It's beautiful.. amazing work!!
Heh, yeah.. I can see why most "wood" builds are actually made solely from MDF. Not only do you avoid fighting the grain when cutting straight lines,but you don't end up with a rough surface on anything cut at an angle.
I've never tried priming wood before so I'll need to find some tutorials, but once it's sanded down sufficiently I might gice it a coat of resin or several coats of wood glue
This is a very impressive build. I'm seriously blown away. The way you've shaped the stock, you make it look easy. RobTC might have some competition in the wooden prop department.
Sorry I can't give you much in the way of novel solutions for the ejecting cartridge problem, particularly without having the thing in my hands and able to look at where you can and can't fit things. Redshirt's idea seems the best to me, though - as far as I can tell, the only thing stopping you is the structural stability of the barrel, which there are workarounds for, and it gives you the added bonus of ejecting "spent" rounds instead of unfired cartridges.
Have you considered adding any sort of electronics to this? Given that you have an actuating bolt and functional scope, some sort of bright LED muzzle flash and a firing sound would make this really cool, and lend you a lot of realism. Given that you've made this out of what is, from all I can tell, a solid piece of wood, you'd have to find a place to put all these electronics (I'm not sure what the best way to simulate a muzzle flash would be - I guess anything you do would pale in comparison to the five foot jet of flame a real 14.5mm round would create) and I don't know how that would affect your ability to integrate any sort of speakers.
This build has progressed a lot since last I saw it!
You used some hinges for the bipod right? And can it stay undeployed at the moment?
It should do. The aluminium has a fair amount of bend before it enters the plastic region, and it's so thick (Being double walled) that it won't be bent out of shape from being knocked hard. I can even "swoosh" the bipod up while holding the rifle normally and have it lock into place without even touching it!I like that. Simple and foolproof. :thumbsup Hope it retains its "clickiness" over time.
I'm still considering sound solutions. Im leaving the magazine empty for the forseeable future, and may create some bullets for it at a later point, but If I scrap the ejector system, that leaves me with space to store a sound system; although it feels like it's more befitting of tank cannon sounds than those of a rifle!can it go boom like a gun boom if it can you just mad a high power rifle
Using real wood as a bevelled edge to join larger tubing to smaller ones means it's harder to achieve a consistent diameter for the lip, and it's so thin it chips in places very easily. Also, without a sanding belt the result is less than uniform.
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