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spot of DIY tonight 🙃

What seems to be the natural evolution of the fabled ‘Blood Diamond carbine’, the Gordy carbine. The MWS has never looked so good. (I know the grip isn’t accurate, I value my wrists more than I do any degree of ‘clone accuracy’!)

And this is the exact kind of smug virtuous “oh no one complained when America blah blah blah or when China blah blah blah or the big bad British Empire blah blah blah” comments is why I didn’t mention about not buying from Russia due to a moral standpoint originally . Im sorry but all your trying to do is score some “look at me I'm so right on and politically aware on my high horse” points , what your comparing to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine is puerile at best and bloody offensive at worst ALL Governments are guilty of some heinous crimes at sometime or another but Russia is committing genocide against a sovereign nation live on tv 24/7 ! Plus how do you suggest we sanction China and America then seeing as China is responsible for 28.7% and America 16.8% of the Global manufacturing output making them No’s 1&2 respectively(fyi the Russian federation is 15th with petrochemical but 47th without) ?

Early 2000’s peak aesthetic 🤪

Broke out the paint again and possibly ruined another gun.

The CTR stocks fit very well... ...as do Magpul pistol grips (use the TM bolt though)... ...and with a small amount of filing, Magpul trigger guards

All good points, but Smirnoff hasn't been Russian since the revolution!

Yeah I like the rs goodies too. Pictured are the Strike Industries multi angle grip and the a Strike Industries dust cover. The cover installed fine. But needed some trimming to be able to close. If you plan to keep it open constantly, you dont need to do anything to it.

He's off slacking at the moment, UK airsoft fettling is grinding to a halt. Also... I couldn't resist.

So I just got my MWS yesterday and I'm already giddy planning the build I'm going to do with it. It looks like it would, but just wanted to confirm that a Magpul CTR stock will fit? It looks like it should from what I've seen. My initial build isn't going to be too adventurous, but I want to throw real-steel shooting stuff at it where possible as it's going to be my go-to carbine for when I'm not sniping and I love my real-steel stuff. Anyone got any suggestions for real-steel pistol grips that feel nice? The stock pistol grip just doesn't feel good to me. I was thinking of a Magpul MOE or a K2, though the Hogue grips look pretty nice too. Happy to be part of the MWS club

Version 2. Just takes your standard parts. @ak2m4 has a good selection.

Mine is bigger

Hard agree with the posters above. I'll not purchase anything from Russia or Belorussia now, most likely forever. As someone who mostly does Soviet WW2 airsoft, that does make getting good kit difficult as the main suppliers are either in Russia, Belorussia or Ukraine. But WW2 airsoft is a nicety that my friends and family who live under the Russian bombardments wish they could go back to. War is much nicer with toy guns.

Thanks to you both for the advice.

Yep, me too

You run out of ammo ? You can beat the feckers to death with it instead ! 😆👍👍

Mmmm, could be wrong (usually am☺️) but if it's coming back that the buyer has a valid number according to the UKARA database, then I would be happy enough with that, even though the site's insurance has lapsed it must have been valid at the time of issuing his number. I'm sure someone with more knowledge will be along soon.

Sorry for the late reply. It's beautifully made and feels very close to the real deal. The slide racks like no other airsoft pistol. You can't feel the nozzle moving at all, which makes it feel very nice to rack. Loading the mags is tricky and slow. The baseplate retention spring often retracts inside the mag and I find I have to prod it with a screwdriver to get it to spring back in place. On a positive note, they look amazing and feel well-built. The trigger is weird. It's heavy, but also a little mushy. I don't like how it feels and it doesn't feel realistic IMO. Don't get me wrong, it's better than most other airsoft triggers, but it's far from feeling like the real thing. The hop is a bastard to adjust, but it's fine once it's set. It shoots 0.30g BBs nicely, but accuracy isn't it's party piece. The recoil impulse is tremendous, and it actually takes skill and some practice to accurately land follow-up shots. It's a proper training tool and great for collectors, but I think it'll struggle to keep up with more traditional type pistols. It's definitely a trade off of realism over airsoft playability, if that makes sense!

Which makes me wonder what else they cut corners on to save a few quid

Up to 150mm according to the build manual. I have a couple of surplus brass inner barrels that I'm planning to cut and re-crown. As the STEP files have been provided, it's fairly easy to modify the model to increase or decrease the barrel length (within reason obviously).

I'm going to remove the Iron Sights, internal threading from the end of the barrel and the stock/folding mechanism entirely. Going stock-less à la the Tec-9.

