Fettbat
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Hey all,
my most recent project has been trying to make an ANH DL-44 on the cheap out of an Airsoft Mauser, the rupies DL-44 toy, a purchased 3D printed scope mount, and a whole lot of bondo, dremeling, sanding, kit bashing, and time. Here is the progress thus far.
Sorry for the picture orientation (I'm not sure how to fix that) and the sequence of the build is a little off but it's mostly as follows.
Started with ordering an Airsoft Mauser off ebay for around 18$ (I forget the company but I had to order two because the first one was far too small).
Next step was the flash hider. While the metal ones are beautiful they are way out of my price range and the 3D printed ones are up there for me as well, so I decided to remove the flash hider from the Rupies DL-44 that came out a little while ago and try to clean that up.
Once removed, I used bondo to flesh out where the divets are and to cover the hole left after removing it from the toy.
The divets were then added to the base using a dremel.
The whole thing was then painted with a base of flat black, then a coat of chrome, then rubbed a copper sharpie on a paper towel and "brushed" the flash hider.
Next was to work on making the body of the Mauser more accurate, first was to cut down the barrel and remove the massive selector switch on the left side.
Then glued a bit of styrene underneath to support the bondo that would fill the hole.
The safety was also added at this point using more plastic and a hardware knob.
After that was done I "milled" out the spot and glued a rectangular bit of styrene into the space (I don't have a progress picture of that part apparently).
Next was cutting out the ejection port
I used a tic tac box wrapped in Aluminum tape to make the new bolt(?)
The Bull Barrel was made out a bit of PVC piping, with the bevels added via dremel and the bottom flattened out by sanding and then using a hobby knife to shape and level.
Then a first put together to see proportions.
Now the scope, first was getting a piece of metal piping (PVC was too large for the mount I had purchased)
I wound up not using the PVC bit on the back end and using the back of a scope cut off from a plastic toy gun scope.
Then added the detailing to the front of the scope using a funnel (That was originally to be used for the back end).
The last thing done was adding wood grain to the grips, done using sandpaper for the grain, spray painting brown, sanding again, "brushing" with black paint on a paper towel, then doing the same with a red expo marker (It's what was red and near me at the time).
my most recent project has been trying to make an ANH DL-44 on the cheap out of an Airsoft Mauser, the rupies DL-44 toy, a purchased 3D printed scope mount, and a whole lot of bondo, dremeling, sanding, kit bashing, and time. Here is the progress thus far.
Sorry for the picture orientation (I'm not sure how to fix that) and the sequence of the build is a little off but it's mostly as follows.
Started with ordering an Airsoft Mauser off ebay for around 18$ (I forget the company but I had to order two because the first one was far too small).
Next step was the flash hider. While the metal ones are beautiful they are way out of my price range and the 3D printed ones are up there for me as well, so I decided to remove the flash hider from the Rupies DL-44 that came out a little while ago and try to clean that up.
Once removed, I used bondo to flesh out where the divets are and to cover the hole left after removing it from the toy.
The divets were then added to the base using a dremel.
The whole thing was then painted with a base of flat black, then a coat of chrome, then rubbed a copper sharpie on a paper towel and "brushed" the flash hider.
Next was to work on making the body of the Mauser more accurate, first was to cut down the barrel and remove the massive selector switch on the left side.
Then glued a bit of styrene underneath to support the bondo that would fill the hole.
The safety was also added at this point using more plastic and a hardware knob.
After that was done I "milled" out the spot and glued a rectangular bit of styrene into the space (I don't have a progress picture of that part apparently).
Next was cutting out the ejection port
I used a tic tac box wrapped in Aluminum tape to make the new bolt(?)
The Bull Barrel was made out a bit of PVC piping, with the bevels added via dremel and the bottom flattened out by sanding and then using a hobby knife to shape and level.
Then a first put together to see proportions.
Now the scope, first was getting a piece of metal piping (PVC was too large for the mount I had purchased)
I wound up not using the PVC bit on the back end and using the back of a scope cut off from a plastic toy gun scope.
Then added the detailing to the front of the scope using a funnel (That was originally to be used for the back end).
The last thing done was adding wood grain to the grips, done using sandpaper for the grain, spray painting brown, sanding again, "brushing" with black paint on a paper towel, then doing the same with a red expo marker (It's what was red and near me at the time).
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