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CatgutViolin

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  1. KWA M11 NS2, with TW steel kit (I think this might be the same as the Alpha Parts kit @PureSilver posted above- it looks identical). Suppressor is the old Polarstar one, front strap is homemade.
  2. It will be a serious missed opportunity if Marui doesn't combine this gas engine with the feed system of the shell-fed shotguns to produce something like that. A GBB SPAS-12 or M1014 would be a hot item for sure.
  3. Few things of note, some of which may not be obvious without translation. The gas magazine is basically a small lowcap/midcap bolted to the front of a gas reservoir. The magazine internals are easily pulled from the mag shell to warm them up as needed or check temperature, which is shown via temperature-sensitive stickers. This separated mag design should make it relatively easy to DIY a drum if that's your thing. Each mag holds 54 BBs. It's a tri-shot, so that's 18 shots. It has a fixed hop-up and vertical hop pattern (not like the AA-12/SGR-12 where the outer two barrels ho
  4. There are a couple of options for out-of-the-box-compatible STANAGs. EB-Tech makes the ones that VT supplies with their rifles, and they're a bit heavy but work well. WA-spec mags are significantly wider than real-steel ones. I looked at it earlier and getting GHK internals into a real STANAG shell would be difficult. Probably not impossible, but probably not worth the work versus modifying the GHK shells. After a lot of frustrating sanding and fitment I realized that the main culprit was that the GHK mags aren't bent perfectly, and they bow outward ever so slightly in the middle. Giving
  5. I haven't had the opportunity to skirmish it yet, but so far I am extremely pleased. I expected basically a GHK with fancy externals and was pleasantly surprised to find it's more than that. I'm using GHK stanags (wanted the option to Devilhunter mod them), but they were a lot of work to fit. It's not really 'half-travel' by default, more like 3/4 travel, but you can take out a spacer to make it full travel at the cost of a bit of felt recoil and ROF. Here's a more extensive writeup I posted to Reddit in response to someone asking about it: Anyways, actually getting one is a
  6. A little more oldschool today. Viper Tech replica of a Colt 733. Need to change a few things to properly replicate the one seen in Heat. And swap out the furniture for some surplus. But it's mostly there.
  7. Hey thanks, I appreciate it. Convenient timing, I also finished recording a review and disassembly video with my team.
  8. @Ivan le Fou Apologies if you've already answered this, but does someone produce that 40rd mag, or is it a homebrew job? Awesome rifle by the way.
  9. WE P38 and P38K, externally refinished and fitted with real grips to make a P38K and a P1. It's funny, the real P1 was an aluminum-frame revision of the P38, so WE's use of aluminum for the frame is actually correct. But then they never made a version of their P38 with P1 markings. And the finish is a satin black rather than the deep glossy blue of the real thing, so I had to adjust it a little by adding a touch of blue and polishing with acetone to gloss it up. Also their P38K is based on a fake P38K derived from a P1. Comes with P1 grips and has a top cover and safety, real P38K ha
  10. Mind sharing how this has gone? I placed an order with SWIT two months ago now, and it only just shipped after I filed a Paypal dispute. I am now waiting to see if I actually receive what I ordered. I unfortunately have to second the recommendation to steer clear.
  11. I had the opportunity to put the Striker through its paces last weekend. (Striker footage starts about two minutes in) For ammunition, I used APS X-Power shells, filled with gaseous CO2, and loaded with 11x 0.2s sandwiched between a pair of 0.75" cards made from 140lb watercolor paper. FPS was measured at 210-250. My impression is that the gun is excellent for CQB. Twelve shots is plenty high capacity (to the point where I never reloaded 'in the field', only in the safe room), it fires as quickly as I can pull the trigger. There are a couple of double-taps in there on
  12. You just need to remove material to match the cutouts on the WE frame. It's a pain, but pretty straightforward.
  13. Very nice! Are those the ones I've seen on Etsy from KSD Grips?
  14. First batch is done and the process has been ironed out, so I can confidently say that this deficiency in the base design has been addressed, and these guns are now 100% good to go. I can keep making these as long as people want them, so if anyone's interested shoot me a PM or contact my team through Facebook. Mods, I apologize if this is veering into a commercial post- just figured this is the most relevant place, since the plastic barrel is really the only glaring weakness of the original gun.
