200mm PPsH In Prog

Anders Heintz · Feb 21, 2004

Hey Guys!

Well, I decided to go ahead and try to make the PPsH myself. This is the second time Im doing a weapon and first time this large. So might have a lot of setbacks, but I will go slow and think out the next step before doing it and maybe it won't be so bad.

I started with a big ball of putty, never mixed so much putty at same time before :| Then I rolled it out ala' Gordy Style

Anders Heintz · Feb 21, 2004

Next step was to see if it was enough for the scale print I have of the PPsH

Anders Heintz · Feb 21, 2004

Then I traced it with an X-Acto knife, the putty was like a hard rubber at this stage.

Anders Heintz · Feb 21, 2004

Here is the results after tracing it.

Anders Heintz · Feb 21, 2004

And then the cutting started!

Anders Heintz · Feb 21, 2004

And here is the final cut out compared with scale drawings. The sucker is about ~9,8cm long! Now I need to do a lot of carving!

Will resume work on this Sunday, have a horse show this weekend, wish me luck!!

Robin · Feb 21, 2004

Looking forward to seeing the next steps on this

Robin

RobH · Feb 21, 2004

Anders, you very brave man. My hat off to you.

Very interested to see how u progress.

Rob

yeo_64 · Feb 21, 2004

Anders,my best wishes go out to you on your newest endeavour

You are de MAN Cheers.
Kenneth.

gordy · Feb 21, 2004

brave indeed!
working with large chunks of putty is quite duanting!
keep a vacuum handy - there's gonna be a lotta of clipping :biggrin:

LCoote · Feb 21, 2004

Hey Anders, carving all of those slots in the barrel jacket will be a challenge
Have you seen this site, 3 pages of close ups on the PPSH http://feldbluse.infoseek.livedoor.net/a-051.html

RobH · Feb 22, 2004

Well I'll thank you for that link too, Leigh.

good reference for my German's ppsh! Excellent

Rob

Anders Heintz · Feb 22, 2004

Hey Guys!

Thanks for the encouragement! I am sure that I will need it. I havent figured hout how I am tackeling thr barrel yet, that time that sorrow

I just got home from a horse show so didnt get much done on it this weekend but will work on it this week.

Thanks for that link Leigh, can never have too much reference! One thing that I would like is the measurements of the drum magazine. I have measurements of most other things, but not on the drum.

Thanks agian and I'll be sure to keep you posted on the progress!

LCoote · Feb 23, 2004

[/QUOTE]Posted on Feb 22 2004, 08:25 AM
Well I'll thank you for that link too, Leigh.

Actually, Gary put me on to that site, there's some excellent uniform and equipment reference there.

John Long · Feb 23, 2004

You've got a great start Anders. I'm getting ready to do a weapon this way myself. We'll have to talk.

Anders Heintz · Feb 23, 2004

Hey John,

Sure, we'll get together either later this week or next week. Need to pick up my figures also.

Anders Heintz · Mar 3, 2004

Hey Guys!

Well, after a meeting with Bryan (sorry dont know your last name!) and John Long this evening and discussing how to go about doing the Barrel of the PPsH for my Ruski we came up with a good plan. What I did was first to get the barrel close to the shape it needed to be. Then I used a flat copper piece that I cut into a U shape, the same shape as the barrel and scraped the barrel. This worked pretty good, but I ended up using an X-Acto to refine it. After the shape was done, the pattern was drawn on the barrel and then I drilled out the barrel the whole length so the 'real' barrel could be inserted. Then I used a dremmel tool with a small burr bit to make the holes in the cooling cover. Still need to do some refinements but I am pretty pleased with how it turned out. Atleast the barrel is still in one piece! (knocking three times on head )

It really wasnt all that complicated or hard to do, just took a long time and putting 3 heads together to get it done! Thanks Bryan and John, couldnt have done it without you guys

Anders Heintz · Mar 3, 2004

DoH

Just cross checked my references...and guess what! I screwed up in a couple of places. 1st, there should be 3 holes on the top part, then the sight (covering the 4th hole on the top) and then another hole infront of the sight. Oh well, I can fill the forth hole and drill one infront of it.

Manfred · Mar 3, 2004

IÂ´m amazed about your braveness as you tackle this difficult weapon project.

Good job Anders

JCOX · Mar 3, 2004

Great to see this progress Anders. Keep up the good work. Love the sbs.

-jim cox

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