Project : MG42-ish

Looks good so far though Joker, if you havent already get some line drawings/3d models of the '42 and get making templates!

Look here I helped with some of this.

http://www.imperial-fleet.com/bbcforum/ ... highlight=

i used a famas for this little chap
yes its nasty but only took about 4 hrs to do

Cheers for the input, guys.

Will probably go with the MP5 receiver, just because it's spare - just need to get the correct mos-mag and convert/butcher Or maybe use a 240-round 'twin' mag, remove the second mag and replace with a metal drum - mag will be the wrong side but then we're not stitch-counting !?

Biggest problem at present is how the fab a 'believable' hand-guard, due in part to the length - what did you use for yours, Warren ??

its 32mm ally tube,
with a lot of holes drilled into it,

with another tube over the barrel,

and lots of (i hate to say it ) tape,

... and lots of (I hate to say it ) tape,

Ahh, black nasty !! You gotta love it ....... front end of my M16A1 has been held on by it for years !!

I've been looking at tubing but I think I'll need to use plastic as it will have to be cut length-ways to clip around the lower frame of the cocking tube - hopefully held in place at the receiver end, just by it's shape and rigidity and fixed to the bipod mount of the SG1 handguard at the front, and clipped on as normal via a handguard pin

Think I've sorted the handguard .....

Longest barrel I have to hand is a spare SG1 length (467mm ??) but that stops 2/3rd's of the way down the outer inner barrel so my concern is that the bb's will hit the rest of the outer on the way down to the mussle, However, the only barrel that I can see that would do the job is a Madbull 650mm, but designed for 'normal' aeg's (PSG-type is different) @£40 +p&p (new) - any cheaper ideas/sources ?

Mag-wise again I'm struggling to find any 2nd-hand - looking for one of these, to cut off the r/h drum to give a l/h drum feed .......

But failing that, would one of these be acceptable as a 'look-a-likey' ??

For a cheaper barrel option take a look at this thread http://www.ww2airsoft.org.uk/php/phpBB2 ... ght=#14500 it's about using ally tubing from B&Q, if you go for this option you'll need to take a bb with you to check that it will fit as sometimes the internal diameter is to small.

With regard to the length of the barrel I've seen a discussion on another forum about the 'suck-back' effect, apparently if the volume of the barrel is greater then the volume of the cylinder the bb wont have reached the end of the barrel before the piston starts moving backwards and this will suck the bb back down the barrel, I don't know if this is correct but it does sound logical.

Follow this link its for a 650mm PSG-1 barrel from Cobra airsoft in Hong Kong http://www.cobraairsoft.com/product_inf ... cts_id=439
for £35 quid.

I've done a bit of modding in the past and there are issues with cylinder/barrel combinations.
Thinking about it, I believe the PSG-1 has a special piston/cylinder set up so the length of the barrel could be why ??
I'll probably stick with the SG-1 barrel for now and see how it performs.

Should have now sourced a mag (altho. a G3 type not a MP5 type as prefered)
I've found pics of Mg34's and MG15's (MG08's ??) with a twin drum mag but they are mounted higher up the reciever so a chop job is in order ....

from this

to this

to give the MG a recognised image !