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Oh, and while I'm at it... I'm ALWAYS open to your suggestions as to what I should do with this blaster. Lemme know what you wanna see!
Nerf/Laser Tag Hobbyist with a tactical sweet tooth
Sunday, July 28, 2013
RapidStrikes have Landed
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Oh, and while I'm at it... I'm ALWAYS open to your suggestions as to what I should do with this blaster. Lemme know what you wanna see!
First Full Auto? My stampede says otherwise
ReplyDeleteFirst Full-Auto Flywheel Dart Blaster is what I should've said. The Nitron was the first Flywheel Full-Auto blaster, but it shoots disks. The Stampede was the first Full-Auto Dart Blaster with a Plunger system.
DeleteClip system, actually; you're forgetting the Vulcan here, which also had a plunger.
DeleteBAH! You're right! Gosh almighty, so we've got the Vulcan, Stampede, Nitron, and RapidStrike for our Full-Auto array.
Deletewhile we are at it, I guess the swarmfire counts as the 1st full auto electronic turret blaster.
DeleteDon't forget the Swarmfire, Rapidfire AS-20, Speedswarm, or Magstrike, they get left out often enough, too :O
DeletePowerClip DX1000, how could you guys forget!
DeleteDon't forget the Wildfire!
DeleteMust know where!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm located in Omaha, NE. I've only successfully found it at a Toys R Us. There are 2 TRUs in town and only the one had 'em. Still, they should start showing up now.
DeleteCool. Ill check at the local tru tomorrow.
Delete25 dart drum, Grip-pod from the Stampede, and the "silencer from the Elite Spectre.
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess I'll take your invitation...there's one thing I'd like you to confirm for me if you decide to do an amped test:
ReplyDeleteI noticed in RandomShadow's demonstration/range video that he mounted four Li-Ion Trustfires in the battery tray directly; that is,with what looked like a lack of C-battery adapter cases. Is there anyway that you can do that and report on whether it's at all possible and whether it is stable enough to use practically?
I love the awesome look of this blaster! It just looks serious. I really hope that Nerf comes out with more blasters with awesome features such as ghost ring sights and built-in foregrips. I have always preferred blasters that look and feel like real firearms.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that your photo of the RapidStrike is only focused on the front. If you want to have the whole blaster in focus, hence accentuating every sensuous little detail, use a small aperture, for example, f22 on your Canon T3i. Aperture is the amount of light a camera lets in. Large apertures give a very small depth of field, but small apertures give a large depth of field. (The way that you can remember this is that high aperture numbers give a high depth of field, and low aperture numbers give a low depth of field.) The iPhone's only aperture is a humongous f2.4, so it isn't optimal for taking photos where depth of field is important. Using a smaller aperture (big number such as f22) will cause less light to reach the camera sensor, so your camera will automatically lower the shutter speed to make a properly exposed photo. (This is assuming that you would be using aperture priority mode. You could also adjust both aperture and shutter speed in the manual mode.) To prevent blurring caused by camera shake, I suggest getting more lighting onto your subject: this will raise your shutter speed. Also, you could use a tripod.
You probably won't need to worry about either of these, though, because the optimum aperture will probably be around f11 or something, and that won't create a shutter speed low enough to cause camera shake.
I hope that this helps and didn't go over your head. :)
I've been messing around with my T1i for awhile and been enjoying all the great shots you can take with it. Thanks for the awesome advice! These blasters look great, and it's nice to take shots that compliment that!
DeleteSuggestion for a mod: Paint the orange stripe white, to match the colours of the rest of the range.
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