ObiHahn wrote:
There he is - welcome to the boards here, Loki. You have come to the right place!
Thanks mate, because of you I am constantly broke...broke I tell you!
bigbisont wrote:
Very nice and herzliche willkommen. I am pretty jealous of all the real parts trackers out there.
Thank you too. I guess I/we were very lucky, to get those parts to be honest. But also the fact, that the movie prop builders used so many german parts, made the search a lot easier for us.
The
Pulse RifleWell at first, a bit naive, I got myself a Snow Wolf Air-soft Pulse Rifle and wanted to mod it to be in line with the original Pulse.

But I soon realized, despite the fact that for a air-soft, it was a pretty cool deal, it was not worth my time. The shroud was by far not right, and it would be much work to break some parts and remodel them back to look right. The screws where wrong (okay minor thing), the Thompson grip was not the right form an even the shoulder stock was incorrectly made out of two parts. There where other flaws like, the pump gun housing being one plastic casing, rather than a shroud and individual parts, and there was always a dummy shell in there...meh. So I sold it again and looked out for another alternative.
I knew about Matsuos Kits and also from SD Designs and that they still made some parts for the rifle, but I also found a guy on the net, building a whole Pulse (with the parts from Matsu and SD etc.) And I decided to get one of those babies! After several month (it was over a year to be honest) and after many PMs, and nerve-wrecking conversations, the gun finally arrived and I could take a first look. It was not exactly like on the pictures, but then again, neither are the burgers from MC D or the B King. Don't get me wrong...after a year, I was glad to finally have it and all worked as promised, pump-gun, counter and some other moving parts, and it looked already very good.
First pictures of the PR out of the box



The Thompson main body as well as *most* of the parts, except the shoulder stock, the screws and the barrel shrouds are resin casts. I soon made a list with improvements, I would like to do and I also wanted to replace the resin Tommy Gun with a metal version.
List of Improvements:
Replacing the Thompson resin parts with metal version (probably an Air-Soft Thompson M4A1)
Repainting the shrouds. First with a aluminium base and then the brown bess as well as a better, more realistic weathering.
Replacing the Grip (The one with the gun is a full resin cast and a Air-Soft Thompson has the motor in the grip, so I either need to hole the one I have out or replace it with a hollow one)
Getting rid of the resin magazine (Seriously...this one has to be made of metal! I want to slam it into the gun)
Replacing the front of the pump-gun part. It is also made of resin and SD makes some really great looking covers out of aluminium.
Replacing the screws from the LED Display from allen to phillips screws.
Minor details.
So I again searched the web for some fitting Thompson Air-Soft replicas. The Tokyo Marui was a bit to expensive and so, after checking some reviews, I decided to buy a King Arms Thompson Submachine Gun.


This one was a great buy. Pretty cheap, but very good manufactured and well made gun. The Body is made out of aluminium and is very detailed! I also tested a few rounds on the field before I deconstructed the gun and it was a blast!
Well but then the real work begun! I started with deconstructing the Pulse and cannibalizing all the parts I wanted to use again. Some messy pics ahead (I always work like that sorry

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Sawed of resin part with the aluminium barrel. Made ready to fit over the air-soft barrel

Disassembled Pulse and Air-Soft parts all over the place!

Air-Soft front, with the brass barrel

Just a closer look


The fitted sawed off barrel (and part of my foot)


And...after some magic with the shrouds and some soldering the trigger with the counter, the current state:
(The mag will of course be shortened, as soon as my aluminium base-plate arrives)


The Grip is only a placeholder, till my replacement arrives.

That's it for now.
