Custom painted dart blasters by Miles

I've been meaning to get some photos and post these up here for a while. These custom painted blasters are by a mate of mine, Miles. It's not the first of his works, somehow he manages to pull off some really awesome looking paint jobs just by doing some careful masking or dry brushing. His latest work, is a Nerf Longshot, a Nerf Alpha Trooper, and a Lanard Triple Shot. All are now a bit battle worn, but still look great.

First, the Longshot. while the black and silver on a well prepared shell makes this thing stand out, it's not the only detail about this blaster that's different. Miles did an almost seamless integration of the front gun into the longshot main body, and to fire uses a ring pull on string that is the perfect length to line up with the existing longshot trigger, so both can be fired at once, or just one at a time.

Very sleek

Interestingly, instead of just discarding the top half of the front gun after the integration, Miles cleaned it up and painted it in the same colours to be used with the blaster. It also has a Tasco red dot scope on a custom made mount attached to the top rail.

Note the convenient ring-pull trigger

Without the custom barrel

Internally, only the air restrictor has been removed, no extra spring was added. Also, none of the internal parts were painted, so as not to increase wear and early breakdown. Performance? Well, there's been plenty of times I've been hit out of nowhere with a dart that originated from this blaster. Though, a red dot sight on any Nerf blaster is pretty useless, it's still way better than using a Nerf sight.

The Alpha Trooper is my favourite. It looks unreal in my opinion with the Raider stock and custom made sight. The sight was made using the base of a recon flip up sight, and a recycled lens body from the light on the Nerf Nitefinder. Again, no internal parts were painted, and only the air restrictor was removed. It maintains full slam-fire function with no jams.Performance is not lacking at all. Seeing Miles pop up with these generally means you rethink your strategy haha.

Trigger and barrel tip was left orange
to not scare the neighbours

The sight is still compatible with other blasters

quite a photogenic blaster really...

 Finally, there is the Lanard Triple Shot. Going for a more camo look on this one, still with no internals painted. This is also modded, with the turret removed and a buzz bee shell integrated in the front to be able to only take single darts. The upside of this (or rather downside for the other team) is that this blaster now yields incredible ranges. It actually has a significant recoil for a spring powered foam dart blaster. So, with this paint work suits someone in a ghillie suit.

I've been Nerf sniped with this more times than I can count

In closing, I'd like to thank Miles for letting me do a write up on these blasters. I felt that they deserved their own post, and I'm positive there's plenty more custom blasters out there that could get there own spot on this blog. If you would like to see your blasters up here, please email me some decent quality photos with details of the blasters, and your name (unless you want to go anonymous). Cfb_rolley@hotmail.com