Ok. I know I said that due to the economy I would not be able to get another model gun for some time. I am in the auto industry, a technician, and have worked on everything from chevy to hummer to aston martin and am actually factory certified/trained with Lamborghini and Lotus and have to say that this is the worst ever. And it will never be as good as it was.

Well my lovely wife surprised me with a new model kit. A hudson grease gun! YEAY!!! all I need now is the english instructions to put it together. any help?

Also after April I will not be able to be contacted for a year as I am in the Army now and will be shipping out in April.

Hi Romagnus!

Great to hear from you, it's been awhile hasn't it?

I hadn't even heard of a Hudson Grease Gun in Kit form before so I'm interested to hear more about it!

The factory built model in abs is pretty straight forward to field strip and reassemble ... how much assembling do you need to do?

Hopefully we'll have your Grease Gun up and firing before April. You keep in touch between now and then and you take good care of yourself wherever you end up buddy. Keep your head down...

Well it looks like I actually need to use glue for this kit, unlike the marushin mp40. There are a lot of tab "a" to slot "b" fittings but no securing. I went and got some "loctite" plastic heavy duty glue, hopefully that will be good enough. I may just wing it using your pictures of disassembly and reassembly. I'll let you know how it goes. I will post pictures of the kit in a bit.

Well it looks like I actually need to use glue for this kit, unlike the marushin mp40. There are a lot of tab "a" to slot "b" fittings but no securing. I went and got some "loctite" plastic heavy duty glue, hopefully that will be good enough. I may just wing it using your pictures of disassembly and reassembly. I'll let you know how it goes. I will post pictures of the kit in a bit.

well there you go. not the greatest pics but a picture of a new in box Hudson grease gun kit.

ok. cancel the request. I built it. I used Japanese instructions and Cerwyn's pictures and she is together, after 2 hours. i'll post pictures tomorrow and then maybe a video if I have time.

That was quick work romagnus

I'm intrigued where this kit came from, never having seen one before, how old is it I wonder

Can anyone shed some light on this please

I'm glad my Guides came in useful, let's hope it fires well for you now mate

Hi Cerwyn,

The Hudson m3a1 kit is recent release,its part of a new batch of modelgun kits that includes the greasegun,m9 dolphin,m84 and a .45 too i remeber seeing,all are in the bland brown boxes with no art work on them.I think its another way of selling the models but at a cheaper rate,if you do a search on the Yahoo Japan modelgun site you will see them come up.
I hope this has helped and that all my facts are correct.

Cheers
Kickback

Thanks Kickback

I hadn't seen these at all but I'll start checking Yahoo Japan out now. It is possible to translate the site into English isn't it
I'm sure somebody mentioned here that anyone living outside Japan couldn't bid or buy via the Japanese Yahoo auction site... is that right

Hi Cerwyn,

You are correct the site can be translated into English-ish,if you know what i mean ,and yes again they do not sell internationally,but as we are lucky enough here to know a few lovely chaps in Japan who are more than willing to bid for u, there is no reason why you can not have a go

Kickback

my wife tells me she got it from http://www.wwiiguns.com now I need to figure out how to properly load the charges.

Thanks for the lead romagnus

Take a look at

http://mp40modelguns.forumotion.net/modelgun-caps-cartridges-and-magazines-f6/beginner-s-guide-loading-hudson-cp-type-cartridges-t468.htm

apart from cartridge shape, the loading procedure should be exactly the same

cool deal, thanks! here are a couple of pictures with my camera phone with the gun completed.