What have you made?

[Cannonfodder]

This week I managed to make a complete balls up of the repair/upgrade on my KAC PDW. In no particular  order I managed to tear the new hop rubber when putting the hop unit back on the inner barrel, loose the hop nub (fortunately I found again later) and while disconnecting the wiring a bullet connector came off. I'll try again today and hopefully things will go better

[Cannonfodder]

5 hours ago, Cannonfodder said:

I'll try again today and hopefully things will go better

They didn't. I'm starting to think it'll be easier to just rip the whole gearbox out and replace it with one from an old cyma 513

[Anonymoose]

Somewhat productive day in the SkunkWorks.

 

Started off by modifying a silencer/tracer unit, wasn't so fond of the grooves in it and decided to copy the Specter one, but with 12 smaller flutes.

 

Before:

 

 

After turning the OD down, it was put in the rotary table and flutes were cut with an 8mm ball-nosed end mill.

 

 

Bit of lousy paint..

 

 

And now it looks so much better. Very happy with the result.

 

 

Next up was a silencer that i bought for my MP5K-PDW. It's some specific type that i didn't realise at the time, but that didn't matter. I made an insert that'd screw on to the threaded outer barrel, but go over the 3-lug QD and sit closer to the front sight block. Turned from 38mm ally, bored to clear the 3 lugs, threaded inside, with an external male thread to fit a tracer and hex flats milled too. It's secured to the outer body with a grub screw.

 

 

Finished + fitted:

 

[ButcherBill]

FFS M8, you're making us/ME look bad.

[Jez_Armstrong]

A KS-3 to go with my KS-1 ?

[Anonymoose]

5 minutes ago, ButcherBill said:

FFS M8, you're making us/ME look bad.

 

I don't think i'll ever rival your collection. ?

 

Another quick job, added a short rail to my MP5SD silencer to attach an X400 clone. The silencer has a small grub screw to index it so i can still keep zero when i have to remove the silencer.

 

 

Spare rail piece had a suitable radius cut into it to match the silencer:

 

 

Small section of the ribs were cut off the handguard to fit a remote switch, which is held on with 3M VHB tape.

 

[ButcherBill]

28 minutes ago, Anonymoose said:

I don't think i'll ever rival your collection.

Ah, but the closest I've gotten to 'making' something was ripping the guts out of a stanag to house the AR57 battery.

Edited April 26 by ButcherBill

[Anonymoose]

3 minutes ago, ButcherBill said:

Ah, but the closest I've gotten to 'making' something was ripping the guts out of a stanag to house the AR57 battery.

 

Making things and machining is kinda part of my job though. ?

[Jez_Armstrong]

I wanted a go pro to NVG mount and the only one I saw online someone wanted £95 for a 3d print ?

 

So I designed my own, very easy to do, mounts directly to the back of the nvg 

 

[Jez_Armstrong]

Well in true "fuck you I'm not paying that much" I've made my own NV mount that pivots to the side

Used one of the fake PVS-14 body's, ripped the arms off, designed and 3d printed my own arms and now I have what I want

[Jez_Armstrong]

Now with iris ?

[Wavey_Gravey]

Amazing, you should sell those, save people paying £100 per one. Are they difficult to do?

 

Surprised your housing isn’t 3D printed too! ?
 

 

[Jez_Armstrong]

50 minutes ago, Wavey_Gravey said:

Amazing, you should sell those, save people paying £100 per one. Are they difficult to do?

 

Surprised your housing isn’t 3D printed too! ?
 

 

The tube that attaches to the iris is 3d printed so it slides over the end of my tube 

 

Cost me £22 per iris and 30 min of 3d printing 

[mightyjebus]

At a stage where I'm happy to share the progress on this.

China Lake 40mm grenade launcher. It will be a 3+1 40mm pump action grenade launcher. Externals are pretty much done and just waiting on some parts to make progress on the internals. All 3D printed in a mixture of ABS, PLA and Wood filament. There are a couple of parts that I'm going to CNC in metal (looking at you pump arms) but the 3D printed ones will be good enough for testing.

[hitmanNo2]

1 hour ago, mightyjebus said:

At a stage where I'm happy to share the progress on this.

