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On the plus side, at least it meant the OP didn't get shot in the head repeatedly with an overpowered cannon operating out of bounds😏

When I was at school, my teacher told me not to worry about spelling, as in the future there will always be an autocorrect. For that I am eternally grapefruit.

Sleeping position, as approved by USMC. No need for weapon storage... Doesn't everyone do the Rifleman's Creed at bed-time? Or is it just me?

No he allowed you to be on his team. Lol

If you have been going to sites that allow you to wear an ARMband around your leg or ankle then that's fine, its their decision. Speaking from a marshaling perspective on the sites I have worked on my position is this. If I got a complaint about someone be it sniper or not generally someone will come to me and so "so and so on green team is doing this that and the other" if you are wearing that ARMband on your ankle and decide you want to do something knobbish or is perceived as being knobbish by the other team it doesn't leave much for someone to give a decent description or tell me what team you are on. This then forces the occasional scenario where EVERYONE wearing a ghillie that day has to be told off together as, as a marshal we cant get a positive ID. My personal thoughts on it are this. Bollocks to how much you have spent on your suit, its a mute point. You are playing a team based game where by you are marked so the other team can positively identify you and shoot you. If you choose to hide that after a marshal has placed that on your arm because it ruins the aesthetic of the tree you are trying to emulate then you are cheating (if playing on a site that states you have to have it on show). If you are playing on a site that allows you to move it then again, their site, their rules. I will however say that I have been to sites that allow this and the amount of snipers that then bitch and moan all day about being lit up is a hell of a lot more than the one or two people on this thread who "accept" that risk - take one of mustangs recent video as case and point, constantly gets hit by his own team but if he were wearing the band on his arm, more than likely would have been less of a problem but then again they could have just had it out for him. Not sure why but this whole thread takes me back to a day at copehill down when a sniper got very very salty and complained to the DS running the event that he'd spent in excess of £500 building and crafting his suit only to spend most of his weekend either dead waiting for a medic or having to leave it in the harbor area because a large number of people on the other team had either thermal scopes or helmet mounted thermal. Not the same situation but did make me LOL. My post is not directed at anyone so no toy throwing please. Just my thoughts based off of posts already made.

I've now a new object of desire more than any pew... "The Catalog" 🤩

At this point it also needs a bed, running water and something to cook on and it is several problems solved at once

Those b6 chargers are a liability. There's so many clones and poor qc. One of our quad group stripped one and pictures of the internals were shocking.

I use skyrc and idst chargers. If you want a easy to use charger the skyrc units are solid. Idst adds a lot more functionality but as the cost of setup needs. As to where to purchase, I use hobbyrc.co.uk for lots of my quad parts and service has always been great. Tutorial wise. Look up Joshua Bardwell on YouTube. A lot of the quad flying folks use his guides and he has a few on batteries and chargers.

Please tell me it's called Francis and will be rocking all over the world 😁

If you wear armbands on your ankle, you would float upside down. You could drown!

With a lot of extra steps.

Shamelessly nicked ftom faceache. It was titled The Army Photograper but I think it's more like The Airsoft Youtuber

I suppose every game day has its negative sides. Bad jokes aside, glad you enjoyed yourself

I'd hazard to say the AAP-01 as they're under £100 stock, but they have a tendency to eventually explode unless you buy some reinforced parts for it that will take it over £100 easily. That being said, mine has yet to do so... Outside of that, I'd say an ASG or STTI mk23 plus upgrades. Out of the box they're absolutely awful (mine struggled to hit 25m and wouldn't even hop .25s), but with a few parts they become absolute beasts (mine now hits 60m accurately with .32s, which is stupid). ASG mk23 is about £60, plus new Maple Leaf autobot hop rubber (£10), hadron TDC (£15) and hadron H-arm (£10). £95 and will outshoot most rifles, though if you want to use the suppressor that comes with it you'll need to take it apart and take out the inner barrel extension or you'll have a pocket DMR; they're about 1.5J+ with that extension because joule creep is a big thing with gas guns. However, you can run it without the suppressor no problem at all and it's still fairly quiet. Outside of that... Second hand TM will be your best bet. I would never touch a WE as while I know some people have had success with them, the vast majority of stories I hear are horror stories with those. My honest opinion to most though is if you're playing normally (as in, not sniping or using something with an MED), just take the hit and buy a stock TM and do absolutely nothing to it. They're fantastic pistols and will do everything you need them to do out of the box unless you're using a sniper/DMR and need a secondary that can basically be a primary.

