Latest Miniature Project - Photos added

I use several agents to blacken the silver. One is a telluric acid solution, the others are most likely sulfur base mild acid solution ( they don't give the make-up). Depending on the technique used, the silver can be made any shade from gun-metal gray to rich shiny black. A slight mottling often occurs, which seems to add an aged look.

I'll put up the rest of the photos today.
 
Very cool Stacy, thanks for the photos and story. I used to work in a machine shop way back when as one of my careers and one of the big things in showin' off your skills was in makin' miniatures of anything and everything, workin' miniatures were even better. The coolest miniature I saw was a guy had made a 1/4 scale steam engine with a 5 pound flywheel and all the bells and whistles, (literally :) ) that you'd find on a real steam engine. Wish I had taken a pic, cell phones with cameras wouldn't be around for another 20 ears yet ;) .
 
Photos have been added in the reserved places ... with a sneak peak at what the next one will be.

Here are some more I found of the firing pin and assembly:
There is a bunch of mini-30-06 ammo.
It doesn't show too well, but the end of the firing pin is threaded to fit the knurled pull.
Another shot of the chamber with a round next to it. And another shot of the assembled barrel and beginning bolt before the rest of that action was built.
All the steps in the barrel size are accurately placed and to scale.
 

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Awesome! When you’re ready to build a Garand, I’ll send you a piece from a USGI garand stock.
 
I will probably stay with historic military rifles. M1 Garand, M14, AR15.
The M1 and M14 are not much more than a semi-automatic "03 Springfield, so I will do others first.
I have the blueprints for a M1918 BAR, which may be a project soon.

The next one is already in the early stages. It is a M1911 Colt pistol. I will be doing it in 6:1 scale to match all the others. I plan on making it fully functional (except for firing actual ammo) in all details that are possible. I have decided to make the hammer, sear, disrupter, and trigger from titanium to give strength in very thin pieces. The rest will likely be sterling and gold.
Of course, it would be simpler in steel, but where's the fun in that?

When I was a boy, a neighbor gave me an antique (probably late 1800's) toy revolver pistol that shot .12 calibre ammo. It fired these tiny cartridges that looked like half size .22 cal BB ammo. It was basically a tiny percussion cap with a small lead ball pressed into it. The pistol was about 3" long. My mom was not happy when she found me playing with it, and told me to get rid of it. I hid it in my secret place in a false bottom I had built into a part of Grandpa's garage workbench. No one knew about it. I should go by there someday and knock on the door. Maybe it is still there. Probably worth a couple hundred bucks today. I don't think anyone would find the secret compartment unless they tore down the workbench.
Anyway, that ammo would be just perfect for a 1/4 scale .45 cal pistol that would fire real ammo.
 
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