In this article, you’ll learn how to author the YouTube channel DreadCraftStation. do it yourself made SVD from the popular game "Sniper Arena". If you wish, you can easily repeat this project. The template can be downloaded from the link in the description under the original video of the author (link SOURCE at the end of the article).
So, download the template, print and glue it.
Many of the author’s subscribers waited for him to make something out of plywood. Well, the time has come. We will make butt and fore-end from plywood. The forend will consist of five layers of 6 mm plywood, and the butt of three layers, but already thicker plywood - 10 mm.
By the way, a little trick, or rather life hack, how to quickly distribute PVA glue on the surface: apply glue, and distribute it with an ordinary spatula. The layer is thus obtained more or less uniform and most importantly as thin as possible, the most for gluing templates.
The rest of the SVD parts will be made in classics from MDF and PVC plastic. By the way, the thickness of each part is marked on the template, so it will not be easy to get confused in this case. So, all the templates are glued, it remains to carefully cut this whole thing. The author will cut, as always, on a band saw and a jigsaw machine. Well, if you don’t have these tools, then cutting the workpiece is quite possible and with the help, the main thing here is to take a file on a jigsaw for curly cutting, as it is thinner, and there will be more teeth and accordingly there will be fewer explosions.
The gluing of all plywood parts is best done with opaque carpentry glue, since glue can form gaps, and such glue will simply fill them, and in color it looks like plywood.
When assembling the butt, do not forget about the pin for the belt, it is built into the middle layer.
When the glue dries, you can start processing the resulting workpiece and give the butt its original shape.
On the front there is a small step on the butt and here it is best to use a chisel to remove the three layers of plywood.
The rest can be turned into ordinary sandpaper.
Now you can start deleting the template from already cut parts. The template is removed quite simply with ordinary sandpaper.
By the way, an interesting fact about SVD. In 1958, the Soviet army announced a competition for a self-loading sniper rifle, which was supposed to replace the outdated mosquito (Mosin rifle), and only after 5 years of painstaking work the winner was determined.It was Yevgeny Fedorovich Dragunov, hence the name Dragunov’s rifle.
This rifle is capable of firing effectively at moving targets at a distance of up to 700 meters. By the way, in our time, you can be a virtual sniper, so to speak, and play pranks from SVD to Sniper Arena.
When gluing all the forearm parts, we remove the template only from the three central layers, but on the side it is better to leave it for now, they will still be useful to us.
In order to make lateral perforations on the fore-end for cooling, it is necessary to drill holes according to the template with a drill with a diameter of 3 mm, and remove the rest with and.
Before shaping the forearm, we glue the future brackets for the two halves of the forearm, and then we grind all the excess plywood on them.
Next, we proceed to the assembly of the main box, it will consist of 3 layers of 6 mm MDF, 2 layers of 4 mm PVC plastic and four layers of millimeter plastic.
By the way, the trigger, magazine lock and shutter handle must be saturated with superglue. This will give the MDF extra rigidity and protect the part from quick wear.
The shutter imitation consists of four parts, 3 of them are assembled for toothpicks, as well as for superglue or PVA glue. But it’s better to use superglue, since it dries much faster and also glues wood, MDF, plastic and much more.
Then it is necessary to give the form of a box, and then proceed to gluing all the linings.
The trigger frame is cut out of 4 mm plastic, which must be bent according to the pattern. In this case, a hair dryer can also be used as usual, since PVC plastic needs to be heated quite a bit.
The store, by the way, will be from the earliest version of SVD. It is quite simple, yes, of course there is a more complex model, but the author decided to dwell on that.
We collect the barrel from a 14 mm aluminum tube, and a gas outlet from a 12 mm steel tube.
The author made a thickening on the trunk from the same tube as he went to make the trunk. It just needs to be sawed along and pulled to the trunk in this way:
The transition between the barrel itself and the gas outlet is made of a piece of PVC plastic.
And for the volume, the author threw everything with a universal automotive putty.
For the front sight we need a small plastic tube and a piece of 10 mm PVC or MDF. We give the whole thing a form and stick it in place.
Before coating the stock and forend with varnish, it was decided to cover the plywood with impregnation of the nut color first. The colors of the SVD butts differ depending on the years of their production, so it was decided to make an early version in light color.
Then, after the applied varnish has dried up, you can proceed to the primer and painting in black the rest of the details.
The buttstock of the butt can be glued or screwed onto the screws to the butt itself.
We will attach the forearm to the box with glue and dowels. Similarly, it will be possible to do with the butt.
Next is the sight. They are all of the same type and go on many guns of domestic production.
The tip on the trunk, it is also a flame arrester, was decided to be made of fluoroplastic, since it has longitudinal cuts and it would be much more difficult to make it out of wood.
So, the finish line. The optical sight for a sniper rifle (PSO), the author decided to print on.
We remove supports, grind, assemble, primer and paint.
Putting it all together and that's what we got as a result.
Thank you for attention. See you soon!
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