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Fine, they don't, but mine feel like plastic bricks and remind me of other polymer real mags I've seen. They feel solid and sturdy enough to make me happy and I expect them to last for as long as I need them, so long as I can get replacement springs if they ever wear out.

Mightyjebus is insane, so many AKs, what an awesome collection. I think that is the first Tabuk build I've seen too. About the MAG mags, I know they're not nearly as heavy and tough as a real mag, but they come close. They feel very realistic, as opposed to say a plastic Armalite mag that feels like a toy item, or an AK metal hicap that feels like a tin can with a plastic lid. The construction and sturdyness of the waffle mags feels like that of a real polymer mag.

Austrain Guy, nice STALKER AK, I'm planning to eventually building one too, I've got the AKSU but need the kitted-out AK74S. I use the MAG waffle mags in OD, closest thing to the mags on the gun in the game. Speaking of the MAG AK mags, they are really strong, they feel like a real firearm magazine, strong solid polymer with a sheetmetal baseplate. My waffle mags feel like I could drop them or step on them repeatedly and they'd just get scratched up, but never break. I'm enjoying those AK74s and AIMS quite a bit too, making me want to spend money on a bunch of AKs with wood furniture

Thanks, I thought it came out pretty impressive looking. It's actually an arid environment pattern, it looks more whitish in the pic than it really is, it's dark earth tan color. It works great in grassy areas, you don't see the gun poking out from behind cover. TheSadR, how did you paint that, looks like some kind of stencils over the brown and a kakhi top coat, or was it done with an airbrush?

That OD green G36 looks very nice. I'm going to post something similar, an OD green XM-8. I picked up a pair of BE plastic gearbox XM-8's for a really good price because they were being sold as defective, due to a bad piston head o-ring, an simple repair. After getting them shooting nice, I had to paint them, as they had the ugliest matte black paint, that made them look even more like cheap plastic than had they just been left bare black plastic. One I painted to look like one of the prototype XM-8s that was OD green. I painted the black furniture parts with Rustoleum textured black, the muzz

Sop-pel, cool collection, I like the 'scrap builds', sounds like the sort of thing I would do after acquiring enough leftover parts. Grim, I'm not much of a fan of 'tacticool' AKs, but that looks pretty cool, looks like a well used weapon that was captured and modified with the rail system by an operator or PMC, I just think the EoTech looks a bit too big, maybe go with something smaller and low profile.

Thanks for the compliments, I was going for the STALKER look, I prefer the waffle mags (the only 5.45 waffle mags I could find in real steel are a small number produced by Arsenal), even though in the game they're only on the AKS74, I don't understand why they did that, maybe they forgot to finish an old skin or something. I plan to build a STALKER style AKS74 with the GP25 and POSP scope on it sometime later, so I'd need the waffle mags for that anyway.

Well I think I'll post my AKSU I posted a while back as I did some stuff to it and came up with a nifty sling mount idea that I'll try to explain. Also have an idea with questions for a friend's gun, and I have to tell about all the AKs I plan to buy/build this summer, as you're the only people who care to listen, lol. But first, pics: My Echo-1 CPM/Cyma CM.035. I put the muzzle from a JG Beta on because I liked how it looks better, stripped the silly silver paint off the bolt and repainted it, and made a sling mount/cheek rest thingy from a broken sling I found in the woods. It's

I agree, rails look fine on modern AK variants that often come with rails in real life, you rarely see these guns overdone with multiple flashlights and every possible accessory anyway. however when I see one of those JGs that is a copy of the Marui replica of the 50's AK, that has od or tan furniture with ris foregrips, I tend to look away. It's not something I find aesthetically pleasing, but if it works for the owner and makes them happy, then who am I to complain, I don't have to use it. I also think camo paint jobs on modern AKs look cool, but again I prefer older AKs looking, well, older

Well I finally finished reading this whole thread, some really nice builds, some maybe a little over the top for airsofts imo, but still very nice, I'm inspired to return to my thought of building a Magpul based gun this summer. Anyway, here's my TM M733. Bought it when they came out, my first AEG. It now has a Hurricane body (although I kinda wish I had gotten the G&P, it has false pins pressed into it, rather than the fake looking cast in pins of the Hurricane body, which hasn't got the greatest finish either), Hurricane cylinder set, spring guide, and bushings, Systema gears, nozzl

