Hi all, thanks you for all your messages. I've been busy these last days finishing the smartgun and attending my first convention.
Wooden smartgun specs:
weight 4.5 kilograms including bracket (excluding arm and vest)
length 1.28 meter
ingredients for cooking one up yourself 
-one wooden beam 200*15*5.5 centimeter is plenty
-a piece of wood big enough for the footpeg hangers (unless of course you can find the real deal, I'm still searching)
-two dvd spindels for the ammo drum (mine even had open-lock embossed letters)
-pvc pipe coupling for the nozzle ( I believe 40 mm)
-22mm radiator/cv pipe for the handles
-three bicycle foam handles + endcaps (the fit the 22 mm pipe just right so that was Lucky)
-one courner of a flexible plastic trash can for the handle guard
-some perspex or metal plate for the ammo drum cover
-lots of bolts and screws (mostly 6-8 mm, mostly)
-resin or expoy to fill in screw/bolt holes (I didn't have bondo or woodfiller at hand)
-1:1 blueprints from a mg 42, kwasaki ar 125 foot hanger rest pegs, and smartgun blueprints (see the link below)
-(motor)cyle brakelever and cable + hook and spring for tension)
-kawasaki steercontroller ( I found the correct type thanks to this forum)
-window handgrip opener and metal pipe for the cocking lever (had to do some metal cutting on the bandsaw, bolted together and filled with resin.
-found metal objects (some kind of latch as the aimpoint, and another part on the left side behind the ammodrum to beefen it up.
-woodglue
-black spraypaint
-graphite powder (for metallic sheen on the nozzle)
-sealer/ lacquer spray
-stickers made up in paint (i choose for 132 rounds left and the colour green for the counter) a future update would be a real counter.
-rubber eyepiece from thriftstore and ikelite torch + real beyer dynamic headset + wooden parts form the headset) still on the lookout for smartcam eyepiece and megatron scope parts)
The stand is from a vogel audo speaker, shortenend. and spraypainted "fosco" olive drab.
Tools used:
caliper (very useful)
beltsander & bandsaw couldn't have made it without.
drillpres, handdrill
forstnerbits
speeddrilbits 22 mm (the correct size as the cv pipe for a snug fut
various handtools.
total building time: two weeks.
I made it as placeholder until I could get my hands on a airsoft version, but i found out that the rules at the comic con were very strict. absolutely no (converted) airsoft
let alone a deactivated mg53. I was told that my replica was only just acceptable, any more real and it would have been confiscated. So wood was a smart choice for cons.
In combination with the vest and arm it was no problem to carry 8 hours straight, so the concept really works.
Here are some pics of the buildingproces, the rest can be seen at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/153516720@N07
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