Pimp My Nerf
One thing that is likely to break out at any moment at my work is a good Nerf fight. So a few weeks ago I went and bought the Episode VII Stormtrooper Nerf. It works just fine, but I decided to give it a more realistic look, just for shits and giggles.
The original toy. Colorful, isn't it?
The whole thing taken apart. It's quite a lot of pieces, actually, and at the time of the picture I hadn't realized there were even more things I could take apart (the toy is basically springs everywhere).
After that point I kinda forgot to take WIP pictures. Mostly it was applying several layers of acrylic paint (badly) and then drybrushing with silver paint to give it that good old weathered look.
The result. Note that I went for the original all-black look, not the white and black one from Episode VII. I also added small weights inside to give it a heavier feel.
Yeah, I had fun with a red headlamp. The red-and-black First Order look is just so damn cool, I can't help it.
I'd never done this before, so I'm really happy with the result, although I did the weathering really quickly. The main problem is that the black paint doesn't hold at all where there's friction, so some white and orange bits are already appearing. Really, I'm just happy I managed to get it back together correctly (it still fires, I checked, thankfully).
It was fun.
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