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  1. After deciding I wasn't happy with the finish on the silver one I had, I went and ordered another. Here's a comparison of two WE Desert Eagles plus a real stainless steel one. tRaIn LiKe YoU fIgHt So here's the confusing thing: The leftmost one is labeled 'Silver' on Evike, and the middle one is labeled 'Chrome'. However, on HK sites, the leftmost one doesn't exist, and the middle one is labeled 'Silver'. I have no idea what's up with how the finishes are labeled, but the shiny silver one in the middle is much closer to the finish of the real brushed chrome or stainles
  2. I was inspired by an item in the Imperial War Museum catalog to try bodging a FAL foregrip onto the slimline handguard. I have no idea what the historical origin of the IWM piece is- the entry provides no information and their FAQ basically says 'if the page doesn't answer your question, we don't know', so I can only speculate. On the IWM one, the foregrip was epoxied on, while I've taken the approach of securing mine with a screw and nut. So aside from the hole in the bottom of the handguard it's reversible, and I can ignorantly assume I've replicated some field-expedient SAS mod an
  3. I resurrect this thread to post a WE Apache, to which I fit a surplus German SEF trigger housing and original slimline handguard with no modification to the airsoft parts and a lot of swearing and Dremeling to that trigger housing. I even had to redesign how the selector switch locks into the trigger pack, because the normal catch on the selector pin was hitting the stop catch in the trigger pack before it could reach the FA position. Anyways, now it works, and since the airsoft guts were unaffected it's 100% reversible if I want the Navy pack back. I also scored an original Surefire grip
  4. Little bit of an update. I bought a second Desert Eagle, this time in black, and swapped a few parts around. I also used a bit of Tung oil finish to liven up the wood grips I previously had. So, here are a few things I've noticed, having two guns to compare: -The magazine catch profile I mentioned at the end of the previous page is a design flaw. Fixing it is straightforward, just use a steel file to make the angle at which it engages the incoming magazine a bit shallower, then polish with sandpaper. Leaving it stock means it will take significant effort to slap the magazine pas
  5. I was editing footage from a game this past weekend, realized most of my kills were with my KSG, and figured I'd post my thoughts up here. So, here are my thoughts on the gun, having used it a couple of times in the last few months: -HPA isn't necessary, but it helps. I had done a bunch of experimenting to try to find what BBs hopped best on duster versus green gas with the internal upgrades I had in place, but ultimately being able to rely on a consistent input pressure via HPA tap allowed me to properly tune for range. I used a CQB Russian hose; it was a real pain to get
  6. Alrighty, I just received the KimPOI grips. No fitment was necessary; there's about half a millimeter of gap at the very top on one side but it's not really noticeable. Overall they look and feel quite nice, with much less flex and play than the stock grips. So, while I'm here, a word on performance. This past weekend I had the opportunity to use the Desert Eagle at a zombie event at an outdoor field. I used this, loaded with .28s, as a backup to my KSG, and against human (armed) players was successfully able to engage with one-shot-kills on targets in cover beyond 100ft away. M
  7. $259 US and currently only sold by Flux Defense, directly through their website. It looks like they currently don't ship outside the US, unfortunately.
  8. Spitballing here, but on real open-bolt submachine guns, you get the first issue if the sear return spring is too light (so a hard pull 'slaps' it down and the gun is able to cycle twice before it resets), and you can get the second issue if the disconnector is designed to be tripped by pulling the trigger farther than it takes to fire (full-auto is then achieved by blocking the trigger from going far enough to engage the sear- this is how my WE M712 is designed, so I wouldn't be surprised if this uses the same). If you increase the tension on the sear, it will typically fix both issues.
  9. It was not a walk in the park, to say the least. I significantly carved out the area behind the slide, shortened/smoothed the beavertail on the pistol itself, enlarged the crosspin hole (hence the machine screw), and removed some material where it wraps around the sides of the grip. I'm guessing most, possibly all of that could have been avoided if I had just used a Gen 4 frame as it was designed for, rather than the Gen 3 frame I had, but by the time I realized what I was getting into it was too late to turn back.
  10. Flux Defense brace bodged with a Dremel to fit on a WE G17 (gen 3).
  11. I'd love to do that, but Aluminum Black doesn't produce that fire-blued steel look, it just turns pure black, then scrapes off if you stare at it too hard. DuraBlue (a spray product) is an option, but I'm not too impressed by the results I've seen.
