Have you kept your ear to the ground for AK kits? I finally found a guy here in NEPA with a machine shop (and bodacious press) that is also a gun nut, has built a 1919 from scratch. Could be he and a few others will get interested in winter projects.
The best deal I know of currently is on AMD-65 Kits. I will PM you the deal, and anyone else wanting the info can PM me as well. I just don't want to put it out there and get in trouble for cross posting it.