I've never liked the FAMAS, but I've always wanted to build one up and customize one, because they look pretty sweet modded up.
So, the first step in the customization was putting a suppressor on the front end. To my surprise, the stock flash suppressor had no threads on it, no concern of mine, as attaching a suppressor to the dangly outer barrel didnt interest me. I took the outer barrel assembly out and wrote all the measurements down.
2 1/2 hours later I spun down a 7 1/2"x 1 1/4" aluminum into a mock-suppressor. The tricky part of coarse was matching the old barrel assembly exactly, but turns out I'm a better than I thought and it makes a better fit than the original, haha
Quick coat of paint later and it looked a little something like this
This showing how flush I made it to the original front end.
I'm still thinking of a rail top mod for the handle, and M4 "STANAG" style mod for magazines. Although I'll probably end up selling the gun instead of doing anything else..