Recent content by JeffZugale

YIKES it's been a year and a half! Well... hey! I've gotten back to my M6G, finally painting the darn thing! I actually went back and did even more sanding and filling and priming and tweaking first. Like one does. Anyway, here's photos: I'm painting with a plain ol' rattle-can silver...

Hey just wanted to pop in and say I'm making progress - I've got the final primer coat on now, next steps are a complete sand to 400 grit, probably wet sanding; then glue on the underbarrel laser and the magazine base; then final paint. I may not put up any more pix until the dang thing is DONE...

SAND FILL PRIME SAND FILL PRIME So much green putty...

More work! Glued on the last bits, the barrel side screw heads, and it's ready to prime. So I started priming! Sand fill prime sand fill prime... actual paint soon!!

Hey hey, got in some more time on this... Patching in uneven spots with glued-on strips of wood and styrene, then filling other places with green spot putty: Glued on the trigger and safety levers! Cut the steel barrel tube bit and sprayed it with good ol' Tamiya gunmetal! Almost...

HIYA! Finally have a few more pics for you! Started painting a little bit, first the underbarrel and magazine base. I'm using the old faithful DupliColor Filler Primer because these things have a lot of dings and wood flaws. 3 coats with sanding in between, and they smoothed out very nicely...

Hey all, life's been complicated as always, and I've had to shift my shop time over to art and music production for a while. Hopefully I can get back to finish this thing before year-end.

Oops, I worked on this last week but forgot to upload! So here we go. First, I shaped and glued in this little wedge bit that goes in the notch at the back of the overbarrel. It's just a little chunk of MDF sanded to shape. Next, there was a gap on the right side of the tailblock so I filled it...

I did get to work on the sight last night! Here's how it went... First I cut a central slot with a razor saw, then enlarged it with a hacksaw and then this file. Next, here's the router trick I mentioned in last post. You can see I've got the block in the vise with top parallel to the jaws...

Yay, update! Here's progress made over the last week in little chunks of shop time... I cut out, carved, routed and sanded the mag base block. Tricky work! I did it very very slowly and carefully. Figured out a Dremel routing trick - if you have a big vise with flat-topped jaws, you can put a...

Looking good Kaulin! Did you pick up Bill Doran's (@chinbeard) Foamsmithing books? :)

Woo, finally got a little shop time! Only an hour, but I got a lot of little things done. So, all the major bits are cut out now, and also many of the minor ones. I got the mag base to shape, a couple of rear side pieces that go behind the grips, the sight block pieces. Routing and shaping on...

Hey all, just wanted to let you know I'm still alive... have been derailed last couple of weeks by many things. I'll be back on it soon, no worries.

Whoof, last couple weeks have been busy and tiring. I got into the shop last night but was just plain not feeling it. Instead of trying to do any serious work, I just measured out a bunch of the smaller pieces and did some sanding here and there. I now have the magazine bottom, rear under...

I've learned that there are actually dedicated special tools made for grip-checkering! Who knew? I dunno as I'll be buying them, though. I might see if a friend with a laser or home CNC can help.