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Come on, that’s hideous
Even if I’m not always a fan of steampunk there are beautiful things done. But not with three spray paints
There’s only one response to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA
Nailed it. XD
Oh so you know a lot about a fandom?
You must be a genuine critic.
Huh ?
What the hell are you on about ?
he just got Wonka’d!
Oh so you like putting words in people’s mouths?
You must be a master debater!
Agreed. Lego technic components spraypainted gold – and not appearing to connect to anything! = FAIL.
Steampunk is Victorian “retro”, not like 1985! C’mon people, plastic?
Is that a soldering iron? Seriously, look at the business end of it.
Would have been better if they had used a SuperSoaker, and made the gauges functional.
why is everything nerdy a win?
because nerds run the site, dumbass.
LOL. u mad bro?
just disappoint, they seem to have lost their way.
Because the people who run this site are pretending to be nerds by subscribing to outdated stereotypes of a nerd that have been shoved down everyone’s throats by every retailer targeting the 18-29 year old demographic, therefore rendering it no longer “nerdy” and, in fact, quite trendy.
I imagine that when it goes out of vogue to stop squirting over anything remotely retro or “nerdy”, those who run Failblog will stop approving said “wins” and hopefully, the word “win” being used as a noun can die as well.
This is not steampunk, this is what bored and confused middle-aged women make when they see steampunk and want to join in. OMG SPARKLES AND COGS AND THINGS AND OMG ALL THESE STEAMPUNKS
Of course, let’s see your definition of Steampunk. Considering you are the expert and whine hideously about how others possibly are encroaching on your geeky territory. Having dealt with Steam Punk genre roleplaying, books, and items since the 1980′s myself I would like to see your definition. I will withhold my judgement on this item because I’d much prefer to judge your pompous ass.
I’m gonna agree with that guy up there. This is attempted steampunk, but it wouldn’t fit into a successful steampunk environment. It’s rather half-assed if you look close enough. Got some tubes and gauges, so that’s neat, but there’s also a bunch of random gears that don’t seem to do anything remotely useful, lazily attached decorations that don’t follow the rest of the design at all, and a lot of it just seems to be the original plastic with some unconvincing spraypaint. Most of the lines of this weapon still look decidedly modern or futuristic, as if someone took a sci-fi gun and glued some pipes to it.
No, as far as Nerf gun mods go, this one’s very middle of the road. It doesn’t look like anything I could imagine coming out of a technically advanced Victorian workshop, and therefore it doesn’t look like steampunk. It just looks like a painted sci-fi assault rifle with some pipes and gears glued to it haphazardly.
I do have to agree, this isn’t the best work. It could’ve had more of a design to it and a better color scheme.
Omg, it’s an emo steampunk fan!
Tell us more about how it was cool before it got popular.
Lol spray-painted Lego gears.
+1 Already thought I’m the only one recognizing that..
So much fail.
But, will it blend?
Theres only one way to find out.
Lets try the Smoothie button
Yall need to chill.
thats a win in my opinion! if yall hate it so much, then make something better an post it.
I love this logic.
You must never criticize anything, ever.
And nobody see the beautiful googles…
yea the goggles are great you can’t see out the left len’s tho, but it’s great looking and i know that because i am friends with the guy who actually made this
Looks like something from Final Fantasy.
I’m not familiar with Steampunk apart from a quick gloss-over on Google of what it’s about, but the fact that we’re arguing that something as pretty as this is “half-assed” with “a bunch of random gears that don’t seem to do anything remotely useful” speaks to the obvious esotericism of Steampunk culture. Guess its one of those things where “you have to be there” to get it.
I’m not even into steampunk, myself, but I know what it’s meant to represent, and this does not represent it. The biggest flaw here is really in the name, not in the execution. If this was just a random Nerf gun mod, I wouldn’t have had any complaints. It’s the fact that it’s trying to be “steampunk” that is the problem, because it’s not doing a good job at it. It’s a VERY specific style, which is why it has a specific name to begin with, and this doesn’t live up to that style.
