Hey all

I've placed my order for the above kit and the king arms M1A1. What I'm wondering is what else will I need. I know the battery will have to be placed in a diffrent area of the gun but wonder which battery is best suited and placement. Also I know I'll need a sling but unsure who is producing them. I've seen on ebay but would prefer if it was one of the AL gguys pockets I was filling instead of someone who is not trusted.

Also who produces the mounting clips as I know they are not on the kit or is it a trip to my diy store for that and if so can anyone point me in the direction of what is needed.

Last but not least who's producing the M40 grenades as I'll be replacing the hidious shotgun shell. What were they thinking puting that in there.

Cheers

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Cpl.
Smith,G 'Nogarth'

UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. Freebooters
H.M.S. Valhalla

Noble is the man to speak to about slings.

You'll need a stick type battery, it fits in the grenade launcher.

This type : http://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/g ... ry-type-07

Cant really help with sling mounts, mine's using fabric parts that came with a 3 point sling. Cheap solution would be to put key ring style rings in the front and stock vents. Other than that you could fabricate sling mounts or replace the front triangle and stock with more accurate pieces (although the light gate for the counter sits in the front triange, so you would either have to mod the triangle/gate or do without the countdown.

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MSgt Matt Bradley 'Crashdown' (Formerly Mattb)
A12/TQ2.0.82145E1
CO UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. 'Freebooters'
"There are very few problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."

Check out PVB's most excellent tutorial on the G&P kit.
Link is in his signature, posts are everywhere on the forum

Another question. The m1*1 I'm getting is the king arms one. Is the mag in that too long or can you convert to short? I've not heard anyone do a king arms m1a1 so intrested about the final build compaired to the cyma and TM ones

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Smith,G 'Nogarth'

UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. Freebooters
H.M.S. Valhalla

Depends.
Most chaps go with the Marui 190 rnd mags.

I don't need airsoft capabilities, so I use real 20rnd Thompson magazines, with the receiver slot milled out a touch to accept the guide rail.

The Thompson will require a new clip if you want to convert it to a PR magazine. Otherwise the standard thomopson mag is Too long

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Col L Adams C.M.D.

What about the kins mid mag does that fit or does it have to be the short as I can only find the TM mags that are short.

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Smith,G 'Nogarth'

UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. Freebooters
H.M.S. Valhalla

It has to be short. Its not the capacity of the mag its the actual physical size of the magazine. From what i can see of pics, the KA mids are full size.

Noble did make runs of mag bases with cut-outs to enable full size magazines to be used (the bottom of the mag protudes from the PR mag base), to make the kit a bit more skirmishable.

With the G&P kit, you will be able to attach the mag base without a mag in place, if your just looking for a display option, however, unless you tape down (or otherwise) the magazine switch, the counter will read 00 instead of 95.

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MSgt Matt Bradley 'Crashdown' (Formerly Mattb)
A12/TQ2.0.82145E1
CO UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. 'Freebooters'
"There are very few problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."

Oi!

I resemble that remark!

With my G&P kit, the instructions actually gave the type of stick battery needed (linked above anyway).

I just clipped the sling though one of the holes in the stock and front vent, but a better idea would be to use a small diameter (but heavy duty) keyring clip ring.

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Steve
Corporal in 69th Regt. 1st Batt. Homer’s Heroes.

"I'd like to die at the age of 80 in my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my c**k."

You don't HAVE to go with the short mags. I custom built a Mag Cover with a hole in the bottom so I can slide my mags in and out without having to remove the cover all the time. The longer mags work better for this method since they stick out and you can grab onto them.

http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss17 ... 0_0867.jpg
http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss17 ... 0_0881.jpg
http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss17 ... 0_0885.jpg

For show, you can just go without a Mag In and it looks fine. When using it for Airsoft, having the Magazine stick out doesn't cause too much of an eyesore for me personally.

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A01/TQ0.0.32154E1 MSgt Lovejoy, MA 'Reverend' Nebraska-USA

PM me about slings. I can fit you in on the current run.

What mounting clips are you talking about?

I make a mag insert kit + complete mag replacement that use the short 190 round mags.


As for M40 grenades, several vendors in the past.

Spat currently makes resin ones.

Tommin makes aluminum ones.

SD studios did a recent run, he may have some left over.

DATA here also makes some excellent fully functioning M40 grenades, sprung plunger, the whole bit.

If he was allowed, I'm sure he'd make ones that explode, too!!

Well payment has been done and when I spoke to fire support this morning they said they have casted an aditional mold for the mags and gonna cast one up and send pics to see what they are like as they said the clips are terable on the kit so I'll up pics when he sends them monday as I'll prob pic one up. Gettin excited on this little project.

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Smith,G 'Nogarth'

UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. Freebooters
H.M.S. Valhalla

here's what i have done.

Complete mag replacement:

Good for skirmishing, and having multiple mags. (I use 5)
Access at the bottom for winder.

Mag insert kit:

interfaces with the G+P for a permanent mount of the mag.

Rare long mag replacement.


I made 8 of these awhile ago for the standard mags. Sold them all and cut out winder access, so you could use them as saw mags.

Finally after all this waiting my m1a1 has arrived and my g&p kit. Hopefully start my build tonight as going to ireland thursday and want to get a start. Photos of the build will but added to my gallery .

One more thing awesome job on the new site

Gav

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Smith,G 'Nogarth'

UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. Freebooters
H.M.S. Valhalla

Well it built possibly needs few tweeks but its a start

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Cpl.
Smith,G 'Nogarth'

UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. Freebooters
H.M.S. Valhalla

Finger off trigger!!
Unless you're planning to kill the wall, that is!

Good going - Now to find the rest of the kit!!