Tomorrow's blaster technology.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Modifly: The One Blaster.

"One Blaster to rule them all, One Blaster to find them, One Blaster to bring them all and in the darkness snipe them."

Basically a summary of the Modifly. The last line sounded especially nice, since it has a red dot sight on the front and I made it mostly black, and almost all black on the front for night stealth operations. It has some unique features, including my most advanced type of dart, an open back, and a handy little niche for stowing that one extra dart that you need in a pinch. (#mylastdart)

It has an interesting set of darts in its 8 barrels:
1. filled-head fletched-tail Elite dart: 113 ft max, accuracy= 1" @ 40 ft
2. filled-head Elite dart: 111 ft max, accuracy= 3' @ 40 ft
3. same as 2
4. BuzzBee Toys Suction Dart: 40 ft max, accuracy= 3" @ 15-20 ft
5. same as 4
6. same as 2
7. same as 2
8. filled-head twisted Elite Firefly dart: 95 ft max, accuracy= 7" @ 35-40 ft

The Modifly was the first mod I ever did, and it started with an all-out efficiency upgrade (referring to the efficiency of the energy transfer from the firing spring to the dart). I removed the pins and springs from inside the barrels, and that actually increased the performance by a bit. The blaster is in fact not even that powerful, but it has the highest firing efficiency I have ever seen on a blaster (not counting flywheel-powered blasters), with the Pinpoint following close behind. 
It has  a forward-mounted handle, and everything else is all a stock. It has an open back that allows you to look inside to diagnose mechanical problems and check to see whether or not the spring is cocked back and ready to fire. 
This blaster is a nocturnal stealth multipurpose blaster. It works rather quietly, since little of the firing energy is converted to sound and wasted (except when it fires a blank, then it's quite loud). Also, I replaced the metal hairsprings with rubber bands, since they have less of a tendency to resonate. I deliberately left some orange on the front, because that's what tells other people that it's not a real gun. (Just a word of advice to repainters, if it can't injure somebody, paint the muzzle orange... it's for your own safety.)


As a closing statement, if N-Strike Elite is the final word in today's blaster technology, the Modifly is tomorrow's blaster technology. This is my official statement that I am better than Hasbro.

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