CatgutViolin Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 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 has wood grips, no top cover, and a decocker only. The P38K at least came with a dark grey phosphated appearance to its controls by default (since the real one is steel controls), so I just had to paint the slide to match, whereas the P38 was all the same satin black top to bottom. Details, details. 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wingman Posted April 24, 2021 Report Share Posted April 24, 2021 I love those older Walthers. The WE versions I've had for awhile are still going strong. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pydracor Posted May 7, 2021 Report Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Recent acquirement, one that needed a total brain-shutdown 😋 WE Desert Eagle with ALC full steel kit and realsteel MAK grips. Got it used from HongKong, so it wasn't as expensive as a new ALC kit (which really costs an arm and a leg), but still the most expensive pistol I ever bought... it definately is an EXTREMELY impressive GBB kit, everything in that kit is CNC machined steel: Slide, frame, front part, sights, trigger, slidecatch + disassembly lever, safety, hammer. This one is the somewhat rarer version in dark chrome. Altogether this DE now weighs in at 2.283g, which is about the weight of a real one and almost 1kg heavier than a standard WE Desert Eagle. Mighty blowback, especially using CO2 magazines. Friend of mine helped me out with the gap in the back of those realsteel wood grips. he filled it in perfectly. Thanks a ton! Comparison with a standard WE L6 Edited May 7, 2021 by Pydracor 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PureSilver Posted May 12, 2021 Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 On 5/7/2021 at 12:57 PM, Pydracor said: Mighty blowback, especially using CO2 magazines. Could you get some video of it firing? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blobface Posted May 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2021 On 5/7/2021 at 12:57 PM, Pydracor said: Mighty blowback, especially using CO2 magazines. ^+1, video please! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bostitch Posted May 18, 2021 Report Share Posted May 18, 2021 (edited) Whoops, didn't notice the S&W thread on the next page...my apologies! Great guns in here guys! Edited May 18, 2021 by Bostitch wrong thread Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Pydracor Posted September 15, 2021 Report Share Posted September 15, 2021 Collecting for quite a while now, still happy as a child, when I get my hands on something rare - in this case, the happyness is accompanied by something like awe, as it doesn't get much rarer than this Tanaka Colt SAA Casyopea (which already is rare as hell in and of itself, as these were banned in Japan together with their Casyopea counterpart, the S&W M500) with a Prime CNC Brass Kit (possibly the only brass kit for Casyopea in existence, either a mod of a Pegasus brass kit, or Prime has begun to build one of these, but stopped when the Casyopeas were banned in Japan). The loading breach is black, as are the hammer and the trigger. Might be, that Prime stopped production midway... or maybe a modder lost interest to go full monty... So this might be a real one-off, in this configuration possibly the only one of its kind. Build quality is extremely high, of course, and it has a very nice, authentic weight of 1.030g. The Casyopea shells are a lot of fun. Really pretty enthusiastic about this one 😃 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aznriptide859 Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Holy hell that's pretty much the grail of SAA's. Congrats, I'm jealous for sure Quote Link to post Share on other sites
renegadecow Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 Bakelite mak & cheese 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatgutViolin Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 "These are brand new, we just got them in. That's a good gun. You just touch the trigger and the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. You can't miss." Okay, so it's more like squeeze the grips to turn on the red dot, but close enough. This was built from the Mafioso kit and, as cool as the final product is, I absolutely cannot recommend it. I had a bunch of problems with the gun entirely due to bad design, and the mount was so chintzy (and off-spec- they clearly had no idea what the prop they were trying to replicate actually was) that I ended up having to replace it with a real NPC grip mount, which I need to refinish a little more nicely. The laser was so poorly constructed it didn't even work when I got it and is virtually impossible to zero, and it came with a simple on/off toggle button on the back of the housing, so I had to gut it and DIY a pressure pad to make it useful. Oh yeah, and the entire gun came with the same raw anodized aluminum finish as the laser, which to my eye looks very fake, plus the controls were mirror-finish stainless; I media blasted the entire gun and controls with aluminum oxide and then polished the slide flats to be a bit closer to the real thing. Bottom line: The kit's worth maybe a quarter of what Mafioso's charging, don't buy it. Hopefully someone else will make a decent Hardballer. 6 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jv83 Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 "Those damn gremlins!" Getting in our airsoft conversions. 😉 still looks sooo good Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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