Review and mod potential of the Nerf N-Strike Barricade
Channel: Matt Von Nerf
Date: 2018-05-15

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My review and mod suggestions for the Nerf N-Strike Barricade.

This little blaster is super cheap (from eBay), that with a little modification can be actually war-practical.
It has one tactical rail on the top and a stock attachment point, but no N-Strike Barrel adapter, although if you wanted to, you could mod one to have a barrel attachment point, but I don't see the, point, you'd be sacrificing a perfectly good blaster to give a Barricade an N-Strike barrel attachment nozzle?

It originally fires those horrible old streamline darts with the bulbous head and massive whistler airfoil, but with a little bit of simple modding, (I'll be doing a video for you peeps on that soon!) you will be able to get it to easily outperform a Stockade, mainly because of the better motors.
In fact, you can transplant a modded Barricade cage setup into a Stockade, as they're interchangeable, to give it that "Elite" shell look if that's your thing and you don't want to paint it or do any external cosmetic mods. 
The motors in them are pretty hot winds, so you can quite easily LiPo them up with a rewire, I'll be sticking a Turnigy 0.8Ah 2S 40-50C LiPo, although I have been informed they can actually run on a 3S (if you can find one to fit).

The motors are still metal brushed, so they will burn out, but Barricade motors are pretty good, I think Tom from Foam Data Services told me about them, he's a gentleman and a scholar indeed!

I'll be switching the flywheels to some Elite XD flywheels that I purchased two pairs from a stock Nerf parts re-seller on eBay, (sorry I forgot his name and lost his business card :/ ) so it'll be completely "Elite" compatible, like the Stockade, but without those horrible little pancake motors that are just rubbish.
The 4 flywheels were really cheap though as I think I paid £1.75 for 4 XD flywheels which all seem really well balanced, at 4.04g each flywheel, which isn't that bad.

Instead of the horrible "always on" switch, I'll be mounting a small push-button microswitch where a normal rev-trigger would go and adding motor braking as keeping the blaster always on just drains the battery as well as being irritatingly noisy, especially if modded with a LiPo setup.

Needless to say, the trigger-throw is rather long as it has to rotate the cylinder and move the pusher rod in to push the dart into the flywheels.
I seriously see no point in modding this to take magazines as the battery tray is so small, it's pointless to use anything but stock motors (Honeybadgers maybe, Rhinos at a push if you want to expand the battery tray), but you don't have a lot of room to work with in there, so a larger LiPo is out, unless you somehow want to umbilicus the LiPo elsewhere.

Cosmetically and for body-kits, you may as well get a Stryfe, the only benefit I can see of the Barricade over the Stryfe is you can "top-it-off" with darts on-the-fly.
At least the Stryfe has an N-Strike attachment nozzle and a plethora of cosmetic kits out there, so just treat it "as it is" and leave it as a Barricade rather than try to make it a janky looking Stryfe mod I say.
Maybe a nice paintjob and some sights or some 3D printed bits, maybe pop on a stock if you don't want a pistol, but for the price, you can happily sacrifice a few Barricades, I'm sure if you're lucky enough to be in the US where you can thrift stuff, you can pick one of these up for cents.

Like I said, I'll be doing a mod video, probably just the internals in the near future.
It shouldn't take long as it's just a rewire, new switch and flywheel replacement to make it perform more than "Elite friendly".

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