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Did someone say UKARA licence

Yes, but you'd be better off changing to a different style of handguard with rails to let you attach a torch more easily. Try not to confuse "upgrade" with "accessorise" though, "upgrade" is generally taken as changing the internals to achieve better performance (which to be honest you shouldn't need for a while yet) whereas the bits you bolt on to change the look are more "accessories" - stocks, handguards, sights etc. You WILL ask loads of questions on what to get (Flex will advise you to buy everything the same as he did but that's just his way and we love him for it - kinda like a little puppy), you WILL spunk a load of cash on stuff to bolt onto your gun to make it "yours" and you WILL end up with most if not all of it skulking around on your bedroom floor when you realise it eith doesn't help, doesn't fit or makes your gun too heavy to bother with. Don't feel bad about it though, everyone does it. It's like an airsoft rite of passage if you will. This is the handguard with built in torch http://www.wgcshop.com/wgc2008/main/product_detail1.php?search_From=searchItem&item=GP-ACC-726A&search=special&rs=m500&catid=&cat=&view_choice=a or you could get a Magpul MOE style handguard but you'll also need the rail kit to be able to bolt torches on. Failing that you can look for a 7" RIS handguard.

Solidfox CPC arrived today along with FMA Maritime. I think with a bit more adjustment the CPC should sit better, otherwise I need to bulk up

Not at all, I changed the stock the sights and the front handguard. For a small price of can even get rails for the handguard although a moe handguard looks way more sexy. As soon as you have a rail attached you can put just about anything on

glad to be a help ha ha... i just google "transparent cm16 kit"

There is a whole section of AF-UK dedicated to legal issues and many discussions here in General also, but the short version is no, you do not have to be registered with UKARA for the defences against prosecution under the VCRA to apply to you. As soon as you go airsofting, you are an airsofter, which means that you can 'Manufacture a Realistic Imitation Firearm' which is legalese for take the bright paint off, or put realistic colour on, your AEG/s. The issue however is proof which is why most retailers will not sell RIF's to you without a UKARA number and UK Customs apparently do not recognise any other proof (regardless of the legality of their taking that position). The simplest way to get a decent looking gun is to jump through the hoops and register with UKARA - 3 games in not less than 2 months, but not more than 12 months. For most sites the difference in price between renting one of their guns and turning up with your own is about £20, so buying your own now will save you £60 minus the cost of changing it to an RIF (measured in hassle not just cash and the fact that if you dismantle it to paint it, you void your warranty vs depending on how well you spray it whilst assembled, you may also void your warranty). That said you could buy 2nd hand, because many people will accept a photo of you airsofting as proof, and it is the seller who could in theory be prosecuted, not the buyer, so it is up to them (and anyone whose knowledge of events surrounding this law is current knows that it is not being enforced by the police anyway). Nevertheless we are a responsible forum and we urge you to abide by the letter of the law, which means do not attempt to cajole someone into selling you an RIF before you are a skirmisher. Another way depends on who runs your nearest site/s because some game organisers also retail guns and equipment and, if they are UKARA members (which most are), they may sell you an RIF but not allow you to take it home until after you have completed your 3rd game in not less than 2 months - this is the best solution if you want to buy new, but it's not that widely available. Short he says... lol!

Internally they're the same gun. Pick the one you like the look of. Cheapest route for battery and charger is NiMh http://www.zerooneairsoft.com/product_info.php?products_id=5790 and something along the lines of this: http://www.zerooneairsoft.com/product_info.php?products_id=2656 You could get a LiPo 7.4V battery for a similar price but the charger will cost more as you should really get a decent balance charger for them (which run around £35+). MAKE SURE YOU BUDGET A DECENT AMOUNT FOR EYE PROTECTION!!!!!

rebrands, elite force are like umarex or cybergun. I believe their tavor is the S&T one.

Damn you. Because of this thread I have now ordered a couple of kits: 1:76 Matilda MkII from airfix 1:76 Australian Infantry by Revell Now I will have to work out how to make a small patch of 1:76 jungle to put them in. I imagine a bit of model making will be quite fun, I haven't done it in years.

Yours is bigger and prettier than mine. He says without a flicker of a snigger... not! And now for my latest me sized toy: Silverback PP-19 Bizon-2

Snowdrop here, you might know me from the other forums but I have finally signed up here. Been playing 4 years now and play on the Unit 13 team. Hello!

Mack never fails to make me jealous whenever he posts in this thread

No, you'll need to get a weaker spring.

