Welcome to ©
Killbucket's vast website of airsoft creations, and a lot more.
Since 2007, Killbucket has been designing and making some of the
most unusual airsoft and movie prop weapons ever seen. Killbucket's GIANT file of Airsoft Gun CAD work
is available in standard CAD format
for fast downloading.
Killbucket is AutoCAD Certified by PTI, and creates
full design drawings for everything he makes with his personal
ShopBot PRS Robotic CNC. Mass is traded for durability, complexity
is replaced with modular simplicity.
M1919 Browning M230 CHAINGUN AIRSOFT
PROJECT GO HERE if you came to see
the M1919 browning SAW
I'm making an Apache Helicopter Chin
Mounted Autocannon Chaingun. This is the gun seen under
an AH-64 Apache Helicopter's nose.
They are typically linked to the gunner's
helmet, the gun points where he/she looks at all times.
Flinch, and whatever
you WERE looking at becomes fragments!
For
airsoft Use, of course. Please ignore the M4 machine gun
outline drawn in a few views.
First off, let's look at
a real, LIVE M230 Chaingun,
UP CLOSE. I see that the guard rails underneath are
NOt
shaped as I'd assumed.
Looking at the drilled tube here, I see that
I could have gone larger on the holes I'd already done
up.
Oh well, I've got it bonded together, no big deal. I'm
pretty sure that MY gun won't ever be placed next to the Real
Steel for comparison. LOVE the safety wiring on the bolts, the
scuffs on the guard frames.
The barrel buffers on mine
will get a bit more detail, now that I can see what they
actually look like.
Notice the cable-cutter next to the gun, on
the left. Also note how the front mount for the shock
isolators is pinned at the sides to the barrel jacket, very
similar to how a sight is mounted to an M4
barrel.
Since
I really don't know what any of this IS, I'll guess that this
is a transmission for driving a link feeder from the main
motor at the lower front of the gun.
One would
assume that pulling this knob out would let the thing pop off,
tool-less.
I'm somewhat
surprised to see ANY drive gear (LOOK at the ODD tooth
arrangement) exposed like this. However, the gear module is
HUGE, I'd think it would take a good-sized, SOLID rock to stop
them without being crushed.
The M230, unlike
most airborne guns, does not collect its spent shells. Most
mounted guns keep the spent casings under control to prevent
FOD. With the gun at
almost the lowest point on the airframe, and the empty casings
being ejected straight down, there is minimized chance for
dangerous situations to arise.
On the other hand,
collecting spent shells keeps the vehicle's CG and dead weight
from changing during
combat.
Photoshop should be able to dig some detail
out of this shot.
Bottom line is- I now have a CLEAR idea
of how the guard cradle is shaped.
I
want TWO, mounted on outriggers on each side of my
truck.
I'll be driving a bright RED HK! Notice the angles, imagine
flying into a suspended cable...the gun barrel will deflect it
under the gun, and if it does clear the top of the gun, the
angled cable-cutter will get it.
Brilliant.
Post-processed, much more detail is
seen.
This must be the
Shells-Hit-You-In-The-Face view.
I assume the big bolt we see
here is the end of a chainshaft.
These guns use a burly
linked bicycle chain to drive the bolt back and forth, and the
sprockets for it would be logically arranged onto shafts
oriented as such.
I do
NOt have one of these (yet). Cool thing to have, I'd
think.
Pretty sure it doesn't fit Whitworth
tools.
ON TO
THE BUILD!
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Welcome to © Killbucket's vast website of airsoft creations, and a lot more. Since 2007, Killbucket has been designing and making some of the most unusual airsoft and movie prop weapons ever seen. Killbucket's GIANT file of Airsoft Gun CAD work is available in standard CAD format for fast downloading. Killbucket is AutoCAD Certified by PTI, and creates full design drawings for everything he makes with his personal ShopBot PRS Robotic CNC. Mass is traded for durability, complexity is replaced with modular simplicity.
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They are typically linked to the gunner's helmet, the gun points where he/she looks at all times.
Flinch, and whatever you WERE looking at becomes fragments!
Oh well, I've got it bonded together, no big deal. I'm pretty sure that MY gun won't ever be placed next to the Real Steel for comparison. LOVE the safety wiring on the bolts, the scuffs on the guard frames.
The barrel buffers on mine will get a bit more detail, now that I can see what they actually look like.
One would assume that pulling this knob out would let the thing pop off, tool-less.
I'm somewhat surprised to see ANY drive gear (LOOK at the ODD tooth arrangement) exposed like this. However, the gear module is HUGE, I'd think it would take a good-sized, SOLID rock to stop them without being crushed.
The M230, unlike most airborne guns, does not collect its spent shells. Most mounted guns keep the spent casings under control to prevent FOD. With the gun at almost the lowest point on the airframe, and the empty casings being ejected straight down, there is minimized chance for dangerous situations to arise.
On the other hand, collecting spent shells keeps the vehicle's CG and dead weight from changing during combat.
Bottom line is- I now have a CLEAR idea of how the guard cradle is shaped. I want TWO, mounted on outriggers on each side of my truck.
I'll be driving a bright RED HK! Notice the angles, imagine flying into a suspended cable...the gun barrel will deflect it under the gun, and if it does clear the top of the gun, the angled cable-cutter will get it. Brilliant.
I assume the big bolt we see here is the end of a chainshaft.
These guns use a burly linked bicycle chain to drive the bolt back and forth, and the sprockets for it would be logically arranged onto shafts oriented as such.
Pretty sure it doesn't fit Whitworth tools.
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