I’ve done traditional DIY mold casting using ProCreate putty and found it suitable, if that material is in your budget. I have used a little bit of mineral oil inside the mold as a release agent. For me the most success has come from letting the material sit in the mold two or three times longer than you think it should take to be fully dry.

The original comment compared the KS-1 to a HK417, and I pointed out the difference in both caliber and operating system between those two. The HK416 is an irrelevant tangent.

What even are the social rules on hating AI art? I thought everyone on lemmy hated it?

At least they got rid of the requirement for the insanely designed charging handles like the L119s had out the box.

I think that’s a bit of a tangent, as the British rifle above is not the same caliber as the HK417, and it doesn’t use the HK designed piston system. The KS1/L403A1 is a traditional Stoner operating system in 5.56mm.

The US Army and US Air Force did buy about 8,000 HK417 based M110A1 rifles. A niche rifle, and now with the XM7 being adopted by the Army, I’m not sure how much of a DMR program using 7.62 is really going to be pursued outside of specialized units.

Sketchbook. On work trips, I always finish one drawing every night as a way to get out of a work headspace.

That and all the other reasons. The only stick grenades still around in appreciable numbers are anti-armor grenades where the handle has a parachute inside. For normal fragmentation grenades, essentially everyone has moved to non-stick grenades (except the USMC who want to make stick grenades).

Even in WW2, the Germans produced more of the boring looking Model 39 grenades than they did of the iconic and eye catching stick grenades. People notice what they want to notice.

OH YOU

In addition, the mere act of giving that information to somebody else.

On a phone I can obviously text somebody, but what if I’m somewhere with bad signal (and yes, those places often exist), or the person doesn’t have the phone in their pocket right that second (yes, this also happens in places with work where people don’t want to risk the phone in their pocket breaking)?

With a mini notepad, I can rip a sheet of notes off and hand that diagram to somebody else. If it’s work that will take some time doing while following a diagram, having a phone screen locking up because it isn’t being touched is a hassle and going into the settings to change it back and forth is annoying.