My new Takagi blaster

Ruprekt

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So after an long week of waiting for the EMS shipment to finally arrive, I got my Blaster. Christmas in September me thinks... First impression as I opened the box was how it looked so perfect and like an actual gun you could shoot. The weight and heft of the thing is very impressive. Solid and well made. Sort of...... First off, the lights have to have the little paper slip taken out of the battery compartment so the contacts touch the battery. No big deal. Except for the two set screws and round threaded nuts that hold the battery compartment on were something of a bitch to remove. Ok, fine, contacts are made turn on the lights. Great! Ok, not great. The bottom led doesn't work. What? Ok I can deal with this. Just fix whatever is loose. How about opening the cylinder? Put the bullets in and see what they fit like. Open the cylinder. Simple. Open the cylinder. Uh, what? Open the furslugener cylinder! It doesn't want to open. Yes, I am pushing the release by the way. And breaking several commandments in the process. Finally it opens! Put the bullets in. And close the cylinder. Close the cylinder. What? Ok, now I'm getting pissed. I finally get it closed, and didn't cry in the process. Ok, maybe a little.... Then guess what? The guy/girl assembling this thing must have been the worlds biggest ***** because the screws holding much of it together are barely tight. My handle actually wobbled until I tightened the thing up. This gun is really very nice, but for $800 I was expecting much much more. The cylinder trouble is just plain crap. That stuff should be a QC check and fixed at the factory. The led is the same. I was expecting to be wowed by this thing, and was not really wowed at all. Maybe I'm just too picky, but considering this comes from Japan a place where sweating the details is obsessive, this is pretty lame. On with the pictures!

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Damn, sorry that it was a bit of a disappointment. Hope that you get that bottom LED sorted. Looks great, otherwise.
 
Looks like the magazine housing, magazine and possibly the side cylinder cover are plastic. As well as the frame of course. The barrel looks to be, but unless you tap on it to hear the difference you'd never know.
 
You can send it back if you are still not happy with it, and ask for a new one, if that is at all feasible. Looks great overall though.
 
Really hate problems with brand new stuff. The led is fixed, but the cylinder is the hard part. The spring that pushes it against the rear of the frame is to stiff causing it to engage/disengage very hard. Getting the cylinder off the pin it's mounted on looks to be interesting.
 
Really hate problems with brand new stuff. The led is fixed, but the cylinder is the hard part. The spring that pushes it against the rear of the frame is to stiff causing it to engage/disengage very hard. Getting the cylinder off the pin it's mounted on looks to be interesting.


Show me a picture of the cylinder with the ejector rod extended. and I may be able to help If needed..
 
The round ended pin is where the contact is made. The spring is too stiff for smooth engagement.

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Is the textured finish on the butt plate correct? I think I like it polished better even if it's not correct to the movie version.
 
It's a downer that you've been unhappy with it out of the box, but I hope I can cheer you up by saying that all model guns I buy in Japan need various screws tightening up on delivery. For my part, it makes me feel like the gun is my own once I've got everything nice and tight by my own hand! Also, springs in model guns tend to be pretty strong. What Japanese model gun fans do with a new magazine spring, for example, is take a pair of disposable chopsticks and spend hours squishing it up and down.
What I mean to say is, I think the spring is intended to be broken in, and that's just a part of Japanese model gun culture.

(Honestly the spring in my Marushin PP's magazine is still too strong to comfortably load more than six rounds, but the important thing is it fires. The cap-firing model gun community is so tightly bound by the restrictions on materials they can use, that the feeling is it's always a happy miracle when the guns actually work. If it fires, rejoice, and don't sweat the details!)
 
Well, if "correct" means close to the movie version then the latest Tomenosuke is not that, either. They intended it to be more as an "as issued" version. I'm sure the butt plate on the movie version is closer to the Takagi than the polished of the Tomen.
 
Really? Besides my airsoft 93R this is my first model gun. So I'm hearing they all are like this more or less? Hmmm... Interesting. One thing I may replace is the setup that holds the magazine in. I just don't like those set screws and round nuts. Also in the back of the grip on the frame is a hole that looks like it goes to nothing. What's that all about?
 
The round ended pin is where the contact is made. The spring is too stiff for smooth engagement.

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If you want to access the spring I'm betting It works pretty much like the real thing..there's a pin that would have to be taken out. but If you don't know what your doing. It could have bad result's

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Really? Besides my airsoft 93R this is my first model gun. So I'm hearing they all are like this more or less? Hmmm... Interesting. One thing I may replace is the setup that holds the magazine in. I just don't like those set screws and round nuts. Also in the back of the grip on the frame is a hole that looks like it goes to nothing. What's that all about?


That's on the original gun.
 
Amazing how chunky this thing is compared to a regular handgun. Too bad it doesn't fire for real!
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Yeah I saw that video. Pretty cool. Wonder what the price tag would be to build one? I'd have to Cnc the side covers. Like I need another iron in the fire!
 
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