You see, it’s sort of like… Sort of like using an unsharpened pencil to draw a very smudgy looking pencil sketch, then posting it as a charcoal drawing. Maybe it looks like a charcoal drawing to the uninitiated, and maybe it’s actually a really good work of art, but fact remains that it’s not charcoal at all. Someone who’s really into charcoal is going to see that and call it out on it, because the word charcoal refers to something specific, so it should only be used to describe that specific thing.
The word steampunk does not refer to things that look like this, so they shouldn’t be posted as such.
Again, post a damn definition (or link to same) of this amazingly-specific steampunk genre that you refer to?
Feel free to Google it if you don’t like my paraphrasing, but essentially Steampunk is science fiction set in the past, 19th century, with modern or ultramodern machinery designed around the technology that was available in that era. An advanced, retrofuturistic alternate past, in other words. Clockwork automatons, steam powered blunderbusses and the likes.
Here’s a video from a steampunk museum exhibit with some extraordinarily well made examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9ZX10iM64
Yeah… dude, that’s what this gun looks like. It’s steampunk.
I love it, and I want one.
Blue is steampunk now, eh? Okay.
*swishes fringe*
Haters: engaged in a “More Steampunk than Thou” pissing contest.
Amen.
You can piss steam? I’m impressed.
http://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/d88c_nerf_longstrike_rifle.jpg
By the looks of it they’ve taken that specific nerf gun and “steampunk”-ed it and honestly, fair enough job. I’d have preferred the blue as a dark wood myself, but by and large looks ornate whilst still being a nerf gun. Kudos to the creator
If you can paint it blue, you can paint it black. Add some weights to it for effect and you’ve got a scary-looking assault rifle. Hold up your favorite liquor store on the cheap! Get your ass shot when it turns out the proprietor is packing a real one!
Mother of God…
Excellent, when I saw that gun in the store i thought it was just begging to be steampunkified, I’m glad someone heard its pleas.
Oh wow, I didn’t know we had steampunk hipsters now. Can’t get away from it anywhere I guess…
Will it blend?
Jesus, everyone’s a bloody critic now days.
But the one thing i am not seeing, is every critic doing a better job.
While I agree with the sentiment that people are complaining too much, suggesting that “critics” need to be able to “do a better job” is missing the point. You don’t see movie or art or literature critics being subjected to this.
seriously the mods re-post crap all over the place… kinda embarrassing when you can’t even run a website without re-posting old dried up stuff just to make it look like you put up new material.
ahem, this is without doubt a fail
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I think this is awesome, and I don’t give a donkey’s turd what is technically steampunk or not. What a stupid argument.
agreed and i personally know the creator of this gun and it was his first steampunk item of anything thing
Looks like something from BioShock.
It’s not the gears that do nothing. That’s all fine. The hole thing is perfect assembled. But it really isn’t steampunk. It could easily become steampunk, if the creator used diffent colors.
Steampunk uses material common in design through the victorian era. That would be brass, wood and leather. Other material to, but these are commonly used.
When I look at my longstrike nerf, I would smooth down a lot of it. Then close some of the open areas with glass fiber. I would glue artifical leather to the handle and the barrel. Real leather would be better, but artifical would suffice.
Then I would the blue areas in a black and brown style, drybrushing it. The copper colored areas should be brass.
The key to steampunk is to take something of the era, roundabout 1850 to 1915… then add brass and leather elements, gauges and stuff to make it look that it has extraordinary features.
Where’s the trigger?
Does it have curly cues, cogs, and guages on it? Check.
Tacky? Check.
Pretentious? Check.
Yup, it’s steampunk. Debate closed.
That used to be an airsoft sniper rifle, it’s not nerf…
nope it was nerf, i saw it before and while it was being made into what it is now
fail.
Cool thing but will it able to shoot real bullets now?
This isn’t a win, this is a fail, and so is failblog for losing their way.
nerf is never a win k sry