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I don't sell many rifs as I like to keep my toys but it's certainly been recommended in these forums that sellers simply check the buyers site history (comments, pics posted, feedback) for peace of mind.

Wow, you've given this a lot of thought. My suggestion for a fun little impression would be to wear a kilt (with a placard as a sporran) with DPM top. There's a player/marshall at POW that often wears a kilt & TBH the bugger suits it, and if it's good enough for the trenches in WW1 it's good enough for a gameday.

Haha, I've heard a lot about these both good and bad, but I do love a teching challenge. I may see if I can build it as a non-Takedown version but well see. I'm still stripping it down to clean and grease it. So much gunk, metal shavings, and dirt, but hey that's what I expected tbf. Bargain price if I get it running well. A few steel aftermarket parts in there as well, including most of the bolt.

Um -ish. I removed one advert after a user with a good feedback rating, told me he has a UKARA number, then blanked me when I asked for it. Might be ill or have a familly emergency of course, but after 4 days my paranoia stepped in 😑. Another was from what I very strongly suspect was a child, via email rather than through the Forum, so I pulled that ad. too. But yeah I can nearly get to the door again now😄

As a fellow M14 enthusiast, there are many ways to skin that particular cat: cheek risers, low profile sight mounts etc.

The electrics are inside, and some electronics are coated these days (I don’t know whether any of the branded airsoft electronics benefit from coating) Unless your equipment is soaked it will be fine Wipe dry at any opportunity during the day, and make sure it’s dried off before storing afterwards

Brilliant, thanks guys. I shall follow your advice. I always keep them all inside when not in use and I can put a portable dehumidifier in the room overnight to remove any excess moisture. I can't be the only one with a spare bedroom named "the gun room".. 😄

Quite interesting On an independence slant, don’t necessarily disregard the IRA - providing you look at the first Irish Republican Army which was the origin of the Free States army, then with Eire and now the Republic of Ireland - now known as the Defence Force Into the 90s they kept with simple olive green instead of migrating to disruptive camouflage patterns - largely due to the troubles avoiding border confusion with the British army, but have moved onto DPM - but with a different paddyflage colour pallette (The Rangers went DPM earlier in the 80s) Now they would be seen in their own variation of multicam ITMP - which has FF embedded in the pattern …. Worth a Google for general interest, but it’s not your target era, you could consider for a later 2020s ScotCam) In the 90s most army’s had a mix of plain green and camouflage patterns depending on the order of dress for what they were doing. Today the camouflage scheme is typically used for most forms of dress (there is interest in reverting to a barracks dress but MTP dominates all but dress uniform - and if your regimental dress code formally retained the green wooly pully as at the right date then it remains permitted but other regiments / corps it’s MTP with no wooly pully) Ireland and Scotland have very different histories with England Both have been subject to historic occupation with brutality, the handling of Catholics and migration (potato famine & the highland clearances being of note) But they have been on very different levels - it would depend on your alternative history backstory With a lesser ‘hatred’ level, and geographic position I would feel that an independent Scotland would not have remained neutral for the world wars - not just for the different England / Scotland situation but with close historic ties to France and constant ties with the Scandinavian countries Scotland was (and still is) essential to the UKs naval strategy, in the 1900s still had a solid ship industry - this declined post war and was reinvested in around the 60s/70s I could see a period of things being rocky after independence depending on how your story covers the seperation, but there’s scope for some time to WW1 and a definite alignment to their international allegiances for WW2 The North Atlantic situation would not allow for a neutral Scotland very long (I’ll mention Orkney & the other islands up there - us Orkney folks have a different mindset, an independent Scotland could have triggered a Norwegian realignment seoerating Orkney to its own independance, and if staying Scottish would have leapt in to support the Norwegians even if Scotland maintained neutrality - the Shetlanders are even more mental than Orcadians so would do the same) Going back to uniform schemes - starting off plain with a style pretty much the same as the British (units most likely to be the former British Scottish regiments with fresh badges) The situation could depend on whether it was a clean independence or a demarcation split such as Eire / Northern Ireland - but Scotland does not have the equivalent “English/protestant colony” - if there is a clean independence it would both ease the situation for a WW1 alliance and mean there is no (or minor) ongoing revolutionary action so may not be a need for border forces to be clearly distinct Into the 90s that could mean an adoption of a Scottish DPM - perhaps the same as the British, perhaps a JimmyCam colour scheme They may align with the Scandinavians for a pattern, all had some form of disruptive pattern (which could also differentiate from the British if necessary). Some in their own blobs, some in splinter or spots. Colours tended to aim towards their forest colours, which differ from Scotland’s environment I would still think of British DPM for the right environment other than a heather colour palette If allied with England then their expected Cold War field of battle would be Western Europe which keeps DPM / JimmyCam, but you could come up with a background story to ally with Norway etc and adopt theirs as a Cold War battle ground - but i think that it’s too bright for Scotland For weapons they would begin with the Lee enfield But moving on they could easily adopt Norwegian styles - both are hardy environments, Norway went down the HK & FN routes FN gives a choice between going British with the SLR or to not accept the single fire variant but the full auto FN, and an excuse to bypass the SA80 by rejecting to adopt it with early issues (Including or excluding the SA80 could tell quite a lot about the attitude on change to independance as to how friendly ties remained) To build a load out it is clearly a lot easier to adopt a base uniform and create your own badge designs Mix and match allegiances (I’m inclined on British DPM plus Norwegian accessories) The SLR edition could still make sense on doctrine of the single shot option due to the common English/Scottish military’s Have a look at the Irish Defence Force for differences / commonalities with the British for a bit of an independence story, and then look at Norwegian vs British loadouts of the 90s

