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My first ever leather project. I wanted old fashioned flap holster for my shadow 2 with torch. Couldn't find one so I designed and made it been using it in few games already and is still in one piece. I call that a success

Op the best out of the box gun is the one where you spend 2mins removing the upper and swapping out the hop rubber for a maple leaf 50 or 60 and the matching omega nub. This can be done by the most noobie of noobies and requires literally no skill or knowledge of AEG's to achieve. Remove two bolts, lugs. Gently pull upper forwards. Remove hop from barrel, bish bash bosh. You have the most accurate AEG achievable. Personally I would avoid recoils like the plague, they are piss poor power out the box and a whore to work on compared to every other AEG on the market. I would look at a https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/specna-arms-daniel-defense-mk18-sa-e19-edge I got one of these second hand an upgrade the hop and spring in under 5mins. It is as good as my 1k Recoil that I sold because they keep breaking after you up the power and ROF. Really any AEG with the hop upgraded is going to more accurate than any out of the box AEG and it is sooooo simple to do. SO SIMPLE! Don't drink the TM Recoil coolaid.

My MWS

OMG CHEETARS PUNASHED!

"Buy a TM recoil because it's got the best parts, then replace them all with bester parts." has a familiar ring to it. Where have I heard that before? ?

Hit the nail on the head there. I remember playing against one of the AI staff and he was ignoring multiple hits from several players (at under 50ft away. We could see the shots bouncing off him) to get in a place he knew we weren't allowed to shoot at him, before blindly throwing home made pyros around. One of which caused several hundred pounds worth of damage to someone's M249. It's saddening to see they haven't changed and so I'll continue to boycott them

I don't disagree but in the UK if you are running rental power, you will be out range by everyone else on the field. The stock hop on the stock TM is fine but it struggles to lift heavier rounds and even getting to it compared to a normal AEG is a pain in the fucking tit. Don't get me wrong. I am not against expensive AEG's. I am currently sitting here refurbishing all my PTW Pmags

really depends on your definition of best. whilst the tm's reputation is mighty, it's not the only gun on the market that shoots well ootb. however as @Groot and @Rogerborg point out a few minor tweaks to a cheaper guns can get them up to that level, especially when you also give them good food.

Does this count as 'making something'? I looked for like a general development/DIY topic but this is the closest. Magnetized the grip rubber because it uses two very long screws which take forever to get out for swapping battery etc. Worked out better than expected. Gonna chop some bolt heads off and glue them to the back so it looks like they're in.

Look mummy, I'm going to be a YouTuber.......or just send videos to my mates of me shooting them!

Nice pic.

Well if any of you like a challenge, which I'm sure you do wot with being a ruffty,tuffty airsofter an all,then have a go at this.... Next time you are taking your wife/mistress/partner from behind and the action hots up,whisper in their ear "this is how your sister/mother/friend likes it best" See how long you can hang on for. I managed five seconds before I was 'thrown' into bedroom door!! Lol Regards Ps.before you ask It was wife. Mistress got too expensive lol

Yeah I’m on it I really hope they can either fix it or send me a different copy because this rifle is gorgeous

A new PTS Masada GBBR (patrol base clearly did a clear out of the back of the store house). Could either be the a great purchase or a nightmare if something breaks as im sure they are no longer being made....

You’re missing one big sticking point here about TM RIFs: they’re made for a specific market only (Japan) with super fine tolerances due to the specifics of said market (regulations). Picking up any TM gun with the intent to upgrade it is akin to taking a finely crafted katana and trying to add bits of steel to it “ to improve its performance”: it’s pointless and will ruin the reliability of said weapon. As long as you know what you’re buying and you’re fine with it (out-of-the-box performance and reliability), then TM is a perfectly fine choice. It won’t throw 100m but it’s not exactly why people buy them in the first place.

As HPA is the gayteway drug to speedsofting.

tbf, you'd be surprised how often you can tag people who just stand around thinking you can't hit them whilst i do agree, hpa isn't strictly a magic bullet. it still requires the rest of the system (hop, barrel, ammo, etc) to be of a good standard. it will also need dialed in properly, whilst this is easier to do than aeg's they can also be a lot fussier especially with voluming. certain systems, specifically the polarstar jack/F1 open-bolt systems can have real accuracy issues (as in worse than a decent aeg) due to the way they work, with the likes of the F2/Fusion being a bit higher end (ie over-budget). i can't comment on the wolverine stuff having never used it, but they claim closed bolt operation so probably the better pick for this case. of course that's assuming you're happy to deal with the air line (which isn't so bad), weight of the tank (which can be a pain sometimes), getting air (which can be easy if the site does refills or a real problem if they don't) and more importantly the de-facto hatred from other players.

I think they no longer qualify as "friends" then ?

There are a few of my friends who won't even change the hop rubber. They have the idea that it should work fine out of the factory and shouldn't have to spend any more money to make it work better. They also moan a lot about people not taking their hits, at 60m, with their totally stock £120 Nuprol M4.

