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I seen one sell at the weekend for £350 with a bunch of mags and S hopped and that was a friends price. I seen on youtube that some shops have had lawyers letters to stop selling them so that might push the value up as well.
I'd say around £400 to £450 at a push would be a good price.
 
(p.s. I've got one here and it's an awesome little AEG)

took a break from the SP9 build and designed and printed a front end for the Saiga 12K as I'm running it CQB so need somewhere for a torch and front grip.
File can be found here for free:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6127823
 

So I'm about 90% done on the design. still got to do some cosmetic stuff on the right side of the lower receiver and mess around with the mag catch some more but nearly done. (just a thought..if I make this, will this be the first ever UK build AEG?)

finished the main shape of the lower. working on the mag release (push button instead of paddle now) and just need to finsih off the bolt release lever and exactly where to make a hole for the fire selector. On the plus side the Scorpion mag fitted in the magwell first time which is a bonus.

 

It would seem I'm developing a bit of a B&T obession.
 

Had a broken tappet plate and since I was in there I fitted a NanoAAB mosfet. It's a Tokyo Marui M14 with a wooden stock and firing at 330 FPS on 0.2g. I'll be using it this weekend as I've got a woodland day. I'm still deciding if I want to S hop  it or not. The range on the M14, straight out the box, is pretty impressive so do I need to tinker with it?

So this one was a bit of a gamble. listed as boneyard on BBguns4less with no details of the issues. I had a few NGRS AK parts floating around so I bought it and when it arrived it was missing the fire selector lever that sits inside the receiver and is attached to the fire selector. The hop dial, which sets the hop, was snapped off and missing.
Luckily I has a spare selector lever and I replicated the dial from another of my NGRS AK's and 3D printed it and it works well.
It looks like this was a brand new, in the box, AEG that they robbed for parts - very happy with the result.


And I also picked up a Canik TP9 whcih fires differently from about 99% of other airsoft pistols. It's striker fired, not hammer fired, and I quite like it.

but me being me, I couldn't leave it alone as the extended mag release tended to dump the mag when holstered in my Warrior universal holster so off the the 3D printer again to make a 3mm thick extension to replace the standard 5mm version that comes with the pistol.

TM AKX

yeah the mag is tight but it feels like it will break in after a few times using it. it's a typical AK fitment where you lock the front tab in the rock the magazinr back however the last few mm's is where it feels tight and you need to force it in until it clicks. The top cover rattles around needs bending up at the rear sight block with a pair of pliers to stop the rattling.

Going for the Tokyo Marui prototype look here. Mock up in 3D resin proved fruitful as I need to adjust the butt cap as it's a bit tight and the designer is an idiot and managed to design the mag release spring tension the wrong way so that it always dumps the mag instead of retaining it. These should be easy fixes. 


Anyone want to buy one when I'm finished?
 

Going for the Tokyo Marui prototype look here. Mock up in 3D resin proved fruitful as I need to adjust the butt cap as it's a bit tight and the designer is an idiot and managed to design the mag release spring tension the wrong way so that it always dumps the mag instead of retaining it. These should be easy fixes. 


Anyone want to buy one when I'm finished?
 

quite possibly the loudest firing airsoft gun I've used.

p.s. if anyone knows the whereabouts of spare mags then let me know.

TM AKX

quite possibly the loudest firing airsoft gun I've used.

p.s. if anyone knows the whereabouts of spare mags then let me know.

So I'm about 90% done on the design. still got to do some cosmetic stuff on the right side of the lower receiver and mess around with the mag catch some more but nearly done. (just a thought..if I make this, will this be the first ever UK build AEG?)

So I'm about 90% done on the design. still got to do some cosmetic stuff on the right side of the lower receiver and mess around with the mag catch some more but nearly done. (just a thought..if I make this, will this be the first ever UK build AEG?)

finished the main shape of the lower. working on the mag release (push button instead of paddle now) and just need to finsih off the bolt release lever and exactly where to make a hole for the fire selector. On the plus side the Scorpion mag fitted in the magwell first time which is a bonus.

 

Lower is coming along nicely. right hand side is pretty much complete however I'm going to make the fire selectors longer, tinker with the mag release internals a bit more and I'm toying with making the bolt hold open spring loaded so that when you pull back on the charging handle the bolt locks to the rear automatically. 

ignore the horrible printing on the lower, I have some surplus Matt PLA which is terrible and I'm waiting on some more PLA+ to turn up.

TM AKX

finished the main shape of the lower. working on the mag release (push button instead of paddle now) and just need to finsih off the bolt release lever and exactly where to make a hole for the fire selector. On the plus side the Scorpion mag fitted in the magwell first time which is a bonus.

 

TM AKX

TM AKX

I was planning on writing this after using it in a game but I got man-flu so obviously I was dying and couldn't make the game day but I'll do a mini-review anyway since I've been messing around with it and put about 20 mags worth through it.
 
