Pics. Of your ak's!

No, I live in NY, lol...

Но я действительно люблю говорить в русском, lol...

Yes I know how to speak and read Russian, a little bit...

EDIT: These translators are bad, I said "But I do like to speak in Russian" but it says "Speak I in do like to speak Russian". I need to by a Cryillic keyboard...

I'll take your word for it lol. (have no clue what that says lol)

as lovely as it is to have you here, I must ask you to keep on topic with the AK pics. This includes Stealth and Booli also.

@ Darko
Im curious to see how your weathering looks on your cm.035. Ive seen several that have been weathered and they have all looked fantastic.

another Aks74 pic of mine.

I did mine with very fine steel wool, which got rid of that nasty matt black finish. I followed Guiness wheathering guide on Arnies' and it came out very nice...

The Bakelite magazines weren't hard to wheather either, just smack it on the ground a couple of times and slap some dirt on it...

I don't like the walnut stain I put on the wood grips, so I have to redo those...

sorry for getting OT, I like to talk lol

I personally wouldn't buy an AK-47 because they are extremely time consuming to disassemble and I don't like not being able to have rails out of the box. I do like the look though.

Darko, your AK sounds amazing, if you can post some pics that would be awesome.

^ No worries, I like to talk too!

Not really, My bolt broke, so that's on the need to get list. But it does look like those AK's you would see at a gun show. Look's like I sent it into hell and it got beaten with a brick stick 6 or 7 thousand times. I love it like this....

As for the internals, other than the Element metal cylinder head I installed, it's pretty much stock. I need to find an Element PBS 4 for mine, but I can not find one to save my life. That's what happens when you wait to buy something, lol...

CM031 got a wood kit:





Fit and finish are so-so, but the price was right, so I'm not complaining. Easier than making it myself, that's for damn sure.

Not sure I like the pistol grip, so I may just "fakelite" the stock ABS grip. Also, I need to fakelite the mags, as the black looks just wrong.

Other than that, I'm pretty happy with the kit. It's now ready for me to take some steel wool, paint, dremel, claw hammer, etc and weather the hell out of it.

Here's a non-flash pic for a better idea of the color. It is way too light now:



Also, I got a wood foregrip for my CM035, but it needs some dremel time before it'll fit.

Это намного лучше. How is the finish, is there any slop left from excess stain?

Grip sucks, that's a 47 type of grip, not a 74. It look's unaccurate, and stupid in my opinion. But if it floats your boat, it floats mine...

Yep, the grip is the wrong type, so I'm going to paint the stock grip.

No slop on the finish at all. It's a nice even staining, although entirely too light, and somewhat different shades on the different pieces.

Either way, it's getting restained during the weathering process, so it's no big deal.

I don't know what kind of stain you're looking for, but son't get Cherry, I tried it on my 035 and it was way too light...

Try Sedona Red or Red Chestnut stain by Minwax for best results...

http://www.minwax.com/products/wood_stains/wood_finish.cfm

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I hope that these work. Here are a few pics of my Echo 1 AK-47

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My modified AK, haha. The stock was becoming wobbly, so I took it off. I needed to maneuver better at CQB and be able to take snap shots. It actually worked out well. I will get a battery bag soon so it isn't so ghetto lol. It is a stock TM AK47.

That looks like my old Ak lol, battery taped on like that ( :