Broadsword calling Danny boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy…

Anyhow…

I picked this up a two weekends ago at a game at Spectre Wargames near Hereford. For the princely sum of £30. New. Considering the price it was a crime to leave it there!

Anyhow, it was at the Urban site (which is now closed as it was the final day I attended) and this seemed like a good gun to use, however I didn’t really get a chance to as I’ll mention later.

First Impressions

This gun is solid. Couldn’t say what of it is metal but it’s hefty. Quite hefty. We’re talking probably about the same kind of weight as my RPK. It’s also solid enough to be used a sclub when the 50 round magazine is empty! The finish on it is excellent. However the only let down in my eyes, is that when the bolt is forward, the internals of the gun still show (that silver bit). However if the bolt is placed at the back, you open the hop adjustment so you have to put up with it. I’m going to paint it so it’s not so obvious.

Stripping the gun is insanely easy, so easy it had me stumped. Just where the folding stock is, there’s little twisty knob that you turn, then slide the entire front end off. I’ll get a picture of it when I can. Here’s where you put the battery in as well. Runs off a mini battery. Obviously the one included isn’t upto much and don’t mention the charger!

Main downside, is lack of mags. RSOV are currently out, as are anywhere in the UK. And only 50 rounds doesn’t last long.
The reason this gun was £30 was because no one really wants it. I guess it’s had to much bad press as the nazi gun but in my mind, it’s quite a nice SMG.

Performance
Ah, here we reach the point to wince.

I picked it up, put battery in, walked to chrono, fired. 330 give or take. Not bad, bit hot for Spectre Urban (300 limit as it’s close and the entire site is like the barns at MIA) Seemed odd, there was no single shot function. Safe or full auto. Went into game and fired 3 shots before the gun stopped working. Completely. No idea what was up with it. However, Yams, the owner, just swapped it for another one at the end of the day. This one I have now DOES work. Quite nicely I may add. RoF seems a bit slow and this was with my 9.6v RPK battery attached as it’s the only battery I have with a small connector to hand. Might need to nvestigate that further.

However, the flaw seems obvious now. The swith next to the bolt is the fire select. Single and full auto. The safety is a little switch at the bottom of the grip. Odd I know. So I can assume the one that broke on me was flawed from the start because the single shot selection didn’t do anything and stopped the trigger moving. However putting this on safe does not stop the trigger moving at all. Just stops it shooting.

Anyhow, it’s now working nicely and I cant wait to get some more mags to make it skirmishable. Just need a Whermacht uniform, call myself Lieutenant Schaffer and then I can re enact Where Eagles Dare O0

On an interesting note, I found out that the nobbly bit at the front of the barrel is for when the soldiers where in vehicles, they can rest the gun on a fire hole and this would reduce the recoil upward. (Mount it, pull the gun back into your shoulder)

Well started work on my lasgun for my new loadout.

In the future the standard weapons are lasers from what we’re told. So I have to convert one.

I managed to pickup a second hand TM G36C to be used as the base for the conversion. As people may or may not know, second hand sales are a lot harder to police now in the UK due to the VCR act. I’m a registered member of a game site so I can purchase guns either from a site or second hand from sellers. It was just a case of giving my UKARA membership number etc to the buyer and it’s upto him whether he sells it or not. I managed to get it off the actual Scarovar team forum.

Anyhow, part of the benefit of this purchase was that it was part of the way towards the conversion I had planned, in that it already had the G+P solid stock on.

This makes it look more like the lasgun in the game and fiction. There are however other varients. The Death Korps of Krieg regiments have a lasgun that very closely resembles an M14. However, the Scarovar regiment are using the versions wielded by the Cadians in th game.

The first and only section I’ve manged to do so far is add the magwell conversion. The mags used in the G36C aren’t like those used in the lasguns. Therefore we needed to change these to get the right look. Luckily this was easy enough to do in the airsoft world as there were two piece of kit to help us. Firstly, it was the M16 magwell adapter for the G36. I bought mine on Firesupport for a good price, There are two versions avliable but I found the Private Parts one for sale in the Uk and bought it.

It should be noted that Firesupport are one of the places I get my gear.  They offer good prices and have good service. This shows with this order. I ordered the magwell adapter some time ago but haven’t recieved it still. I talked to the guys and it appears that Royal Mail has lost it and at the time, they cant offer me a refund as they can’t claim it’s lost until 15 days since it was posted (as I type, I believe that’s tomorrow). However I bought it again as I need it for a game this weekend and they kindly offered to send it next day delivery at an extra cost of 50p and if the other one ever arrived, I was welcome to send one back and get a refund. So top notch to those guys and just reinforces my disdain of Royal Mail. It’s not the first time they’ve lost stuff for me.

Anyhow, the second requirement for the conversion is the M16 mags itself. Ideally these are the VN mags and wanting to follow the look of the models more, I opted for a box of King Arms mid cap VN style mags. With luck, Airsoft Supplier, had some them come into stock the day I rang up. While I was there, I also ordered the G+P tracer magazine to give me an idea what this would look like with tracer fire. It is after all a lasgun and lasgun fire light bolts. We’ve all seen Star Wars

Anyhow with that all done, this is how the article looks at the minute.

Not bad for a half hour change over and removal of the rails. The ammo I ordered from Ironfoot Airsoft as they finally stock fully biodegradable ammo for a decent price now. MIA only allow the use of these biodegrable BB’s on site because they are an organic farm. Now they have them at reasonable prices, I’ll use them where I can. Just my part to prevent plastic everywhere.

Tracer magazine works nicely. It’s a nice bit of kit and looks ace when firing. However the BB’s get dimmer if you fire on auto because the BB’s are only exposed to the UV LED when they are near the top of the mag. Because I aim to be using it on semi when using the tracer BB’s (these are expensive! 800 for the same price as 3300!!) this wont matter. Just for looking good I’ll use 100% tracer rounds in the mag when playing in the dark. However, if I was using a tracer silencer (which is now on my list of to buys!) I would mix the tracer with other BB’s to get tracer rounds like the British army use (3 non trace to 1 trace generally).

Anyhow, I’m using it this weekend and we’ll see how it works. I’ll also be dressed in my new loadout, which is semi complete. Just don’t tell the commisar I’m not wearing correct uniform! I don’t want a flogging detail!!!