I know! Got a god load if sheet music from there to! The old people in there are really nice also, talked to one for quite a while when I got the sheet music for Danny boy;)

For 1p each that is a good find

Here are my airfix soldiers, most are 1:72 apart from the Second World War German infantry: My misfits who have been found in charity shops going for 1p each: The napoleonic era infantry: French Great War infantry: The dead person. Please dont hate me for saying this but I think this adds more realism and shows what it was like with the dead being everywhere: The Great War German infantry, including the deadly flamethrower sand stretcher bearers: Finnally, world war 1 British Infantry and Second World War British paratroopers. I had some German para's somewhere..... Enjoy Edit: forgot the pic of some infantry...

yeah, but change out the goggles. I have used them in the past, they are fine but wouldn't use them now. Also, you may want to look at upgrading some stuff later on (battery and charger to LiPo). all in all seriously good gun though

just bought this is this ok?? http://www.colchesterairsoft.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=cm16transspack

Can no longer find the starter pack....NOOOOOOOOOO lol still get the gun etc...

That's a damn good point, Loz. I think that some guns are made to what seems to have been standard a few years ago - accurate enough to hit a man sized target at 30m and if you get better than that, it's because you had a lucky alignment of the planets and/or confluence of wide engineering tolerances. But in the 2 1/2 years I've been into airsoft, I've seen attitudes change - people want man sized target accuracy at 50m as a minimum, but there are still plenty of guns using old designs out there, so upgrades are necessary from the get go. At the risk of being thought of as more obsessively compulsive than i actually am, I'm going to bring your attention again to the most overlooked part when air seal is under discussion - grease. A lightly lubed gb may be nicer to work on and so long as the grease is good quality, a light smear probably isn't much less efficient than a good slobber of good grease, but when it comes to air seal, more grease is definitely better, so long as it isn't getting inside the hop. For sure certain hardware parts make for a better air seal, but a good slap of CT-2 Teflon grease will dramatically improve consistency as well as improve power output from the spring and it is gloopy enough to stay where it is smeared, not get blasted down the barrel. The next thing to consider is the air seal nozzle. Those which have an O-ring at their base are good for at least a 5FPS boost (with 0.2's) but they also lend consistency - putting a smear of CT-2 around just the base of the cylinder head pipe/spigot (what do we call that nozzle which we cannot refer to as a nozzle without causing confusion?) so that the air seal nozzle o-ring makes a very good seal, but the grease does not get forward and into the barrel, is the way forward. I'm not convinced that double o-ring cylinder heads are that much more efficient than single o-ring ones, because both the head and cylinder are locked in place by the closed gb shell. So, again, a good smear of grease between the two should be all that's necessary. That said I have bought one recently so i can test them out in more controlled circumstances than any old gb with a random mix of upgrade parts. I suspect that the worst place for air leakage is the interface between the nozzle and the hop rubber, which is why it's crucial to make sure that when you fit a rubber onto a barrel and push it into a hop unit the lip of the rubber is sticking far forward enough for the nozzle to engage with tightly. There is only about a mm of potential variance there, but I think there is a knack to it. Then there is how much air can squeeze between the rubber and barrel, inside the hop unit. I never really put much stock in the PTFE tape mod, but i have done it anyway because undoubtedly there is potential there for leakage. But when you read reviews of Modify Hybrid barrels, you have to take notice - the barrel grooves and corresponding internal ridges on the rubber can give up to a 30FPS boost - so that is the potential range of inconsistency, and it will not be the same from shot to shot, because leaks like that will vary depending on how much pressure they're under, so if a variation earlier in the chain changes the shot power by a little, this may be exacerbated... Finally I am in love with double o-ring piston heads - that's +20FPS right there and the closer you make the entire system to the theoretical maximum, ie no leaks at all, the less potential there is for variance between shots, hence greater snap shooting accuracy - i mean like the first shot you take with nothing to go on but your sights and your best guess about wind conditions and target movement. But let's also bear in mind that whatever BB weight we choose and whatever stock or upgrade internal parts we are running, the wind is still the most significant factor in determining where any particular shot will end up.

