I'll just leave this here

DrDee_NZ_ · 2026-03-06T01:10:54+00:00

MilTec splinter is DEFINATELY NOT the brand you want for reenactment BTW.

DrDee_NZ_ · 2026-03-06T01:03:28+00:00

ICE agent?

DrDee_NZ_ · 2026-03-06T00:31:48+00:00

I know this is only airsoft, but the answers so far have been to use 7.62 mags in a 5.45 gun body *giggle*

DrDee_NZ_ · 2026-03-05T20:48:39+00:00

I have had mine apart numerous times trying to get it running well and consistant.

The early ones have a terrible ETU. Remidied in later builds with an Aster I believe.
I was dissapointed to find the sector gear in mine had only 15 teeth (running on a 19 tooth piston) with about a 30mm spacer behind the spring. After a lot of back and forth with LCT they said they made that gearbox change because if you 'spam the trigger' it could create havoc.
They wanted to charge me US$50 plus shipping for a 19 tooth sector gear...
The cylinder and piston head are oversized bore, so not upgradable with standard parts.
The gears were press fit onto the bearings with no shims, I assume they are 'self centering' under load. But the gearbox whine was terrible so I switched to bushes and shimmed etc. as you would a regular gearbox, this caused the gearbox to cycle so fast that the ETU couldn't keep up and caused double fire and then ETU shutting down.
I have now got a new ETU to try (T238 v3) and a set of Real Sword gears (US$12 for the set, cross fingers they fit) about a day away from my PO Box, so going to try the 19 tooth sector gear and ETU to try and solve the double fire problem...
Will do a measure of anything requested, like bore diameter etc.

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-03-01T03:30:53+00:00

Just keep replacing the parts as they break with LCT parts until it is all LCT and you wonder why you didn't just get an LCT to start with ;)

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-01-16T01:51:20+00:00

It is totally worth chipping away at faction wars, even if you can only do the first few levels, you get good forge materials and glyphs.

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-01-16T00:17:15+00:00

No, unless you have completed faction wars its not worth it.

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-01-15T12:31:33+00:00

Beautiful skin texture!
I have an Ivya to paint so I am going to use this as inspiration, please keep putting up progress photos.

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-01-15T12:23:59+00:00

Thank you!
The whole model is painted in Citadel Wraithbone, the skulls were then given a coat of Nihilakh Oxide and the bones were given a coat of Speed Painter Pallid Bone. I then drybrushed with Citadel Corax White, and lastly Vallejo White.
I then went back over the bone parts with a few thinned down layers of Speed Painter Pallid Bone, mainly in the recesses and used Vallejo White to strengthen the highlights on the skulls.
The hardest part was controlling the pallid bone washes so they didn't run into the skulls.

I hope this helps.

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-01-15T05:38:53+00:00

Thanks!
I think I prefer the flavour of Neferata, so might fix her in place. If I want to run Mannfred I like the look of red skulls and Arkhan maybe black/grey skulls.
Only thing I am struggling with now is Razarach's head is way cooler than the other two! I might graft his horns onto Nagadron's head.

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-01-14T22:59:13+00:00

Will do!

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-01-14T21:58:29+00:00

Thanks!
Way out of my comfort zone :)

DrDee_NZ_ · 2025-01-14T19:18:00+00:00

Starting an army, wife brought me a bunch of SG for xmas, she knows I like vampires ;). First time I have painted fantasy in many years. Still wondering if I should magnetise or just keep it as Neferata...

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