A bit about the Real Steel version:
“APC” is an acronym for “Advanced Police Carbine.” The “K” stands for “Kurz,” or “short,” and “B&T” is the shortened name for Brügger & Thomet of Switzerland. The APC9 was introduced to Europe in 2011 in 9mm, and was quickly engineered for .40 S&W and .45 ACP offerings. The standard model's barrel length measured 7 inches and featured a right-side folding polymer stock. A carbine variant with a 16-inch barrel was also developed for the commercial market, as well as integrally suppressed models.
 
I've seen this advertised as the SCW-9 and the APC9 however if you follow the B&T naming convention this this is actually the B&T SMG ACP9 K PRO G. Which translates as a Sub Machine gun made by Brugger and Thormet called a Advanced Police Carbine in 9 x 19 mm calibre with a Kurz barrel with a Glock Magazine lower receiver and the PRO part is anyone's guess.
 
So there is now an airsoft GBB version of the B&T SMG ACP9 K PRO G made by Maruyama. Well I have no idea who Maruyama are and the box claims it was designed in Japan and built in Taiwan. Is this actually a VFC built GBB? It takes VFC style Glock Magazines but apart from that fact I don't see anything that screams out VFC. I think it might be a new company called Maruyama but I could be wrong and time will probably tell.

 
Ok, so on with the review. What do you get in the well packaged brown box? The GBB SMG, a 50 round magazine and a fake silencer/suppressor, oh and a little allen key to adjust the hop.

You might have noticed there are no markings on the SMG. I guess this is to get around any trademark issues outside of Japan.
 
The silencer is actually a inner barrel extension and has an effect on the FPS when attached. With the magazine filled with 144a gas and the magazine temperature at 21C, the FPS is 290 which is pretty consistant. By adding the silencer this jumps to 355 so you get a 70 FPS boost by fitting the silencer on average. As you can see below the silencer can be stripped down and the inner barrel removed if you want to keep the FPS down or add a tracer to the inside of the silencer. One thing to note is the silencer is very tight to get on and off. I think this is down to the paint and should become easier are the paint wears down over use.

I have a few different VFC glock magazines and they all fit and work fine. I actually prefer the Maruyama magazine over the VFC mags and in fact I just ordered some more as they are cheaper than the VFC 50 rounders and seem to work very well. The Maruyama mag works well in my VFC pistols just in case anyone was wondering. TM/WE/Raven mags don't fit this GBB.

VFC G19X mag in the GBB

VFC Glock 19 Gen 3 in the GBB
Adjusting the hop is easy and involves putting the supplied allen key in the hole in the front of the receiver and turning left or right to get the desired hop effect. The good news is that you don't need to disassemble the GBB to adjust and it can be done on the fly with a magazine loaded. The other plus side is the hop unit has no issues hopping 0.3g BB's and I've tried a bunch of different BB makes and had 0 jams, 0 splitting and 0 malfunctions. In fact I've had zero malfunctions with about 20 odd mags through it. It's a very reliable little GBB.

Inside the wear seems to be minimal after 20 odd magazines. I don't see anything to cause concern right now. 

wear near the barrel is minimal. The grey is a mixture of paint wear and grease.

the bolt front shows the same paint wear and grease

The rear of the bolt shows wear from hitting the buffer.

there is hardly a mark on the trigger group.
 
My conclusion:
Weirdly it didn't come with any iron sights as standard. You can't find B&T iron sights that easily so the closest will be the IWI polymer flip up sights if you want to run irons. I don't know why this bothers me so much
 
function and fitment are spot on. Zero complaints from me and it has a nice recoil to boot. Accuracy is about the same as a GBB pistol but slightly better as it has a stock attached. Range is decent but BB weight and gas used with vary the results.
 
Negatives: Probably spare internal parts long-term will be a problem and I wish the selector lever was metal instead of polymer but that's just nit-picking.
 
On the Mightjebus review scale it's a solid 4 out of 5.
 
p.s. The Omega 9 tri-lug tracer silencer fits and works very well on this GBB.

used it this weekend at the UCAP Vendetta site. Worked flawlessly and had zero issues. The only negative was I only has 1 x 50 rounder and the other 4 mags being G17 & G19 mags which meant I had to do a tactical withdrawl (run away) to reload the mags in a safe place. I was using .28g tracers and it was hopping them very well.
 

work continues. working on the lower receiver now. because it is going to use scorpion mags I'm going to make it have a paddle style mag release.

for anyone interested the smaller parts will be SLS aluminium printed, the lower receiver with be cast epoxy polymer, the outer barrel will be a metal 6 inch barrel extension which will be fitted to a 3D printed barrel block. The only question I'm mulling over right now is how to make the upper receiver.