Hi, I'm Luke.
Today on Out of Darts: This might be my new favorite 3D-printed springer.
Let's get going!
This is Silly's Lever Action Blaster -- also known as SLAB.
Now, Silly has been a designer in the community only for the last, I want to say, year and a half,
but he took the pandemic in stride and decided to just dive whole-hog into 3D design.
This blaster is unique in a number of ways.
First of all, there's the form factor.
It's got a lever Prime which is nothing but fun to use.
It's also got a floating magwell, so when the lever primes, the mag moves forward,
and the ram itself stays put while the mag moves around it.
It's a very Innovative design, and it is a really fun blaster to play with and operate.
The blaster features a Talon magwell -- pretty standard there.
It is a skinny pusher, so you can, of course, remove the magazine as you're using it.
It is compatible with all Talons except for
angled Talons (though there is a variant for angled Talons).
Now we just started selling these on the shop a few weeks ago, so full disclaimer:
While this is a review/spotlight video, this is obviously a product; you should know that by now.
We do carry this on the shop in three different ways:
The first is simply just the actual Hardware bits -- That's where you can take the 3D-printed files,
print them yourself, take our hardware kit, and put the blaster together.
He's got a great tutorial, but we will also be working on our own build guide for the SLAB.
The next version you can get is DIY with our 3D printed parts -- so you
get to pick from our 26 different colors that we've got in a variety
of different options and put them together, and then build your own.
The final is a ready-to-fire blaster, where we print, build,
and test it before shipping it out to you ready to fire.
Ergonomically, this blaster is very comfortable.
We've chosen the options for our shop as
our favorite selections from the lineup that Silly offers.
We've got the larger grip up front and the medium size ring back here.
We also do offer an extra-large version of this for those that
want to do fancy spinning tricks with the blaster.
I'm not going to attempt this with the table in front of me.
Can I do it?
No, I'm just not even going to do it.
I'm not fancy.
The blaster is a really great starting point for
someone to do a DIY assembly because it isn't a very complicated build.
However, it does have a lot of hardware.
I believe there are 80 screws in this blaster, so it does take some time to put it together.
Up front, we've got one of my favorite features, which is the Silly SCAR.
This is a very unique SCAR, and we do sell these separately as well.
It is trivictus-style, so it's got three lines that give spiraling down through the center.
Then it uses an O-ring for a really great seal
with a twist lock to give a nice positive lock on the muzzle itself.
And you can see how this works:
It sandwiches those two parts together, and it's a really well-done design.
I think it's one of the better 3D-printed SCARs just in its elegance of design,
and I think it looks really nice too.
We do offer that separately, but it's included both with our SLAB blasters
and with our Caliburn and TalonClaw because we want to make sure that every blaster leaves the
warehouse with some sort of orange tip, and it's a nice upgrade to have on all blasters.
As I mentioned before, we've got it in a bunch of different colors.
Here's a translucent red and a translucent along with standard orange.
And then this is my personal color scheme right now, which is our
tangerine orange as the secondary, the accent we've got galactic black,
and then the primary we've got this beautiful mermaid's tail metallic teal.
Right now, this is just *chef’s kiss;* I Love the colors!
We've got four spring options for this blaster,
but there are a variety of other Springs you could tune yourself if you wanted.
We've listed them at various FPS ratings because, for us, it's not so important which spring it is.
It's more important what performance it actually
gets in real-world testing because that's the whole point of upgrading a spring.
It does take K26 and K25 diameter springs.
However, we don't recommend trying to go above
180-200 FPS in the performance of this blaster due to how the catch works.
The catch and firing mechanisms are actually quite interesting.
We've got a floating trigger here with the lever here,
a catch bar across the top, and then the catch up front,
which is held with a piece of elastic to give it the spring it needs to return to position.
It's a very cool system overall, and I have had just a ton of fun playing with it.
It's kind of hard to describe.
I mean, it's not going to be as competitive when put directly head-to-head with, say,
a TalonClaw (which is probably the closest family member).
But ultimately, the action and the style points of this blaster are really why you're picking it up.
It's just a ton of fun to play with.
It's got a great tactile feel compared to just a normal pump blaster,
and I think it looks really cool at the same time.
Up top, we've got two nice little sights which use
a piece of fluorescent filament rather than a piece of actual fiber optic.
The reason for that is: This is considerably cheaper than the actual fiber optic stuff.
At the end of the day, it is a foam dart blaster, so how much are you really using those sights?
I'm not too sure.
But it is really fun to look down them when you're playing with it.
On the stock itself, we do have a lanyard sling point here,
and at first, I was like, “that's a really weird spot to put that.”
But when you do actually hold it,
it is right where you want it on your on your body hanging from here.
So, hanging from a lanyard here is just perfect for pulling it up and using it;
it's actually balanced quite well for that.
I had thought I would want it back more here, but it's ended up being really good in practice.
Now Sillybutts has a lot of other designs,
and he is kind of a maniac -- and I mean that in the best possible way.
He's just constantly cranking out designs, and because he's not running his own shop
(he's always working with other resellers and 3D print farms like us and others),
he gets to just focus on what he loves doing, and that's design.
So, I'm going to link down to his list of different various 3D files and everything.
We are working on offering more and more of his blasters.
The Silly pistol is a maximized pistol with a ton of power from a large plunger tube with a unique
rotating clip system where the actual magazine can fold down for compact transport and carrying.
Like I said, I’ll link him down below because he's got a lot of cool designs,
and we are really excited to have him and welcome him to the shop.
Sillybutts has been a bright shining light in this hobby,
and I'm really excited to see what he comes up with next.
Just like all of our other designs when we work with a designer,
Silly does get a cut of royalties for each blaster that we print or print and assemble,
so you're supporting his work by supporting us, and we thank you for that in advance.
Let us know what other questions you have about SLAB; it's kind of a unique blaster!
I'd love to hear from you whether you are really into these cosmetic and
unique function blasters or if you're purely a performance and ergonomics kind of person.
Again, thank you so much for watching!
Links to both the product and Sillybutts and
everything else that we can think of down in the description below.
Until next time, I'm sort of out of darts --
I'm out of darts(!)