Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts, we are going to check out a new 3D-printed blaster
from Timmy over at Ansuzalgiz: and this is the kestrel.
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not too long ago, I did a review of the hummingbird, and this blaster is made by Timmy
over at uh, I believe it's called Ansuzalgiz. I can never figure out what that means. I'm going
to ask at some point. I will put it down here. The hummingbird is a very, very cool blaster,
and it's very unique, and I love it, so of course, when Timmy told me he was making a new blaster,
I was very keen to jump on it as quickly as possible I believe I have the very first one the
reason I'm guessing that is I asked very early on in his process, and I believe the photos on
Etsy are of this exact unit this is a micro flywheel powered talon meg mini pistol.
and you may have noticed there it is full auto
this is the coolest little blaster i have seen in ages and i am kind of blown away watching his
evolution his stuff is just very very clean and uh this has a number of remarkable features so i will
start with the ergonomics first of all rather than go with the pistol grip like he did on the
hummingbird it looks like timmy has dove in and made a really nice comfy grip and it's got this
nice knurling on the back and front and i find it to be very comfortable overall the blaster has
kind of a unique assembly it uses a lot of metal pins to assemble and hold together which you can
simply tap out if you need to get access to them i think that's a really neat way to assemble a
blaster because while i did not build this one and have not taken it apart i can see that there are
no regular toy screws so it looks to me like most of the blasters put together with these pins the
blaster has a number of interesting features but internally the core component is a large solenoid
i believe it's a flywheel the world solenoid in there which is kind of mind-blowing
considering it just barely fits inside there the flywheel inside is responsible for the pushing but
obviously full auto doesn't happen automatically and that's where a narfduino board comes in
he's got the smaller an arduino board which allows for single trigger operation and timmy says this
has got a 180 millisecond response time which is pretty fabulous that means it takes .18 seconds
to fire from when you pull that trigger and you can feel it this is going to be my new sidearm i
see no reason to use any other blaster as a sidearm when i can have full auto
controllable rate of fire run a 2s run a 3s this is a cool blaster it's got a very minimalistic
styling it looks a little bit like a tech 9. now timmy built this one from scratch for me custom
and he is selling these on his etsy page which i will certainly link to in the description below
this is the hi5 blue from protopasta it is a color that joule from 3d printing nerd made and it is a
really really beautiful beautiful blue color i may have to get this on the shop at some point because
it's really a nice compliment the black here i believe is called empire strikes black it is a
another filament from protopasta and it is also just gorgeous i think timmy has done a really
nice job printing this his quality is fantastic and uh craftsmanship leaves very little to be
desired honestly i have been wanting a blaster like this since short darts first came around
um other full auto smart blasters are really much much too large and are so cumbersome in comparison
to this tiny little blaster this is essentially like a micro strife and i think that's a
phenomenal use of the short dart platform now in addition to having kind of a minimalistic uh
setup he's also made a few things sort of modular there is a top picatinny rail which can be simply
dropped in and the cool thing there is all you do is punch out these two pins drop in the rail and
then you've switched to a picatinny on the side he also has options on both sides to add a holster
magnet system or the any magnet lock system so that's definitely gonna be how i set mine up as
soon as i get to the warehouse i'm gonna grab magnets put it on this side and then this will
become my holstered sidearm for hvz and for other games i think it could make a pretty fun little
primary if you wanted to play a really lightweight loadout because it still packs a fairly good punch
muzzle velocity on 2s is around 100 feet per second and the blaster can also run 3s and that'll
get you about 130 average i think those are pretty impressive numbers considering the form factor
the size and the great ergonomics of this blaster i will love to be able to just pull this out and
dump darts now it's worth noting when you do run this on 3s you'll get 13 rounds per
second approximately while on 2s you'll get eight and that is of course just a difference in the
voltage since it's using an arduino board it also has a low voltage cutoff for both 2s and 3s and
it will automatically detect and take care of that for you that said i always still run a second lipo
alarm and that brings us to the location of the battery the battery is in the grip there is tons
of room in here i suspect you could fit up to a 1500 milliamp hour pack though the 2s and 3s 950s
that i sell fit very very well so i think that's really cool there's lots of room to fit a lipo
alarm in here in fact i found that i can actually even fit this extra large one with a little bit
of finagling though the meter doesn't do me too much good inside so i'd probably recommend
