The next step is to smoothen the shells texture with the fine sandpaper. Now scratch the magazine shell surface in irregular patterns. The inside of the magazine should come right off.
Remove the two upper pins and then slide of the steel baseplate. Let's start with disassembling the magazines. Sandpaper - one piece of rougher one and one piece of subtle one
wood lacquer varnish - the most suitable color for me is something orangishy like mahogany. My patients will be AKM mid-caps by CYMA. It's a common modification not only in the airsoft world but also with the real firearms! Without further whining, let's get to the main part of the guide! What and how?įirst of all, we need some AK magazines. So here comes the fakelite - the art of doing bakelite lookalike from standard polymer magazines. But where is the need, there is also an idea and the solution to the problem. They're made of an orange matt polymer, often with a rough texture. Airsoft producers are already making lots of types of orange magazines that are "quite" lookalike of the bakelites.īut there is a one, little tiny detail about them. If one's not into looking for and modifying the original magazines, the case is still not lost. But the final effect is incontestably freakin awesome! And even if you get one - you'll still have to heavily modify it for the low cap/mid-cap BBs magazines. The rule is that the further you live from Mother Russia, the harder it will be to get your hands on the precious bakelite. However, we all love the retro looks, don't we? ).Ī moment ago, the bakelite magazines were quite cheap and easy to obtain, however, it gets harder and harder nowadays. 
Of course, due to the costs of black paint, they were kept in their original color until the plum and black polymer magazines came. Thanks to its special composition of materials, it had a characteristic red/orange/woody color with a lot of irregular patterns of its surface, that looked like wood. It was the first type of polymer magazines, which were far less heavy than their steel brothers, and we all know what all the grams mean in the middle of the job. These legendary AK magazines are made of bakelite - a kind of polymer that is made of phenol-formaldehyde resin. For the other AK owners - bakelite magazines are still an exotic and quite exciting accessory for their airsoft replicas. Especially the ones that live with the words "Nyet, the rifle is fine". Bakelite - the Russian gear optimists wet dream.
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