vsr10 lee enfield no4

first post on here after having lurked the forum for a while and figured i would post some pics of my wip build after being inspired by some of the builds on here.

so i decided to start with what seems to be the main hurdle when it comes to making a lee enfield and thats the reciever band(probably not what its actually called) but on the real Lee Enfields this is part of the action and is what the stock is bolted too.
now obviously we cant bolt the stock to a vsr10 action so i set about fabricating one out of some 3mm mild steel bar

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to do this i literally just bent it around the stock, doing some cuts at the tighter angles

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then i welded this all up(badly, first time welding so go easy on me haha) and welded a piece across the top which i drilled and tapped for the stock bolt

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after that came a tricky part of welding the band to the trigger guard/magwell, after all if you mess up the angle here the cant of the stock alignment will be off......which i did. however im not too bothered by this as it till looks alright and is only slightly out height wise

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free picture upload *in the background you can see my no4 .410 conversion that came in pretty handy as a reference

so with the stock bolted on i offered it all up

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then i kind of lost steam for a few weeks but got a message from a buddy organising a game which i wanted to use the rifle at so it gave me a week to get it skirmish-able so in my rush there's a few things that i didn't get around to taking photos of but I'll mention what i did for the sake of completeness

i basically removed key areas of wood from the forend allowing the action to sit inside, i then cut the vsr's outer barrel to just past the hop unit and removed the top half of what remained (if that description doesn't work think of it looking like a house gutter) the idea of that being that it will keep the hop unit in place and aligned correctly.

after this i just a dremmel sanding drum to thin out the rear top cover allowing it to sit on the hop unit and cylinder

which left us around here

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so one thing that I've never been fond of with a lot of the vsr lee Enfields is the trigger placement, generally they end up very far forwards such as in this pic

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and i wanted it to be more accurate to an actual Enfield trigger location so i picked up a surplus Lee Enfield trigger ground it to the shape and welded it to an appropriately shaped piece of mild steel and installed it back into the trigger box
i then extended the cylinder so that the bolt sits in the correct location

which leaves us here (excuse the tactical tie wraps and elastic band that i used to retain the mags for the days skirmish)

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i still have a few bits to do such as bluing the outer barrel and attaching the butt plate
I also think i want to fabricate some sort of receiver cover to make it look more no4-ish and give me a location to mount a rear sight but at this point most of the hard work is done. the dummy mag is just a rubber one at the moment whilst i look for a real one to modify and i want to make a more accurate looking bolt handle but other than that its shooting great with the upgrades that I've installed in it.

ill post up some more pics when I've done the finishing touches but i figured even in its current state it would be of interest to a few people