Killbucket Posted July 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Nice, but the grenade launcher isn't real user-friendly with the boxmag blocking it. I BELIEVE this is the airsoft conversion here, because about ZERO of these ever shipped. Less than 15 total REAL ones were delivered, ALL were recalled. Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 More importantly, the CAD work behind the Shrike dove-tails into the minigun CAD, making this guy's gat: Entirely possible! No, not a perfect copy, scroo that. Just an M4 CQB Minigun, in case he comes by to play. Link to post Share on other sites
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Killbucket Posted July 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 Four components make up the feed cover, including the latch. The small part at lower left (T-shaped) becomes the latch that holds the feed cover down. Only three slices of plastic are needed to make up all of the complex shapes here. Assembled, and rough-sanded. This is the underside, note the bevels around the holes in the center that help the parts self-align when installed. Here you can see the latch arm as it sticks through the middle slice. The hole pattern in the top matches up with a standard M14 top rail, because I have piles of them. More pics to come... Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 I still need to drill the front hinge pin holes, and round-off the underside of the front tabs here. The bare plastic will be sprayed with Bulldog adhesion promoted spray (bumper primer), and then primed and sanded. What few imperfections are here will get filled with Spackle and sanded. The same process will be applied to the upper receiver. I still have yet to draw the feed tray, but they're easy to make in my imagination (increasingly correct as time goes by, and I get more builds completed), and will exist sometime this week. Link to post Share on other sites
JazzHands Posted July 20, 2009 Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 That spider engraving looks brilliant mate, good job Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 Thanks! I'd been kinda forming a "Spider" motif for whatever this thing becomes. Link to post Share on other sites
Triggerhappychappy Posted July 20, 2009 Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 Its a headless spider though... Link to post Share on other sites
JazzHands Posted July 20, 2009 Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 Ouch.. that's a point! Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 It's also perfectly FLAT,as all spiders SHOULD be!!! They oughta be called "Stomponme's".... Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Just noticing that the "kit shrike" is a different layout than mine. It's an EXP-1, the first series Shrike. ID'd by the M249 handgaurd. Mine's an "O3A". Link to post Share on other sites
babybackribs Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 I had the Hurricane Shrike kit. Amazing quality. But I sold it last week. Link to post Share on other sites
judgeman Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Quite looking forward to the finished product as always KB. Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Thanks! Keep in mind, these parts here are going to be reverse-engineered into something a bit cleaner... A thin skim of spackle (yep, the wallboard stuff) will fill what few imperfections still show here. My left foot...somehow got in the shot! the eject port on the next set of parts (90 percent done, still mounted in the CNC) will only have the area at the hopup adjust cut through. Viewed from the top. Needs that rail put on yet, possibly two. You can never have too much rail. Notice how far forward the Delta ring ended up. Considerable surgery to a standard M4 front lug enabled this. I hack-sawed off the top and bottom projections, and turned it smooth on the 9 x 20 lathe. It's set into an epoxy lug, and the lug is bonded into the front of the upper with cyanoacrylate. Any airsoft M4 front end will clamp right on, as long as it doesn't need to extend back over the upper receiver, like a CASV does. This started out as a JG CQB lower receiver, the rest is from the goodie box. -It's a "Kit-Bashed Airsoft gun"! This puppy will get mounted on a tripod, with an ammo chute seen recently. I need to draw up new cylindrical* ammo drives, this will get one. *Like on a Helicopter. Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Revision2: Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 More pics coming, also got a feed chute worked out... Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Rev2 parts, assembled. It's the SPYKR...whatever that means...a ghost in the machine (see? SEE!!!!????!!!???! I swear it's haunted) named it that. actually, the engraving looks more like it says SPYKFI... Link to post Share on other sites
Triggerhappychappy Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Thats a different approach. I see you have given the spider a head; how about some thangs?.. Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 Looked up thangs...and yes, it needs them. -don't tell the missus!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
KMFDM Posted July 22, 2009 Report Share Posted July 22, 2009 I've got to ask, how come you're making so darn many mini guns? Are you selling them or do you just like to have a bunch around in case you need them? Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 I've got to ask, how come you're making so darn many mini guns? Are you selling them or do you just like to have a bunch around in case you need them? Trying to distill the idea down to the most simple design. Essentially a brain/CAD exercise. I make and sell Browning 1919's and M2HB's to sell, but the minis, for the most part, stay here. Link to post Share on other sites
Ferrarilove1 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Trying to distill the idea down to the most simple design. Essentially a brain/CAD exercise. I make and sell Browning 1919's and M2HB's to sell, but the minis, for the most part, stay here. One of your M2's is in stock at my local airsoft shop for $600 Link to post Share on other sites
Killbucket Posted July 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 I never thought about it, but every trophy has a separate metal plate that itself gets engraved. THAT'S how they avoid screw-ups being tragic. Of course, an M4 receiver is directly marked, and expected to be. While it's nice to think that a small business could be conducted engraving airsoft guns, the reality is that it would cost too much per gun to do. Once time and handling are figured, $100 per gun would be hard to profit from! I myself would balk at anything over the $50 mark, if I wanted a custom graphic on my gun. Let's face it, trades do nothing but provide bragging rights. And 90% of the requests would be for trademarked and copyrighted stuff...I was surprised at how many guys wanted a "Monster Energy", or "Punisher"-themed grille (which I refuse to do for legal reasons) when I researched doing truck parts! There were ZERO requests for unique designs. WHY humans have a need to copy, rather than create new, ... Link to post Share on other sites
my_plague_666 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 great work KB, but i have to ask, have you engraved '6mm' on the shrike? if so, WHY?! it's trades like that that spoil the likes of the HFC M190. surely it's no harder to engrave 5.56mm Link to post Share on other sites
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