JosefHofman
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I saw the mighty dushka in a museum one day. I had to have one but I was neither rich or old enough to buy a deactivated DShK. A few years passed and I got my first 3d printer. I used it a lot, my first major project was M2HB by TazMan2000. It came out really well so I decided to give the soviet fifty a shot. I got in contact with m2's creator and after some time I had a 1-1 scale model, scaled up from 1/4. I printed it but was not satisfied with the result. It was quute blocky and not really the right size.
Then I found a digital blueprint of a DShKM (1946 modification) matching the real dimensions perfectly. I decided to make it printable. At first, I thought it was easy but oh boy was I worng. It took me about 2 months to finish the conversion as I'm still quite inexperienced in using CAD software.
Here is my result. It's far from finished but I really like what comes off the printing bed. It fits the real mount and can be fed with real ammo (deactivated in my case) with the original belt. It has a opening top cover, will have a movable trigger and folding rear sight.
It's glued together with resin and reinforced with steel rods (5 and 10mm) and a copper pipe (15mm).
It of course is non firing.
This project was inspired by the aforementioned TazMan2000's M2HB, without it I probably would never have even imagined such a thing.
There is still a lot of sanding ahead. I will be updating this thread as my dushka evolves!
Then I found a digital blueprint of a DShKM (1946 modification) matching the real dimensions perfectly. I decided to make it printable. At first, I thought it was easy but oh boy was I worng. It took me about 2 months to finish the conversion as I'm still quite inexperienced in using CAD software.
Here is my result. It's far from finished but I really like what comes off the printing bed. It fits the real mount and can be fed with real ammo (deactivated in my case) with the original belt. It has a opening top cover, will have a movable trigger and folding rear sight.
It's glued together with resin and reinforced with steel rods (5 and 10mm) and a copper pipe (15mm).
It of course is non firing.
This project was inspired by the aforementioned TazMan2000's M2HB, without it I probably would never have even imagined such a thing.
There is still a lot of sanding ahead. I will be updating this thread as my dushka evolves!
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