Thanks saw it and the fella wanted to sell it with his chic chip bdus but I didn't want them so asked him if he'd sell separately, "only if the bdus go first" then he messages me to say I can have it separately, was so overjoyed, can't wait for it to arrive

Sorry but as far as warranty goes I don't think you'll have any comeback at this point. You've opened the gun and changed bits for a kickoff. Had you taken it back straight away then maybe you could have had a claim under the Sale of Goods act as it wasn't fit for purpose but I'm afraid you're well past that point now. Which raises a very interesting point (to me at least) about the whole "buying a gun and changing stuff straight away" question. If you buy something and it's crap out of the box, why try and fix it yourself when you should be able to just return it as unfit for purpose and get a replacement? (not having a pop at you by the way BrightCandle as I know you've been through this loop already) Too many people seem to just accept the shortcomings of a BRAND NEW GUN and go straight to "what do I need to do to make this work properly?". Why would manufacturers ever bother to improve their products if we all just blindly accept that Brand "X" needs a different hop up/barrel/whatever as soon as you open the box?

I'm going to be using the paper mache technique to form a landscape, then i'll buy/make trees fences and buildings. Heres one way to landscape :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQ2UAkmxZE @ Russell (sorry if theres only one l mate I always forget!) Maybe try a clearing/the edge of the jungle? Few trees on the very edge of the base, the rest can be grass/sand/soil with your tank and infantry posed there?

YW Squirty squirty? I hope you mean silicone oil, because some other types of oil can do serious damage to various AEG parts - for eg WD-40 should never be used in any way which could result in it getting into the hop (so not in the gearbox either as air is drawn through the gb and picks up micro droplets of oil and grease as it does so). That said, while a lot of people seem to enjoy aerosol silicone oil, personally i think it is a sledgehammer to a drawing pin at times - you don't want loads of it inside mags for eg because oily BB's will not be as affected by the hop and possibly not evenly, but just 1 or 2 max drops in a midcap mag is enough to make the spring and follower operate more smoothly and increase capacity sometimes.

Just picked up a G&G Combat Machine GR15 Blowback xl in Tan will look silly with my dpm so i'll need to get some more camo I think. - Ant

Sounds horrible to me. might just be that I'm a Swedish native speaker.. svet-->sweat. ...could be made even worse if you tried to translate "lana" and realised if it means anything, it would mean to participate in a "LAN-Party" ^^ Whoops! Well the Swedish version "Greta" isn't very modern.. just doesn't sound very feminine to me.

I had e-fucking-nuff!

I mean.. I feel for you and all that.......... but damn that's hilarious!! excellent about the lathe!

Good choice! Spare magazines are pretty cheap as well.

Real Sword! I don't know a word of Russian... unless "comrade" counts?

Thanks gents. I went for the cm030 and it's... Well it'd just lovely. I fitted a rail, and it's had various combinations of lights (we play in the dark) lasers and scopes. It's an absolute joy. Toyed with the idea of a lipo but instead went for a spare nimh. The rof is perfectly good for my needs, I don't need it any faster and I'm thinking a standard battery (£9 Inc p and p) will stress the internals less. Oh and 90 round mag is a must. It's now my 3rd favourite gun.

DIE THREAD DIE!!

I use a minecraft pickaxe

So I may be working away in foreign climes, but it doesn't mean I'm not still on here, envious of everyone else having fun in the UK and also indulging in a little retail therapy, as a welcome home present to me, for when I get back!! http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk//tactical-tailor-removable-operator-pack-35000-5175-p.asp mmmmmmmmmm...............

