Guarder G45 MOS (based on the Marui G17 Gen5 MOS)

[MistakenMexican]

This arrived on Christmas Eve. And as a result, I just got the chance to build it last night:


Guarder have produced a G45 based on the Marui system.
It looks fantastic and I think this might overtake my current gen5 as my main pistol.

There’s only a few niggles I’ve found with the pistol. The first one came as a surprise, but the rest seem fairly standard for guarder:
- the extended barrel doesn’t take an extended inner barrel. If you fit a barrel longer than 87mm, it causes the barrel to rub on the slide and jam.
- the guarder steel acro plate is too thick, so it presses on the nozzle, preventing it from returning properly. - fix is to stand down the top of the nozzle or use a different optic plate.
- the slide rails are too thin, so you need to sand down the paint off the sides of the forward rail and the hammer chassis.

 

[SullivanTrEE]

absolutely solidsuch a good combo. Bet it looks mean in person.

Out of curiosity, with the Marui Gen5 system overall, have you come across any parts that really impressed you? Or anything that turned out to be a let-down?

Would be good to know what’s genuinely worth doing and what’s better left stock

 

[MistakenMexican]

I’ve built one of each now:
G45 steel


G45 in FDE

 

[MistakenMexican]

absolutely solidsuch a good combo. Bet it looks mean in person.

Out of curiosity, with the Marui Gen5 system overall, have you come across any parts that really impressed you? Or anything that turned out to be a let-down?

Would be good to know what’s genuinely worth doing and what’s better left stock

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The only thing that really left me impressed was the guarder G34 kit.

The TTI hop unit is probably the best upgrade for the price.

I put CCT piston lids in all my gen5s. It might be placebo, but I feel it makes an improvement. It does require the 130% nozzle spring otherwise the nozzle gets hung up on the piston lid.

Otherwise, most of the stuff on the market is generally very good.

Avoid Gunday as a brand. None of it works.
Avoid 5KU unless you know what you’re doing. None of it works out of the box.

 

[MasterGouken]

@MistakenMexican Did you stipple the 2nd frame yourself or can you buy them like that?

 

[MistakenMexican]

@MistakenMexican Did you stipple the 2nd frame yourself or can you buy them like that?

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I have ArmsAholic’s in HK stipple them.

I used to have a guy in the UK that did all my stippling but he’s disappeared

 

[MistakenMexican]

I’m looking into setting up a stippling business myself. But it’s time consuming and expensive to start up.

 

[MasterGouken]

There's company's that do laser stippling but they all seem to be US based. Looks like I'll have to maybe buy an extra frame and give it a go myself

 

[MistakenMexican]

There's company's that do laser stippling but they all seem to be US based. Looks like I'll have to maybe buy an extra frame and give it a go myself

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Yeah. There are companies that will do it here. But they charge a fortune.

I was planning on getting a laser engraver and offering it.

It would be expensive, but I’d get the framed cerakoted by Joe West and the I’d cerakote the stippling over the top.