Here are a couple of Nerf guns and one that is such a conglomeration of parts I don't know what to call it
My current weapon is a modified Nerf Sledgefire.
Original look:
Final appearance:
I basically covered about 90% of the base gun in steel and aluminum plates. Oddly enough, these all covered every one of the screw holes other than the ones in the handle and stock...which are covered by the stock add-on and the grip wrapping. There are also a few other plates I cut from sintra and glued in place to cover the texture on some of the other easily recognized parts. The barrel looked odd, so I added the lightsaber handle piece from one of those build a saber kits to extend it and give the ribbed look of Boba's blaster as a nod to the man, himself
. The break barrel loading makes it fit with the grenade launcher rounds mounted on my thigh plate.
This is the first Nerf mod I ever did. It was for my son's sniper rifle. He was playing Borderlands (I think) and loved the revolver rifle sniper. So we made one. The Maverick was the easiest choice to use as a base as it has a large enough cylinder and bore to make it a believable sniper rifle.
No before shots as it was made from a Maverick, parts of an old water gun, and a ton of other stuff from around the garage.
Finished appearance (more or less...I need some new shots of it as it has been a bit more modified now):
The Maverick base is still pretty easy to spot (though you would be surprised how many don't catch that in person). I tried a few things to hide it more, but they always stopped something from working right (mainly the drop out cylinder and the rotating when cocked). This, like a few others I have made, was built with "shoot-a-trooper" activities in mind and does function (though not extremely well and only if set up just right). While not the best reference for this thread, it was, at one time, used as a "how to use Nerf appropriately" model. It may get some more upgrades in the future as I have found a number of new techniques for hiding things while allowing them to still operate and move since this was built (back in 09, I think). Stock, barrel, and optics are all custom made from various materials.
For a non-Nerf build, I have my old rotary grenade launcher. This was made from a cool-looking water gun, a knock-off Nerf rifle, PVC, and a vacuum cleaner suction tube.
Original:
And final (again...no good pics of it by itself, so here is me holding it next to my son with the Maverick sniper build):
Since the base gun is virtually impossible to even find on line, I didn't really do much to alter its look. I added the barrel and shroud with extension (yep...I love the build a saber parts and how they give it the Boba look
) as well as the drum, rounds, and stock. That's about it. This one is incapable of firing...and was actually that way when I bought it at the store (which might explain why it was like 5 bucks
).