Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-29970843-20190623191925/@comment-30049823-20190624140941

Here's a picture of a BoomCo mag^H^H^Hclip, molded in silver, on the left, and a Lightnin' Blitz, painted silver, on the right.

Not sure if my crappy phone photo illustrates it, but in person, you can see the BoomCo mag^H^H^Hclip is riddled with wavy lines of darker and lighter colors, which is an expected artifact when you injection-mold molten plastic that has a transparent base with metallic pigment floating around in it.

Whereas the painted circa-1998 Nerf blaster has a PERFECT silver satin finish... except in the places where it scratched off and you can see the yucky light-yellow color of the plastic it was molded in.

I can't be certain about what Tomknocker's got there without seeing it and scratching it, but from the pictures, that looks all the world like injection-molding flow trails...