Nerf Recon M16/M4 cosmetic mod

In this instructable you will learn how to modify your Nerf Recon CS6 to look like an assault rifle. This may be considered illegal (no orange tip) in some areas, so proceed with caution. Check the laws of your country/state/province before you build this.

*DISCLAIMER* I am not responsible for any damages, lawsuits or injuries for possessing a realistic weapon so obviously don't bring this thing out in public. I am also not responsible for any damages done to your Recon. If you follow the steps correctly there should be no issues (left over parts are always bad). If you have any questions just PM me or drop me a comment and I'll get back to you A.S.A.P.

Step 1: Materials and tools

materials and tools
-Nerf Recon Cs6
-Nerf Flip Clip
-Rustoliem Universal All Surface Spray Paint : Flat Black
-About 2' Of 3/4" Copper Pipe
-220 Grit Sand Paper
-Nerf Raider Or Soaker Wars Shotblast Stock
-Screwdriver Or Multi -Tool
-Pipe Cutters(not shown)
-Plastic Bags(the small ones)
-Reauseable Divded Plastic Container
-Permanant Marker
-Q-Tip
-Hockey Tape
-A Hard Dry Clean Work Surface
-Sunglasses(just if you want to look cool and i'm sure we all do)

Comments

[omackenzie]

i've done this with mine too but i'm planning to find some metallic blue for the reloading slide and some other bits, also, wouldn't adding the copper pipe affect the range? adding the barrel extension definitely does for a long strike because the bullets dont always go straight so they hit the inside of the barrel and slow down...

[Hitman227]

Adding the copper pipe does affect the range to a certain extent, but its a Nerf gun. To counter this problem, just get the measurements of the main spring and go to the hardware store or an online supplier and purchase a stiffer spring. There is loads of information on the subject out there.

[mayej]

Wow

[Hitman227]

Thank you.

[hodedelm]

how much would you like for the gun i could do it myself but i want to get it for my friend and i don't want to mess up.

[Hitman227]

I have never really considered selling this, as it has been a long time since this instructable was published.

[dufdg]

looks like a very cool mod. I am trying to help my son complete this and when we take the barrel apart - the 3/4 copper pipe will not fit - their are ribs the touch the outside wall and the inside plastic pipe. If I take out the plastic pipe, and try to add the copper pipe - the ribs prevent the edges of the barrel from touching and therefor going back together. What am I missing? (any help would be great - trying to be a cool dad...)

[Hitman227]

I will refer you to step 2, if you pipe will not fit in plastic barrel of the assembled and detatched hand guard/barrel assembly, than it is too large.

When you place the 3/4" copper pipe in the original barrel it sholud slide freely. I used hockey tape (shown in the last step) to hold the copper pipe inside the plastic barrel.

The original plastic barrel remains inside the hanguard the whole time.

[mater nerf gun]

dude you should leave a bit of orange because thats illegal

[Hitman227]

Not in my country...

[rfahlevi]

MY UNFINISHED M4A1 GRENADIER :)

m4a1-i used another cs6 barrel inside the outter pipe to make the the extended barrel,the scope is a red dot sight that i bought off ebay,(YOU CANT SEE THE STOCK)its a raider stock

m203 grenade launcher(FRAME)-the barrel is a nerf ebf25 barrel,nerf ebf25 side rail to hold the barrel and space it from the cs6 rail,and yes i used some card paper for the trigger assmbly

[Hitman227]

Lookin nice!

[rfahlevi]

[blueblobbs]

my recon wont come apart the screw is stuck what should i do

[rfahlevi]

try using a drill with a screwdriver head :)

[rfahlevi]

try using a drill with a screwdriver head :)

[blueblobbs]

Thanks, I'll try it.
-blueblobbs

[Hitman227]

Just be careful not to strip the screw.

[blueblobbs]

Ok, thanks for your help. :) - blueblobbs

[Hitman227]

Yep, and good luck!

[Hitman227]

What screw? If it's only one (on the shell) you could probably be safe just drilling it through. If its the slide screw you could sand the slide while its still attached to the gun (painting will be harder) if your up to it. Other wise I don't know. Hope this helped.

[blueblobbs]

thanks

[Hitman227]

Ok.

[frost360]

Cool but to hard to make
i have the gun but its to complecated

[Hitman227]

Sorry that it can be complicated but I tried to make it as understandible as possible.