China Lake 40mm grenade launcher. It will be a 3+1 40mm pump action grenade launcher. Externals are pretty much done and just waiting on some parts to make progress on the internals. All 3D printed in a mixture of ABS, PLA and Wood filament. There are a couple of parts that I'm going to CNC in metal (looking at you pump arms) but the 3D printed ones will be good enough for testing.

Flip it upside down and do a GM-94 next please ?

[BYRNEMORGAN52]

Did my first ever paint Job this weekend. currently waiting on the paint to fully dry before sanding it down and removing the glossy-ish finish.

[SkywardSoul117]

On 11/05/2025 at 22:41, hitmanNo2 said:

Flip it upside down and do a GM-94 next please ?

 

I believe the original designer of the project is Wafzig, so he'd be the one to ask. Correct me if I'm wrong. 

[Titchiemagoo]

On 06/05/2025 at 10:04, Jez_Armstrong said:

Now with iris ?

Just need to make them adapt to light, like a sensor and motors to close them automatically. Sy fi heaven

[HZR13]

Cool makes you look like Johnny 5 🤣 

[MSSNAFU]

Rifle, 6mm, No.9 Mk EM2

😁

[MSSNAFU]

56 minutes ago, MSSNAFU said:

Rifle, 6mm, No.9 Mk EM2

😁

Mostly CNC Aluminium & Walnut. Still very much a prototype but I'm going to (try) to use it this weekend.

[ButcherBill]

41 minutes ago, MSSNAFU said:

Mostly CNC Aluminium & Walnut. Still very much a prototype but I'm going to (try) to use it this weekend.

Extremely cool, best I could do is buy a prop.

[Jez_Armstrong]

3 hours ago, Titchiemagoo said:

Just need to make them adapt to light, like a sensor and motors to close them automatically. Sy fi heaven

I've shifted these on now, I have Gen 3 PVS-14 now 

[MSSNAFU]

2 hours ago, ButcherBill said:

Extremely cool, best I could do is buy a prop.

Thank you 😁Its been an 'interesting' journey making it, with little previous experience using a CNC machine. A very high point was having the rare privilege of handling a real one courtesy of Jonathan Ferguson at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. Low points frequently included the machine doing what I told it to do, rather than what I wanted it to do!  🙃

[Cooperman26]

I’m not saying I’m gifted when it comes to creating things but today I had a thought. 
 

There are many different types of one use pyro, and reusable, on the market and I like things that go bang.
 

I found a gent, http://www.youtube.com/@FulcrumAirsoft, who has some fantastic ideas and designs for reusable pyro, especially towards a WW2 theme, which I think is fucking brilliant! I’d highly recommend giving his channel a watch and visiting his website.

 

But it got me thinking, I’d personally love to see some more single use ideas based towards any theme. Which is cheap.

 

I today have mocked up some very basic “dynamite” shells, based loosely on the British PE No2 explosive during 1940s. A very rough a crude production with any thin cardboard rolled into a tube shape (mainly cereal boxes) then rolled up in grease paper and some strimmer wire as a fake looking fuse wire. 
 

These happily fit a EGMK5 or the shorter FBS MK5/4. Only one used per trio. Or would be perfect for the FBS maroon sappers with a firing box.

It’s mainly a one use “shell” which if created properly, by someone with more able than me, could be a great gimmick. 

Just now, Cooperman26 said:

I’m not saying I’m gifted when it comes to creating things but today I had a thought. 
 

There are many different types of one use pyro, and reusable, on the market and I like things that go bang.
 

I found a gent, http://www.youtube.com/@FulcrumAirsoft, who has some fantastic ideas and designs for reusable pyro, especially towards a WW2 theme, which I think is fucking brilliant! I’d highly recommend giving his channel a watch and visiting his website.

 

But it got me thinking, I’d personally love to see some more single use ideas based towards any theme. Which is cheap.

 

I today have mocked up some very basic “dynamite” shells, based loosely on the British PE No2 explosive during 1940s. A very rough a crude production with any thin cardboard rolled into a tube shape (mainly cereal boxes) then rolled up in grease paper and some strimmer wire as a fake looking fuse wire. 
 

These happily fit a EGMK5 or the shorter FBS MK5/4. Only one used per trio. Or would be perfect for the FBS maroon sappers with a firing box.

It’s mainly a one use “shell” which if created properly, by someone with more able than me, could be a great gimmick.