Off the wall request

[Forty Rod]

Some of you folks may remember a line of full sized plastic model gun kits from LS Plastics iout of Japan.  Very accurate 1:1 scale models.  I haven't seen them for 20+ years, but I'd like to find the Remingtom double derringer and the '96 broomhandle Mauser pistols for a project.  (I'd also take a 1911 military .45 or any of the Lugers, or a Nambu if I could find one.)  There were some others. too, including a right nice Tommygun, a U. S. carbine, and an AK-47.  A whole raft of guns, grenades, bayonets, etc.

Does anyone have an unbuilt kit laying around or know where I could find one?  Web search has trned up a lot of old Revell, Pyro, and Aurora stuff, but none of the better Japanese models.

Thanks.

[Curley Cole]

I have one of the 45 Colt SAA's but it is assembled, and ain't goin no where. I also had a 1860 (also assembled) but I sold that on ebay years ago.

keep checkin the wires.

sorry pard

curley

[Forty Rod]

I saw yours, Curley.  You have the Revell version...later sold by Pyro.  (I have one of their pepperboxes from years back.)

The LS guns actually had moving parts like the real guns, but plastic.  Very exact scale.  I had a Luger and even the magazine fit an original, but the 'cartridges' were a lot smaller so you couldn't chamber a real 9mm round.

[Curley Cole]

Just wanted to see if I could slip it past ya

pretty slick...

curley

[Forty Rod]

When I was a kid I had all of those Revell guns (remember the blunderbus?) and the Pyro pirate pistols, 1851 and 1860 revolvers, and their rifles, all hanging on the bedroom wall.  Also had an O'Brian Guncraft M-1 Thompson made from a wood kit.

Back in the late 70s I had several of the LS guns and they can be made very real looking.  All are working models with undersized chambers.

When I was in Japan I bought my 8 year ols son a 1911 and a S&W Model 24 from MGC Bondshop.  They were plastic, metal, and wood ready-to-work pre-airsoft guns that would fool and expert at 3 feet.  I still have the 1911 around here someplace.

[Curley Cole]

I have seen a couple on ebay, and they were getting a pretty high price. But ya are right. very realistic.

curley

[Black Powder]

Can't help ya, but wanted to thank you folks for sparkin' an old memory: my dad built several of these: SAA, pepperbox, Philadelphia derringer & blunderbuss.  Some of these he "antiqued" by scratching up the grips, he put plaster of paris inside them to give them weight and even put a metal barrel inside one.  He had an engraved lever gun, too, maybe a Henry?  This had to be back in the 50s or early 60s.  We used to play with them, but if you were getting "shot", you dared not drop them!  Good memories...

BP

[Forty Rod]

The engraved lever gun was a '66 carbine.  The was also a '73 carbine, but it wasn't engraved.

One part flat black enamel and one part gloss navy blue enamel.  Hand rub and reapply until it shines jest right.  Rub powdered graphite liberally on it amd polish it down.  Add semi gloss clear coat and polish.  Matches blued steel very well.

You can do the same thing with  50/50 'steel' and battleship gray to get a worn steel look.

I had a whole notebook of paint formulas to make things look right.

Sure was a long time ago.

[Curley Cole]

Well Gang

Here is  a picture of the one 4Trod saw here at my place.(come to think of it it sorta looks like my engraved Great Western...may have to picture them side by side..hehe I wish I still had the cap n ball one, course, wish I still had a bunch o stuff I let get away over the years. Including that cute little blonde in 1966...hmmmmm

gotta run

Curley

[Forty Rod]

 

I remember when those sold for about a buck two bits.  I'd buy a boxcar full at that price now.

[Singing Bear]

Never heard of LS, but years ago I had a Mod 29 and a 1911 by Marui (?) and found them at a local hobby shop.  The 1911 actually functioned using those plastic caps in their brass "cartridges".   I did a search a few months back and it seems most of the "old time" plastic gun makers in Japan are now into making airsoft guns.  No one had anything resembling the old kit guns.    

[Forty Rod]

I still have a Marui Walther P-38 complete with proper markings.  It's missing the safety, but I only paid $10.00 for it at an antique store about ten years ago.