Re: Airsoft Pulse Rifles Question
Jameth, the issue with the barrel droop occured with the HGC PR. The problem was the whole grenade/barrel section was glued to the front of the resin Thompson. It was not allowed to dry properly after that. Whatever they did with them after gluing the front on, the front was not supported, as the glue dried the grenade/barrel started drooping. Most likely they were glued and set standing up on the mag base without any support under the grenade section. Some arrived better than others. Some customers were able to fix the droop by heating them up in an oven or leaving the PR upside down in the hot sun allowing them to droop back into position!
A lot of people took their grenade sections off to replace with real steel parts. The reason being that the shrouds on the HGC were aluminum. People wanted an all metal PR. You can sometimes find people here selling the resin HGC GL assembly.
Matsu did full builds and sold parts (shrouds, GL, remington parts, etc.) seperately as well. Not sure if he still does though.
And like others have said, the real PR's were painted Humbrol Brown Bess. It's a brownish color with a bit of an olive hue. On screen it looked olive drab, in person it looked brown. Mine was painted to look like what I saw on screen. Brown Bess has long been out of production. Small tins of the paint show up from time to time. Like the vintage Graflex if the seller knows what he has expect to pay a premium for it. Stay away from the Humbrol "Super Enamel" version of Brown Bess as it is not the same color.
Jameth, the issue with the barrel droop occured with the HGC PR. The problem was the whole grenade/barrel section was glued to the front of the resin Thompson. It was not allowed to dry properly after that. Whatever they did with them after gluing the front on, the front was not supported, as the glue dried the grenade/barrel started drooping. Most likely they were glued and set standing up on the mag base without any support under the grenade section. Some arrived better than others. Some customers were able to fix the droop by heating them up in an oven or leaving the PR upside down in the hot sun allowing them to droop back into position!
A lot of people took their grenade sections off to replace with real steel parts. The reason being that the shrouds on the HGC were aluminum. People wanted an all metal PR. You can sometimes find people here selling the resin HGC GL assembly.
Matsu did full builds and sold parts (shrouds, GL, remington parts, etc.) seperately as well. Not sure if he still does though.
And like others have said, the real PR's were painted Humbrol Brown Bess. It's a brownish color with a bit of an olive hue. On screen it looked olive drab, in person it looked brown. Mine was painted to look like what I saw on screen. Brown Bess has long been out of production. Small tins of the paint show up from time to time. Like the vintage Graflex if the seller knows what he has expect to pay a premium for it. Stay away from the Humbrol "Super Enamel" version of Brown Bess as it is not the same color.