  15. And just a quick double post before I forget: After further examination, I believe the misalignment is not indicative of peening, but rather just the result of things not being quite perfectly aligned during manufacturing. Close inspection of the indexing pin and the stop surface shows that the two are mated perfectly, whereas if the stop surface were peening I would expect to see a gap, and the curvature that I thought looked like distortion of the material is just where a circular channel (for the indexing pin) was drilled in the middle of a longer curved face. So it looks like the sort
  16. For sure, but that larger production is really the question at the moment. I really, really hope that Octagon follows through with producing more. Best case would be if they can reproduce the original design, with all the same steel parts, and with black furniture and metal barrel. The current price is hard to justify with those caveats involved. In related news, I tweaked the barrel design from my prototype a bit (swapped one size so much less sanding needed), and got some quotes from two local machine shops. Both were prohibitively expensive for the volume involved, so I'm going ahead w
  17. Orange Wargame Striker-12 / Street Sweeper. I've got a bunch more pics over in the gas rifles review section.
  18. Alright, I got the barrel done. The sizes of pipe I chose worked out perfectly, aside from the innermost size of pipe needing a bunch of sanding to reduce its outer diameter. A bit of paint finished it off. Here it is next to the original. And here it is installed in the gun, from the business end: Notice how the shell appears ever so slightly off center? Yeah, those concerns about the indexing face peening are coming back. Fortunately it seems to work in testing, but I could see this causing significant problems if it gets worse. Luckily it's not an insurmountabl
  19. Or, judging from this photo, maybe it's not the drum. The one thing I consistently notice is that the real ones have five vent holes on the shroud, while this one has four. So maybe it is the barrel/shroud after all. Yes, this is going to bother me until I get my hands on a real one again and compare.
  20. Couldn't be happier right now.
  21. Got the Armson. The mount holes are spaced improperly, a little too small, and need to be countersunk to fit the screws, but I worked it out. It's actually working for me, surprisingly, with no phoria, because it's such a slim optic positioned far enough forward that it takes up very little of my field of view. Incidentally, I found another source of missing length: judging by how the sight aligns, I believe the receiver is a little bit shorter than the real thing.
  22. As far as I can tell, the pipe size that I'd want to use (11/16" ID, 15/16" OD, 1/8" wall) doesn't exist as a COTS product, so something would have to be custom made. I'm open to suggestions but from some cursory inspection it looked cost-prohibitive. I could probably settle for 3/4" ID, 1" OD, turned down at both ends, and then threaded (the thread sizes are highly atypical though; not sure what impact that might have), but that's a backup plan. Unrelated, but I found another source of missing weight: While the shroud, stock, and drum are all steel, the actual frame/receiver itself is no
  23. Quick update as I go. Six hours in a cup of Greased Lightning stripped all the anodization off the muzzle nut, then I sprayed it black. Piece of cake, and coupled with the furniture being dyed rather than painted means there's no chance of black rubbing off to reveal orange/bright red. I did some measurements on the barrel. It turns out that it's the same internal diameter (~0.68") as the APS hulls themselves, which is great for gas efficiency- but with the APS shells it also has a full 3mm of cylinder gap between the front of the shell and the barrel. Frankly I'm surprised the wads
  24. In the core of the drum there's a spring- not a torsion spring, but actually a pretty stout compression spring. At the rear it attaches to a cap with a rectangular hole that keeps it indexed to a rectangular notch on the cylinder pin, and at the front it is secured to the drum itself. Once the cylinder pin is fully tightened in the gun it solidly anchors the rear of the spring in place. Cranking the winding key turns the cylinder, which turns the front end of the compression spring, which forces it to coil up. It does NOT feel like it is struggling to turn that cylinder; there is some substant
  25. I got this ostensible gel blaster from Eagle Airsoft & Hobby for a pretty hefty sum. It took longer than they advertised for it to ship, and communication was spotty, but it did get here. The gun shipped in a large paint bucket. Despite the exterior dents, the gun itself was securely packaged: Out of the foam, I had the receiver assembly, barrel assembly, anodized aluminum muzzle nut, six shells, and a pack of spare parts. First impressions: All the metal on the gun is phosphated steel with clean welds, with the selector and trigger parts being nicely CNC mach
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