Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts,
we will check out a really cool 3D-printed blaster: the MHP Magpie.
First, I wanted to just say and acknowledge that this past weekend we lost Thomas of containment
crew he was a bright shining light in this community. He welcomed me in when I joined,
and he was certainly an inspiration in getting my own shop up and running when I first started.
My heart goes out to him, and his family and Charles, his amazing business partner, and I'm
sure that they will keep the containment crew going but
there's nothing else to say i miss him so much and that's all i can say right now but i did want to
acknowledge that it's one of the reasons i haven't been posting as much this past week and i've been
a little out of it so this blaster is the mhp magpie mhp standing for mr heath pants a really
more and more well-known creator in the hobby now i had actually bought one of his blasters
ages ago the original flywheel blaster that he had designed and i unfortunately never got
it working properly he did eventually send me the replacement parts when i bothered him about it but
i've never been able to dig in and get this thing firing properly so i didn't ever get to
do a proper review on that one when my buddy brett got the magpie i begged him to loan
it to me to get to do a review since mhp is not necessarily producing these in mass scale because
it is sort of a more specialty blaster this is a flybuilder world powered micro flywheel six
round revolver now that is a mouthful obviously but the function is fairly similar to say the
altar two where you've got a dual stage trigger so it revs and then that small pusher comes out
And pushes the dirt. The blaster is a huge improvement from some of his earlier works,
and to be fair, this blaster was like his first I think it was his first release as far as I know,
but his design aesthetic has come a long ways and um, it's I mean he's beyond me in many ways
as far as designing goes, but that's one of the reasons I wanted to feature it on the channel this
is the type of blaster that I probably wouldn't design myself, so I think it's really important
that we keep spotlighting other creators that are out there and so I've also ordered a few
other 3d printed blasters from other makers, and I'll be reviewing those on the channel
as well because I just love seeing new concepts new designs and more 3d printed blasters so with
that two-stage operation you get very simple operation, and it's just point and click.
you can, of course, rear-load these cylinders from the back, which makes it quite easy to
reload on the fly, then simply toss that cylinder in, lock it in place, and you're good to go again
and so as fast as you can pull that trigger, it will generally fire
now obviously if you really wrench on the trigger really fast your flywheels are not going to get
up to speed as far so your accuracy and or at least your fps your velocity will be a bit lower
this blaster has some really nice features i think the styling is beautiful and the especially nice
touch is this wooden grip now this is a wood filament grip that's been post-processed and
sanded so it even takes on some different colors likely based on how much sanding was
done or potentially actual print temperature but what that means is it's got sort of a
true wood look that you can see here in the close-ups now you can of course still see
the lines in the cool little magpie logo and places where you can't reach
to sand but the effect overall is still very nice i will say as much as i would love to offer
something like this would grip on the shop the amount of labor that goes into sanding and post
processing this is just quite a bit too high for us to be doing at any decent scale the battery
is housed in the grip which makes this blaster uh have a considerably more comfortable grip
than anything that's got to get a mag well inside just due to the smaller gap between where you're
inside of your palm rest and where your middle finger rests so it's got a very comfortable feel
it's a very nice looking blaster these files are available online i'll have links down in
the description additionally he also used kind of a nice touch on the battery door the battery door
is a flexible piece of filament i don't know if this is ninjaflex or something similar
but it's a very effective way to make this reliable and wear resistant when sliding this
battery door back on the blaster's got a couple fun little features such as a flip up sight which
is kind of cute i think i don't know how effective it is but it is still very fun now i did not build
this blaster this was built by mr heath pants himself and it was purchased by brett i do
not believe he's doing a normal production run of these blasters and i can imagine that's partially
due to the complexity of the build from what i can see this looks like probably his most challenging
blaster to print and build to date it does require some post-processing and additional work to get
everything in even though this one was built by him it is still a little bit of a finicky blaster
there are some design things that are tough to overcome such as if this dart fit is a little
too tight in these cylinders it becomes hard for the dart to leave the barrel but if they're too
loose then they can slide through and jam so i found that you kind of have to be a little
more careful on what darts you put in here but ultimately i wouldn't say that this is like your
primary class blaster you're getting this for style points because it looks awesome it's very
actually realistic looking in some extents but i like that the colors in this one specifically
are nice and bright white and orange meaning that they will not be mistaken for an actual firearm
i love seeing other blasters and how other designers think and process and build and assemble
because we all have different approaches to how we do things and minds constantly changing as well
and evolving over time so i think it's really nice to see what others are creating and there are more
3d printed blasters in this hobby than there have ever been the quality is getting better and better
the amount of files that you can find out there are just staggering and i i think that's just
fabulous because the more people out there making cool stuff the better i hope you
enjoyed this look at the magpie it is a very entertaining blaster a very fun piece to own
i wish it was mine but i will have to perhaps give this one back to brett
he told me i was not allowed to range test this like i did the dart rover which i broke
but thank you for watching do hit that like and subscribe button we have a couple big
videos coming up and a lot of big releases Tarik has been working on a very special
project that we are going to release in about a month on the shop, and the proton packs right
there is also nearly complete (just waiting on a last piece of hardware, so I hope to have those up
for both pre-sale, and then general sale very, very soon). Until next time, I'm out of darts.