  12. Yeah, I have a pair that I got for my Dan Wesson that took some fitment. I have a set of rasps so that's not too big a deal. These are the ones I ordered. I'm mostly just interested to see if being designed for the airsoft gun makes for better fitment than the generic wood grips. Guess I'll find out. I like having options in either case. I will say that the Alumagrips feel the best so far, because they're significantly thinner than the stock, Hogue, or wood grips. Being thinner makes the gun a lot more comfortable to hold, even without any checkering.
  13. Got some pics. Turns out the wood grips I ordered from KSD Grips arrived today too. Fitting the Alumagrips only required filing down the tabs on the inside that secure to the frame, so that the magazine doesn't contact them. This took about ten minutes with a steel file. Fitting the wood grips was significantly more involved, and required reprofiling the inner 'step' that fits them to the frame. Also, there's an issue I've noticed on both grips- they don't fit flush on the back, demonstrating a small gap. I suspect the aluminum frame of the WE is slightly thicker than the s
  14. Well, unless you start swapping parts in the nozzle, the mechanics of firing and recoil aren't affected. The gun will dump gas out the nozzle until the rocket valve seals, then it'll start to recoil. If the gun is overvolumed, as most gas pistols are, then you'll get higher FPS with a longer barrel, but that's it- Marui doesn't do that simply because they have to abide by Japanese legal limits. The main reason most pistols don't have easily-swapped barrel length is that the tilting action on most short-recoil pistols means that extra weight on the barrel can start to mess with things. But
  15. The Weaver cuts did need to be significantly deepened to fit, but otherwise it seems to clamp fine.
  16. After testing over the last week, I've learned some things that I don't think I've seen documented. -The hop chamber design is considerably better than many of WE's prior GBB pistols, being more or less a GBBR hop. This is a big difference from the WE M712 I have, where I eventually replaced the hop adjustment with a vertical grub screw because the stock design just didn't work well. -Because the hop chamber is well-built, I replaced the barrel with a Crazy Jet 6.04mm (138mm length) and the bucking with a Maple Leaf Autobot, 60-degree, and am getting what I consider very impressive r
  17. Still up for me- where does this link take you?
  18. Got my Weagle. Hop-up likes to hook left, so I'll need to take that apart and have a look. I wanted to reduce mine to sub-330fps, so I did a bit of testing with reducing the diameter of the nozzle (like how the FG-Airsoft restrictor disks work), but found that the backpressure it produced was increasing the cycle time and reducing gas efficiency. Reducing the diameter of the floating valve instead, via a styrene tube insert, produced the same FPS reduction but with normal cycling. That wasn't quite enough to get it consistently below 330, so I shimmed the floating valve as well, and that suffi
  19. So I've got a WE Desert Eagle of my own on the way, and now I've gotten really, really confused about the finishes. Evike sells them in Black, Chrome, and Silver versions (see here). The Chrome is the same price as the Black. The Silver is more expensive than the other two. Am I to understand that the Chrome is a painted finish that is now being retired, and the more expensive Silver is electroplated? All of the non-US retailers I've looked at have only listed Black and Silver, and reading through this thread I've seen people refer to Chrome and Silver seemingly interchangeably. I ordered
  20. Here's a guide on how I load my shells now- haven't seen anyone else use this method, but it seems to make a noticeable difference:
  21. Points to hitmanNo2, it is, in fact, just a bog-standard Elcan C79 without the rubber cover. I came up with the idea when trying to make the Elcan look a little less out of place when strapped to my PKM, and it's surprising how unrecognizable the optic becomes.
  22. By the way, I messaged APS asking what it would take to switch from the MkI to the MkIII system. They emailed me back: To which I asked if there was any difference in performance, since their release photo showed a pretty high FPS, and got this reply: So there you have it- it's the MkI resurrected, without as much real-steel compatibility.
  23. For the, like, three people who might be tempted to attempt such a project: The APS CAM870 fits in a Bullpup Unlimited conversion kit with minimal modification. Did it in about two hours, no power tools, just some trimming of plastic on the conversion plate (the piece that bolts to the rear of the receiver) and a bit of shimming to get it to attach at the correct angle. This image is with a 24" barrel, but the overall length is just 33", and it's perfectly balanced over the pistol grip. The pump action is a little rougher and the trigger is garbage, but hey, it works.
  24. After kicking around the idea for the better part of three years, I finally bit the bullet and ordered a Remington 870 bullpup conversion kit from Bullpup Unlimited. Surprisingly, my APS CAM870 was almost a drop-in fit, requiring just a different stock bolt, removal of some plastic on a conversion piece, and a shim to adjust a particular angle of fitment. It now has a 24" barrel, 8+1 capacity, and just 33" overall length (same as an M4), while adding less than a pound to the gun's weight, which is now perfectly balanced over the pistol grip. Oh, and an Elcan, because why no
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