The master's hybrid AK post over at ACMgames finally got me going on a pending project to make the JG spets a bit more realistic looking

here's a progress report:

1) the rear sight trunnion was chopped to accomodate the longer upper handguard from the JG AK Tactical. red lines in pic below show where the receiver was cut



2) the upper handguard retainer was replaced by a custom substitute to ensure better structural strength without the usual metal bar in the fake gas tube



3) a custom gas block was made from pieces of the JG spets and the CYMA 031



4) the short spets outer barrel was lengthened with a discard from a previous AR-SF project



here's the 1st mock up to check how the various pieces go together



looks believable enough to be seen in Eyerak nowadays, don't you think, komrads? there's something like this, iirc, in kom kamatay's latest post.

work to be done includes an overfolding stock and piston short stroking.

when finished, it will be the Spets Kappa (for Kalsador) Urgan Warrior in honor of Komrad Yarik, the first and only, so far, filAKas kalsador.

hanep .... !!!

I Don't Know What to Say



A totally awesome projects kom vityaz...

too soon for tears of joy, kom yarik. when it's done and you're satisfied with the effort i'll settle for a glass of kom solomic's ak vodka and a great big bear hug from you

Yes a big bear hug
Not a russian kiss

no, not a kiss -- i hate to think of what they might say about us

dunno about you but i hate priests denouncing me to high heavens although, considering what i've been doing with my life, i should be used to that by now

time for an update. overfolding stock and gas tube cover now done, so here are pics of the first stock mock up.

view from front quarter left



from the rear quarter right



from right behind the stock mounting plate (imagine no duct tape, please )



and here's the stock deployed seen from the left



the main components of the epoxy-filled aluminum stock are:



butt struts (inside red square)
stock struts (long horizontal bars)
strut cross plate (inside green square)
& stock mounting plate (inside blue square)

two brass screws fix the aluminum pivot plates (purple arrows) together.

hope you still like your contractor AK, kom yarik

have decided to go for an X47 style selector, so that's the next item on the mod agenda.

i forgot the gas tube cover. here are close up side and quarter views of the thing.



the cover (adaptation of the Romanian grenade launcher sight) was made from two pieces of aly that were bent, shaped and riveted together. it will be fitted and epoxied to the outer barrel junction.

UPDATE

X47-style selector done and working as imagined

the charging handle/bolt carrier was cut as shown in the pic below



then a channel was made for the guide rod with good old steel-filled epoxy and an indent cut into the front so that the selector will lock properly



here's how the charging handle, the guide rod & spring, and the modified battery tray are installed relative to each other. the metal tab sitting in the red box was taken out and the plastic smoothed (again with epoxy) so that the charging handle can slide back & forth easily.



here's the normal safe position.



and the handle lock position



the x47-style selector makes it very easy to select fire mode without taking your right hand off the pistol grip.





luckily, the gap between the charging handle and the lower edge of the right side stock strut was just right

since the Kalsador is meant as an ROF beng2x the batt tray was also modded to allow batt connection from the rear,



the plastic receiver tabs were chopped,



and the rear sight trunnion walls were shaved to allow batt pass-through



as you can see in the pic below, 41/2 cells of an Intellect 9.6V stick fits in the trunnion and the upper foreguard. using even a 12v stick should not be a problem.

after the first base coat of paint, here is Jingo "Joy" Maruta, the Yarik Kalsador, with stock folded,



with stock deployed,



and compared to the mini beryl and the AR-SF



one last pic for you komrad yarik



would have been an excellent portrat if i had a pakol on hand.

and

can breathe a little easier now that you approve, kom yarik. joy will look much better, i hope, when the final painting is done.