My finished collection (56K Warning)

[Sidecarnutz]

With the finishing of my Khyber Pass Build I am about done with the builds I wanted to do. This is my collection now. I built every one of them. Five from flats! I shared this on the AK Forum. Hope you guys enjoy the pics too.

My First Romy. Took three tries to get the flat right!
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/RomyAK1/RomyAK002.jpg

Then came my "Polish stage".
Did a Polish UF and then a fixed stock and then another UF. The last UF was my first try at hot bluing.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/Polish%20UF/PolishUFPics003.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/Polish%20Fixed%20Stock%20Build/Polish003.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/PolishUF%20II/IMG_0421.jpg

Then I really got into Yugos and the terrific NDS receivers. :cool:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/M70%20Project/M70-2.jpg
"Sara"
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/M70%20Sara/IMG_0541.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/M70%20Sara/IMG_0540.jpg

Tabukish builds.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/Tabuk%20II/IMG_0649.jpg

UF.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/Yugo%20UF/IMG_1080.jpg

Got onto my Hungarian kick.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/Hungarian%20UF/IMG_1346.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/HungySA85/SA85005.jpg

And finally my KP Build.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/Kyber%20Pass/IMG_1398.jpg

What can I say? My safe is jam packed with great range toys.

Building your own is a great hobby!

Looking back, I have had alot of fun doing this for the past couple years. Now I need to make time to sight them in on a 100 yard range! :icon_biggrin:

[k98k792]

That's a fine looking collection! :thumbup:

[Norton]

Man I am impressed.. you have one nice collection of rifles there. I like the Hungarian folder the best of the group
(I don't like folders for the most part, but I like that one)
Your Polish hot blue looks very good.
Did you blue it youeself? Again that is a very nice collection of AKs
Good job:thumbup:

[Planning]

very nice work and a good collection.:thumbup::airtight:

[Buelligan]

SIDECARNUTZ, SARA is my fav. I have a thing for stock art. Thanks for sharing, they are all vary cool.:rockon:

[hunter_la5]

that is a great collection for sure! makes me wanna expand my AK collection from the (pathetic) one that it's at right now.

I especially like that carved up Yugo and the Polish UFs

[rentprop1]

really nice, but I think it sucks you have more that I do :rockon:

j/k

[Sidecarnutz]

I just realized a bit ago that I left one out. My Romy UF.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b155/rgmaund/MD65%20Build/IMG_1321.jpg


All the building/finishing was done by me in my home shop. I built my own heating/bluing stand and SS tanks. Even the hot blue solution is home made from a recipe on the internet. I have a 18" x 5 x 5 SS restaurant pan I use for parkerizing. My little HVLP spray gun and airbrush both do moly and GC well. A few of my tools are home made but most are from ABK.com.

[RIPPER]

Sidecar, those all look great!! You made my day with those Hungarians...Very nice! :thumbup:

[vladimir]

I think your full of it....Your not done building yet ....hehehe :icon_biggrin:

[predator86]

very impressive but i think you are missing something....a GROUP picture with the builder!!!!! we gotta see the arsenal together man...

[ctdemolay0405]

did you carve the "sara" stock yourself?

[AGG1]

Very awesome collection of AK goodness!!! :rockon:

Tony

[Gunny_Frost]

Those are extrodinary. Nuff said by me.

[Sidecarnutz]

did you carve the "sara" stock yourself?


Good Lord no.

I just happened to call Centerfire the morning they found that kit in their container of horrid $79 kits when they last had them on sale a while back. I asked Lois if she had any kits with "good" carvings on them. They were passing around and admiring Sara just then. For $20 extra, she became a hand pick for me!

I really lucked out with that kit. The bore was excellent too. That soldier loved that rifle. There's a poem to her carved into the other side of the stock exalting her in Serb language! I posted it on a forum a while back and somone was able to roughly translate it. Left us wondering if the soldier who did it was exalting Sara the woman or Sara the rifle? Interesting.

When I built it on a NDS I just "preserved" it vice refinishing and restoring as I usually do. But it does have all the 922r parts it needs. Receiver, GP, MB, FCG. The furniture I just gently cleaned and applied one rubbing of tung oil to re-seal it. I cold blued the receiver too instead of firing up my hot bluing tank. That cold blue looks very close to the slightly worn bluing that was already on it.

[ctdemolay0405]

thats really cool

[Damien]

you've really inspired me
Thanks for sharing your collection rocks...:rockon::rockon::rockon:

[Kalash]

I like the Tabuk that's on the top the best. And the Romy UF too.:thumbup:

[us_dragunov]

Great collection and nice builds!


But ahhhh....where are the Russians. ;-)

[Sidecarnutz]

Great collection and nice builds!


But ahhhh....where are the Russians. ;-)


Russians????
I can't afford a good Saiga!
Mine are sweat equity projects!