a little conversion work,the idear(not mine) to do a little face lift on my bren to make it more vz.26 like by changeing the barrel assembly completely.the new barrel will be interchangeable ,the gas block moves to the front just behind the booster cone and the under barrel gas tube extension conects just forward of the bypod this being the biggest compromise but good enough i hope.im in the process of cutting the grooves into the barrel and not finished yet,the grooves are not nearly deep enough,only about 1.25mm deep but the tube only has a wall thickness of 1.5mm leaving only 0.25mm after cutting,im hopeing it will give the impression though,it's got another steel tube inside it for structure.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
NO!!! 
While I applaud your technical skills would I be very wrong to hope that mechanically this fails and it is therefore unable to be used against me at Sevastopol?!? 
Excellent work as always Dadio. 
I have a small skewer hidden in the collar of my jumping jacket, and a razorblade in my gaiter, as well as my knife.
Nice one Gav You see being German is far more fun technically and we do need the support weapon unless Vince is going to buy one 
Cracking stuff Gavin
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
NO!!!
While I applaud your technical skills would I be very wrong to hope that mechanically this fails and it is therefore unable to be used against me at Sevastopol?!?
Excellent work as always Dadio.
the thaught had'nt even begun to form in my or anybody elses mind.....
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
was cutting the verry last groove and the parting tool bit and chewed up the last inch of outer barrel,luckily i found a photo of a varient with a knurled arear either side of the carrying handle ,not sure of the age but it saved me frob doing the whole outer barrel again (about 4 houres).
also bored out the under barrel "gas tube" to fit snugly and im making an insert that will secure it to the bren gas regulator assembly that will be inside the new gas tube.i need to make it quite well because to mutch flex could be bad news,on the bren the gas regulator is load bearing when useing the carrying handle,meaning that the rear mounting for the barrel could potentially break if there was to mutch movement,hopefully i wont have to do anything ugly to reinforce it.it will all look longer once the booster cone is fitted as well.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
looks a lot more finished than it really is,nothings welded yet just proped up for the photo.the booster cone also needs holes drilled in rows of five spaced around the sircumference but otherwise i'm quite pleased with it,its all one piece turned out of a solid ally bar and conical on the inside as well,i ally blacked it on the lath and got a fantastic nearly gloss finish allmost a shame to use it and mess it up,makes sutch a change to the usual trying to black chinese pot metal.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
Hoooo yaaaaaaahhh
Lock n load!! Great work mate.
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
nice!
nearly done,just have to paint the bits that would be chrome, add a sight and make a little internal attachment for secureing it ,oh and drill the holes in the booster cone.i worried about nothing ,its at least as strong as the bren barrel.is it really 3 months to sevastopol.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
Looks excellent, I've always loved the look of the ZB26. I blame Hidden and Dangerous. Are you planning to make any straight mags for it?
i dont know about magazines,at that point it starts to cost money,you see up till now ive used materials that i had laying around so its cost nothing but time.i can't use the internals from the bren mags as the internals are curved so i would have to buy three new airsotf mags and three vz.26 mags and then i'd have to make a new reciever as well probably whitch is doable as its a removeable part.... in short probably not as it opens a rather large can of worms.what i may do is make up a rear sight as they all had the sight adjuster like the mk 1 bren that is to say the type with the large wheel type adjuster and it was fitted further forward next to the mag well.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
Some of the Czech models had curved mags the same as the Bren and other the straight mags, I think we can manage with the curved ones and save the expense
Looks superbe!
Is this the beast:
Is this the beast>:
No, that's a captured BREN. The Germans renamed it/gave it the designation: "7.7mm LeMG 138(e)"
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Indeed. The bolsheviks will be too busy cowering in their trenches avoiding it's fire to notice if the mags are straight or curved! 
Looks really fantastic Gavin
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
well its only a cosmetic job,no point going the whole hog on something thats never going to be exact because the under barrel details are wrong for the vz but i think doing the rear sights will give it a srong enough definition as a vz.26 to pass as lookalike for me.ive got a spare stock from a falkland islands vintage bren that i might re-work and give the over shoulder spoon thingy,but this can't ocupie mutch more time as ive got customer stuff to get started.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
Very nice work
finished the secureing system yesterday,nothing to see but its not going to fall off now
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