[Ryp97]

does it shoot farther or does it just look cool ( im still ganna make it, i was just wanting to know)

[Hitman227]

It shoots about the same distance but is quieter.

[Rifles]

I don't understamd your tutorial at all the words seem to be mumbled up and confusing.

Also, In the Step 2 do I have to unscrew all the screws and then insert the copper pipe or measure it then remove it?

Another question, I have a 1.5M 19.05 X 1.02 Copper STR Length Pipe.
It doesn't seem to fit in the hole with all the screws together.

(I don't live in the usa so My resources may be limited but please correct everything you can.)

If you could answer all these could you also tell me if there's a video tutorial?

[Hitman227]

I have not posted a video tutorial nor do I know of one.

In step 2 you do not need to remove the screws right away. You must connect the barrel to the gun and slide in the pipe untill you feel resistance from the bolt.

The copper pipe has a 3/4" internal diameter I found it in the plumbing section of my local home hardware (if they have that were you are). 1.5M 19.05 X 1.02 Copper STR Length Pipe? from what I know STR piping is plastic. All you need is a normal 3/4" ID pipe.
Bring the inner barrel and a dart to a plumbing/hardware store and if there is a small space between the pipe and inner barrel your fine (don't forget to make sure if the dart fits).

I live in Canada but plumbing and lumber products are still mesuredr using the imperial system so really I cant help you much.

[Lightning1287]

I did something similar to this to my Alpha Trooper. I did gray and taped two clips together. I haven't added the barrel extension yet. But nice job. Looks great.

[Hitman227]

Thanks. Sounds cool.

[masterlink12345]

Hey, does the gun still shoot after the barrel mod? And i took my recon apart and now i put it back together and it doesn't pull back... I pull the gray part back and it just goes back to starting position..the orange thing on the end of the gun doesnt get stuck so it cant fire...helppp

[Hitman227]

Yes, the gun should still shoot after the barrel mod. You might have installed the thing at the back of the gun near the spring wrong. It keeps the plunger in the compressed position. You may have lost or not installed the spring on the locking mechanisim right. If you lost the spring don't worry, you can use the spring from a retractible pen to do the job.

[masterlink12345]

I put it back together the right way and the big spring is in place... I believe that the O ring that holds the air pressure from decompressing and firing the dart will not hold the orange compressor when the spring is in place

[Hitman227]

OK, does it work now?

[masterlink12345]

It does not. I shall try again. I believe that i possibly could have pulled the larger spring longer by a bit. I don't know if that affects anything. I will try again and let you know what exactly happens...
By the way....Thanks for the help...

[Hitman227]

ok, hope you fix it.

[masterlink12345]

NOTHING!!! UUGGHHH..... Its gotta be the O-ring...

[Hitman227]

I think that the locking mec. is not installed right. I posted a note on step three that you might want to take a look at. It's on the far right of the pic.

[covich]

do you sell the m16

[Hitman227]

If you mean have I sold it, I have not.

[sithlil]

EPIC!

[Hitman227]

Thank you.

[reddevved]

I'm gonna make this (eventually) and put the silencer from this(http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-mini-potato-cannon-out-of-a-coconut/step5/Make-and-attach-the-barrel-suppressor/) ible on the end.
I have a question though the silencer uses pvc will that work on the pipe in this one?

[Hitman227]

I dont know how well a silencer would work on a nerf gun... becuse most of the noise is made by the piston head and the somewhat bad seal in between the bolt and the barrel and the plunger cover on the back. Try it and tell me how it works out = ). As for how to attach it, you could just slip it on (if you can find the right size couplers where ever you are buying materials from) Or buy a male copper 3/4" threaded fitting and a 3/4" (you will need and adaptor for the 1" pipe) PVC female threaded fitting. You probably should use 3/4" or 1" PVC becuase 1/2" is 1 too small for the barrel, 2 will probably stop the dart and three you will need a reducing brushing. A silencer is great for looks I really love silencers too but if you really want to make it quiet you should check out some of the nerfhaven forums and ask around about silencing the piston and sealing the chamber. Good luck. Hey, and I wanna see some pics of it done! = )

[reddevved]

I meant just for cosmetics and I don't know if I will be able to make it due to lack of funds.

[Capt. Kidd]

Did you look for stuff around the house to do it with? or do you not have the gun? i cobbled mine together from stuff lying around. (ex: barrel is broken towel rack, the pipe running between the mounts.) no pic sorry can't upload for some reason.

