Saturday, May 14, 2005
PPSh-41: Lower Receiver
The lower receiver came together pretty fast so I don't have any progress photos. It's basically built like a box, the hardest part was the curved section at the back. I bent some heated plastic around a bottle with the right diameter and then glued it to the rest of the box. A little sanding and putty and it's one piece! Same goes with the curved "tongue" above it.
The big notch is where the drum magazine fits. Most of the rest of it will be inside the wooden stock.
I hit it with a little Testors metallizer "gunmetal" spray paint as a test. This paint will actually buff up a nice metal sheen! ¶ 11:52 PM
The lower receiver came together pretty fast so I don't have any progress photos. It's basically built like a box, the hardest part was the curved section at the back. I bent some heated plastic around a bottle with the right diameter and then glued it to the rest of the box. A little sanding and putty and it's one piece! Same goes with the curved "tongue" above it.
The big notch is where the drum magazine fits. Most of the rest of it will be inside the wooden stock.
I hit it with a little Testors metallizer "gunmetal" spray paint as a test. This paint will actually buff up a nice metal sheen! ¶ 11:52 PM
