1/6th FN P90

Scored these two fine-looking FN P90 at a real steal. One of it comes as a rather simple and generic configuration while the other comes with a neat looking set of scopes and clear orange magazine. The reason for acquiring the FN P90 is such that I can make my Hot Toys: GIGN Assault Team Leader look like a GIGN Operator see here!

The FN P90 is a compact submachine gun developed and manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN Herstal). This firearm features a bullpup configuration, such that the mechanism and magazine are located behind the trigger, thus allowing a shorter build with the same barrel length or even longer. This in turn improves the trajectory and effective range, not to mention the reduced weight and better maneuverability. This new class of personal defense weapon is intended for defeating body armour with small calibre and high-velocity bullets. The FN P90 has a magazine of 50 rounds and sit on top of the rifle, parallel to the barrel.

The generic FN P90 that has a detacheable scope and grey magazine. The underside of the magazine have a realistically painted bullet. The magazine slides in the magazine cradle smoothly, and sits snugly in place. To mount the scope, simple slide it onto the existing tracks on the firearm.



The other FN P90 looks exactly like the one from the Hot Toys: GIGN Operator. I even suspect that it is stripped from the original figure and sold as loose. This version has three scopes mounted on top of the magazine cradle. There are even cables that can joins the scopes from the body of the firearm. Unlike the earlier, the scopes are not detacheable, but the covers of the scope optics are capable of flipping open and close. The clear orange magazine can be removed from the cradle. There are even 'rounds' in the magazine. The underside of the magazine looks realistic as much as the round loading chamber on the P90, where a metal rod is spotted inside the chamber.





The problem with the FN P90 SMGs is that the abnormal-looking hand grip makes holding the firearm rather impossible for some generic hands moulded in a pistol grip action. I tried my default gloved right hands from the
MEDICOM Toys: COBRA and Hot Toys: GIGN Assault Team Leader, and both could not grip the firearm properly. The index finger is moulded too 'close' to the rest of the fingers, such that when the thumb and index fingers fit into place properly, the rest the of fingers cannot grip the handle. If the thumb and the rest including the index finger fits and grip well on the handle (such that index finger is outside trigger), the P90 points downwards in a weird-looking manner. Shown below are pictures of MEDICOM Toys gloved right hand (in default pistol grip action) with the P90. Notice that the thumbs and other fingers are in place, but the index finger cannot fit into the trigger space, making it finny-looking especially from the front (see last picture).




I need to find fingers that are flexible enough, and the index finger that is separated from the rest of the fingers. So here I am at CSC, sourcing for the right hands. I found that other the Hot Toys flexi-hands does not come with the screw-thread plug, the other Dragon hands have a thin stem plug which I could use blue tack on but the fingers are either too 'close' or too rigid. I found one nude with flexible rubber fingers that fit the bill! When I saw the face, it is actually the MEDICOM COBRA's nude with the spare hands fixed. I had not tried it earlier at home, since I thought it would be rigid like the gloved hands (shown above). Now, my problem is solved without any additional cost incurred. I shall go home and try it out! :D

What about my GIGN? What about my the gauntlet or glove? Guess I will need to rake my brains and work something out. After all, that is all the fun of 1/6th!
Any suggestions from 1/6th experts out there welcomed!!!

This post is posted from my iBook, while sitting under the umbrella, in the air-conditioned Far East Square, sipping a cuppa!

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Laurens said…
BBB a pair of bendy fingers lah...lol
WILLIAM TAN said…
yeah thought of picking it up today. its S$4 but doesnt come with the wrist plug!