23 replies to this topic

[CrazyJ]

Details are scant on the quality but the description makes it seem like they are the same thing but cheaper.

at these prices they make it more worth buying than the chinese ones at Gunner's Airsoft website.

[my_plague_666]

nice, whats the catch? lower quality? if so, how much lower?

[spb]

I don't think there's a catch. Everything on that poster isn't made by Inokatsu (except the receiver maybe) so for Inokatsu it's only a matter of buying that stuff from their wood supplier and selling it with profit to the public. Easy money compared to making steel Ak (or other guns) kits and selling these to the public.

[Apex]

Do they have the front end bit to go with the reciever ?

[spb]

Do they have the front end bit to go with the reciever ?

That's TM style, so every after market Ak metal front set will fit in the receiver .

[Jaager]

still no M70 foregrip

[Apex]

That's TM style, so every after market Ak metal front set will fit in the receiver .

Yeah but fitting anything else other then a Inokkatsu metal front end is going to feel cheap

[Kristoffer]

I'm building an inexpensive RPK using the same metal body, and a G&P front end. I paid 158$ for it, (DOH!) and it is a nice piece compared to pot-metal bodies. The front is very solid, and as long as you don't put a magnet on it, or inspect it very closely, you can hardly tell the difference. In fact, I think that the hop-up attachment is better on the G&P front than on the inokatsu kits.

I think It's nice to see a real price drop in Inokatsu kits (329$ for a few of them on WGC, that is 120 dollars of what they cost less than 6 months ago), probably because of the all steel China AK kits. I just hope that the quality will stay the same.

65 dollars for the Inokatsu steel body will make any AK look and feel really nice, the element body/top cover/pistol grip cost 60 dollars, and it doesn't include the selector....

Edited by Kristoffer, 26 October 2007 - 05:16 PM.

[CrazyJ]

65 dollars for the Inokatsu steel body will make any AK look and feel really nice, the element body/top cover/pistol grip cost 60 dollars, and it doesn't include the selector....

is the element metal body any good? I was thinking of purchasing it while Im still in Hong Kong since Airsoftforce.com carries it for ~$13 for just the body or $22 for the body, top cover, and pistol grip.

I thought I'd pick em up just because they were cheap and I'd maybe use em on a project one day

[Magsz]

Further proof that the inokatsu kits were overpriced to begin with.

I guess the Attack of the Clones is actually having an unforeseen benefit.

[Murph]

I think they're just spliting down their kits into individual peices and selling them at those peices individual prices.

Hence the "economy" coming from if you just wanted part of the kit you don't have to buy the whole thing anymore.

I can't imagine them actually -dropping- their prices. Unheard of!

[barnezilla]

I think they're just spliting down their kits into individual peices and selling them at those peices individual prices.

Hence the "economy" coming from if you just wanted part of the kit you don't have to buy the whole thing anymore.

I can't imagine them actually -dropping- their prices. Unheard of!

they sold the stripped down kits already.

[felix4536]

i just laugh at all the crazy ak gun fanatics that actually bought $1000 MBKs....

[Jaager]

still no M70, why do they only make romanian and Russian AK's, an M70 would sell more than an AIM kit, especially if they did it properly with the gass cutoff for the rifle grenade and a AKMS type body for an M70B

[Kristoffer]

I think they're just spliting down their kits into individual peices and selling them at those peices individual prices.

Hence the "economy" coming from if you just wanted part of the kit you don't have to buy the whole thing anymore.

I can't imagine them actually -dropping- their prices. Unheard of!

No. The Economy parts are made like the TM AK, on the metal body you use a normal TM style rear sight block and also the TM style stock attachment. The same applies to the different foregrips, and the RPK kit, all made to fit a standard TM without having to swap all the other parts. Nothing new, Inokatsu have made these parts for a long time now, but the price used to be much higher. (158 inc. shipping for the metal body, 200 dollars for the RPK parts.)

[Revenge Seeker2]

^ Yes, no wonder this seemed familiar. I believe it was posted on airsoft-news.eu a few months ago; just not the more lowered prices.

Here I found it (posted on April 16, 2007) : http://airsoft-news.eu/comment.php?comment.news.925

Though it is not 100% follow the real steel configuration, but it is a good start to build a full steel AK AEG.

And you're right about the modification to fit TM configuration.

Edited by Revenge Seeker, 27 October 2007 - 07:49 AM.

[kevshin21]

They are probably doing this because their stuff was too overpriced and the clone sales are getting to them.

[Skarclaw]

I wonder if the price is lower as previously it was pretty much RMW that sold them, with him gone and WGC etc having the market, they might be able to afford lower prices.

[nicktheww2fanatic]

pardon my ignorance....where can you get these???

[Revenge Seeker2]

pardon my ignorance....where can you get these???

I think it will be a while before any retailers have them. Don't think anyone knows who yet.