User talk:Commando552

Soldier Soldier

The Soldier Soldier page is coming along nicely. --Jcordell 15:39, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Have basically finished the small arms part of it, just need to do heavy and other weapons now.--Commando552 15:43, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Gary Jones

I don't remember him ever using a Beretta. Could you point out the episode so I can grab a screenshot?--Milkovich 09:53, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Ah, all right. Thanks. --Milkovich 07:27, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Ace Combat PAL Titles

Great move making the redirect page with the PAL title of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies. I took your lead and did the same for the other AC game articles here (with the exception of AC6, since it has the same title in North America and PAL regions). Way to stay heads-up, wish I had thought of that myself! Orca1 9904 04:25, 10 March 2011 (MSK)

Image titles

There's policy on these to have image titles in some way relate to what they're actually of ("Movie screenshots should include syntax identifying what movie/TV show/game they came from") rather than using VLC default filenames. Not trying to be a dick, just saying. Evil Tim 09:12, 10 April 2011 (CDT)

Ultimate Force

I appreciate all the extra work you've done on Ultimate Force. I started the page a long time ago when I was new to IMFDB, and in retrospect, there's a lot of stuff I would have done differently (like not grouping all of the AK variants under one entry for "AK-47 variants", for instance). It's good to see someone's revamping it, because I haven't had time myself.

That being said, some suggestions:

• Please do make sure that you are adding the gun photos, gun page links, and descriptions of the weapons' use (and by which characters). When Excalibur did some additional work on the page a few years back, he was a bit lazy about adding that stuff.

• Since I and Excalibur last worked on the page, IMFDB has a new policy of dividing up TV shows with lots of weapons by season (i.e. 24 and Stargate: SG-1). The Ultimate Force page is getting to be really, really long, so you might want to consider doing the same thing. Since you (wisely) labeled all of your screenshots according to the episode, it should be pretty easy to do this. (I can help you with that, if you want.)

• You might want to group weapons of the same manufacturer near to each other (i.e. SIG P225 and P228 both appear way below SIG P226, which is near the top of the page).

• Your screenshots show that the "Colt CAR-15" with Cobray CM203 that is used by Henno and several other characters in Seasons 3 and 4 has a "Stowaway" pistol grip, which means that it's not a Colt but rather a 10" barrel Olympic Arms K3B carbine fitted with a fake XM177 flash hider. -MT2008 18:21, 20 July 2011 (CDT)

-MT2008 18:21, 20 July 2011 (CDT)

movie guns

beats me. Remember that movie arsenals have tons of franken guns. We have a pile of Bushmaster or Colt or (fill in the blank) full auto papered lowers and auto sears and another pile of barreled uppers. Sometimes the gun is a complete gun, but most of the time, it is built up from parts (and usually from different manufacturers). The pics, I just grabbed what looked right at the time from the gun rack. I would one day like to go back and make sure that each lower is properly mated to the right upper for historical purposes. Also even though we use COLT as the standard for IMFDB when talking about the various model types, there are TONS of receivers built by 3rd party manufacturers. I know of at least three makes in inventory from companies that went out of business in the 1980s. And we all know the many makers today. I need to go back sometime and fix the pics for the samples (try to make extra sure that all the parts are from the right lineage), but that takes time. It IS one of the many things on my list to do when I have time. But as per IMFDB, they are still good for our site, only in that they are (a) movie blank adapted weapons which have been used in movies and TV and (b) at least once or at the time they were photographed, they were used to represent that model type. I know post 1986 most of the AR type receivers built were A2 style with the strengthening bits. The only real A1 lowers were on guns purchased prior to the release of the A2. I slapped a ton of different colt Uppers on whatever lower was available at the time. Usually trying to get it as close as I could. The custom build ups were the most time consuming though. Hope this helps. MoviePropMaster2008 02:58, 5 August 2011 (CDT)

