Recently we saw a surge of new Nerf blasters coming from China ranging from Uzi or Gecko clones to bona fide quality blaster offered at an unbelievably good price like the Worker Swift, mainly thanks to the nationwide gel blaster ban in China. We can see a lot of manufacturers are switching their focus to Nerf and going towards a Sci-Fi design approach which is an excellent and much needed development for the Nerf scene. One of the blaster that stands out beside Worker Swift is the ZhenWeiQi S100, which we will refer it as ZWQ S100 blaster here onwards.


The ZWQ S100 is loosely modeled after the popular FN SCAR and it's a high powered blaster firing only short dart aka stefan dart. One unique aspect of the ZWQ is its massive cylinder size that closely rivals the Caliburn in terms of air volume. For modders, a big plunger tube unlocks the potential of pushing FPS number to greater height. 1 downside to the existing plunger tube is that it's ported at about 80% of the tube (about at 90% of the effective air volume), reducing the potential of the blaster. However, based on measurement, we can quickly swap a non-ported cylinder in to increase the air volume, if you wish to do so.

Image: Air restrictor


At stock configuration, the ZWQ S100 came with a very weak spring, air restrictor (very smartly designed, easily detachable) and ported plunger tube to fulfill the China 0.16 Joule toy blaster regulation. The unit we had came with an extra 1.5 spring and we have ordered a few custom made 2.0 spring to experiment and to push the blaster further. The blaster came with a 35cm barrel, using the same design as Worker/Artifact kit hence you can grab our Monkee Mods barrel to swap it to a longer length. During our test, 1.5 spring with the stock 35cm barrel delivers about 160FPS with an easy and smooth prime. Swapping it to 2.0 spring makes it hit way harder, coupled with Monkee Mods 45cm barrel, we consistently manage to push over 300FPS with Worker Gen 3 darts, clocking at 309FPS as our highest. We did some test using Worker 55cm barrel but the FPS drops to about 280-290FPS with that spring setup hence we don't really suggest you to go for anything longer than 45-50cm even with this big plunger tube in play.


 Image: 309FPS on the S100 with Worker Gen 3 dart


The blaster comes with a 3 steps adjustable buttstock, though we notice the length of the blaster is rather long, we did not need to deploy the buttstock at all during the test. The blaster comes with a full set of rather soft nylon picatinny rail system at the top and as well at the side for you to mount your scopes, flashlight and PEQ box etc. It is unfortunate the nylon is on the softer side so we don't recommend heavy attachment, but we are sure an metal rail sets for it is on the way. The pump grip came with picatinny rail which allows you to mount your preferred picatinny foregrip. We mounted an angled foregrip purely for the look, but it you are looking to make it easier to prime, you can consider mounting a vertical grip instead. Speaking of the pump grip, the blaster came with a bolt return spring which will push your breech forward  once you have primed it. If you are worried about how can you remove your magazine with this mechanism, it's not a concern as you can freely remove or insert the magazine without priming back your breech. It also has an removable ambidextrous bolt action priming handle at the side which is serviceable when you are using 1.5 spring or weaker, not anything higher than that. The magazine catch is AEG spec which means you can use standard airsoft V2 magazine catch if you want, allowing more customization to the blaster. Not only that, it came with 2 metal sling mount point which is a nice feature to have.


Build quality wise, the blaster might not be the best looking out there, but it is relatively solid. You can switch the spring quickly by removing 3 allen key pin at the retractable buttstock piece and get access to the main spring. The priming is smooth and the spring loaded return feature add a nice touch to it. Pistol grip is the typical M4 style grip molded to the lower receiver, and it is big enough for most sizes of hand.. The blaster is built on 2 side shell, held with internals in the middle and pins, certainly not the top down split system like Worker Swift or the usual design that we have seen. The barrel is friction fitted but it's quite tight and air seal is perfect. You can quickly swap a barrel just by pulling it out and stuffing it back in. The blaster doesn't come with any rifling barrel like Swift does, and coupled with a huge plunger tube, we strongly recommend you to have a SCAR rifling muzzle installed for optimum performance.

Image: Mod done to trigger to ensure it doesn't flex downwards.


The fire select safety is somewhat annoying as they can't lock properly in place and end up locking your trigger when you want to fire the blaster. It's probably a good idea to have it removed. The catch plate design is sort of flawed and causing some issues to us during installation. We were told by the manufacturer that we will need to cut the catch spring shorter to make it work properly, something that the manufacturer should have done properly instead. There is a gap below the trigger bar which caused us unable to release the piston as it flex when we fit in a stiffer spring. Instead, we have to do a small mod to make sure the trigger doesn't flex downwards. The magazine is however proprietary, we are hoping to see some sort of adaptor to be made for it to accommodate the Worker Talons.

Conclusion. We think the blaster is solid overall, has insane potential if you are into the super high FPS build, and it has the internal to back it up and. With some minor flaws around that the manufacture are looking into them and to patch them up. Definitely a blaster worth to put in your consideration list!


If you are interested to get S100, please contact us on Facebook or email. We are still in discussing with ZWQ to prepare an international variant up for sale which will come with stronger spring in the package.