Depends on your level of OCD though. Had to make a few tweaks, like putting a shim between the grip and the receiver to stop the wobble… the grip bottoms out on the gearbox and leaves a gap, so any play in the gearbox in the receiver’s amplified through to the grip. You notice it, but it’s an easy fix.
Same for the handguard… not a problem on the top battery cover but if you’re like me and like to run a vertical grip the wobble will drive you nuts. Aluminium tape strips tightened that up enough to quieten the demons in my head though. not rock solid but pretty good.
Also same for the top pic rail, moves around a bit. Again, a little aluminium tape sorts that so any optics are mounted solid.
Biggest gripe was the outer barrel. It’s a weird cast item and the 14mm CCW thread on the end of it wasn’t cast fully… two flats on it top and bottom and something slightly smaller than 14mm OD. The provided flash hider tightened up on it okay, but nothing else would. I ended up putting a short sleeve over the OB with a decent machined CCW thread on it. Now I can run anything on it.
Those little nitpicking issues aside, the rest of the platform’s all good… it’s one of my favourite blasters and most importantly it’s NOT an M4…
Complexly stock blasters I highly recommend the old arp 9. If you can get them anymore. You’d sometimes blow up the mosfet running semi and 11.1v but it’s as solid as they come and a nice satisfying crack to each shot.
Ldt mp5 is a great little one too. I don’t like the stock versions. But I’ve rebuilt mine to the point Hamish even tried to buy mine at one point .
Also the j12 ak is solid use too. I may still have evidence of the damage they can do saved somewhere.
I realised a few days ago after going through a few of the old boxes that I have about 5 MP5’s in pieces and tonnes of custom parts/kits for them piled away in various plastic bags and boxes
They were all just non functional/broken blasters that I got in a job lot with a pile of other parts a long time ago that got forgotten until recently.
Would be good little CQB blasters with their compact size, but don’t know enough about them in regards to performance though
Hamish is the reason I have a couple. Great blaster out of the box with amazing rof on 11.1v. It’s not really that short with stock extended. About the same length as CYMA M4 with short SLR handguard and suppressor
I love an MP5 for cqb. I mean I just love MP5s, but they are a great cqb blaster for semi only games.
The j12 ak is fantastic too. Out of the box is great and they can really be pumped up well too in the same way a gen8 can and be very reliable.
@Friendly_Fire I love a vector. Had a bit of a period after the mk box where I didn’t want to see the inside of one for a while. Having one and a prototype box, with countless hours of work and communication and so on over a year will dip your enthusiasm a bit.
But I’m ready again… might have to convert the other vector to mk box
One of these has a metal flash hider with external thread fitted with a rubberised screw on suppressor
Looks cool with that little bit of extra toughness poking out front
Plenty of different stocks too, from metal sliding, fixed, folding and also rear caps for stock deletes for that extra short CQB Machine Pistol look
……almost forgot… also found a WALTHER branded alloy reflex/red dot scope that has the extra wide mount to fit the MP5 receiver, which I believe were pretty hard to find?
Very cool and it cowitnesses with the iron sights. The A2 stock gives the best cheek weld for them but what the hey… MP5s look best with an A3 slider on them.
not rock solid but pretty good.