True that, 0.28g is the minimum that I use in woodland now. And keep your expectations realistic: no amount of money, or belief, will prevent your BBs being effected by wind, rain, or foliage, and nor will they make your targets just sit still and wait for them. I'm perfectly happy and competitive with AEG toys in the £75-£140 range, plus the aforementioned hop rubbers and barrels. Aftermarket motors add snappiness and rate of fire. After that it's about BBs, getting the hop dialled in, and where you point it. If I were going to spend £500 on an airsoft toy, and the goal was maximum accuracy, i.e. maximum consistency, I'd forget about AEGs and think about trying-then-buying a used HPA package.

20 odd 72 rounders just went up on firesupport…sold out before I could even find my card!

Bucking https://www.thecageairsoft.co.uk/maple-leaf-macaron-hop-up-rubber-aeg/ Nub https://www.thecageairsoft.co.uk/maple-leaf-omega-hop-up-tensioner-nub/ How to

lemme guess, were most of the parts sourced from the same company?

At that price, I'd be looking at an Edge 2.0 to get the Aster. Specnas with rubbery Maple Leaf bits are a decent enough shout though. You could also throw in a ZCI barrel while you're in there and still come in well under that budget. At a minimum, clean the barrel and hop.

I'm going to go with any TM recoil under £500, which I think is almost all of them.

This one? https://www.defconairsoft.co.uk/product/tokyo-marui-recoil-m4-sopmod/

This is my Marui Next Gen M16A2 I modified an aeg upper, frontset and stock.

Dave walked into the pub last night with a black eye. 'How did that happen?' I asked. Apparently, his wife asked him to make a bird table. She only came in at number seven.

New to airsoft slowly building up my kit and enjoying the sport.

We're talking about AI here, if they can't be arsed to spellcheck their magazine, what chance have you got that they'll properly organise a big event, they've always traded on their "name", in the hope that people will put their trust (& money) in them as a longstanding publication. I've personally played alongside & against the AI editorial team in the past, only to find that they seem to think the game rules dont apply to them, so when I hear criticism of how they run events, I'm not surprised in the least.

All personal taste I suppose. I love bullpups for example. Some think they are awkward, fugly, cursed contraptions. We've all got our tastes. I always thought the Walther P99 looked pretty futuristic. Has that compact, angular, spacey vibe that would fit right in to a Pelican dropship Pilot's loadout...

Purely imho - the Colt style looks entirely like something that'd be made up for a Japanese cartoon where the animators have fused something super modern with something super old for a unique look, not a fan personally and I wouldn't say it fits the notion of futuristic pistol concept but an interesting aesthetic. The lower shares some stuff in common with the Laugo Alien which is where I think pistols will go in future, so it makes a lot more sense to me in the context. I'd prefer to see something different to what Wilson Combat does in terms of the grip and front strap texturing but that stuff is effective and doesn't exist yet in airsoft in fairness.

VSS performed well even though a couple of the mags didn't feed very well, but I suspect it may be down to the ammo and it also was overhopping .40s ?

I like it. Kind of 1911-meets-Deagle. My two favourite pistols in one! ? The double rail upper and lower makes it very cool IMO. Looks like something from Doom.

Nice concept. The trigger guard looks very small though.

G&P RIS Rail and G&P scope mount fit fine. A saddle bag 7.4v Lipo can be fitted in the front RIS however I might need to shorten the wires slightly for it to look a bit better. *edit - A suystema TW5 full stock will fit with a bit of dremeling or sanding.

Yes did build up a SD6. Finished it last night came out lovely. Wasn't too hard to build if you can get original ICS parts and have access to a lathe to build an adapter. Longer barrel and new spring bumped my FPS up too 340 so looking forward to using it tomorrow for its first outing. Also fitted my magpul guard and gemtech QD suppressor from my other ngrs mp5 I built myself to see what fitted and they went straight on. I have a real steel sliding stock that I wanna try out but I think only the rails of the stock will fit with some milling so I might stick with the original as it's way more solid than any sliding stock on Rif.

Not a recent project but revisiting and perfecting.

My "stuff" was getting everywhere, so I picked up a cheap secondhand bookcase and turned it into a Airsoft storage unit ?

Must've got the most Friday of all Friday afternoon guns. Pistonhead screw threaded/stuck, couldn't get it off. Upon inspection, someone had put the base part on upside down, so the screwdriver slot was on the inside.

Just got back from this event, I'm not sure if any of you went but what a shit show, totally unsafe. No chrono. About 10 toilets to the 450 people About 6 marshals We had fights, fires, the weather to contend with, No propperly trained medical staff. Eye Pro got shot off and broken (reputable brands so probably hot guns). They creamed the money and gave nothing back. It was a disorgansed mess. Way way to many people all building up on the chock points. It was beyond a joke tbh.