simply putting a a basic alarm without an actual lcd the blaster uses a thumb screw to attach
the battery door which has some nice detailing showing his logo on the bottom and i love his sort
of like i don't know where this comes from but it sort of feels like hieroglyphics i don't know
i'm sure there's some more significance to that that i am not following perhaps it's like a i
don't know it could almost be norse writing i'm not totally sure and i'm gonna have to ask now the
kestrel is obviously named after a bird not unlike his hummingbird so i'm starting to see a trend
here i love that he's sort of chosen a specific naming scheme and gone with it i obviously made
the mistake of trying to follow hasbro and making the jupiter and then they promptly came out you
know a year and a half two years later with their own jupiter which made searching for
my jupiter online a little bit more difficult and a little frustrating to be honest so that's
something cool i think choosing a nice naming scheme and sticking with it is pretty awesome
up top when you're not using a picatinny rail by default he had this set up with these iron sights
and the cool thing about these sites is he's actually used filament to make these illuminate
um and they are sort of a i would assume this is like a translucent neon green or a uv reactive
filament potentially they don't actually glow but they have a nice day glow by collecting light and
displaying them back to you in the side and it actually makes for a really nice sight experience
compared to just a normal iron sight that said i really love the look of just having a picatinny
and sometimes i do like putting attachments on top so we'll play with that and i might consider
swapping back and forth in addition for those that don't like this single-handed mag release
and this is ambidextrous which is cool because a at gravity drops but you can do it with one
hand on either side really really easily and i think i'm going to stick with that but he did
include a standard paddle if you wanted to go that route so you do a two-handed mag release
personally i would probably only swap to this if i was going to use this as a primary where i know
my second hand is completely free otherwise i would rather be playing drop the mag throw the
next one in drop the mag throw the next one in one-handed i think that's just a really really
good experience this filament kind of plays nicely off these magazines i'm still debating what color
to get for myself i'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments what's your favorite talon mag i
obviously know which color sells the best but sometimes we sell out which kind of skews the
numbers so i'd love to hear what you think there i might go for clear because i'd really like at a
quick glance being able to see what's going on there my next video is on this beautiful
talon claw from silver fox industries but i couldn't wait to share this one with you so
i wanted to do this video first like a lot of microwheel blasters i wouldn't say this blaster
is the most accurate blaster on the planet but it is a pretty substantial improvement over a lot of
others and i think part of that is that it has a very symmetrical straight firing system whereas
the hummingbird for instance has a an angled mag well by about 15 degrees and that does
cause a little bit of accuracy issues overall but i still love that blaster it's still very very fun
i actually think running these two side by side would make a really good primary secondary i think
they now kind of color coordinate too oh it's going to be great whenever i get to go to a game
that is i am so excited to see so many polished beautiful blasters coming out of our community
we've gone from just one or two people making things 3d printed to literally hundreds if not
thousands of designers out there and the more cool stuff that comes out the more the hobby
will grow and the more fun for everybody on top of that we have companies like dartzone who are
really stepping it up and changing things big time i'm going to have a video on their next blaster
the nexus pro as soon as i can find one but i think it truly is a game changer for the hobby
simply due to the price point the availability and more importantly the availability at darts on your
local walmart shelves i will say walmart's not my favorite place to shop but i'm happy to see more
out there to bring more people into this hobby and grow this wonderful group and this community
i think this is a phenomenal blaster uh the price point on these fully built is 300
which may sound steep but there is a lot of hardware that goes in here that is pretty
uh pricey uh namely the board and the solenoid and obviously a lot of labor and print time to
get this out the door i will have all the links in the description for more information on this
and i really think this is going to be a popular blaster there have been a lot a lot of mag fed
short 3d printed blasters but most of them go through the grip and i just cannot get used to
a giant grip the way it is i would rather have the comfort of a reasonable size grip than a full one
One thing I wanna add on here is that when you're firing this blaster,
that solenoid gives this thing a just wicked kick. Check this out. I'm gonna hold this loosely.
So that feature on its own really makes this a very unique blaster because it's so lightweight
and has this massive solenoid inside it. Just it has this haptic feedback that is just awesome.
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