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After I nearly bought a stock KC02 to build up gradually, I ended up buying this instead from @Alimcd It's absolutely beautiful!! Can't wait to give it an outing at The MAW on the 10th!

Hello everyone, Greetings from France, so sorry for the mistakes and the bad english. I played my first "airsoft game" 17 years ago if I remember correctly... I owned lots of replicas through years, mostly GBBr and gas powered (G&P WOC, WA M16, GHK AKM, M700 KJW, M870 Tanaka...) but had to sell them to try new things or to get money back, 2019 was a hard year with no job for example so I sold mostly all my replicas. Currently life is going a lot better and I bought news replicas during last months, including "guns" I have been looking for a long time. For example VFC M733 GBBr, Ares L1A1 SLR or VFC KAC SR-16 AEG. But my girlfriend is turning a bit angry because of all the news "guns" I am buying during a short time and storing into my office, she likes airsoft too and plays sometimes with me but she says I have too many replicas. 😅 During the past I worked as a props maker / production designer, and costumes maker. I then went back to school to study traditional and digital illustration, I try to draw with a little Wacom tablett with Photoshop. So my other hobbies (beside drawing and watching movies, things lots of peoles do) includes model kits, mostly 1/72e WWII vehicles and planes, some movie / video games editing or roaming around doing silly stuff Online with friends on GTA, Minecraft, MudRunner or Garry's Mod. So yes, as you can tell, I am a nerd. I registered here because I found some very interesting replicas in the "Classified" part of the forum, that are very difficult to find in France. See you later on the forum 👋

Bonsoir et bienvenue. You are allowed a gun for each pair of shoes that your girlfriend has. That's the rule. 😉 Is there a Milsim scene in France? Some of the continental airsoft games look on a much larger scale than we regularly have in the UK.

And another monitor situated directly behind it... “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” 😁

Don't "retailers" need permission to sell/advertise on here ?, rule 10 states: Second hand airsoft-relevant items only. They're clearly not second hand as such, but if new are they offered with any warranty etc.?

them saying they’ll have a website soon where defence checks will be in place at extra cost ? Two listings for a dozen brand new RIF’s in each ad ? The use of “we” implying more than one person . just a guess really .

When you're at STANTA and someone says "you're to old to run the Battle Alley". Not grinning, gasping for air...

for those interested. PXL_20230903_083748067.TS.mp4

I had a cunning thought based on the word 'needle' - I found a thick needle and pushed / hammered it into the external valve hole - and it gripped enough to let me spin it with no effort whatsoever Yay!

Welcome. Don't worry about any mistakes with your English, it certainly better than my French. Hell, it's better than many English people's English

Hi Art and welcome. (meat and two veg) Nice to have you on forum👍 Yep as @Tactical Pith Helmetsays one gun per pair of shoes,he is a very reasonable guy because I stretch it slightly and say one gun for every shoe.lol Enjoy the forum and try not to buy too much😉 Regards

Hi from England (fish & chips) Judging from your previously owned and current guns, I can see you are a person of excellent taste. Well done.

I can guarantee that the guarder part at Boomarms is not in stock. I have also been searching for the past month for these myself and until the very recent website update the said 'stock incoming'. It said this on many things out of stock and now suddely these have all changed. There is no longer a clear stock status and you can add it to your cart. This happened to all 'stock incoming' items. This will, in effect, be a pre order until Guarder can be bothered to run another batch. Given what I believe is low demand this could be many months.

Guys please! Fire your stuff nowhere near your setups. I test mine in an empty garage with a mesh net wrapped around the chrono until it literally blew the zip out and i'm figuring out a new solution that can withstand 500fps.

Well I feel a bit of a dick. Lets leave it at that 🤣

Thought I'd lost a couple of pieces....turns out they had worked their way inside the pew during transit (I'd put them in the case after they'd come lose on a game day). Wasted an hour of Google, then made thos post, stripped out the washing machine filter and the cab of my van. Still all back together now LOL

They do, which will have a significant impact on the power delivered at the nozzle.

I did have eye pro on. 🤣

I'm not too late this time... You ok hun?

Did you not read the manual for safe use?

Pah.... The less said about what I did to one of my monitors the other day the better...

Oh yeah, it's fine to use in the safe zone on a table, but out on the field between games, it's a pain... so an adapter is definately needed

Like the mix with the tracers, very cool ! Oddly I find the loader ok to use, but wouldn't want to try to reload with it in a game . An adapter for a more compact loader would be good.

Currently using .28s, but will probably try switching to .30 or .32 when they run out. I also load my mags to give 5 tracer BBs to every 20 normal BBs, loading each mag to the 175 mark. Hoping someone can make a 3d printed adapter to fit on a my G&G speed loader, as the supplies speedloader is a pain to use, and the adapter won't fit without a lot of messing about.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3782295

But they are clearly a retailer , retailing RIF so …. No checks today , maybe checks tomorrow 🤷🏼‍♂️

My guess is because Ukara requires a payment as a physical retailer to check defence and to my knowledge only retailers (Including sites) can access the Ukara database directly - Meaning, they're wanting to set up a shop, and get the customers to essentially "chip in" so to speak on the cost to access the database.

