M14 to M1 Garand Conversion

Excellent work, good to have some more long guns in the camp.

Is it wood on the front? If so, a wee bit of mahogany wood stain should help richen up the colour to match the stock. But very nice job anyway, very nice indeed.

thats lovely. great looking gun, i am working on getting one sorted myself, i will be pm'ing you for tips lol. (ps,,,, everyone seems keen on staining the wood on there guns but as a joiner i say dont forget to seal it in with a good wax or light varnish.)

Boiled linseed oil is used for Garands I'm told, but I used Danish Oil (Tung Oil) on mine which was a bit shiny in my opinion.

teak oil will work a treat and its easily available.( just sold my TM m4 so the funds for the m14 are here )

I don't think you'll need a stain or dye on real steel walnut - just oil - wartime ones weren't stained as far as I know.

nope, just oiled to weather proof the wood.

satin walnut oil (linseed)

My winter project is putting M14 internals into my RS garand stock...Just bought all the front end componants like the front barrel, front sight, cylinder lock and screw...

Prolly gonna try and get hold of some TM internals to go in it....But in the mean time my S&S garand is great.

Great work on the garand...almost got ourselves a rifle squad. If you want magazines for it...id recommend the ACM shotty mags from RSOV. I've just bought another 12 ready for Carentan....

Take a look at Guinness's weathering tutorial on here or Arnies should give you a few tips.

http://www.ww2airsoft.org.uk/php/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2116&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Awesome Steve, where did you get the wood furniture from?

Awesome Steve, where did you get the wood furniture from?

I sold mine to biguk

Hey Steve, Are they RS front end componants? The reason i ask is im after knowing the radius of the tube you've used for the gas cylinder.