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Once I chose the color scheme<\/a> (with the help of my modest Photoshop skills), I started the task of modifying the real thing. Here we go, step by step.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nThis is how it always starts.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nFirst, we take it apart. I used masking tape to keep the screws together. After I had more than a few pieces to keep track of, I started labeling them and putting them into ziploc bags.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nEverything has been disassembled and lightly sanded.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nEverything has been washed and is drying.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nThe bits and pieces have been labeled and placed into ziploc bags. Note the bag labeled “unknown spring”. Yes, I have already lost track of where something goes. Sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nThese are the ornamental bits I bought at Michael’s. The curlicue flourishes were something like $5 a pair, while the bag of little oval things was about $5 for a dozen.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nAnd now those are lightly sanded and washed, as well.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nThe decorative bits are glued on (with cyanoacrylate), things have been washed again, and are drying.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nEverything has been given a couple of coats of satin black.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nI assembled most of the large parts (without screws), and took a photo to use as the basis of my color tests<\/a>. There is probably a word for assembling something without using the screws, but I do not know what it is.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nI thought the cylinder deserved its own photo.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nThis is the first coat of “antique brass”. I will go over this lightly with “brass”.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nMasking off the cylinder was the single most time-consuming part. There are at least 50 individual pieces of masking tape on this thing.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nThis should be the last thing I need to mask off: the upper receiver, under the slide.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nI painted the upper receiver black, and then gave it a mist of silver. I think that this gives it a nice retro “steel” look.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nAnd naturally, the black paint seeped past the masking tape, and<\/em> the masking tape stuck to the silver and pulled it off. I tried using some acetone to take the black off, and that did nothing, nothing, nothing… and then went through all<\/strong> of the layers of paint down to the yellow plastic. Son of a… <\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nOkay. So I re-masked and then re-painted it (just in the damaged areas, to the best of my ability), and it looks okay. In retrospect, I should have sanded the edges of the damaged areas, because you can see those edges if you look carefully. But screw it: the whole point of steampunk is that things are hand-made, not mass-produced in a factory, so some minor flaws are acceptable.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nHere we are. All the pieces have been painted, and are ready for assembly. You may not be able to tell in this photo, but I used a brush to paint some black in the creases and edges, to give the parts a “used” and slightly dirty look.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nAs I assembled the pieces, I used a kind of dry teflon-based lubricant on the moving parts. I think that this was a huge improvement over the silicone gel I used to lubricate the prototype<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nAssembly has begun! And wouldn’t you know, I still do not know where that mystery spring goes. Not only that, but I have a mystery screw, now, too. I stared at it for a good long while, but eventually I had to give up and go disassemble my unmodified Nerf Maverick for comparison.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>
\nI immediately saw where the mystery spring was, but it took a long time for me to spot the mystery screw. It’s inside of the indexing mechanism.<\/p>\n

\"Nerf<\/a>\"Nerf<\/a>
\nAnd here we are: all done!<\/p>\n

The best thing — well, maybe not the best, but a great thing — is that it works! My prototype<\/a> fails to fire about 85% of the time. I think that is partly because it has so many layers of paint, and also because I used silicone gel for lubrication. Rev 6A has, at most, half the layers of paint that the prototype has, and I used a dry teflon-based waxed lubricant on the moving parts.<\/p>\n

All in all, I am very pleased.<\/p>\n

I have one thing left to do, but it will need to wait a while, because work and school are keeping me busy: I want to put black leather on the grip, where it is currently painted black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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