APS Cabine Kit. Basic build and review.

In this blog we will be taking you through the APS Carbine Kit that is used to convert most Glock Airsoft replicas to a rifle style weapon. First thing is first the kit comes packaged very nicely and it comes with a full color instruction manual. The first thing we noticed about the kit is it has a solid polymer construction. The other nice thing about this kit is its a drop in kit. This does not require disasembly of the base gun, that is a big thing! As the main competition for this kit is the MAGPUL FPG. Dont get me wrong the FPG has its own apeal. But i personally do not want to but the FPG kit for $229.99 and then buy the KAW KSC G18C for $199.99 totaling $429.98. Thats allot of money to make one gun. Now I know you can buy the pre made one for $295.99 that in its self is not too bad. But I like the idea of using the pistol and then quickly switch to the Rifle set up in minutes. And then back with out any major effort.

This kit is designed to work with the full frame Glocks like the KWA KSC G17, G18c as well as the WE G17. Now dont get me wrong, I am sure that there are other Glocks out there that work with it. Such as the KWC or the HFC. However I am not sold on the quality of either of those models. Now we are going to be assemblying this model with the WE G17. As it is the newest model on the market. Amd i personally like the WE brand. As you can probably see from my reviews both here on my blog and on my youtube chanel. Be sure to check it out https://www.youtube.com/user/airsoftgooroo Any way while we were messing around with the APS we found out that the KJW G23 compact pistol will also fit in the APS unit. That is great as it will make it so more people will be able to use it.

So here we go the first thing we want to show you is the parts that come with the kit. You get the basic body assembly, it will come with the vertical fore grip as well as 3 charging handles that will allow you to use multiple Glock pistols. There is one for the "Airsoft 18" one for the "Airsoft 17" and the "RAM Combat" We did find out that the WE G17 is a little wider that the KWA KSC G17 and when you asseble the APS with the G17 charging handle the guns slide may jam up just a little bit when using and that is a bad thing. The last thing you want is for your weapon to bind up on you in mid game... When we took the kit apart and try to find why it was binding up we noticed that the charging handle was visibly bowing making the charging handle bind in the body of the APS. Now when we saw that we were ready to say ok this wont work. But for some reason i was tinkering around with the "Arsoft 18" charging handle and I noticed that the charging handle was not bowing at all.

So we assembled it with the "Airsoft 18" charging handle and the gun did not bind! That was a great thing to find. We loaded it up and the gun performed great. A full mag with no issue, now in all honesty we wont get a true change in performance as it is just a body kit. But it gives you more of a tactical feel to the gun. We decided to try it with the KJW G23 as well and the same result both with the charging handle and the performance of the gun.  Now we will walk you through the assembly of the kit.

First thing is first take the kit out of the box. HAHA! yeah obvious right ... but in all seriousness

1. Locate the body pins on the front and rear of the body kit.

 

2. Remove the body pins, these body pins push out from the reverse side of the body. The body pins may be stiff , and you may want to use a tool to push the pin through.

3 Pull the front end off the body kit.

4. Extend the stock and slide the rear body lock out.

5. Unfold the body kit.

6.Now take the G17 G18 or G23 and add the Charging handle to the gun.

7. Place the gun in the body kit.

8. Close the body kit, be sure it is fully closed.

9. slide the rear body lock into place

10.  Replace the front of the body kit & install body pin

now load your gun and have fun.

Some of the guns have the ability to accept an extended mag like this.

Now at this point we decided to have a little fun with the kit and we put the KJW G23 in it, and added as many rail accesories as we could to it. such as a long distance scope, tactical light, 1x30 red dot and a side mounted verticle grip. We did this to show you that you can literaly do almost anything with this gun. And you can add whatever you want to it. I do not recomend doing this at all. But we did it just to laugh, and laugh we did. We also took some tacticool poses with one of the guys off my team. We hope you enjoy them.

Well as far as this kit is concerned we give it a 9 start rating, Thanks for reading this review.

