Making "Copies" of Rare Oldies...

[Dionysusigma]

... or, "How to Spend A Lot of Money and Get a Lot of Weird Looks."

There are a lot of guns I will never have the chance to own. So, I'm looking to compile some information as to how one could build/modify legal, functioning "lookalikes" that use commonly available parts to acheive these ends.

The first copy I brainstormed up is one of a StG.44, using a descendant of that design to great effect, and parts of another that was inspired by the original.


Long story short, replace the standard plastic buttstock with an old CETME wooden one, remove front and rear sights, install AK front sight tower and rear sight trunnion, new wooden hand grip, slimline G3 handguard (not pictured), 30rd mags only (for right effect), and something to stick on the front of the gas tube.

Am I crazy for thinking that modifying an HK93 (or Vector V93) is the only way a "new-production" "StG.44" will ever be made?

And feel free to laugh at the picture, I was in a hurry in Photoshop...

What other classic designs might be brought back through unconventional means? A BAR with the standard operating bits of an M14? PPShs from... something?

 

[texlurch]

That's not bad actually, and the V53 is a good starting point. If you really wanted to get a more complete look, you could mill up some side plates to weld on the receiver by the mag well.

For the grip, you could cut and reweld the grip frame, and trim up some plastic AK grips, or mold your own. The CETME B used metal handgaurds, so those might can be modified.

I have a G3 I built and added the "evil" stuff back on, and I am getting ready to disassemble a CETME to return it to it's original configuration, grenade rings and paddle mag release and all.

 

[Dionysusigma]

Is there still a source for the metal handguards?

Also, next I dea I had was to try to re-create an FG-42, but I have no idea where to begin...


I was thinking an Armalite AR-10 action, with a 24" barrel and carbine-length gas system, rotated on its side... but then that fungles up the position of the FCG...

 

[Full Clip]

I may be deluisional, but I think I recall reading on another site about a German company making a new semi-auto STG44 and hopes to import it into the US. Something akin to the new-production semi PPSHs out there...

 

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

That's kind of already been done for you, Dionysusigma.

http://www.fg42.net/

Last I heard, he was planing to make up FG42's on new SA only receivers using NOS/old parts.

Regards,
Rabbit.

 

[gezzer]

Century is making a semi-copy of the Yugo M53 about the same as the mg42

 

[.45Guy]

Dionysusigma, I don't know where I saw it at, but I swear I came across a Kraut company making a .22 semiauto mp-44.

 

[soul_rapier]

sten MK3 as a pistol ? what ya think want have to put a ugly long barrel on it to make it legal and it would still look the same just needs a close bolt