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Renegade, that's one seriously nice bit of kit there. Hat is well and truly off to you. FHAirsoft1, no it's an original build of my own design. Well, ok Browning designed it, but it's my airsoft version design.

Technically a Vietnam day, but here's my home made 1919A4 in action.

Finally got round to the engraving and painting. I've been having trouble finding somewhere that has 30 cal ammo boxes in stock, so the ammo feed is now a modified mini AK mag. The gun it's self is pretty much as done as it's going to be now. So that's WW2 games covered.

Then someone can make the obligatory "He sent us up the bomb" geek joke.

No I designed it from scratch. Well, the thing already exists so designed is pushing it. Let's say I recreated it for airsoft with a lot of help from some old 1919 manuals. The plans were made up using 3d max 2007. I believe airsharp is designed to be made from plastic 5mm sheet whereas I had the option of going up to 25mm aluminium. Could be wrong though.

Here's some updated pics and a vid of the M1919A4 build. Fitted a V3 gearbox, which was all I had to hand, would prefer a 249 or P90, or anything that doesn't mean i have to have the motor stick out the bottom, but that's what I had spare. Next I need to build an ammo box with an auto feed built in. An MP5 mag hanging down from the side doesn't look so great. After that it's a spot of engraving, then a strip down and paint job. The Tripod is just a temp version so I had something to mount on it.

M1919A4 my latest work in progress. Needs some finishing touches and spraying and I need to re do the front sight and put a gearbox in it.

Thanks. I'm not releasing any blueprints for it as it's not quite perfected yet. It will be, but first I have another project to finish. SOmething very simmilar, but not quite so big.

To build from scratch, roughly as follows 8hrs cad time to design. 16 hrs for the prototype. About a week to get the laser cut parts back and 16-24 hrs build time for the last version. Most of the time was taken up with tapping out dozens of M3 holes and making the sights which I'd some how completely forgotten about until the last minute. The laser cutters was Charles Day steel in Shefield http://www.daysteel.co.uk/ it was a whole lot cheaper to get the flat aluminium cut than the tubing. Approximately it was £200 for the flat sheet cuts and £300 for the barrel section. In retrosp

So here's my "I made an M2HB" story. About a year or so ago I got the urge to knock up an M2HB that could be easily mounted onto what was effectively a golf buggy. After all, why wouldn't you? And came up with this. Brutally hacked from some MDF. It had an AK gearbox stuffed inside it, and an ammo feed sytem that fed from the 50cal ammo box via some fish tank PVC hose. It worked, just about, and it wasn't pretty. I left it at that for a while, partly because the golf cart broke down and removed the need for it, and partly because I needed to have a think on how to improve it. A