[reddevved]

Really late reply but...
I looked and no useable pipes and dad won't let me use his spraypaint

[Hitman227]

Okay.

[Hitman227]

I had an old recon so I made an assault rifle out of it. I used everything from around the house except spray paint. For the barrel I used a piece of old copper pipe. Might be becuase your using an outdated browser (I know I sound like an annoying pop-up) eg. explorer 6. That happened with me I upraded to explorer 8 then it was fine.

[Capt. Kidd]

i have the latest firefox now. here's the barrel.

[Hitman227]

Nice! Hope to see the finished project.

[Hitman227]

OK Cool. That sucks no $.

[eman414]

Great job but you might want to put an orange tip on it so the police don't mistake it for a real gun and acadentaly shoot you for no reason

[Hitman227]

I know but I did this paint job for the realisim and I live waaay up in the country so we dont have a local fuzz. Thanks an orange tip is a good idea though. d:)

[reddevved]

an easy fix for the orange tip is get some orange electrical tape and pgt a bit on the end

[Capt. Kidd]

There's orange electrical tape? WHERE

[Hitman227]

The big orange building... home depot.

[Capt. Kidd]

wait... orange electrical tape, or orange duct tape?

[reddevved]

Electrical tape. My dad is an electrician and he has it so he can put two orange wires together and they look like 1 wire.

[Hitman227]

What he said.

[Hitman227]

Yeah I could put an orange tip on it, but I dont use it much; paintball instead.

[moocowdog]

thats not even good, its even better than awesome 10/10 man. you could also use the raider stock as well

[Hitman227]

Thanks!

[gman-ideas]

like the jacket! lol

[Hitman227]

Haha, thanks. =)

[davison112]

:O

BEAUTIFUL
It also works with normal 3/4" pvc, the pvc slides over the other barrel though and requires minor cutting or the barrel attachment

[Hitman227]

Thank you. I just had some 3/4" copper piping lift over from an other project so I just dicided to use it. d:)

[davison112]

:P I found some copper pipe in the shed the other day, i tried cutting it with normal pipe cutters........ big no no... so I hacksawed it and it's good

This is THE single best instructable ever

[Hitman227]

Pluming pipe cutters or those snippers? Just wondering and thank you.

[davison112]

the ones that cut pvc....

the darts keep getting stuck mid barrel, any tips on fixing it?

[mg0930mg]

Never use pvc cutters to cut anything besides pvc.

[Hitman227]

Yep.

[Hitman227]

Okay the pipe cutters you should be using are pictured in step 2 under the main image (just click to enlarge). They are used to cut metal. As for the dart geting stuck, You should first check to make sure that the pipe is 3/4" or larger. If it's 1/2"(1/2" is smaller than the diameter of the dart causing blockage) than you should swich to a larger size pipe. If it's 3/4" than check the inside of the barrel to make sure that there are no metal bits stuck to the inside. If there are go to your local Walmart ect. and buy a wire brisled brush (the ones used for cleaning vases ect.) and use it to scrape away the metal bits. Also if the pipe sticks out of the end of the barrel (the side connected to the blaster) to much it will cause the bolt not to fully seal and realese air into the clip area causing low power/velocity of the dart. If none of the above helps I recommend just buying a different piece of pipe.

[mg0930mg]

Damn, I was like where is the gun before the mods. Didn't even notice it was a nerf gun. Great job.

[Hitman227]

Thanks!

[domo0]

Very nice.Goooood jooooob

[Hitman227]

Thanks.

[wader 88]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM2SWNCes5g

[Hitman227]

Thanks wade.

[darknessfalls]

hmmmm a few things i did differently with mine: steel piping barrel (not too much different really) and custom flipclip, to give it the angled appearance ;) (made of a cardboard wedge and duct tape/hot glue) and finally put a carrying handle on the top of the slide, makes it easier to prime, and makes it look cool, but i like the idea of the stock, didnt think of that... (BtW try turing the flip up sight into a foregrip, use foam, hot glue, and duct tape, works well and can look cool (a friend even molded his to fit his hand, with i had a picture before it went missing))

[Hitman227]

Yah a fore grip would be a good add-on. Maybe Il'l make an instructable on it whould you be intrested?

[qazwsx755]

Nice Instructable!!

[Hitman227]

Thank you. d:)