and street lights on allowing me to see a little. I blink and i notice its slightly darker then before, I turn around and notice that a couple street lights are off at the end of the block, a chill runs down my spine. Suddenly Jackson takes off, almost yanking my arm off with him. He's wining and pulling at the lease as hard as he can. My heart rate increases, he turns his head and snaps his jaw looking at something in a tree. "Ohh," I Say, feeling MUCH better now, "Jackson, its just a squirrel or bird or something, calm down buddy." He continues to yank at the lease, whining more then I've ever heard him before, and he's still looking up into that tree. Out of the corner of my eye, I see another light go off, I quickly turn my head tword it, and it comes back on as if to pretend it was never off. Then ( I swear on my soul) it acted like it realized i had seen it go off, and turned BACK OFF. Another light across the street went off and a snapping of branches as Jackson barked at something. Several things are wrong with that, 1. No squirrel or bird could crack big enough branches to make the sound i just heard 2. Jackson is no longer looking up in the tree, but digging his claws into the ice trying to pull me forward 3. Jackson VERY rarely barks. Another light goes off. "What the fuc..." I saw but am cut off as i gasp at another light, closer, going off. I take off running, Jackson seems so relived. I notice he's shaking bad. I run a good block and a half, then realize that a wire was probably broken or something, causing the lights to go out. Ignoring the fact that all the lights would go out at once then. Jackson seems calmer, so I pop one ear bud in, so I can still hear if i have to, just in case. I take another 10 steps, and then a cold wind passes me VERY quickly, and a light in front of me goes out, I turn to see all the lights, on the entire block, are out. I then hear a crunch a few feet in front of me, a crunch made by something HEAVY stepping, landing, crushing, who the hell knows what the ice on the ground. I turn and RUN, I hear more crunching behind me, and I notice a car is coming. I will be able to see what it is, right before the car is getting close enough for me to see (I'm still running) a hear a deeper crunch, meaning whatever was behind me went into the snow, in some trees. "HELP" I yell to the car, but whoever it was is playing their music much too load for them to hear. However, in the light caused by the cars headlights, I notice that the distance between the road and trees is too great for a human to cover in that short time. I keep running, faster, I'm almost home. As I sprint past my neighbors house, to my horror i see some shape on top of their house, that's not supposed to be there, and it moves. I've never run faster in my life. Thank god that Jackson is in shape, and that the older dog Maggie wasn't with me. I make it inside and something SLAMS against the door. I reach around for a flashlight, trying to find one. I grab one, point it out the window as i hear crunching meaning whatever is out there is moving down the driveway, and push the "on" button. Nothing, no light comes. I'm to happy to be unhurt and alive to try to pursue it, and not brave enough, I head back to my room. I walk over to my computer and set the flashlight now beside it, as I start to type this very "story" about half way threw (at the part "digging his claws into the ice" suddenly the light turns in. I didn't press the button or anything. Out of curiosity, i check out the window, the street lights and porch lights are back on. I don't know what happened to me tonight, I don't know who I'm going to tell and some close friends. I do know, that no one will believe me, because that's how paranormal stuff works. I also know, that next time Maggie wakes up someone late at night, I'm not going outside.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Nerfed Raider
A long time ago, in a land far away... well, actually about 2 months ago, in my front yard, I was waiting for one of my friends to show up and bring the can of black paint I lent him. I was waiting because I had to paint some guns with a black base coat (one of those guns would eventually become the tiger raider).
I was looking at the paint I had and noticed I had a can of red, that I used once and loved, but hadn't touched since. I also had a couple guns that had base coats on them, but didn't really have any plans. I doodled on a piece of paper trying to figure out how to make a good looking white and red gun, but every design ended up looking like a candy cane.
Out of no where I remembered some stencils that had come with one of the guns I bought recently. I grabbed one at random, it was the nerf logo. I went back outside, with the white gun, red paint and stencil. I didn't paint the gun at first, just stood there, worried it would look terrible after I painted it. I decided whatever, and stenciled the word "NERF" on the gun over and over. And ended up with this.
The gun, much to my surprise, turned out great.
A Vault Hunters Nerf Gun
A year or two ago, I got the game Borderlands 2, it was easily one of the most fun games I've ever played. In it, there was a skin for Salvador the Gunzerker. The skin is called Root for The Home team and is Purple with an orange line going down it (picture below). I don't know why, but I really love the look of this skin. A month ago I was standing in the spray paint isle at Menards trying to decide what colors I should get to paint my next gun, I noticed they had the purples next to the oranges, so I grabbed a can of each and got ready to paint a gun.
The first step to painting the gun was taping up the 2 handles of the raider. I liked the gray and orange that the handles already had. Next, I painted the gun orange, and waited for it to dry. Once it was dry, all I had to do was paint the top orange and remove the tape, I compared taking the tape off a finished nerf gun to opening Christmas presents in an earlier blog post, but this time, it was much more like opening a red loot chest in borderlands 2. The finished gun turned out great and is an amazing tribute to one of my favorites skins from borderlands 2.
The first step to painting the gun was taping up the 2 handles of the raider. I liked the gray and orange that the handles already had. Next, I painted the gun orange, and waited for it to dry. Once it was dry, all I had to do was paint the top orange and remove the tape, I compared taking the tape off a finished nerf gun to opening Christmas presents in an earlier blog post, but this time, it was much more like opening a red loot chest in borderlands 2. The finished gun turned out great and is an amazing tribute to one of my favorites skins from borderlands 2.
Tiger Raider
A while ago I decided I was going to try to paint a tiger stripe gun. My first thought was i would paint a gun all orange and then use tape to outline places to then paint black. The problem with this, is it takes FOREVER, and uses lots of tape. I gave up on the idea, thinking it would just take up a lot of time and not turn out well. A week later I was painting a gun for a friend, when I use spray paint on a gun I put cardboard underneath it. I had put a piece of tape on the cardboard earlier and forgotten it was there. The paint covered the tape and the cardboard around it, when I removed the tape it left a perfect stripe on the cardboard.
I ran into my room and grabbed a scissors and tape, I cut pieces of painters tape so the ends of the tap was pointed, and then put them on a gun I had painted all black. I ran back outside and spray painted the entire gun orange. A day later the gun was fully dry. The only way I can compare how I felt pulling the tape off and seeing how amazing the gun had turned out, is saying it was like a 5 year old opening his last Christmas present to reveal an x-box. Click here to see finished gun. I wasn't the only one who loved this gun because it ended up selling for $70, considering I bought the gun for $4 and tape and paint only cost around $10 this gun was a huge success and I'm really glad I didn't give up painting it the first time.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Alpha trooper
This (For those of you who don't know) is how a regular alpha trooper looks
After a bunch of painters tape, 2 coats of tan paint, a spare recon sight and retaliator stock, this is how mine turned out.
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