A wacky Nerf mod – The Octo Scout
Hello folks! It’s Saturday night and yes I should have far better things to do with my time than updating my blog, but such is the excitement at finishing my latest Nerf mod, I figured what the heck. The ‘Explorator Cephalopoda Ballista’ or if you prefer Scoutopus (or OctoScout – forgive me, I could not make up my mind!) came to me a wee while back, maybe a couple of months, I mentioned it on my Facebook that I’d had the idea, but finding a toy octopus for the job of sticking its tentacles out the exhaust ports was a bust. Well, as you have no doubt gathered… a couple of weeks ago I found one!
Firstly our octo friend was to sit in the upper dart holder beneath the actual barrel, so it could still fire, alas when I placed it there during prep, it looked silly, too far away from the exhaust ports for it to make logical sense. I’m not too fussed this Nerf Scout mod no longer fires, this was always going to be more of an art / display piece than for Nerf wars and the like.
As you can see I went with blue accents and shaded the slide in so it was a bit like the sea, with foam around where the tentacles have smashed out of the exhaust ports of the Nerf Scout.
This Scout mod was a lot of fun to do, though pretty time-consuming.
I hope you like the weirdness and the shout out to Cthulhu… tentacle goodness.
Post written for GirlyGamer.com.au home of Nerfenstein on the interwebs. If you’re seeing it elsewhere it’s either on one of GirlyGamers social sites where it is autoflung via catapult, or swiped by evil websites that just copy other peoples hard work…. the sods.
If you want to comment on this mod, please do so at GirlyGamer.com.au so I actually get to see it lol.
Have a great weekend!
Beautiful work again…! I love the look of these Nerf Scouts, they’re a really cool looking sidearm. I will probably use one of these for my first paint project.
Sorry, one question…do you find that while using these blasters after they’re painted, that the paint rubs off on the hand-grip?
Thanks 🙂
Hi Rick,
haven’t had that problem as yet, but I don’t use them in wars, most of them are display pieces. The ones I do use fairly regularly though appear to be holding up well and I haven’t had any complaints from people I’ve given them to. Obviously with over or rough use anything will chip / wear away, but so far so good 🙂