I wouldn’t say anything against WE pistols, plenty to choose from. My G17 performed flawlessly for the two years that I owned it, I still don’t understand why I got rid of it 🤦🏻‍♂️ Best bang for the buck however….. A used TM that has been untampered with You will find used ones cruising around the £100 mark

Their own conversion table says: Calibre ~ mm Calibre ~ inches Wool Mop & Nylon Brushes Brass & Bronze Brushes Tornado Spiral Brushes 4.5mm .17, .177, 6 Flobert 6.50mm 5.2mm ❌ 5.5mm-5.6mm-5.56mm .222, .223 8.00mm 6.50mm 5.70mm 6mm-6.35mm-6.5mm .243 8.50mm 7.30mm 6.50mm 7mm-7.5mm 7RM, .270 10.00mm 8.20mm 7.20mm 7.62mm-7.65mm .30, .300, 30-06, .308 11.00mm 8.50mm 7.90mm 8mm .32 11.00mm 9.20mm 8.15mm 9mm-9.3mm .38, .338, .357, .375 12.00mm 10.50mm 9.00mm 10mm .40 13.00mm 12.00mm 10.30mm 12mm .44, .45, .470 15.00mm 13.00mm 12.00mm 12.7mm .50 16.00mm 14.00mm ❌ 14mm .55 17.00mm 15.00mm 13.80mm TOLERANCES +/- 1.0mm +/- 0.5mm +/- 0.2mm So yeah, the 0.243" calibre mop will be fine. Not sure you'll need a nylon brush unless your barrels are getting particularly shitty.

I have a tall glass fronted bookcase that I intend to use for my rifles and I’m just going to hang a texas flag over the front to conceal them if I have anyone stay in that room. my advice is tell your landlord and any immediate neighbours. also don’t go trying to hide them behind false backed wardrobes or anything, keep them tidy and concealed if you wish but not hidden, if someone comes in and sees them hidden away without knowing you’re an airsofter, you may get an unpleasant visit from an armed response unit. People will be far more likely to think something is illegal if it’s hidden away rather than more out in the open. Also have some photos out of you at Airsoft events carrying the rifles with friends etc, makes people feel more comfortable about it all.

Do mirrors reflect your image? Ghillie suit or otherwise. Well, from now on, you're going to be invisible to me.

Not necessarily, some ghillies are darker than others, some use different guns, some use full face protection, some don't. There's generally more than one way to tell people apart even when wearing even if they are wearing Alan Titchmarshes perv curtains but yes generally its easier to have a word with all of a group rather than pick out an individual all depends how accurate the complainer is, more often than not its a shit description. Didn't say you did. Numerous times people have tried this when I worked as a marshal, ended up taping their arm rather than giving them a nice velcro arm band. Seen a fair few instances while playing guess what happened... the marshals made them wear it on their arm and hovered over them majority of the day. It was at Phoenix from memory. I didn't see the band on his arm in the video I might have been mistaken but he usually does those self loving 360 spin videos and was fairly certain I didn't see it on his arm, may have been pre-game but I have been at games where he has been and have seen him put it round his ankle or leg.

+1 for HobbyRC. Always had great service from them. I have a IDST D2 Mk2 which I like very much - but complete overkill for Airsoft batteries - I also use it for RC (Aircraft) packs so it justifies the expense for my needs. I would go SkyRC S65 if I didn't have an existing 12v DC Power supply, or the more feature-rich IDST Q6 Nano if I did. The SkyRC T100 is a basic, but compelling (for the price) option for dual-channel charging and worth considering @Pollynator_bravo2 What charger was it? Would love to find out.

If we have a ghillie clothing class with their own rules to allow discretion removal or repositioning of armbands, like how sniper rifles have their own rules, surely for marshalling reasons they should just belong to the same class, as such you should only be allowed to wear ghillie if you use a sniper rifle and vice versa. If that is the case then I don't see the issue with different rules applying to ghillies. But in practice since everyone can wear a ghillie, or wear parts of a ghillie, that becomes the issue, because suddenly you have random people deciding not to wear the armband simply because they enjoy it, and it becomes impossible to marshal the game because the only way of team identification goes out the window. So for management reasons any game sites should never allow discretion removal of armbands based on clothing. It should be based on the sniper rifle special rules. That is at least piggybacking on the existing rule-set and makes it a sniper rifle problem therefore completely eliminates the ghillie clothing from equation, which would make a whole lot more sense to me. If we reframe the problem into "should sniper users who already play with different joule limit and engagement distances allowed to remove or reposition their armbands", that is a much more reasonable question or proposition than say, can someone remove their armband based on the amount of leafs they are wearing. So in short this is actually a sniper rifle problem, and not at all related to the ghillie suit clothing.

