In case you're wondering...

In case anyone is wondering, I've not been bumming around in the past few weeks! I actually have been quite busy working on my creations, and my garage is starting to be overtaken with Nerf guns!  I'm currently doing an experiment to see if perhaps I'm putting too much work into them so they have to be sold for too high a price; I realized that my target audience probably works fast food. As such, I'm making several Nerf guns without any fancy electronic components, which cuts anywhere from three days to a week off the build time.

Why then am I taking so long to get my creations posted? Basically, it comes down to this.  I work on a project until I can't make any more progress on it because I need something or another to finish it.  At that point, I look at what resources I still have, and I start a new project based on my available supplies.  Usually, I can get almost all of the work done on a project but then wouldn't you know it, I run out of primer or I can't find my tube of Bondo hardener or whatever.  I'm not trying to dump lots of money into these creations, although I do spend about twenty dollars a month on general supplies.  Hence, when one of the projects hits a roadbump, I have to set it on the backburner until either the next month or one of my other Nerf guns sells.

So, here's a sneak preview of what I've got sitting around my garage waiting for whatever I need to finish them.

There's an M-4 Shuriken Submachine Gun from Mass Effect, waiting for a battery holder.

I have a Halo 4 Saw nearly completed as well, this one waiting for bondo on the magazine.

I started another weapon from the upcoming Bungie game, Destiny, but I encountered a problem drilling a 7/8" hole in that particular Nerf gun, so I will need a hole saw to do it. It's the legendary sniper rifle called Closing Time, and apparently the hardest gun to find in game; it's also apparently what Bungie used to show off their mad game-making skills in advertisements and at conventions and stuff.

Lastly, I have a rather complicated build about a third completed.  It's going to be a nerf version of the Railway Rifle from Fallout 3; I recently acquired a 25lb erector set and was inspired by some of the peculiar parts and lengthy girders in it to attempt to make a gun that is apparently made from a pressure cooker, a crutch, and a few gauges. It'll be nice to make a gun that is supposed to look ghetto fabulous, even in-game.

Let this post be motivation for you to buy one of my other creations, and be a patron of the nerdy arts. I implore you.  Are these not wonderful masterpieces, fit for holding and coddling and mounting above your mantle? I think so. It is your civic duty to bring life to these marvels.

That is all.

Destiny Deviant Gravity-A Machine Gun

I'm excited about this one--I've made a replica of a gun from a video game before the video game was even released! I figure all you cosplayers out there who might want to be the first to do something from Bungie's newest game, Destiny will be able to get a head start on your costume! To tell the truth, after playing the Beta, the costumes don't look that hard to make for anyone who has cosplayed before, so perhaps you'll want to consider doing just that for the next convention that we all know is right around the corner!

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

To cut costs, this gun does not have any fancy electronic components, although if anyone is interested, I have the ability to make the scope into an actual (albeit rudimentary) red-dot holosight.  However, if someone interested in purchasing this gun wants that option, it will be an extra sixty bucks tacked onto the price. I feel like that's fair.

The Nerf gun is still fully functional, although due to the length of the barrel, don't expect to be getting much range out of the darts; there's too much friction from the darts hitting the sides of the barrel. This was originally a Nerf Stampede, so firing it does require six D-cell batteries, which are not included.

The magazine holds 35 Streamline or Elite darts, and to remove it, first wiggle the fake bullet chain out of the side of the receiver and then pull the magazine release button.  Just a note when putting the magazine back in, the magazine catch seems to have worn out after many epic battles in my living room, so you have to ensure it catches on the magazine by tapping the bottom of the magazine and making sure the magazine release button is in the forward-most position on either side of the gun.

I'm asking $110 for it, most of which goes to cover the cost of the Nerf gun, and the two 35-rd drum magazines that were used to make it.

Here's the link to buy it.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/199702407/destiny-deviant-gravity-a-machine-gun

Mass Effect M-97 Viper Sniper Rifle

Here's another Mass Effect sniper rifle! Yay! In an effort to cut costs down, I did not create any electronic components in this one, so you won't be seeing any fancy LEDs or those laborious simulated thermal clips on this one.  The scope has approximately a 4x zoom, and the nerf gun still fires, although because of the model Longshot it is based off of, it only accepts and shoots the older streamline darts (for whatever reason, blue Longshots will not shoot the newer Elite darts that you can get in Wal-Mart).  To shoot the gun, you pump it like you would a shotgun, although the pump has to be rammed all the way back pretty hard for the trigger to engage the plunger.  No matter how I tried, I couldn't fix that slight difference from the original force required to prime the weapon.  I think you will find it is a negligible difference though, and once you're accustomed to pumping it hard, you will be able to let off six shots in rapid succession. I'm asking $80 for this one.

Link to purchase it:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/199689694/mass-effect-m-97-viper-sniper-rifle-nerf?