1911 Kimber Warriors
 

These are both full metal upgraded Tokyo Marui 1911 meu pistols

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The black Kimber Warrior is a PGC kit, very solid beautiful finish, 9 ball outer, nova bushing and recoil rod. The gun has numerous internal upgrades.

The Kimber Desert Warrior is a Hurricane kit, I find this kit superior to PGC kit in fit and finish, and the PGC kit is top notch, so I'm pretty much saying the Hurricane kit is outstanding.

Wow, that Kimber Desert Warrior... I can't believe how beautiful that is. My only beef is that I think a black 3-hole trigger would look better than the round block style.

But absolutely outstanding job on both.

Desgusting, I dont like the trigger on the tan one. The color works, the shape just doesn't look right to me.

Thats how the trigger is on real steel Desert Warrior, just trying to stay true to form on it. After seeing the real one putting a different trigger would look out of place.

That's outstanding.
How was the installation on the Hurricane kit?

dude those are amazing.

Didn't know that! Well then, these are even more well done than I thought.

If you don't want the tan one, I know someone who might make a good home for it ;).

They are nice, did you build them yourself?

I found it pretty easy, everything fit so well, that I bet Illusion could install the Hurricane Kit blind folded like a Navy Seal.

LOL.

I have a couple of Hurricane kits here, and I gotta say, they did go together pretty easily. Most of the kits do. The hardest ones I've found are Guarder and Nova. Nova, just because it's tricky... and Guarder, because you pretty much had to mod everything just to get it to fit. What a headache.

My nova kit went together in less than 30 minutes, didn't find anything too tricky...maybe I'm just that good ;)

Yum. Both of those are delish - I'd take either of those, any day - weird looking/non-realistic triggers or not.

Hey Scoob...this guy thinks they're delish...LOL. (reminds be of this old Jewish lady who did our prenatal class...kept saying "delish" and "yummy" HAHAHAHAHA).

Cool builds...like the desert warrior, black trigger is nice. Notice you didn't wipe all your spooge off of it though...

super. sexy.

I've only had it happen to installs with the MEU so far, regardless of which kit. The problem results in the hammer not getting a full lock up with the sear.

Oh man... that's just embarassing. Urrrrrgh, I need to work on making my vocab more age-/race-/gender-appropriate to me, lol. Ugh, I just re-read that quote and I used BOTH of those words. Kill me now.

Wow what beautiful pieces! Congrats on your work =)

Good job Scoob.

So, by the pace of your
usual turn-around I can
expect to see these hit
the for sale area in a few
days then?

;) kinda kidding.

I think they need some extended slide stops, but thats just me.

Nice work Scoob.Kinda wish I hadn't sold my warrior now. Damn you. Now I have to build another.lol.

Damn the black one is my ideal 1911. Nice guns!

Yup. I still occasionally get that problem. Pull the trigger after racking it goes bang. Pull the trigger again, it won't even go *click*.

I noticed that the cutting on the rear sight is slightly different between the PGC and Hurricane kit, does that mean that the sights will not be interchangeable?

I haven't tried to install any other sights with this kit. The hurricane sight are amazing they are actually glow in dark night sights

oh that's perfect then! the only reason I wanted to know was I wanted to replace htem with a pair of night sights

Curious, which is more accurate....

The round front of the rail on the black one.....or the straight cut on the desert warrior?

Round?

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Lovely kimbers....I am surprised you liked the Hurricane better, the SIS kit seems to be less than impressive from what I've heard, they might have improved on the Warrior...

Ouuuuuu!

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The difference, which is more accurate?

I think it's just the perspective that's making that look round. Check out some of the other angles.

They actually look exactly the same in the front.

Finish building that dog
of yours first!

;)

He's already built. I'm just trying to keep him from falling apart.

Hey Scoob-you said the fit and finnish is better on the Hurricane than the PGC but in the pic from the rear, the frame to slide rails tolerances look really sloppy compared to most of the PGCs' I've seen,or is it just the lighting?

Damn sexy.

I'd love to build one... some day...

Please do! They're amazing to shoot and so much fun to customize.

PS... nice grip panels on the black warrior. ;)

I'm surprised at how white it is compared to the Hurricane version.

Do the Hurricane or the PGC allow you to use RS grip bushing? Then you can use RS hex head screws...

Hi! Greetings from France ;)

I just stumbled across this thread by chance today after playing around with my own HurricanE Kimber Desert Warrior kit.
This is the first metal conversion kit I ever use so I can't really compare ease of installation with other products.

However, I did want to mention the fact that I've experienced a couple of issues with my kit.
I believe ILLusion and DuffMan have underlined problems with the trigger group. I had the exact same issues that were finally solved by sanding down slightly the corners above the "channel" in which runs the trigger stirrup. That area of the kit is pretty rough and the trigger stirrup would get caught up and wouldn't travel all the way back once the trigger was released making it impossible to fire the next shot..
Another problem I've had is that it is sometimes impossible to put on the ambi-safety because the hammer hasn't been brought down completely by the slide.
After a little more research it would seem that the nozzle block grinds pretty badly on the whole trigger group just below. This issue is not present on the original Tokyo Marui MEU.

The last little thing I've come across is that once you've secured the rear sight tightly with the screw provided, the nozzle block is brought down ever so slightly increasing the "grinding" described in the previous paragraph sometimes actually stopping the slide mid-course.

All these issues can be solved with some very light sanding and some intelligently placed lube but I thought it's worthwhile sharing it with you.

The Hurricane Kimber Desert Warrior frame seems to be a little off on the rear section as it is not perfectly symmetrical but this does not have a huge incidence on the general functionality of the gun.

I would be interested to know if anyone has noticed differences in quality between the HurricanE Desert Warrior and SIS kits as I'm on the market for a black Kimber kit also...

On the whole though, I am very happy with this kit despite it's relatively soft metal construction. Dropping it on something hard will make lovely dents and you will loose small chunks of metal... But then again, they're made to look battered, right? :)

Good day to all of you.

oDn

PS: If some people need some photos to illustrate the above, don't hesitate to ask for them.

I have both kits here... when I have a chance, I will install them both and do a write-up.

Sweet! Thanks ;)