What have you made?

[Tommikka]

1 hour ago, Cooperman26 said:

 

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. 

 

 

 

 

I’m going to put on my health and safety hat for this - though one use pyro is pretty much cardboard & paper wrapped around a small amount of pyro/explosive, there is a lot of science in the design of that cardboard and paper on top of the Pyro/explosive mix.

 

 

One set amount of pyro/explosive will burn/detonate in a particular manner - it could be a ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ detonation, with different combinations of flash/bang and the energy can be balanced between volume/blast energy

Then put it into a different tube of cardboard and paper that blows apart and directs force out to both ends or favours one direction rather than the other 

 

Put a carefully designed flashbang tube into another tube and you change the way that it performs 

 

In our events we have used many devices and prop ‘explosives’, however our prop explosives such as for example dummy C4 have been the players device that transmits a signal to detonate the unmodified pyro nearby 

 

These would have to be looked at on a case by case basis, and should be tested / approved by sites based on their effect and also their insurance which can instantly be invalidated by not using pyro as designed 

 

https://enolagaye.com/products/mk5-thunder-flash/

[Cooperman26]

1 hour ago, Tommikka said:

I’m going to put on my health and safety hat for this - though one use pyro is pretty much cardboard & paper wrapped around a small amount of pyro/explosive, there is a lot of science in the design of that cardboard and paper on top of the Pyro/explosive mix.

 

 

One set amount of pyro/explosive will burn/detonate in a particular manner - it could be a ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ detonation, with different combinations of flash/bang and the energy can be balanced between volume/blast energy

Then put it into a different tube of cardboard and paper that blows apart and directs force out to both ends or favours one direction rather than the other 

 

Put a carefully designed flashbang tube into another tube and you change the way that it performs 

 

In our events we have used many devices and prop ‘explosives’, however our prop explosives such as for example dummy C4 have been the players device that transmits a signal to detonate the unmodified pyro nearby 

 

These would have to be looked at on a case by case basis, and should be tested / approved by sites based on their effect and also their insurance which can instantly be invalidated by not using pyro as designed 

 

https://enolagaye.com/products/mk5-thunder-flash/

Kind sir,

 

I completely appreciate that health and safety hat. I probably should have said that it was a home experiment and I wasn’t intending on taking it to a field. I understand and agree with your rationale 100%.
 

I was trying to get across I think it would be a good thing if a company was able to come up with such an idea for single use pyro, based upon my crude idea, as I think there would be great interest.
 

Cardboard shells of any variety (such as my attempt of a dynamite bundle) of which could have inserted XY already produced pyro (FBS, EG) that complies and is suited etc. But who knows!

 

 

[Tommikka]

30 minutes ago, Cooperman26 said:

Kind sir,

 

I completely appreciate that health and safety hat. I probably should have said that it was a home experiment and I wasn’t intending on taking it to a field. I understand and agree with your rationale 100%.

 

 

 

It was pretty much a matter of ‘need to mention’ on record 

 

Common sense is not very common 

[Cooperman26]

18 minutes ago, Tommikka said:

It was pretty much a matter of ‘need to mention’ on record 

 

Common sense is not very common 

Very true. 

[Tommikka]

37 minutes ago, Cooperman26 said:

 

I was trying to get across I think it would be a good thing if a company was able to come up with such an idea for single use pyro, based upon my crude idea, as I think there would be great interest.
 

Cardboard shells of any variety (such as my attempt of a dynamite bundle) of which could have inserted XY already produced pyro (FBS, EG) that complies and is suited etc. But who knows!

 

 

Commercially, there is very little scope on the profit line on individual sales let alone the up front development & testing

 

I wouldn’t think that it would be worth it for an aftermarket add on, but there could be scope for lookalike pyro.