Okay, you da man. I did a quick check on one of the guns and it WAS a non-colt lower that was a pre-86 transferable full auto conversion. Your eagle eyes are keeping me honest! ;) LOL. I will try to mate a real Colt A1 lower to a Colt A1 upper and be sure it's a Colt. Back in the day when I first started, most of IMFDB's gun pics were horrible airsoft photos, the veteran members & mods can attest to that. I was just rushing to get real movie armory weapons as soon as possible. But I really should not have a mixed and match Hollywood built up gun when there are plenty of 100% complete guns out there. I just grabbed what was convenient on the rack to photograph it. Thanks to YOU, though, I will try to get 100% correct pics to replace the sample pics for the M16 page. Now I notice weird little things that I missed (for one, the old style rear sling swivel should not be on any of the post XM16E1 guns, etc.) I just wanted to thank you again for your sharp vision. It makes us more accurate when members catch things like that :D best regards MoviePropMaster2008 16:16, 6 September 2011 (CDT)

Maxim 1910/30 - Vickers MK1 in 'Attack on Leningrad'

Thanks for your comment, I think you're quite right. I simply assumed that because the movie was taking place in Russia, it would be a Russian Maxim, but upon closer inspection it does indeed look like a Vickers MK1. It's probably come off one of the Allied support shipment that went through Murmansk harbour in the early years of WWII.

By the way, congrats on your work on the Star Wars page, very educational and a true eye-opener! --PeeWee055 10:36, 17 September 2011 (CDT)

Remington 700

Thanks for putting up the new picture of the BDL. I think the lack of a rifle sight on the barrel of the other picture causes some confusion. --Ben41 18:33, 20 September 2011 (CDT)

ACOG

Technically, ACOG scope is tautology, yes, but the funny thing is it's tautology that Trijicon itself doesn't mind. Seen, for example, here: TA01NSN --Masterius 08:17, 21 September 2011 (CDT)

GAU-8

Much as I'm kinda fond of that full-length shot of the GAU-8, it's not as good for a page image; it isn't as widely linked-to as the high-contrast version, and that version is cropped to focus more on the end of the gun / ammo drum rig you're actually likely to be trying to ID. It's a better image, that's why I put the other one on the talk page. Evil Tim 19:21, 19 October 2011 (CDT)

I don't know about that; the gun isn't "obscured" by the feed mechanism since you're very unlikely to see it without that mechanism; if anything, the one with the helmet is an inferior picture since it doesn't show a part of the gun it's always attached to if it's actually shown working. The drum isn't really needed since, well, it's a drum; it's not that distinctive and likely to be fictionalised if the weapon is shown in a non-standard mounting anyway. I'm trying to remember, but I'm sure I've seen GAU-8s in games which aren't attached to A-10s. I'd keep both; the one with the helmet is fine if it's shown on an A-10, the other is useful for ID'ing it if it's shown outside the aircraft. Evil Tim 05:12, 20 October 2011 (CDT)

Yeah, but as I edited, I think we should keep both the pictures that are there now. Goalkeeper would get its own subsection (like Phalanx on the Vulcan page) if we start having them spotted. Evil Tim 05:42, 20 October 2011 (CDT)

help with M16s

So are you volunteering to be my detail check man? ;) I need someone who knows a lot more about M16s than I do to go one step further. Also my own knowledge has grown since I joined this site, because of the attention to detail. Of course there is the conundrum that many so called variants are never really seen in movies, the more common version will always be the norm. Case in point: the preponderance of C&C HK94s in Hollywood. And even those registered SMGs still exist, but they've been updated with correct trigger packs and barrels. Anyway, thanks for the research! It is always appreciated. I've struggled with the research element in the past. The easiest thing for me to do is to actually GET the gun and photograph it. Please let me know if you're interested in helping me with other M16 identifications. :) best regards. MoviePropMaster2008 22:28, 21 October 2011 (CDT)

re: M26/M76

Trust me, I'm Finnish ;)

But in all seriousness, I'm 98.9% sure. The Rk 62's production numbers were closer to half a million (some sources say they're still produced as we speak), as it was adopted by our armed forces (it was designed with the Nordic climate in mind). Lots of (civilian/semi-auto only) Rk 62s were also exported. The M76 was later designed to be even more robust, but our armed forces (in all their glory) desided NOT to fully replace the M76s, as they didn't feel the need for it. (Sort of like what happened to FN SCAR as the replacement for AR-15 in your armed forces.) Of course some of the M76s were adopted, but in far smaller numbers (like what happened to HK416). It was only produced for about ten years, with smaller production numbers, and most of them were shipped overseas.