Unfortunately my experience of the stitch counters is that the vast majority seem to have their head up their arse to such an extent that they think everyone must have the same amount of knowledge as them, even if you've only been involved in the scene for 5 minutes. Don't get me wrong, I certainly don't expect to be spoon fed, but shitting on someone for asking questions or the most minor things like how their boots are laced up is just being a cunt for the sake of it. If you ever visited the Red Alliance forum you'll know what I mean

Ouch, which Nuprol were you using? Sorry that happened to you. It's a salient reminder to charge inside an Explosion Containment Pie Dish. I'm using an old SkyRC Imax B6. Last I heard, the RC Master Race were still recommending SkyRCs, e.g. the S65.

If one day we have a perfect invisible tech (let's call it magic suit) anyone wearing the magic invisible suit will be fully expected to wear armbands at the very minimum, probably leg bands as well, if not just for safety and ID reasons. I think the visible armband rule should be mandatory to all players to maintain fairness, if the guy in normal suits have to keep his armband visible (and not allowed to hide it), a ghillie should not enjoy any privilege to be able to remove or relocate or obscure their armband just because they choose to dress in leafs. I would even argue ghillies should have mandatory leg bands in addition to armbands as to allow prone position identification for friendlies. If I decided to put my armband in my pocket just because I am dressed in some magical optical cloaking tech (therefore should be "fully invisible") they would have kicked me out of the site. The thing is, this is ultimately a game, and any game needs some sort of balance for A. a fun experience for all and B. for the health of the hobby in general. By and large the real world counters to real snipers are not commonly practised in airsoft or have a much higher bar of entry than just paying £50 for a ghillie overall. This is also a game legally limited to 1J plastic bullets and the rules should be designed around the gameplay that emerge from it and I would say perfect invisibility should be ruled out. At the minimum team identification should be visible from any angle. Outside of the armbands, you can be as invisible as you want but keep the armbands visible. Moreover if you wear a ghillie you should still need to make the armband (and leg band) visible even just for identification reasons alone. If someone has the rare skills to identify you from under the bush before you can shoot him but not able to tell you are friend or foe, they will be forced to either shoot you or ask you verbally which team you are on, which frankly both are merely workarounds of a problem that should not be allowed to take place in the first place. So this is as much as a class-privilege problem and a practical gameplay rule-set problem.

Well done on completely missing the point. You claimed you're not putting on your leg to hide the band but also say putting it on your arm will make you stick out so it goes on your leg. How is that not trying to hide it?

There's a slight difference in the user though isn't there. Im sure anyone could blend in / hide in a bush or dense foliage without the band giving them away, but generally that's not what I do. As I wear a ghillie most of the time when I play outdoors I often sit Infront of the base of a tree or at the edge some natural cover rather than fully submerge myself in something. This means I can get a better view of the playing field and not get my sniper or suit caught up in the inevitable bramble bush I end up gravitating towards. There, you've drawn me back in and away from my pimple popping videos, now leave me be and carry on with posting negative comments on Kicking Mustang videos! 😂

Well it ain’t broke, fires straight and long, sounds good too, so might just have fun with it and see how it goes …..

Probably because thats what you said. Many non ghillie users will often wear stuff that helps with camouflage but are capable of wearing the band on their arm and staying concealed. Claiming that you can't stay hidden with a 2 inch band on your arm is simply bullshit

Cheers guys. As for susat wear. As this is based on a 3 para 2008 afghan look, all the pics I've seen of the paras in that period have well worm susats. So am basically do a straight copy what was seen in theatre.

Hello & welcome. Personally I'd suggest renting for a bit, definitely use your own other kit but I've found that renting has forced me to spend time to work out what I actually want from my own RIF. It's also allowed me to check out what other people use and let's face it, airsofters love talking about their kit! It's only 3 games and 56 days before you can sort UKARA and if nothing else it'll mean you don't have to re-spray a two-tone. In terms of a case then anything your kit will fit in will do, obviously if it's camo then you'll be drawing attention to yourself so I'd suggest anything that's plain looking and forgettable will do just fine.

A teeny tiny stock to replace my …teeny tiny stock? The chopped car-15 stock wasn’t the most comfy, so thought I best upgrade:

It's probably an old price before the value of the £ dropped like a sack of spuds against the $. 1.38 last year, now 1.15 (ouch). In the catalog there's only $3 different between the C and D 🙂

IMAX B6 was the charger I was using. It was a stick 11.1v lipo I can’t remember the mah but think it was 1400 possibly