The issue I would see is it being a nieche item for a smaller market - but there are wide ranges of pyro for different purposes 

 

 

For player enjoyment there is the scope for reusable prop pyro. A few decades ago there was a small very expensive market, nowadays there are various choices and sites / organisers have access to enthusiastic people with ideas - the dynamite you have made is perfectly valid for use as a dummy prop

 

It could be used in two ways without having to go bang itself

1) as a non functioning dummy

2) as a device that remotely controls pyro (effectively fireworks control systems)

 

My gameplay began using the former, and we decided that we wanted to run our own games (or more precisely the site owner called our bluff and gave us a date in the calendar)

We didn’t manage it straight off, but we wanted things that function, and began to ‘better’ our props — bumping into an ‘almost original’ member brought us the right man with the skills to put ideas into effect and have ‘real functioning’ props operated by players (or in a couple of cases ‘almost functioning dummy props’ that we watched them use while pressing buttons in our pockets 

(He fooled me with one device that I handed him a toy laser rocket launcher to modify - he just used it as is to be pointed at a reflector and used a remote detonator in his pocket)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tommikka]

…. Annoyingly I don’t seem to have particular props in my photo galleries 

 

 @Cooperman26
 

I would recommend that you take your dynamite to your local, they may be willing to blow them up with some checks, but I’m more inclined that they would be willing to use them as dummies  … or you could end up running your own themed game

[AK47frizzle]

It's coming...

 

[Barny]

Hopefully this fits into the what have you/I made section.... 

 

I live in a rented house and have wanted a nicer way to display pews than the usual scattered around the house option without drilling holes in the walls etc.  Spent many an hour googling and procrastinating about the best way to go. Eventually decided to settle on the Ikea Skadis peg board as that seems fairly popular. 

A quick trip, that sadly wasn't, as the missus came and dragged me round the entire f*cking place and eventually we ended up in the hardware section. Quickly realised the boards have rounded corners so that they would need trimming down to get rid of that. So got the biggest boards in white with the intention of paint/wrap/netting to cover it up. Found some conveniently size ply board at work, cleaned that up and set about cutting the boards down to suit. Found some ally spacers that would lift the pegboard away from the ply and bolted it up nicely. Seen some reports of sagging or bowing so hoping the 9x bolts per panel will sort that. 

 

Absolutely rubbish at DIY, but quite happy how the turned out. Currently un-coloured and hoping to get some kind of case/drawers/kallax to lift it of the floor to give some storage space underneath. 

 

Only a small selection of Pews, ones in bits, the AEGS are somewhere in the house....

[Dodgyback]

Saw this thread and thought I'd share one of my projects I'd done a couple of years ago.  Nothing too fancy but it's unique as I've not seen any other airsoft replica Turkish HK33 looking replicas as accurate tbh.

 

Classic Army Base gun.  Slim Handguard made from a real G3 Handguard.  Railed Handguard made from an old springer shotty and an MP5 3d printed handguard.   The GL front end was a cheap battery box cut to suit with the handguard made from foamex board.  The cocking handle was fashioned from foamex board too.  The lower was a standard MP5 one with the embossed bullet symbols filled in.  Repainted in OD then the new bullet symbols drawn on freehand by marker pens.

 

Again, nothing too fancy, but I like the finished job.

Edited 6 hours ago by Dodgyback

[Dodgyback]

Having done up a replica G3 from an old TM version made from parts.  I wanted a scope on it, but didn't just want an ordinary scope and didn't wanna pay for the scope that goes with the gun in the real world.  Anyhoo, I started with a cheap 4x40 normal scope and cut it down.  Emptied it out and put a bit of 30mm pipe on the back.  I had a TM MP5 claw mount and cut the top off, filling any gaps in with milliput.  A friend 3d printed some spacers and I glued them to the scope I was using.   I glued various spare caps on and put a real G36 3x inner scope part to have some sort of sight picture through it.  Sprayed up black and flip up end caps to finish. 

 

A bit later on I decided I wanted the more modern type lower that I'd seen with the German soldiers in Afghanistan.  I used a cheap MP5 Navy lower and filled in the embossed bullet symbols.   Sprayed it with bumper paint and drew on the selector markings.  I bought a real selector lever from D&B Militaria and drilled a new hole to slot it right through to the other side.  It may feel like a long winded way of making it but apart from the lower I already had and the selector which was only a couple of quid all it cost me was a bit of time.  

Edited 4 hours ago by Dodgyback