Regular AEG, TM recoil, TM/VFC/WA/WE/KWA GBBR? A little more specificity would help.

interesting , apparently retailing on here doesn’t incur any defence costs but once they go on a website it does 🤷🏼‍♂️

First walk-on in 7/8yrs 4* , had fun , would go again 😛

I have set mine for 0.3g

I have one of those suppressors as well and it is indeed cool. I have mine fitted on my VFC M249. I have fitted a tracer into my one by removing the front cap and replacing it with the front cap of a boneyard Spitfire tracer, then fitting an acetech brighter R (with rear cap removed and some tape to centralise the tracer unit) in the space where the spring normally sits behind the generator. With regards to the fluid, I have read that you can make your own using distilled water and vegetable glycerine, but I have yet to try it myself. (Or the same fluid for model trains/tanks should work) Used it at AWA Herts the other week, and the combination of GBB M249 and smoke generator suppressor definately drew a lot of attention Only issue I had with the website was the tracking number for my order. Initial tracking number didn't work, but I got an email with a new tracking number that did work. Within a couple of weeks of ordering, I had it in my hands, and no hassle with customs

Hi Art and welcome, I wish my French was half as good as your English ! Great selection of guns you've got there , and as another GBB fan , Gas is the way 😁 Also the answer to the question 'how many guns do you need ?' is the same as for guitars and its always 'Just one more' Love to hear more about the airsoft scene in France.

I'm thinking a small drift/parallel punch (screwfix here) and a small hammer. Place the mag in a vice (don't overtighten!) and use the punch at a 45 degree angle to gently tap out the remaining valve body from the threads. Something like this:

Hiya, There is a banner on their website that says they are in America and that there will be delays. On the MTW user group they are pretty well regarded. Ash

Welcome @Art, I'm non binary so I identify as Roast Beef 😜, you need to explain to your girlfriend that judging by your current collection, for example your L1A1, that your a man of great taste & refinement, & if she cannot understand this then she's clearly not the girl for you🤔 You've come to the best place for all things Airsoft, but we are also very interested in learning about the French Airsoft scene, I in particular as I'm considering a holiday/retirement home, possibly in France & have no intention of quitting Airsoft as long as I have a pulse.

'Can I get a hamburger with cheese?' 'Sorry, we only accept cash or card.'

Dammit! I hate motor insurers with a vengeance.😡😡😡😡

This. Everyone moans about how new rifs are so often "just another M4" but manufacturers know that's what will sell in high enough numbers to make it worth their while. I'd hazard a guess that of all the people who say they like whatever new non M4 rif is available, less than 10% actually buy one

It was a black Specna Arms HK416 love tan coloured rifles. The paint code is RAL10

Not a camo pattern but still rattle can , this was just a plain black LMT , picked it up cheap so fancied some peanut butter flavour 😛 my desire to set up a home Cerakote station grows stronger everyday …. More money 🤦🏼‍♂️

Ahhh well, that really would be a long long long post. Suffice to say he is a grade A1 cheating throbber of a racist right wing cunt. There are plenty of threads on here about him if you care to search.

If you mean Urban Assault at RAF Upwood unfortunately that went a few years ago. Iirc it's houses now

To be honest a LOT of the prices on DCA seem to have been decided following heavy use of the crack pipe.......

Urban Assault was my first site, i went loads of times. Great site, terrible marshalling and SUPER cliquey/boys club shit but the building to building firefights made up for all of it. Second place goes to the mall, terrible for airsoft in reality but it was so different and the people running it really put the effort in with the different game modes, always appreciated a silly one after a day of serious games (supermarket sweep!). Now it's just woodland, can't find an indoor site anyway. im bored of the woods

When I did airsoft in Spain about 12 years ago, there was no such thing as an official site (at least not on the Costa del Sol). It was just a bunch of people who showed up to an area and played BB wars, as there were LOADS of abandoned urbanisations on the Costa del Sol, because they built them all without planning permission as holiday homes and stuff, but then had to stop when the authorities realised it was an illegal construction. Nobody was about to pay to demolish them, so they turned into our unofficial airsoft sites. There were a few "events" as such, I remember going to one up in the mountains near Monda and Ojen, but they were few and far between. Like, once a year or something. That said, there was a small urbanisation we played on near Mijas, but I believe it was demolished after someone slipped and fell down the stairs, cracking their head open and had to be rushed to hospital. That was the main "site" we all went to (even if I thought the one in Estepona was way better!). Have a lot of good memories from there, it was like half woodland, half urban and it was really cool. There were some dark corridors on the lower levels, multi-level firefights and even a really dark and a cramped tunnel that nobody ever used (because it was really hard to actually move in) apart from about 5 of us which could take you behind the enemy lines. Here are some low resolution photos I've dug up (hey, 1024x768 was the 1080p of 2008!)