Well you can't sanction them can you, because our manufacturing capability and energy production has been hollowed out and outsourced overseas because this generated the most profit in the short term for greedy motherfuckers who have no real conception of the economy beyond the next shareholders report. We actively destroy democracies and treat with tyrants and despots, to no ones benefit except a select few. Yemen is also happening *right now*, but the Sauds are our buddies so we're not doing shit to help them as they starve. No sympathetic headlines for them. No ones airing out the spare bedroom for Yemeni refugees. China has spent the last few years literally herding a specific ethnicity into concentration camps. No 24hr rolling news cycle for that either. All forgotten, because we are dependent on them. The truth is that its psychologically convenient for many of us to minimise the atrocities that our own administration tacitly accepts or even encourages, because there is practically nothing we can do about it. Smug? No, the hypocrisy of all this fucking sickens me. The Russians are just the enemy of the moment, that's all, and if our government didn't have a stake in using Ukraine as a proxy no one would be saying shit about it, just like they had nothing to say about Georgia and Chechnya. Just like they have nothing to say about the Uyghurs, or Yemen, or Palestine. I'd say I have more reason than most here to have a grudge against Russia - In a way I'm only here today because of the brutality of the Russian government. My grandfather came to Britain in 1956, fleeing Soviet retribution after the failed Hungarian Uprising, which he took a very active part in. The Russian security services tortured his parents - who I was lucky enough to know in my childhood - pins under the fingernails, that sort of thing. The whole family got the treatment, everyone who was still left. They were extremely eager to find and kill him. We used to go to Hungary on holiday every year when I was a kid. Before the Berlin Wall fell, but after things were at their worst, when people were burying bread and the meagre produce of their smallholdings to keep them safe from the privations of Russian soldiers. Things were extremely grim over there, a real eye opener as a kid from the west to see the kind of conditions people had to live in elsewhere. After the Wall fell we got to see the country heal year by year, slowly building up the kind of infrastructure that we take for granted. The dirt roads were gravelled one year, streetlights installed the next, tarmac the year after that. But the scars are still there today, if you care to look for them. So I don't really need a lecture on how bad Russian occupation is thanks, I've seen it first hand. Me and my family have better reason to hate Russians than most. But we don't. Even my grandad never boycotted Russian products - his favorite drink is Smirnoff ffs - and even he was and is able to differentiate between the actions of the Russian government and the Russian people themselves, who have lived under the heel of Putin for over two decades and are as much victims of their government as the people living in the countries that Russia invades and occupies. Who do you think your sanctions are really hurting? Tsar Putin, reputedly one of if not the richest man in the world? Or is it just another kick in the teeth for a people that have lived under poverty and dictatorship for longer than anyone alive can remember? As I said before, you can draw your own line in the sand wherever you want, and power to you. But to start moralising on other people's choices when we live in a fundamentally amoral system is frankly bollocks. Every time you start your car or turn on your hob or buy some plastic shite or charge your batteries you are in some way contributing to human misery somewhere. That's the reality we live in. Watching people suddenly get on their high horse about #IssueOfTheDay because that's what the media has told them to do bores me to tears. Do I care about Ukraine? Of course I do. And I'll still care when the cameras are off. I'll still care about the refugees after the media has decided they are now villains, not heroes (it won't be long, just wait and see!). I very much doubt thats the case for the people banging the drum loudest, a good proportion of whom a few months ago wanted to send in the gunships to turn back the boatloads of refugees crossing the channel. Maybe you'll still care once everyone else has put a different flag in their profile picture, maybe not. We'll see.

The Magpul stocks will fit, CTR provides the best lockup with no wobble. As for grips it’s personal preference, Magpul, hogue, ergo or the BCM grip is great ( I have one for sale 🙃 ) but I’ve recently swapped to a reptilia as I have girly hands.

Hi all, I’ve been back in airsoft for 6 months now and have several guns now SMC9, Octarms Xamoena Pro M4-KM9, Nuprol Delta Pioneer Breacher and a Valken ASL+ Series. I’ve seemed to amassed a selection of CQB gun, but have started to do out door events and I’m looking at suggests for an AEG that gives DMR, Sniper, combo all in one utility guns. all suggests welcome on this one as I think this maybe my last purchase for a while, well so I’ve told my wife. steve

Do you want to buy one, or build one? There are very few retailers selling "DMR" specced AEGs, i.e. 1.5-1.8J and locked to semi. You'd generally start with a 7.62mm-ish replica (if you pretend the Mk12 doesn't exist) and then up-spring it and lock it to semi by one of the several available methods (trick mosfter, selector plate modification, stick a screw through it to limit the selector). Do you have a pretend-platform in mind? SR-25, G36 lonnnng, some commie AK monstrosity?

*looks at fully immersive weighted plate carrier with all the GBBR mags* Ah, a fellow sadist and/or fitness enthusiast. Airsoft is an excuse for a biceps workout then?

the majority of standard guns the tooth count is the same and doesn't count the initial pickup tooth. when you see for example "15t" "14.5t" and "14t" pistons that's generally referring to wether or not the first regular tooth (ie not the pickup one) has been filed down a bit (aka a half tooth in a 14.5) or removed completely (14tooth as in the above image). this is to allow clearance for the initial pickup stage so the sector gear doesn't hit that tooth on its way round to start pulling the piston back.

I’ll never forget my Grandfather’s last words to me just before he died. “Are you still holding the ladder?”

True. However I avoid AR-pattern guns for the most part. I own a few KA PDWs, an AEG M27 LE, a Daytona M27, a NGRS 416a5, and this MTW. Nothing I can really use an AEG UBR on. I did have it mounted to a 417 using a custom adapter I made on a lathe, but again the battery space was an issue so it was removed.

I'm with the "No Russian" crowd, but if it helps settle the drama any I've got a spare Bullgear 249 hop I can sort you out with.

Alright, *now* my MTW is externally done. Still need to tune it properly and add some “softening material” to the front for it to be 100% inside, but I’m really loving how it’s turned out, as long as I ignore the cost haha.

Some Ukrainian guys that I know went home to fight when the invasion began; they are all still alive and doing their bit to defeat the Putinist fascists. I will not buy anything that even slightly benefits Russia until the country sorts itself out.

If a percentage of the money you pay for goods will be used for putins war i think you need to have a quiet word with your self. I would not advise you purchase anything from Russia purely based on common sense. Bleed the fuckers dry.

A celebrity rubber chicken.

Rubber banana or flip flop also work. I have been killed by a squeaky pig thanks @ImTriggerHappy and a rubber chicken @L3wisD ffs