In America, the M76 could be more common, as half of the produced version were .223s (the more common/ preferred round in the US, I think?). But the Rk 62 was produced for over 50 years in huge numbers (also offered in .223 in export)

Oh, and I got some extra info for you, if you like:

The Rk 62 above is a very old model. The handguard with the small holes in it means that it has day sights.

After criticism (from Mihali Kalashnikov himself) the rifle was changed to have tritium night sights. The basic model of the Rk 62 was also changed to have plastic furniture (for ease of production), and if an Rk 62 has the modernized handguard (seen below:) it has the tritium sights. Some Rk 62 were still manufactured with the daysight/holed handguard, but as our winters are very, very dark, they figured "what the hell" and scrapped it in mid 1980s.

The tubular buttstock has a small layer of plastic on it, so your cheek won't freeze on it in temperatures of -30 celsius (/-22 fahrenheit)!

Hope this helps! --Warejaws 07:37, 10 November 2011 (CST)

Beats me. I'd say that was a scope mount of some sort, but nothing like I've ever seen on a Valmet before. The usual rear sight seems to have been completely removed, so I guess that thing is supposed to pass as a sighting system. Or it's an export variant with export-only sights. --Warejaws 05:15, 12 December 2011 (CST)

Romanian Md90

Great shot. But do you know WHEN it was made? and who got it? It would help us ID guns that were used years earlier. Right now, guns like the Draco are place holders for what we suspect are customized AIRs (which were 5.56) and converted to 7.62x39mm but this would be more correct. But if it came out after the movies in question, then a customized movie armorer gun was used. Thanks for the AK help. We're slowly but surely filling in the historical gaps on guns. MoviePropMaster2008 11:44, 12 November 2011 (CST)

AC-130 in MOH2010

Hi. I saw you added the AC-130's guns to MoH. Can you tell me where can those guns be seen so I can add some images. IIRC, there are no close-ups of the Spectres, and if the guns cannot be seen they should not be added to the page, even tho the AC fires some shots. - bozitojugg3rn4ut 07:33, 15 November 2011 (CST)

You've been troll'd

That video is from Call of Duty 4. Evil Tim 10:11, 15 November 2011 (CST)

Curious here

Just curious but what military/branch did/do you serve in? I must give you props for firing a warning shot with a minigun though. Definitely something I wouldn't attempt lol --Ranger12 08:04, 18 November 2011 (CST)

Transformers:Dark of the Moon miniguns

I should be sure as I built the mounts for all three Wreckers and installed the weapons. We used the old GE parts for the looks as they are interchangeable.--phoenixent 18:09, 18 November 2011 (CST)

No problem.. The miniguns used on Battleship and Fast Five are GE's that have been upgraded. --Steve

Mytbusters

Officially finished redoing the Mythbusters page!! Thanks for all your help. --Zackmann08 23:09, 17 December 2011 (CST)

THANK YOU!

You really helped out the Archangel page and I couldn't be more grateful! Please don't expect any significant updates until Sunday, or next Friday. The weekdays are busy for me and so is this Saturday.

Top Shot

Thanks for your help on Top Shot - Season 3. I'm almost done, just have 2 episodes left. After that I am going to start on Season 2. I'd love your input on that as well. Thanks again. --Zackmann08 15:18, 6 December 2011 (CST)

Finished up on Season 3. Would love a second set of eyes to look it over for typos if/when you feel like it. --Zackmann08 19:28, 6 December 2011 (CST)

Two pages for G.I Joe: Retaliation

Ben already made one before you. G.I Joe: Retaliation --Predator20 09:01, 13 December 2011 (CST)

Covert Affairs

Hey man, when you have a moment, can you take a look at a gun on the Covert Affairs page? The link takes you to the gun in question. I just want to make sure that it is actually a Mosin Nagant and you are my go to expert. Thanks! --Zackmann08 14:23, 22 December 2011 (CST)

Also, the FIM-92 Stinger looks much more like a FIM-43 Redeye to me... --Zackmann08 14:34, 22 December 2011 (CST)

