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Post by lazyboy on Oct 12, 2008 2:35:09 GMT -5
Project details Heres what we get upto in New Zealand Owen Gun History en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_gunBody is custom made from a scaled up picture Internals are AGM MP40 gearbox and barrel. Hopup is AGM mp40 modified to feed from the top Gearbox modified to semi only, (auto's illegal in New Zealand) Some pictures Urban Camo Battery Compartment, Battery Custom 8.4 volt The Engineer (Bladerunner) The Designer (Lazyboy) Thanks Bladerunner for the awesome engineering We are Currently half way through building 2 Stenguns (mk2)
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Post by Cpl. Hicks on Oct 12, 2008 3:08:15 GMT -5
Quite impressive if I do say so myself, keep up the awesome work!
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Post by click on Oct 12, 2008 3:11:59 GMT -5
Very nice! I am impressed!
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Post by gryphon on Oct 17, 2008 18:28:30 GMT -5
Great build of one of the coolest SMGs of the war! Always wanted an Owen... if I ever put a Pacific Theatre impression together, I wanna do either an Aussie with an Owen or a Kiwi with a Charlton conversion....
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Post by jd7 on Oct 18, 2008 5:09:37 GMT -5
Hi Lazyboy, glad to see you have shared your project work over here on this site. As you can see there are a fair few custom weapons built by members here
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Post by Ersatzjack on Oct 18, 2008 8:48:07 GMT -5
Wow, that does look nice. Good work. So no full auto airsoft? How ridiculous! I'd be writing letters to the home office.
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Post by YankeeDiv26 on Oct 18, 2008 11:52:30 GMT -5
Wow. Very nice build of such a rare weapon. Great work!
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Post by tt on Jan 17, 2009 16:49:44 GMT -5
Thats beautiful craftsmanship, In my opinon anyway.
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Post by Dees on Apr 7, 2009 1:36:53 GMT -5
Crap, here I am doing the research to build one of these for an Ausie Vietnam impression, thinking I am going to be so original, and I find this, LOL! Nice work guys, looks beautiful! I am curious, since I have never handled one of these, you got any clear pictures of the sights I could talk you out of? I am planning to use a V.7 gearbox in mine, and making the hop-up from scratch, but was figuring to use the MP40 mags to save myself the trouble of having to make some, so I guess we are approaching this from two different directions with a similar end result. When I get mine finished, I will post pictures for you to see what I did, but the model I am looking at making is this one;
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Post by Flippy on Apr 24, 2009 13:53:25 GMT -5
I'm hesitating to make one in the summer too(naturally after SKS)... so I'm collecting pictures... There are some good ones: www.replicatorsaustralia.com/Machine%20Guns.htmlAs I see the SMG has a ring sight, and an "arm like" foresight with an edge on the end... Maybe I'll make a combo of thees, to make it as easy as possible, with all wood furniture(to place the battery)... I also have questions: There is a selector on the other side... but how it works??? Auto/safe, full auto/semi/safe, or what... clockwise, counterclockwise??? Is it able to shoot semi auto???
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Post by Dees on Apr 24, 2009 15:55:51 GMT -5
Since it fired from the open bolt, I can't really say, and none of my research has told me if it is full auto only or if it has a semi setting. I am trying to make up my mind between a mini battery in a pistol grip or a large battery in the stock, but have also considered a mid-sized battery in the lower part of the receiver that the stock attaches to, just not cutting it out to help hide the battery. There is some thick walled aluminum tubing that will work great for the barrel, and thin wall 1.5"/38mm tubing that will work great for the receveiver tube itself. I plan on using sheet metal to make the lower receiver portion, and just welding it to the tubing to make construction easier. I am planning to rob the mag release from a MP40 for the mag well, then just using sheet metal to make the mag well sleeve itself, unless I can get some clearer pictures of the mag release somewhere. Trigger will be a micro switch behind the sheet metal trigger, so nothing really earth shattering there. I am still working on what kind of gearbox I will use, but leaning towards a modified M14 gearbox, since they are cheap and readily available. I am going to use a threaded flash hider to hold on the front sight, with a simple keyway holding it in alignment for sighting properly, and a modified hose clamp for the fore grip. I am pretty sure I can replicate the bayonet style pins for disassembly, so it should be pretty easy to take apart for transport. I am also looking to use a P90 hop-up unit, in conjunction with the MP40 mags. With the ejection port being a clear cut-out area of the tube, adjustment should be unobstructed.
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Post by nachtjager1945 on Jun 21, 2009 21:47:13 GMT -5
That looks just great, would you ever consider making more, to sell?
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Post by joeska on Aug 5, 2009 14:29:28 GMT -5
Very cool.
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