About BFly Gear

Corporate Exec by Day. Nerdy Airsoft Engineer by Night.

BFly Gear is a one-person operation run by Blackfly - a firearms and tactical gear enthusiast, industrial engineer, Fallout obsessive, and airsoft player based in South Florida.

How It Started

I grew up on tactical combat games and paintball, but life happened - college, career, family, all of it - and I stepped away from the sport for years. Somewhere in my mid-thirties, I hit that moment a lot of guys hit. I wanted to play again.

I'd gotten into real firearms and tactical gear by then, and airsoft made perfect sense. Same techniques, same movements, same gear - but you can actually run drills against real people instead of standing at a flat range plinking at paper targets. I grabbed a gas rifle that matched my real steel setup and hit the field.

That lasted about one game before I realized low-cap gas mags don't hold up against speedsofters with high caps. So I adapted. Got into AEGs. Started playing competitively. And then I discovered something I didn't know existed: a Fallout-themed wasteland LARP airsoft game at Wayne's World of Paintball in Ocala, Florida. Fallout is my favorite game franchise of all time - don't get me started, I'll take you all the way back to the 90s - so when I found an airsoft game built around that universe, I was all in.

The Fog Problem

If you play airsoft in South Florida, you know. Humidity sits at 90% or higher on game days, and everything fogs - goggles, glasses, doesn't matter what brand or coating you use. It's going to happen, and it's going to happen at the worst possible moment.

I run tactical glasses instead of goggles. They fog less, they're more comfortable, they don't kill my peripheral vision, and they fit the way I train - I wear tactical glasses at the range, so I wear them on the field. Train how you fight. While a lot of fields require full seal goggles, most milsim events and the LARP airsoft community lean heavily toward glasses, especially models with gaskets that meet field safety requirements.

But at a Star Wars-themed airsoft event, I was running glasses under a full cosplay helmet and couldn't see a thing. No problem, I thought - I'll just hook up my antifog unit like I do with my goggles during milsim games.

Nope.

Routing tubes inside an atypical helmet setup was a nightmare. Stuffing them into the eyewear just blasted air into my eyes. Fog wasn't clearing. I was blind when it mattered most.

That night, back at camp, I tried to jury-rig a solution before day two. I got something serviceable - and then it rained the next day, so I was fighting water running down my helmet, not fog. But the seed was planted.

Building Clearflow

When I got home, I went to work. I'm an industrial engineer by training and I'd gotten into 3D printing, so I had the tools and the mindset. I iterated relentlessly - designing, printing, testing, failing, redesigning - until I had something that actually worked: a clean, low-profile adapter that routes airflow right along the lens edge, exactly where fog forms, without tape, zip ties, or tubes jammed into your eye sockets.

The first model was built for the Bloc Tactical Predator frame. It worked so well that I knew I had to solve this for more players on more frames. Over the next several months, I developed adapters for the Oakley M Frame 2.0, Oakley M Frame 3.0, ESS Crossbow, and UVEX Genesis - all patent pending.

Clearflow adapters work with ExFog, Novritsch Antifog, GTFO, and DIY tubing systems. No modifications to your glasses. No compromise on your sight picture. Just fog-free lenses when it matters.

I'm continuing to develop adapters for additional frames and working on other antifog and airsoft-adjacent solutions. The mission is simple: fog freedom for every player, starting in the swamps of South Florida and spreading from there.

The Maker Bug

That first Wasteland game in Ocala did more than inspire me to get a 3D printer - it kicked off a full-blown maker obsession. I hand-built my first cosplay kit out of foam, sheet metal, old t-shirts, and hardware store nuts and bolts. It was rough, but it was mine.

Seeing what other players had built pushed me to get serious about 3D printing, and once an engineer gets a printer, it's over. By the next Wasteland game, I showed up with nearly 100 handmade props to trade with other players. I've been designing and building cosplay props, functional accessories, and airsoft gear ever since - if you're into Fallout cosplay or LARP airsoft, you might run into some of my work on Etsy.

The Double Life

By day, I'm an executive at a SaaS company. By night, I'm designing adapters, printing props, and figuring out how to route airflow through tactical eyewear. BFly Gear is where those two lives meet - the operational discipline of running a business combined with the hands-on problem-solving that keeps me sane.

Every product I sell is something I built because I needed it, tested because I play, and refined because I believe players deserve better than tape and zip ties.

Thanks for being here. See you on the field.

- Blackfly