So I’ve got this friend who likes Nerf…

Posted: February 23rd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

He told me a few months ago that, in a drunken stupor at Target, he picked up a double barrel shottie Nerf gun and had some fun times with it in his apt. Well, it just so happened that Kate and I happened to be in Target one night on the eve of a major snow storm so we stocked up on Nerf for the weekend.

After multiple impromptu battles of foam flying melee, I had the brilliant idea of applying what I learned with my car project to the guns via various antiquing techniques. Even better, why not experiment on a gun for my buddies upcoming birthday.

The one issue (which was most important here), was that it was cold as shit outside. I learned my lesson in the past that spray painting in the bathroom was an extremely bad idea, I decided to make my storage space my makeshift paint booth. This was no easy task because it took a drive to the space in the wee hours of the night to escape the security guards while I painted but damned if I wouldn’t suffer for my art.

Behold the fruits of my labor:

The original product after a good sanding down

First coat of primer after a basecoat of flat black

Finally laying down some color: flat army green

Kate was intently busy supervising (and playing doodlejump)

Still more drying time

So after everything was painted, I brought the parts back home and took a fine brush of silver paint to the pieces to make it all look nice and used. I also wrapped the grips in tape and dyed them with black and brown shoe polish and engine grease

The final product

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