Well I decided that the standard green shotgun shells that come with the Tanaka M870 Shotgun AKA the Pulse Rifle Grenade Launcher pulled me out of the "experience". I don't remember Pea Soup Green grenades in the movie.

The Tanaka is perfect because it really takes no mods to have a firing Grenade Launcher so I decided to try and make it more authentic. So what do you think of my solution?

These are before and after shots. I am not sure why the forum is crunching up my images but you get the idea.

A simple and effective solution to a percieved problem ,looks the part and works,cant ask for any more dude ,excellent work,most impressed .Rob

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diamond geezer
The Turtle Moves

Make sure you give it a good coat of varnish etc so you don't rub off the nice paintjob!

SAS

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Alan T. Alien
1st Lt Smith, SA "Sidewinder"
A13/TQ1.4.19720EX CMA
Founder of UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. Freebooters
Founder of Special Armaments Section (Heavy Weapons)
"People don't understand. people like me"

That is awesome!

Niiiiiccccccceeee!!!

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USCM- The Colonial Marines- A Brotherhood of Bad Asses!

Great job!

Can we see a video of inserting and firing?

Funny enough I have run the grenade through about 20 times now and the paint still looks awesome. Doesn't seem to be very rough on it. I will make up a video soon. It holds two shells easily and it's extremely fun. It's got a nice loud sound when it fires as well.

I ran into a small problem inside the Tanaka where the shells would get stuck on a specific piece. Two seconds of Dremel to smooth that part down inside turned into 20+ cycles with zero jamming. It's smooth as silk and sounds amazing. If anyone else runs into this problem message me and I can show you the fix (bloody easy).

Highly recommended if you are doing a "hero" rifle. The metal body adds some nice weight and the gun was very easy to work with. I plan on "converting" all of my shells into the above format.

looks great! yeah a video would be sweet

I am DIGGIN' that!

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CPL Sean Maio A01/TQ2.0.72156E1
Public Relations Division (Temporary Cross-Assignment)
M-56 Smartgun Operator, A/3Btn, II CMEF, USS Sephora