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Whose interpretation of FDE do you have in mind? My Magpul FDE items are a slightly different colour to FDE items I have from other brands and between those brands a lot of them are different too. Do you have a Pantone or Hex colour code for reference? I don't know which filament would be suitable but you're best off being clear so a recommendation doesn't have a greater colour mismatch than you'd like.

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I have an L1A1 and a VZ58.

Had both the MS700 and later stupidly, when I could afford it the Ares MS338, externals were fantastic, the internals were dogshit. Main trigger sear in both examples snapped into pieces within 20 shots a piece, requiring extremely expensive aftermarket options just to do the bare minimum. Amoeba Honey Badger, that the stock ETU caught fire on its first use, and turned the gun into a lovely pile of beige plastic gloop. Round 2, when a local tech pulled the warranty replacement apart to remove the problematic ETU before plugging anything into it, discovered that the sector gear and bevel gear were made of clear plastic, on a £250 'premium' gun back in 2014. G36, which for some reason only known to the intelligent people at Ares, was shipped out with an M170 spring, resulting in a gearbox shell that was cracked at the front of the cylinder, such that when the gearbox was removed the front of the shell clean fell off. M320 GLM, where the primary receiver lugs for the hinge clean snapped off after 50 odd shells being reloaded. Tavor 21, first generation, plastic gears in a £370 gun. I have a much longer list, but that is why there is hate for Ares. They're like VFC AEG's, briliant externals (most of the time) but internals which need to be, most of the time, completely replaced OOTB.

Hi guys any one know the nearest Filament for 3D printing for FDE colour

I had one of their aw.338's and it was..... not great. IIRC their Tavors looked really nice but had some issues as well. That said my mate loves his L1A1.

No, you turnip. What are the two guns? 😂

Quite an old brand, way back i think they were called Star, or they swallowed the Star brand up ? 🤔, some of their early kit was pretty good, but they never really evolved enough like other brands, & let themselves (& us) down by making most if their internals proprietary, & from soft as 💩 materials. Its amazing their still around, & i say that as a former fan-boi.

Very nice, a steel slide/barrel Beretta is on my list, don’t see them often.

I'd love a Galil but they're so expensive. I've just gonna put a Galil stock on an MPi AKS-74NK and call it good.

custom gbb workshop. beretta 96fs inox. SRC gbb airsoft. deep marking. cerakote. stainless steel slide barrel parts. Aluminum frame. custom wood grip. detail fix.

What are they? (Just out of curiousity. I know nothing about Ares.)

Pretty sure the upper receiver will be AR10 as well then.

I'm sure there is some hate toward Ares coming from people on the bandwagon but there is reasonable criticism as Colin alluded to. There are so many unnecessary decisions made in their design department that add to people's grievances such as trying to be edgy by using a clockwise thread on the outer barrel or forcing a vendor lock-in with proprietary gearbox casings based on v2. I happen to own one Ares AEG that has been extremely reliable but when its mosfet or something else in the gearbox goes, finding spares is either going to be really difficult or so expensive that I can just spend the money on or toward something else more modern and serviceable.

Still far too expensive but Socom tactical have a decent chunk off a ICS Gaili https://www.socomtactical.net/collections/airsoft-black-friday-2025/products/ics-galil-tod-arm-folding-stock-with-wood-style-grips

Assuming an adapter even works, do you really want to run AR15 mags in an AR10? That's going to look weird. Seems to me like it will just add an unnecessary extra potential failure point. Buy the right mags or sell the RIF imo. Anything else is just going to result in headaches and frustration.

Mws mags are £40 now and in stock again. Still a good price! There's also this TM fn 5-7 for £110. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/tokyo-marui-tm-5-7-autoloading-pistol

It is far from being crazy. They are badly designed, badly manufactured and badly assembled, with poor quality parts. I have had a number of them over the years and am now down to two and only keep those because I cannot get those two guns from any other manufacturer.

I have 4 Ares rif's and never had any issues with them, but they're wall hangers so I don't feel qualified to really have an opinion. What I can say is I have another 9 wall hangers that have given me issues either through previous owners 'upgrades' or parts compatibility & none of them are ares. Out of the 7 other rifs I've used in game over the past few years only 1 has caused an issue in game due to the motor hight & was a simple fix. I'm sure where there's smoke you'll find fire but ares do seem to get a lot of schtick whether it's warranted or not.

interesting GBB to be sure but the hate for Ares on here is crazy. I've got a bunch of Ares stuff in my collection and they are a reliable as most other manufacturers. Terrible to take apart as they seem to be designed by a savant drug addict but on the whole not really much worst that others when it comes to reliability.