Finally finished! Well as a project gun, I reckon it’ll never be finished…there will always something that will need doing to it, but as a skirmish able weapon, it’s now finished!

As you can see, it’s missing a furniture retaining part but I have that on it’s way to me now. it’ll be field tested at Cerberus Airsoft near Leeds this Sunday.

I’m also missing an RPK flash hider but I’ve been unable to find one. I’ve found real steel ones but only in America and they wont ship to the UK so I’m on the lookout for someone to act as third party if I decide to purchase one. For some reason, my standard Mauri flash hider wont fit. I will give that another go.

As my first airsoft conversion, it’s been a learning experience. It’s been good and bad and at times stressful. As a first attempt, I also believe I’ve done a good job. The gun could never be 100% accurate to the original RPK74 due to the body not being available so I took it upon myself to keep bits I prefer, such as the top cover. (An RPK74 has a smooth one, similar to the AK47 but I’m using the AK74 one because I think it looks meaner and meatier!)

It’s not put me off conversions, but has given me an insight into what I should have done first, such as more research into the parts I needed to start with. This would have saved some hassle and if I’d have know it would have been trouble to get some parts etc, I would have used an AK as the base of the conversion. I do now have a collection of parts that I can possibly put together at a later stage to form a small CQB AK similar to a folding stock Beta Spetz. Though I may just purchase a Kalash AK74SU for that. Even though my Scorpion is great for CQB.

I’ve stayed clear of the side of conversion I don’t want to touch quite yet and that’s gearbox upgrades. I’ll leave that for the time being.

In total (so far!), my RPK has cost me £232. And I’m still thinking of re staining the wood. No doubt it’ll make an appearance later in my blog as well. I’ll field test it on Sunday, so it should be mentioned then as well.