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The KJW 1911 Custom (ALPHA) edition

This custom build is our first keep checking back for more builds to come. We are starting with the KJW 1911 Metal that we picked up from
Airsplat.com It has a great price it retails at $99.99 Our friends over there got it to us very fast, one day turn around! All in all a very solid well performing gun. The gun it self has a very good sturdy feel. It is a full metal frame, and it has some plastic components. Stuff lie the Nozzle and the grips. But for the most part it is a full metal gun. The finish is great a nice even satin black not that it is going to stick around for too long. The KJW also accepts Co2 mags that can be purchased separately, we are not using them for this project. The first thing we did with this gun was put it through the ringer. We put close to 5000 rounds through it using Green Gas, propane, and a couple of Co2 canisters.

Our findings

Well at first I was not to super impressed with the gun as the mag capacity was very high but the mag could not hold enough gas to fire all the BB's through it. The Mag holds 26 rounds but with the gas load it only fires 8-12 rounds. Not too bad it is similar to a real steel 1911. But we wanted more. So we tore the gun down and took a look at the gun and the internals. The nozzle was made of plastic and bright red. it had allot of excess plastic that we shaved off the nozzle. Further more we noticed the the nozzle recoil spring was very week. So we located another spring in hopes that it was part of the issue with the low shots. I ran a few more mags worth of BB's through it and the same thing. We took it down again and I noticed that the seal in the nozzle was very small and not quite right. I was able to locate another seal as well as a nozzle. I rebuilt the slide with the new nozzle and the seal. The gun performed great, I was able to push it to 18-20 shots per fill. Very happy with this out come.

Customizing.
The next thing we did was start to make it ours. The first thing we did was remove the orange tip as the gun looks as if it had been dipped in orange paint. About 3/4 of an inch of the slide has the blaze orange tip. We were able to scratch the orange paint off the slide with a finger nail. This made the gun look amazing, gave it that traditional 1911 look. Now please remember modifying the gun like this will void your warranties with the seller. Bo Not do it if you are not sure about the gun. Or the warranty has expired. The gun continued to perform very well I then decided i would like to polish the slide rails. So I got out the trusty Dremel and the wire wheel and took the slide rails down to the bare metal. Then I used A buffing wheel with some metal polish and went to town on it until I achieved a mirror finish. I re assembled the gun and bout about a 100 BB's through it. It felt great, smooth and easy action. I decided I wanted a bit more of a kick. So I found a recoil spring with a higher tension to give a stronger kick.

Once full assembled it felt great kicked nice and hard. Now I am starting to get a bit bored with the gun. So I decide i want to see what I can do to customize the gun a bit more. Since this gun is mostly metal "aluminum" I figure it could be polished out pretty nice. Now this is my first adventure into doing anything like this. So I started with a Dremel with a wire brush attachment. It worked but it was very slow moving. I got a bit frustrated and I started to sand it down And i started with a sanding drum on the Dremel. wow! what a mistake. It marred up the slide a bit. But we live and learn!. Thats when I decided to use a orbital with a very fine sand paper. And I ran all the paint down on the entire frame after tearing all the components off the gun. After about an hour of work the whole frame was bare save for a few choice little spots on the gun.

So the gun is fairly silver at this point save for the parts a specifically decided to save such as: The Hammer, Trigger, Safety Lever, Mag Release. Grips, Grip Safety, Outer Barrel.... and a few other choice parts. I Used a metal polish called Lightning shine. I used a Dremel polishing bit and made most of the gun look similar to a mirror. I was able to make the gun function once finished. Please note if you are going to do this please make sure you pay attention to the order things came out. As they will need to go back the same way. Once assembled with the OEM grips on it I was not really happy with the looks of it. I took it with me when i went to pick up some parts at the Airsplat warehouse and they were able get me a great deal on a set of MEU grips for it. Big thanks go out to the guys at Airsplt for all the help the have given me with this project.

I got the gun home and I started to install the grips, I came to find out that the grips for the WE 1911 MEU will fit somewhat but the grip will need to be modified to fit this frame as the gun is made to accept Co2 cartridges. I decided to take the WE logo emblems out of the grip in order to put int the Marine corps. Logos. Overall this is a great look for the gun. I hope you enjoyed this custom gun project. Keep an eye out for our future customs. You can also request customs to see done or reviewed by emailing The Airsoft GuRu