{"id":3075,"date":"2018-01-08T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9v.lt\/blog\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2023-01-30T23:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:11:59","slug":"custom-hard-case-airsoft-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9v.lt\/blog\/custom-hard-case-airsoft-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom hard-case for an airsoft gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I started playing airsoft, I came across it when a friend asked me if I wanted to try it and the game he wanted to go to had a cool backstory. At the start I was skeptical about this pseudo-war, role-playing soldiers and stuff with fake guns but cool looking gear. After a few games with rented equipment, and the first game’s first half hour being somehow awkward until I encountered an enemy and got some bb’s shot in my leg that hurt, after that I started to like it a lot. Now I’m playing it every weekend with my own gear and an AK-47 imitation.<\/p>\n

The gun that I bought came in a cardboard box, which isn’t permanent or convenient to carry. There are hard and soft cases to buy, but those, as with many things in airsoft, apparently, are a bit expensive. So I decided to make my own hard case, which is essentially a wooden box with a lid – nothing fancy.
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\nThe hardest part in this whole project was to cut everything out straight and I didn’t have a buzz-saw, only an electric fretsaw and this isn’t ideal when cutting long, straight lines – had to do a lot of grinding afterwards.<\/p>\n

After cutting all the sides out, I glued and put some nails into them, same with the bottom cover.<\/p>\n

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After that I wanted to paint them, and this is where my woodworking skills start to suck – I probably would of been better off using some kind of lacquer or paint from a bin, instead of spray paint, because it needed a lot of spray paint too. Also the sample paint color seemed like very dark gray, but in reality it was light gray…<\/p>\n

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And now all is left is to assemble both parts – add hinges, rubber stopper, handle, locks, rubber feet and a cool punisher decal (which I bought in white, because I thought paint would be dark gray…).<\/p>\n

I used rubber door stopper (I think that’s how it’s called) to fill up gaps between bottom and top, added hinges and rubber feet<\/p>\n

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Then added a briefcase handle and case locks, which I had to buy from eBay, because to my surprise I couldn’t find any suitable ones locally.<\/p>\n

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And only thing left to do was to add some foam and cut it out to hold my beer<\/del> gun and accessories <\/p>\n

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All in all, it looks pretty darn nice. It alone weights around 1 kg, and with all the gear in it, it isn’t bad to carry and the price to make this was 40\u20ac<\/p>\n

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