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people with their AKMS seem happy with it, but i know from personal experience that their old AK74 kits were atrocious, others have backed me on that. frankly since LTC started selling under their own brand and marked the price down you may as well just buy LTC for a nicer gun IMO.

actually only the AK47 was blued. everything else (including your AKSU) was painted with a semi gloss/satin black paint. T-cut is a brand of car polish good for removing scratches and marks. obviously you dont want to remove the scratches, they'll still be visible to some degree but the gun will have that much needed shine while stopping the scratches looking quite so obviously sandpapery. if the shine is a bit too much you can wear it down a bit with a scotch brite pad or the like.

aye get some T-cut on that to polish out the scratches. real AKs are kinda glossy anyway.

i know 20mm versions exist, i just wondered... why on an AK? surely if the proper mounting system is already on the gun it'd be sensible to use it. still, each to his own. edit: post edited to clarify point

what was wrong with the proper mounting system?

"oh great, he's back with that bloody camera again." seriously, they really dont look amused

indeed, their AK47 and AK100 series arent anything special and have notoriously weak stock tangs.

PBS1 you sure about the 4KG part? thats more than the gun. i remember the element ones weighed just over 1KG when they came out.

it's a muzzle break, it exists solely to reduce muzzle climb, nothing to do with a gas expansion chamber.

depends what you want them to do. if you dont mind staying at about 310 it'll run stock for ages. the gears are very tough, the motors arent too great and i believe most of the internals are polycarbonate so they should be strong enough. i've never had problems from either of my VFCs, and one of them is a 1st run AKSU

as long as it's not a pressure bearing part it's fine. so handguards, magazines, stocks etc are all fine. edit: get the LTC '09 model over the '08. better built in general and has proper takedown.

each to their own and all, but i have to say i think that looks horrible GRIM. i reckon it would look better with a bit of light wear and tear on the rail system (so it looks like an old AKM with a new rail system after a bit of use), but it's generally not my cup of tea. perhaps swap the eotech for something that looks a bit lower profile, i think the eotech makes the gun look very off balance

if you're talking about the full bolt with the gas piston, no VFC comes with it stock. and yes it would, you'd have to wire the gun to the stock.

forget the USMC nonsense go back to your old insurgent gear GRIM you know it makes sense

nnot very WW2 but that hip fired M191 is beyond badass

knock the barrel and rear sight block pins out. they wont go without a fight, so be prepared to batter the living hell out of them

VFC AKS74 (no sidemount) pic doesnt really do it justice. the bakelite effect on my MAG 45 rounders looks WAY better in person. ignore the nasty VFC wood, RS wood and an LTC bakelite pistol grip will be on the way soon. oh and i ran out of afghan kit to cover my floor sadly

the selector markings are latin characters rather than the traditional chinese ones. i think the RS is modeled on the real export version.

endoshoji used to, but they appear to have died out (despite their ad still being on the sidebar here)

the first pic is an AK47, which was the last russian AK to be blued. the third pic is a chinese type-56 which is blued. the other pics are of AKMs which were parkerized and then painted.

thats rust. you'll never achieve that with your current AKS74 as most of the front end is pot metal. if you bought the full steel model you could strip all the paint off and leave it in saltwater, but even then you'd have to fake the rusting on the barrel (which is still pot metal), there is a way to corrode aluminium. ancorp (i think) did it to his insurgent AK, perhaps you should have a chat with him. in fact the gun in general is a pretty poor choice. you wont see an AKS74 in the hands of african militia and the like. they tend not to find their way into the hands of rebels who dont lo

i suggest you leave it in some paint stripper to get rid of the rest of the paint, re-spray in a semi-gloss black (more realistic than Dboys matte paint) and then gradually weather it with a scotch brite pad. rub over the whole gun with it, it'll weather raised ares and edges mainly, just for god's sake dont have random patches of paint missing on the reciever. that doesnt happen on real guns. the paint only really gets worn off on raised edges and the like, the reciever wont have pristine paint but it will usually still be intact. the wood is very overdone too, real wood will often have

sorry mate, but that just looks like you've scribbled on it with a silver sharpie. very unrealistic.

rewire to the back and get a battery crane stock? if you're going to have that abomination you may as well give yourself a decent cheek weld too

oh, i see. not much you can really do about that then. i assume it's an AIMS? funny because i find my AKS74 very well balanced indeed and i cant see why it should be any less heavy, the stock is only thin folded steel while an AIMS is a solid bar.