I did a fun side gig a while back to build these three nerf blasters, mostly to battle test v8 but also because making toys stuff is fun and the designer who hired me is a good friend I’ve know since college. The parts came out great and made it to the shelves with very few discernible changes, whi…

I knew I’ve seen these somewhere before they sell them at the American store here in Sweden called EKO, really cool i will have to check them out next time I visit, great models! [Screenshot_20241202-200736~2]

[20241204_161446] [20241204_161442] [20241204_161435] Still up and selling very nice touch and design Kyle! Rhino power :rhinoceros:

Very cool Kyle! Too bad we’re not in one office together

@theoutside nice I like it a lot

Would everybody have one in their desk drawer?

I would love to see the manufacturing process of something like this.

Probably, every single piece is made using a bivalve mold, as you can see from the marks left by the mold’s closure. [Plastic Injection Mold Design] [Toy manufacturing - plastic injection molding]

I did work at kenner years ago before they were purchased by hasbro- Nerf was owned by kenner at the time, and everyone was nerf armed to the teeth… daily nerf battles would erupt and delightful chaos would ensue. years later I worked at Toy biz (marvel’s toy company) and I built a prototype nerf s…

@theoutside did you also design the molds?

no- way above my paygrade. Hasbro did all the final engineering and mold design. I’m an art school nerd…I do mostly concept stuff and then hand it off to the adults to make production the parts from my concept models. I have done bazzillions of insanely detailed molds for a miniatures company ( ht…

Nerf Blasters built with Rhino 8

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theoutside (Kyle Houchens) December 30, 2024, 4:38pm 19

caught these in a quick shot in the latest netflix spy series called Black Doves (decent show actually IMO) - always fun to see stuff I worked on in the wild…

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