Short of submerging it in water you’ll be fine. You’ll have given up with the weather long before your gun does. As said, just make sure you dry it thoroughly when you get home.

Just being out in the Rain isn't going to damage your AEGs, just keep the barrel pointed downwards so no rain gets inside, and make sure to dry it off at the end of the day.

Reinstalled the app, tried incognito etc.. seems there has Infact been a policy change.. 95% of the things I click on are ’unavailable now’

Probably a stupid question, but just how waterproof are the aegs? Trying to go Airsofting this weekend but the forecast is predicting rain. Id rather not destroy our new toys, but my son is desperate to go. Any advice gratefully received. Thanks. Rick.

Thank you for grabbing that. I didn't need another project and that one was calling my name

Good luck! The other advantage going down the M14 route is the opportunity to trick it out and give it the classic Black Hawk Down look. Do beware though that stripping them down to upgrade is a bit of a pain if you are tempted to go down that route. Be good to report back how you find the Ruger - a quirky gun for sure, but super cheap! If you get good results, I might be tempted to try one out myself for something a little different.

Got it before I could. Was going to get it purely so I could have a takedown version in my collection, but I've heard they can have issues when it comes to performance. Keep us posted how it goes!

Awesome, top stuff - thanks!

*quick sale* and *collection only* are typically two time waster flags for me. I don’t even bother messaging them.

It does seem a little Mack’s in my opinion. I agree he’s got a good rep on here. But it’s only a matter of time before we all end up on here 🤣 They were £500 new. Only came in black. He’s rattle canned it (which in my view devalues it). If he did a good job of stripping the paint off, or if he’d left it black, there’d be an argument that £500+ was fair, as it’s 1 of 1000 with a unique serial number.

Picked up the M700 box of parts that was selling on here recently. Should be a fun project getting it up and running!

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Hi all, I'm looking for advice on a fun little impression I'm building. It's supposed to be the uniform of an AltHistory version of a Scottish Army soldier if Scotland had gone independent at some point in the early 1900's. I'm trying to imagine how Scottish military gear would have developed around the 1990's and early 2000's, like what camo and rigs might have been used, and what guns they might have used. One thing I want to avoid is making it just "IRA but Scottish". In my head, I'm thinking maybe using gear that followed Scandinavian designs, but I'm not very knowledgebase about Scandinavian gear. Honestly, I'm just spit-balling and wanted to get some ideas.