paradoxum wrote:
What about this set?
https://airsoft.tiger111hk.com/p21009/K ... Kit(Silver)/product_info.html
I can see from the pics that some of the upper set will need sawn off, like the bits sticking up on the back of the upper receiver part, but could I buy this set and drop the gearbox I've upgraded into it and fit this inside a snow wolf shell? it's about £100 shipped to the uk. I'm not a huge fan of the chrome plating but I can probably weather that and make it look nice.
Like I said in the other page, go straight to King Arms and ask them about a black metal lower. If you are going to blow 100 quid on a part, get the right one, all the work you are going to have to do to make the silver lower not look like garbage on the gun isnt worth the time/effort, especially if it doesn't work right.
Other than the fact that we know its a Thompson under the body kit, there is no reason to believe that a “real” M41 wouldn’t have a plastic lower; look at the SCAR, FAMAS, and other mordernish rifles that have a plastic (if not all body) lowers.
I think that you are running yourself down a rabit-hole, and may just end up getting frustrated.