Looking for Help With Cold War Kit - Weighing up British and Other Options

[Danno46]

You can usually find them on Evike or elsewhere if you hunt around for one.  

@EvilMonkee do Evike ship RIF’s to the UK ? 

 

[EvilMonkee]

You can usually find them on Evike or elsewhere if you hunt around for one.  

@EvilMonkee do Evike ship RIF’s to the UK ? 

Yep. Got my GHK from them. But be warned they do use UPS.

 

[Danno46]

Thanks,  might have to try them out for hard to get bits.

I was also at the last RedMist game so probably swapped some plastic deth at some point !

 

[EvilMonkee]

Thanks,  might have to try them out for hard to get bits.

I was also at the last RedMist game so probably swapped some plastic deth at some point !

 What side?  I play East German

No they don't do Coldwar at my local Gunman site. They do Camo v/s solid colours, with shooting role rules. Certainly not Coldwar. However there are/were multiple Gunman sites.

https://gunmanairsoftmidlands.com/

Most of the CW games I've played were at Fireball (Bassets Pole). Where there were no such rules regarding camo. It was nice to see the CW kit, but not essential for gameplay. They still divided players by banding arms as they felt it was unreasonable to turn players away. A good portion of players made the effort so it worked pretty well.

I'll concede on the SMLE, I'd seen some rifles ping up with decent kits on them the other week and didn't look into them more than a cursory glance, Turns out they had been fed into my news from an Air rifle site, not airsoft. 

This is the image that popped up.



On the Sterling plans. When you see them it's actually not a hard gun to scratch build. I've never seen one in stock. I've seen the Blaster in stock.

http://replicaplans.com/SterlingSMG.html

 Um, I don't actually think that is part of the Gunman Airsoft stable of sites, happy to be wrong but I think its a different company but similar name.   I would refrain from actually giving an opinion/pointers on kit about a game series until I have actually been to one but hey, call me old fashioned.

Also, manufacturing a RIF I believe is illegal under the VCRA, but again happy to be wrong.

 

[Iceni]

Um, I don't actually think that is part of the Gunman Airsoft stable of sites, happy to be wrong but I think its a different company but similar name.   I would refrain from actually giving an opinion/pointers on kit about a game series until I have actually been to one but hey, call me old fashioned.

The OP makes no mention of been Gunman exclusive, You brought that into the mix.

 

[EvilMonkee]

The OP makes no mention of been Gunman exclusive, You brought that into the mix.

 Well, unless he wants to skirmish in such kit, then Gunman are the ONLY providers of a Cold War game currently within the UK.  As I have been speaking the OP he has indicated he prefers themed games so it was not a bad assumption in the end.

 

[Danno46]

   On 14/06/2021 at 16:25,  Danno46 said:
Thanks,  might have to try them out for hard to get bits.

I was also at the last RedMist game so probably swapped some plastic deth at some point !


 What side?  I play East German
 

I was on the British side, the squad I was with had a guy with the mortar, Got to say I’m very impressed with the East German uniforms and equipment you guys use. 
 

Are you at the next one in August ? 

 

[EvilMonkee]

   On 14/06/2021 at 16:25,  Danno46 said:
Thanks,  might have to try them out for hard to get bits.

I was also at the last RedMist game so probably swapped some plastic deth at some point !

 What side?  I play East German
 

I was on the British side, the squad I was with had a guy with the mortar, Got to say I’m very impressed with the East German uniforms and equipment you guys use. 
 

Are you at the next one in August ? 




Sure will be.

Yeh, it looks nice but the webbing falls apart the second you try to go prone.  East German is easy to do as its so easily available and cheap.

You guys had a mortar?  We had an RPG....

 

[Armo1000]

King arms are finally re-releasing their FAL/SLR line towards the end of this year. Best wait for them. Far cheaper than better than Ares. Other than that, Brit Cold War stuff is cheep, numerous and you can even use more modern DPM if you aren't that bothered about accuracy. Just depends on how far you want to take it but its one of the more easy historic loadouts to make.

 

[Danno46]

King arms are finally re-releasing their FAL/SLR line towards the end of this year. Best wait for them. Far cheaper than better than Ares. Other than that, Brit Cold War stuff is cheep, numerous and you can even use more modern DPM if you aren't that bothered about accuracy. Just depends on how far you want to take it but its one of the more easy historic loadouts to make.

Are they definitely going to re/release it, it’s been rumoured for a long time 

 

[Armo1000]

Are they definitely going to re/release it, it’s been rumoured for a long time 

Yes its confirmed. They confirmed it last year but its been delayed to most likely early next year.