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Published: 2012-09-25 01:05:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 4640; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 1107
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I have a Nerf Retaliator (sans barrel extension) for HvZ, and I've been trying to think up a good paint job for it. I'm going with something inspired by the Bandit weapons in Borderlands 2 and the work of Kevin Duc, the man who designed them.[link]
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DUDE, I just bought one of these, also with the intent to repaint. ;}
Great minds, hah!
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i like this design. could be a weapon from borderlands 
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long comment ahoy!
Very nice, although I'm still not quite a huge fan of the horizontal stripes on the clip, I would probably just block it into the body-lines as they are, otherwise it may get a little distracting. Another thing that may be a good idea, try using some bondo, or other plastic-based non-shrinking filler and fill in the nerf logos and some of the sillier looking bits on the gun for a very finished appearance. Also, try making certain colors in different finishes. For instance, to create a brushed metal finish, mix pearl medium into your acrylics before painting with them and lay down a dark base coat, then after that dries lay down a lighter color, again either with pearl medium, or metallic paint if you can find some good stuff, and let it dry completely. It usually helps to have the top coat be on the thin side, since to get the desired effect, you will be masking nearby stuff, if you haven't already, and lightly brushing it in one direction with sand paper, or a bit of steel wool/brillo pad. Either way, it is just to create really fine lines within the paint to expose the darker color underneath. The reason this will still resemble metal even when the base colors are simply sparkly, is because of these fine lines, and the fact that brushed metal has a somewhat diffused light reflectivity anyway. And to create your different finishes, consider the whole range of mod podge. It is relatively inexpensive and very effective. Alternately, if you have lots of time to mask, and an airbrush with a nozzle that has a large enough opening to be metal-flake friendly, you may consider thinned out fingernail polish. It is less expensive, often than the actual airbrush paints, and there are a thousand and one colors to choose from, as well as several different finishes including matte, satin, gloss and high gloss. There are even glow-in-the-dark versions and crackle (be careful with crackle though as it may not work once thinned further than the original.)
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Thanks for the suggestions, but I've actually painted Nerf guns before and I have a pretty solid idea of what I want in this paint job. It's supposed to be bold colors, patterns bordering on garish, lots of stripes.
For the actual paint job, my process is as follows: Dismantle gun, sand parts to be painted (I sand off the warnings and Nerf logo, but leave the N-Strike logo and any cool-looking markings), use black, plastic-compatible spray paint (Krylon Fusion) to prime, spray on base color, paint on details in acrylic, first coat of glaze, reassemble gun, second coat of glaze.
For the exposed metal, I have silver-leaf paint that looks like mercury and actually dries metallic.
Mod Podge tends to discolor acrylic paints. That happened to my Strider sculpt, but thankfully I liked the way the discoloration looked.
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Orange mod works got their stage one internals out for it now. That was quick.
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