I did another cheap gun in my stenciled style, different stencils though and different colors, I was trying to make it lighter in color and a little less weird looking. I used a Well R6 I got for a penny on Ebay. I should have used a different type of grass bit it still looks good. First, in the middle of painting, all the stencils are laid down with their colors under them, I did a little overlapping but not too much: Then with the background color applied. I used Krylon tan and brown camo paints, and Rustoleum od green and army green camo paints, Rustoleum flat brown and satin m

Wow, some really nice paint jobs here. A lot of you are using Krylon, I can only find it in tan, od, dark brown, and black. Rustoleum makes the same with a lighter shade of od as well. What paints are you using and where are you getting them? I'm impressed with some of these tiger stripe guns and some of the stenciled object guns look really nice. The netting stenciled guns give me a headache tho and to be honest I don't really like them. I am very impressed by some of the multicam and marpat/acu jobs though. Here's my contribution, I tried out my idea for stenciling camo with natural obj

Always fun looking at the nice AKs you guys put together I'll share my new Echo-1 AKSU Inside it just has a bearing spring guide, bearing piston head, and downgraded spring (although it ended up chronoing higher than before the mods). Outside I refinished the foregrips (it was fun to discover the matte black paint came off with mere rubbing alcohol). I sprayed them with textured black Rustoleum, then went over that with Krylon ultra-flat OD green camo paint, which came out looking really nice and matches the feel of the pistol grip really closely. The scope mount is a RS Belorussi

D*mnit, you know my money is supposed to be going to my cars and school, but I keep looking at this thread and drooling over the amazingness of these guns, some of which look perfectly real. Definitely getting a CA SLR105 A1 first once I have some spare cash, then a VFC AKSU, and then when CA comes out with an AK47......

ugh, double post. damn, why can't we delete posts?

came up with the savage SS kalashnikov. Not enough inspiration or ideas for anything good, or maybe it's just too late at night. whatever, enjoy...

Wow, so many cool Aks. I always liked AKs, I wanted just a modern AK rifle (like a CA SLR 105 A1), and an early AK rifle (original style AK47 like the TM, but with metal and wood). Now I want like 5 AKs. Damn you people with nice airsoft collections. Gonna have to go get another job here... So what is the best and most affordable wood kit and folding stock for making an AK74su out of a Spetsnaz?

Wow, a lot of really nice guns. Imo, spending over $500 is kinda a waste on an airgun that shoots plastic bbs, when for that price you could buy a real gun similar to the airsoft replica, but it sure does make for some very nice pieces. It's cool that you can make something that refined and special, even if a large part of it is throwing money at it That said, I am guilty of spending over $500, but not up to $1000 yet. I have about $700 in my Sun Project M40A1, it might make it up to $1000 after a few more mods and a better scope, then I'll post it all up on here and show off. lol. But t

Look something like this I guess; I was too lazy to graft wood pictures onto it just right, so I recolored it and added lines to look like the grain of the wood.

The US navy also uses regular M14s for ship defense and firing lines (ropes) to other ships (they use a special muzzle attachment). Various modified M14s are used by special forces when they need a more powerful gun, which can be important in places like Afghanistan where there are lots of desert mountain terrain and you need a gun with the added power and range. That is why they are developing the Special Purpose Rifle, but they already have lots of M14s to slap new stocks and ris rails on that are still more powerful. The SOC 16 has a huge compensator on the muzzle with tons of hole in

Those are really good. I really like 3611-A1

Idk what the first shotgun uses, I was honsestly falling asleep as I made it. The second AK is like a pump action 5.56mm gun, which would be kinda cool in real life. The UMP-14 needs a folding stock or something, but I'm too lazy to revisit it. lol. The machine gun, idk, heavy. Too heavy to carry around, much less be able to shoot, even if it had a big muzzle break. lol

For when you need that extra punch in CQB situations... The Browning M2 heavy carbine

the M8A1 Sopmod Here's a good one, Glock36 assault pistol, thingy, yea. It's cool at least

I improved it