As always, thank you my friend. --Zackmann08 17:03, 22 December 2011 (CST)

AR-15's

The table you made about the AR-15's may be the single most useful thing I've seen on this site! LOVE IT!!! --Zackmann08 10:29, 29 December 2011 (CST)

Smith & Wesson

So I've gotten a little flack from MoviePropMaster2008 for changing around a number of pages. I'd like to avoid getting on the bad side of an admin... If you think Smith & Wesson Model 640 Centennial should be listed without 'Centennial', it'd be great if you'd correct it. Thanks man! --Zackmann08 17:40, 29 December 2011 (CST)

History Channel game

Looks like you beat me to the punch. I think we had the exact same caps from the same Youtube videos. BeardedHoplite 19:53, 29 December 2011 (CST)

blank guns

It's not an issue since your work can be merged easily into a generic page, but guns which are not real (but not part of the fictional guns section) are not considered worthy of their own pages. Previously we did not have any entries in the 'theatrical blank' fire only weapons, and only mentioned them in the pages that they appeared in. Even then, they usually had a spot in the REAL firearm page, upon which they were based. As this one and a few others are cropping up, we will have to created a new 'Blank fire only guns" page which are designed from the ground up to not be a live firearm, but also is not a copy of an existing firearm design. This and a few others fall into this category. Again, your nice work won't be lost but we should group all of the 'custom design or hybrid' blank fire only guns into one page, just like we did with the 'non-guns' (i.e. the flash paper guns). :) Thanks. MoviePropMaster2008 21:04, 3 January 2012 (CST)

S&W

Thanks so much dude! That's super helpful. --Zackmann08 10:01, 9 January 2012 (CST)

Just did more reading on that page and found that it has tons of info on other guns that I was looking for as well. Thanks again. --Zackmann08 10:59, 9 January 2012 (CST)

blank guns

this one Olympic 6 Blank Firing Revolver is a generic revolver design, not based on any LIVE weapon that we can determine. There will be MORE, I can guarantee that. So far 90% of the blank only guns are direct and pretty good copies of actual live gun designs and thus belong at the bottom of those pages. But we do need a page for the weird, nondescript or hybrid guns like [1] which I am sure will start appearing in some productions. They call it an "uzi", but to include it on the actual UZI page is an insult to the Uzi guns :D. Be sure to present the page as for those 'theatrical guns' which fire proprietary blanks only. What is interesting is that only recently the ATF and Customs are allowing import of 'front fire' blank guns. Previously only the fully blocked barrels and guns which flash only upwards were allowed. I think these guns fire 'backwards' like the old blow back toy guns from Japan but I have not seen one to inspect it's interior mechanism. MoviePropMaster2008 12:31, 11 January 2012 (CST)

Manufacturers

Good catch, fixed. bunni 18:15, 13 January 2012 (CST)

Manufacturer Template

I created a template for the manufacturer pages (Manufacturer Template). I am going to add a link to it from the [[Category:Manufacturer]] page. I would love any input from you and other admins on it. I want to make it as straight forward as possible. Thanks! --Zackmann08 15:16, 19 January 2012 (CST)

thx

Hi. Thanks for the info on the M107. Looks like one cannot even trust Barrett's own page, the one page that should know it right... Anyways thanks. And here is what I wanted to know: Would it be a good idea to create a "United States Marine Corps" manufacturer page and move there the M40 from Remington, as well as add the M39 EMR and the Designated Marksman Rifle? Maybe even the MEU(SOC)... And the second thing: does your nick have anything to do with the 552 Commando rifle? :) - bozitojugg3rn4ut 15:17, 19 January 2012 (CST)

On their site, under the "About" section there is a timeline on the right, which says that in 2005 "The U.S. Army names the Barrett M107 as one of the Top Ten Greatest Inventions of 2005"- --bozitojugg3rn4ut 17:25, 19 January 2012 (CST)

I guess I'm gonna have to change the text on MOH2010, where there is an M107 during a level that takes place in Q2 of 2002. And the fact that there was no M107 designation back in 2002 could be the reason why they are calling it "M82", right? - bozitojugg3rn4ut 03:02, 20 January 2012 (CST)