Scavenge Skirmish Survive

[Za Zjurman]

Nice, very nice and very very useful

[zizi666]

Very nice figs.
tons of character.

[Phelan]

I like them!

[area23]

These would look great against Copplestone's neo-sov partizans!

[Malamute]

...... And given my Essex heritage, it is at this point that I expect Malamute or Bugsda to say something about white stiletto shoes.....

Fake tan, hair extensions and breast implants?

.....And that's just the men.

 

How about knives, small calibre pistols/revolvers. What about a figure wielding a claw hammer?

[The Breaker]

How about an over and under shotgun? The type that they use in skeet shooting. You don't see many of those in mini's.

[Arlequín]

Any guesses as to what the ladies will be armed with?

Given the likelihood of a very misogynistic structure to many survivalist groups, their manacles or kitchen equipment? 

I really like what you're doing here though... inevitable question, how do they scale up with LAM PA figures?

[Commander Vyper]

Pics STEVE PICS!!!! ; )

[SerialMoM]

I really like your project, and like the minis very much.

I am interested in the minis too, and really think to order a set when you have them in your shop.

[palaeomerus]

I'd like to see someone in a post apocalyptic setting with a Ruger Mini-14 sawed off into a suppressed whippet.

[palaeomerus]

A Ruger Mini-14 ranch rifle is a common semi-auto rifle(one trigger pull fires one round and loads the next and primes it to fire the next time the trigger is pulled). It shoots 5.56mm Nato/.223 Remington(same as the M-16/AR-15, and the UK's SA-80 does)the original model of which very loosely patterned on the old M1 Carbine.

It is very common in the US and is often used to kill dogs or varmints in the country which is why they call it a ranch rifle. Most of them can take an extended 10, 20, or 30 round magazine and there are 50 and 100 round magazines though they are notoriously unreliable.

5.56 suppressers are also commonly available though illegal in some states.

Thus this is not really an exotic gun.  The gun I have there is just a bad photoshop that I made out of parts that I found in google's image search.

This is someone taking a very common small game hunting rifle and modifying it to be easier to carry and conceal (shortening it a little by cutting down the barrel and sawing off the stock). A larger magazine lets him carry 30 rounds of ammo instead of 5 or 10. The suppressor hides the muzzle flash and makes the discharge a bit quieter (not PFFSHT! like on TV) and makes it much harder to locate the shooter easily when fired from from 100 yards or so. The shortened barrel must merely have threads cut into it on a lathe to accept the suppressor. The forward pistol grip is just bolted to the material of the former rifle grip. It helps stabilize the gun when firing from the hip and makes for a crude mono-pod post when shooting down from over a wall. He can always add a wire stock or a bayonet lug later if he finds one or he could make a junky one one from "stuff".  

I would assume that people in a post apocalyptic situation, or even stuck out in the boonies for a long time, would crudely modify and refit common weapons into more useful versions. Bank robbers tend to. If I had a hacksaw and looted Cabellas or maybe even Walmart shortly after the big day I could probably knock up something close to this. Well, I'd have to find an old hand powered or flywheel powered lathe and the right cutting tool for mounting the suppressor. But this is not James Bond commando stuff. There are whole small towns in the hilly 'no mans land' of Afghanistan near the Pakistan border where the men pretty much make a living doing ersatz gunsmith stuff like this for local warlords and they don't bother to ask questions.

[CptJake]

I disagree.   Finding the tools to put threads onto a rifle barrel and to make a supressor (because contrary to your belief, they are not common) isn't going to be easy to do, nor will most folks have the skill set needed to do so.

Jake

[Arlequín]

'Common in the US' means very little in the UK. All semi-automatic rifles are illegal in the UK, so they just couldn't be found in anywhere approaching appreciable numbers. There's more likelihood of seeing a 'liberated' Police MP5, G36, or Army L85, or even an illegally acquired AK47 (extremely rare) than any other type of rifle and even then they'd be uncommon.

Most Brits have a vague idea of which end the bullets come out of and some comprehension of what a safety catch does, but I doubt we'd be able to strip and clean a weapon, let alone machine an effective suppressor. Someone who could do reloads would be a king amongst men too, as there is no readily available ammunition for anything other than 12 guage shotguns and we can't just pop down to a Walmart and buy that either.  

After the shotgun, we might manage something like this though...



Fear us!  

[commissarmoody]

When all else fails, time to raid the garden store for axes and modified tree limb covers.
And even though I am a fan of the ruger mini-14, most of my buddy's us old M1 carbine's as there truck or work rifle, mostly becase folks for some reason freak out when you drive around with an AR all the time in the back of your truck. 

[Arlequín]

... most of my buddy's us old M1 carbine's as there truck or work rifle...

A fine weapon, especially if you don't want to hurt anyone too much.  

Actually, I wonder how many .303 SMLE No. 4 Mk Is are still knocking around here. I knew of several people who had them in the 70s, Including the rare 'Jungle Carbine' No. V Mk I.  

Would it be too problematic to do separate weapons? Might be a way of pleasing everyone. There might be someone out there who believes some survivors might rely on re-enactors' Brown Bess muskets etc... they would certainly be easier to clean, repair and make ammunition for.