Two tone colours
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Airsoft_Mr B
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First off welcome to the forum. The law (VCRA Act specifically) just states the paint must be bright and also solid, so there are no set colour options really.
As per Sacarathe's comment, you can have orange / purple as well but I've never seen these offered. I think it will be difficult to find anywhere doing any of the other colours though. As you say the majority are a blue or green and one or two offer red.
I do know that AirsoftWorld were offering a 'snake skin' pattern two-tone service but I am not sure if they still do. In actual fact this is not right because it is a camouflage effect so not a solid block colour.
Anything that looks realistic like weathered or in 'normal' colours (black, grey, tan, dark green...etc) you can then assume would be considered unacceptable by law though either way you obviously shouldn't have replicas out where people are going to see them in public anyway.
One way of getting around the colour choice is you purchase the gun + two-toning service (or already compliant one) but you can wrap camo tape around it when you get to a skirmish, and take it off before you leave. If you are going to be actually going to games then once you get a defence after three do what you like with it.
As per Sacarathe's comment, you can have orange / purple as well but I've never seen these offered. I think it will be difficult to find anywhere doing any of the other colours though. As you say the majority are a blue or green and one or two offer red.
I do know that AirsoftWorld were offering a 'snake skin' pattern two-tone service but I am not sure if they still do. In actual fact this is not right because it is a camouflage effect so not a solid block colour.
Anything that looks realistic like weathered or in 'normal' colours (black, grey, tan, dark green...etc) you can then assume would be considered unacceptable by law though either way you obviously shouldn't have replicas out where people are going to see them in public anyway.
One way of getting around the colour choice is you purchase the gun + two-toning service (or already compliant one) but you can wrap camo tape around it when you get to a skirmish, and take it off before you leave. If you are going to be actually going to games then once you get a defence after three do what you like with it.
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Airsoft_Mr B
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Thanks, you're right. My bad.
Yes so you can have the following (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-commencement-no-3-order-2007-firearms-measures)
- transparent
- bright red
- bright orange
- bright blue
- bright yellow
- bright green
- bright pink
- bright purple
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Well, the law doesn't specific how you get a defence... so theoretically you can just manufacture a RIF at your first airsoft game.
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Rogerborg
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Hello and welcome to the forum.
It's entirely up to the seller what colours they use. Most sellers tend to use red, green or blue, but there's no harm in asking them if they'll do the RIF you want in purple.
Just to be clear, you need to be 18 to purchase any imitation firearm, realistic or otherwise.
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H Jones
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Not sure about legality but i picked up a gold full metal G17 from bbguns4less with no defence or UKARA needed.
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Reuben manders
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Does a tan gun count as 2 tone??
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No - unless it’s 49% tan with one of these colours ...
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