It just looks like a series of diagrams for thigh gaps... Good luck

Writing this kinda turned into a more general rant than a reply... So yeah, just throwing it out there early so people aren't like, "What?" One thing I've noticed about range, BB weight, barrel bore and hop up, is that a lot of the time, people will just swear by something based on one good experience. They'll never test it again, they'll never properly bench it against anything else, and they won't have the observational skill, or the time investment in the game, to actually notice minor changes in things under certain circumstances because they don't understand the science properly... Or they simply don't care. A lot of the "OMGBESTGUNEVER" stories are essentially just 'victims' of a placebo effect, I've seen countless people showing off guns to people saying stuff like, "This has the best range ever" or "Here, want to use this for a game? It's flawless" when I've been standing over their shoulders, witnessing the untold levels of awful their gun is demonstrating. So basically, it's all about getting your own guns, shooting to a point that you're content with. Those guys whose guns I saw were terrible, they were happy with them. They were totally fine with going into a game with something that in my opinion was too bad to be skirmished. Someone is always going to come along and chat shit without having 1/100th of a gram of sense in their heads. Someone on here might have been one of those guys. I didn't say, "No actually that's terrible, terrible performance". I just let them get on with it. But, I don't know who would see that gun performing like that and think it was amazing, and who would see it and think it was terrible, like I did. As you're happy with it, who cares? You might think .25s perform better when a target is under 50 feet away, the science says there's little difference. You'll chalk it up to experience, people flinching when they're hit, that epic shot through a keyhole you were standing 15m back from, you could never have done that with .20s, and the guy would've just shrugged the hit off if it'd been anything under .25g. That's fine, I do it too. Sometimes things might be better, scientifically, practically, theoretically, however-else...ally, but I don't care because I have my own beliefs. I refuse to believe widebore barrels make sense for example, but plenty of people are raving about them being the greatest thing for accuracy since rifling. I'm just not getting it, and I have yet to see first hand evidence. I think a lot of people who don't understand it, and haven't seen it either, are just taking people's word for it without waiting to see for themselves first. If something works for you, and everything says it shouldn't... Maybe it is a placebo effect. But... Placebos work. Some other guy might have better range and accuracy because he did it all right, but your mentality, your belief that it works, might just align the stars and put you in a better position, you might be more tactically aware, you might be a better player. It's all in your head that the gun is better, but your experiences so far have made everything work. You're just playing for the fun, you aren't playing because you get kicks from the mind games, you just think guns are cool, or whatever. If something works, it works. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that shit. I've have people use my pistol after showing me theirs, mine has had 3 times the range and they've just said, "Hmm, yeah, it's alright that". Are these people blind? Was their ego too damaged to comment what they really thought? Who knows? I just let people get on with it. However! Nothing less than .25g... .20s are for (exceptionally) poor people, support gunners, and people who just play to play, without caring how good their gun is in comparison to anyone else's. Not sure what I was really getting at with any of that tbh, just started typing. Hey ho. Take from it what you will, hopefully I didn't subconsciously type out my allegiance to Hilter's ghost or anything.

"I think yours looks pretty good except for the scope - like i said about mine, regular dots are not something you see in woodlands. Yeah, putting loads of stuff on can interfere with your view down the scope, but I just brush it out of the way when I set up for a shot. I dunno about you but, as much as i'd like to be caught on video doing it, "quickscoping" imo is purely for video games. Airsoft sniping is about setting up to use your additional range against unsuspecting targets - camouflage is almost always more important than being able to take quick reaction shots, but i'm still learning..." I agree with the scrim, I will probably add jute thread to that also. I like your use of military grade cam netting. I've never been a big fan but I might change my mind after seeing yours. I also like that you have given your gat a name, Svetlana is great, what does it mean?

ordered two rolls of camo tape for mine. HK thou so I dont expect them any time soon. my brother runs camo netting on his springer - I wont on my aeg, for practicality reasons. I'd spray it but....... nah

I've just picked up a tan paca, the correct one for fr. Funnily enough it's the only tan one I've seen for sale in the uk, unless I've been under a rock somewhere. Looks like I can begin to clear out the multicam and the ranger green paca in favor of tan goodies and marpat

*ahem* Tactical waist pack.

One from saturday

What's that then - just like original version - but with less wards & staff due to cutbacks ???

Plenty of mags need a bit of breaking in before they reach their full potential. This could very easily be the case here. A small amount of silicone oil down the feed tube followed by successive loading and reloading (NOT firing through the gun mind, just load the mag then manually release the catch and let the BBs come out into a bag) would very possibly help. Don't use that particular batch of BBs again though as they'll potentially be contaminated with oil. It's worth trying before you start splashing loads of money on mags you might not need at any rate. The G&G high cap that came with my SCAR for example feeds flawlessly every time. Also 0.3g BBs aren't really worth trying unless you're planning on running your AEG at over 350FPS. 0.28g are about the highest I would look to go with in a standard AEG to be honest.

Standard M4 inner barrel is only 363mm long.

your grouping at 30m should be dinner plate sized at most, there's definitely something going on. you say the FPS is between 290 and 315, does it jump about in that range between shots or is that just from 2 separate occasions at a chrono? if it's not consistently shooting with a 5-10fps variance or less you've most likely got an air seal issue somewhere. I'd also recommend having a good look at your hop rubber, a worn or ripped (even the tiniest amount) rubber can cause huge accuracy issues. Cleaning the barrel is of course a standard maintenance thing, I expect you've already done it, if not, give it a go, it'll help. However, if the gun's still in-warranty, call the retailer and ask them what to do about it. Most likely they'll say that guns deteriorate over time and that it's standard wear and tear, depending on how long you've had it and how much you've used it they may be right. They'll almost certainly be able to offer to give it a bit of a tune-up and get it back to new though.

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I hate you.

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