My first WWII Lego Gun Replica! It shoots Rubber bands Semi-auto.
About this creation
The Real Gun | The Lego Gun:
Name: Thompson M1A1 (tommy gun) | Lego Thompson M1a1
Place of origin: United states | classified
In Service 1938 - 1971 | 2009 - ?
Designer: John T. Thompson | Milan CMadge
Number built: 1,700,000 (approx.) | 1 (definite)
Weight: 10.6 lb | 2 lb
Length: 32 inches. | 31.7 inches
Rate of fire: 600 - 1200 rpm | 40 rmp (allow time to load)
Feed system: 20 or 30 round detatchable box magazine | 6 round cog
The Ammo:
This is the ammunition - large rubber bands. I don't know how many it can hold I've put 6 thick ones on. I only have 2 thin ones but it could probably hold 7-8. It is extremely powerful and because of this extremely accurate. It is powerful because the gun is life-size and the rubber bands are attached to the front and back, it stretches them a good 29 inches (the gun is 32" long - like the real one!)
The Magazine:
These are pictures of the magazine. The magazine has a spring in it and can hold about 20-30 (not sure) of 'Thomas Coopers' bullets. It was intended to fire lego bullets, and I didn't change the magazine. On the last photo you can see the magazine release, when you push the button on the side (which is spring loaded to be pushed back out) it allows you to pull the magazine out. If you do not press this button the magazine won't drop. the rubber band to pull the trigger back is also attached to the magazine release so it doubles up to two mechanisms. The firing ones the same, it is also part of the cocking arm.
The Whole Gun | The Lego Gun:
This is the whole gun,you can here see the stock aswell. At the back you can the iron sights that are unique to the Thompson.
The Body:
Here is the main body of the gun. You can see the gun cocked, and how I've changed the side - by giving it a bevel. One picture shows the gun open, how you load it. You can see the magazine release button on the side.
Field Striped:
This is the gun field striped, I made my Thompson's stock come off, the magazine detach and the grip and barrel come off. The real ones body splits too. Whilst taking the pictures of the mechanism, i 'accidentally' pulled the top bit off, the 'L' shape in Bohdan's mechanism and trigger are in the bottom half the rest in the top! They're not attached! so I accidentally made the gun better and more like the real one!
The Sights:
Here are 2 pictures of looking down the iron sights and one of the front sight - you can see other pictures of the sights on the main gun. The sights at the front and rear line up and are accurate. where the sights are is where the elastic band will go (You can see in the videos I hit the target every time).
The Mechanism:
Here is the mechanism - its so small and compact it fits into 2 (or 4 counting the walls) there is no sign of the mechanism on the outside apart from the odd pin. The cocking arm is resting on the mechanism - as shown in the pictures, so everything is hidden by it and one wall. Its a modified version of a mechanism by Bohdan Tkachenko click here to see his version. With mine the cogs are all on the inside, it took ages and is quite complicated.
Videos:
Here is a video showing me shooting the gun at 3 minifigures (the minifigs are my WWII ones - without helmets)
Notice: No minifigures were harmed during the making of this film
Instructions:
With regards to instructions, I won't be making them at the moment. I may make some for the mechanisms (firing & magazine release) later this year but it is unlikely that instructions for the whole gun will be made... sorry.
If you want to compare your building style with someone join this group!
This creation is now a MOCcomparison, I compared it with Aaron, click here to go to his Thompson.
Quoting Austen Cordero
the detail is just amazing. it is so accurate and it is by far the best model of this gun on mocpages.. and it even shoots! on scale of 1-10 11
Quoting J.Hank R.
Wow. Most perfect thompson I have ever seen. Only thing that could use work is the clip. Maybe it's just me, but it seems to be too long even for a 30 round clip. Other than that, simply amazing.
Thanks! P.S: Its a 40 round clip, you can get them.
Thanks, I couldn't fit Thomas coopers mechanism in if I wanted it so detailed, believe me I tried, and secondly try ebay or bricklink for pieces.
I like it
Max S.
June 3, 2009
wow, it looks exactly like the real one... but why don`t you go on with the idea of thomas cooper? the right magazine for this you have, you only need the mechanism and a barrel for it... but, where did you get all the brown pieces from? i only have maybe 10 of them...and ofcourse i want to have more...
if i could give you 100/5, i would do so ;)
A very accurate replica, great job on the details, and it even shoots, great job, this must be the best Thompson I've ever seen. btw, thanks for the comment on my jeep)
I have seen a lot of thompsons but this blows all of the others straight out of the water! This is by far the BEST Lego thompson I have EVER seen. Fantastic work!~ Andrew F.
Quoting Bohdan Tkachenko
You should be able to hold more rubber band with my mechanism... How much did you modify it?
Its not that- It would hold loads, it's that the rubberbands would be too strong (use huge bands) and the gun will probably be forced into the field strip mode.
I like it
Darcy Guerin Hanlon
April 5, 2009
this gun is so accurate in shooting and looks i would rate it 100000/5 if a could. PS: i wouldn't be surprised if some one mistook it for the real one good job
omg, wow, best thompson ON TEH INTERNET! theres noooo better thompson than yours. It even shoots! like bohdan said, you covered up the mechanism very well, it shoots and looks like a beauty!
Hands down this is the best Thompson on mocpages!It is detailed to every inch.it can even shoot rubber bands! That just makes it even better. I would hang that up on my wall!
If you were talking about how to get the Staus Report on my page, well, its easy. Just write your stauts on your creations, then use html code for the color. To get the numbers, well I did it the hard way. I use a calculater to count all of my views, comments, etc, etc. It only take a couple of minutes. :)LCG
Awesome man! You should go to a Supermarket with this and a ski mask. Just kidding! This looks realistic, if you take a glimse look at. Wow, this must be the most realistic Thompson on Mocpages. Not only is it just realistic looking, it also can fire rubber bands! This is just awesome! :)LCG
Wow. Most perfect thompson I have ever seen. Only thing that could use work is the clip. Maybe it's just me, but it seems to be too long even for a 30 round clip. Other than that, simply amazing.
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Well, this has got to be the BEST, LEGO, GUN i have ever seen in my life! It looks so realistic, all the colours are perfect, and it FIRES!
Amazing job and detail millan!
Hastati Man
Quoting Marder II
This is incredible. You made this? I am making one but this beats it by far!
Yep - I made this, I sat with loads of pictures of the gun off the internet building. I did it in loads of bits so like 5 bricks a day and the a load at the weekend, so it too me ages! I wasn't actually going to build it, I just saw the two arches next to each other and thought it looked like the trigger-guard and went from there! - Good luck with yours!
I like it
Andrei Rozhin
March 10, 2009
man you just killed my chances of winning the smg contest. great job, I like the stock and the handle and also how the colourins is great.
The awesome factor is much to my liking. As a WWII and weapons buff, I think you totally did the Thompson justice, quite aside from having a totally cool rubber band gun. :) A++
It looks even better now! The slowness of MOCpages is driving me crazy! I usually get 10 ratings on the first day I post a gun and at the end of the day I had 2 comments and only 9 views! I think everyone is to impatient to wait for the pages to load. Dylan had a good idea of waiting till it gets faster. Sean was supposed to fix it this week, but I think it's gotten slower. When will it end?????
It's looking very good. I know making a gun fire is something that cuts away from the detail of the gun, but you covered it up quite well. Great job, i'll post my newest gun once MOC pages gets a little faster.
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