Hey chaps im getting a denix replica this weekend so i can convert it to airsoft.My question is does the denix ones strip down like the real one i.e take out internals and if so is it easy???
In a word - NO. Dieselmonkey from this forum went down the Denix route for a project and said it's a lot more work than he envisaged.
In a word - NO. Dieselmonkey from this forum went down the Denix route for a project and said it's a lot more work than he envisaged.
Sweet i dont mind if its alot more work ,but can it be done ,can the denix enfield be striped down.
it can be stripped down, but not like the 'real-steel'.
Maybe DM will add a post since he has gone down that road?
it can be stripped down, but not like the 'real-steel'.
Maybe DM will add a post since he has gone down that road?
I suppose all i want is to take all the internals
Short answer - don't bother.
Longer answer: Effectively, the denix smle is a lump of softwood pine with a few cheap castings bolted to it. None of the parts are the same as a real SMLE and it doesn't strip down at all. There's no actual barrel, and so there's no channel for the barrel to sit in, for example, so you'll have to rout that out (accurately!) as well as obviously the magwell, and a shedload of space to fit the gun mechanism into, which, as it's softwood, really weakens the structure, so you have to reinforce with metal. Mind you, the wood's really the easy part.
There's a lot of grinding away of the metal castings to fit anything inside, too, and the only part of it that's useful is the metal band between the butt stock and the rest of the gun, to hold the two together, and even that needs a massive amount chopping away to get anything close to being usable.
It's actually easier, and about the same price to get all the legally available bits of a No.4 (woodwork and all the fixings) from ebay or elswhere, and then work from there. At least then you're working with hardwood and steel, instead of pine and monkey-metal alloy.
Sorry, but thems the facts. At least from my point of view.
I ended up with a very nice looking gun (to my eyes!) but effeectively, it's a wall hanger.
Agreed.. I converted a Denix replica and to make it work a lot of the internals are fixed parts of the build.. And as dieselmonkey said, its a lot of grinding, but for me it was mainly to make the donor gun fit..
So what is the best way then.Get a wood set and a vsr clone and let them become one??.And i suppose the next question would be where do i get a full wood set from
Here you are... in the states mind, but where I got mine:
http://www.gunpartscorp.com/catalog/Sea ... ter=853050
They have pretty much all the metalwork that you need as well. But this can also be picked up in the UK from places like "the gunner" and "ds-solutions"
