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If your a criminal reading this thread & are thinking about turning an IF in to a RIF, look at the pretty light 😉

Probably all the people that got them around Christmas, it's taken them this long to realise how shite they are 🤣

I got into it because a mate was playing, dragged us out for the day and that was that. Hooked. I take my eldest along and one of his mates too. My eldest is a cadet and a few of his fellow cadets also play. It's kinda infectious.🤣 He's properly found his inner officer as If I lose him on the field, I just stop and listen for a gobby 13 year old barking orders at grown adults or if not that, listen for the highest fire fight. Hell be in the middle of it! I think the games consoles have an influence too. He wanted a p90 because it was cool on COD784 or whatever it's up to now and realistically they all do the same thing, so why not. I even made him a riot shield which he sports along with his m92 and has a scream. The under 18's day we do (apocalypse 249 on a Saturday) is usually packed with the whole spectrum. The rentals having their first go to the mummy's boy with the Gucci gear and no idea. Also in agreement. "Old fart slow soft" is my speed. Tactical walking. 🤣🤣

Hi everyone joined the Forum for information and to meet others involved in airsoft. At the moment I have 2 Snow Wolf AEG M41A Pulse Rifles, one I have modified cosmetically to better represent the Alien 3 Weyland Yutani Commando black version (upgrading to full GBB at a later date) and the second one a Colonial Marines version I will be converting to full GBB retro-fitting a WE-Tech Thompson M1A1 and also a APS Remington CAM 870 AOW into the Snow Wolf. Both of the Snow Wolf's plastic SPAS cages will be replaced with metal replica SPAS 12 cages (also cloned slider grips) and also the barrel cages will be swapped out to replicate the screen used ones, eventually I will be replacing the plastic shrouds with either cast or pressed alloy ones! If anyone on here has done this AEG to GBB conversion I would appreciate any information, help or suggestions? Cheers Andy

Because you can never have enough US Woodland and ALICE! Greetings from the 55th! I've attached some pictures of our team from the Filmsim event - Red Mist 4: Operation Hirta. Most of the team are running the LBV88 vest along with a standard ALICE belt set-up and US Woodland! Hope you like. Cheers Above photos from Chris Thomas Photography

Why? Define significant money? A secure system, hosting and handling processes are required. That costs money. But why ‘significant’? GDPR does not prevent the sharing of personal information - in fact, as any system designed to form a VCRA defence would require some form of sharing to function then it would be a GDPR breech to not share information collected for the purposes of sharing the validation of a defence. It does require the security of information collected and to only share the appropriate information in the appropriate manner eg Collect suitable information to justify a defence, receive a query to validate a defence, share appropriate information back and forth with appropriate parties Eg request for defence number 54321, Joe Bloggs, 1 the Avenue, New Town Result confirmed

If your first post on the day you join AFUK isn't an overpriced listing, are you really an AFUK newbie?

£90 even split for each of the for slightly scuffed pistols when you can get them at retail from £105-£130 unscuffed with some peace of mind. Optimistic.

Ex issue dpm ops vest, dpm soldier 95 shirt, trousers and boonie. Some itw nexus clips to attack a rocket pouch to the vest. Some velcro to allow patches onto the soldier 95 shirt. Helicon green tshirt. And for my other kit, a quad smg pouch. Finally a o ring rebuild kit for the mk23 mags.

@superwok I know you got it sorted via the just-cos route, however did you not try to ask any retailers if any other forms of defence were acceptable? You've got 110 posts on this forum, have been a member for 5 years, visit regular and have 100% feedback, that should be enough to confirm. As @Dan Robinson also states, social media posts / photos also another good. The IT ex-colleague of mine who's still looking at a defense system (has a fair bit of it built) was thinking about putting in supporting material for defence, how it will work in the system I don't know but seems a legit idea.

Cool story, but I don't see an offence there. It's a long stretch to show intent beyond a reasonable doubt, and it's not like rapscallions can't figure out that they can apply some best Poundland spray paint to their day-glos, for fair purposes or foul. I very much doubt there's any policing of RIFs now, at least within the UK's borders. There are retailers openly flaunting the VCRA with joke non-defences like JustCos, or techs posting videos documenting that they're building Section 5 firearms. Nobody is bothered... until some cause célèbre will inevitably result in the State getting very bothered.

CTR fits lovely!

Hi here is my Snow Wolf AEG Weyland Yutani Commando M41A Pulse Rifle, the upgrades are mostly cosmetic to represent the Alien 3 screen used prop, the Thompson and dummy grenade launcher will both be converted to full GBB in the near future! My next project is to convert my Snow Wolf Colonial Marines to full GBB and I will hopefully start a build and upgrade thread if someone please can tell me in which section I should start the thread??

Still counts as a kill

Yeah agree. My fav is seeing how many shots to knock a complete leaf off. The amount of times I've been hit while distracted by playing'You're dead leaf' 😂

You'd best check for 'cad' too. Most bounders tend to be cads from what I hear

You pinched my script you bounder.

We F226 with Full Trades. It's chunky and delicious!

I hear Alec Baldwin is acting in another film. Shooting begins soon.

Hopefully, none. To my knowledge, Just-Cos isn't a valid defence for a RIF.

Thats great, thank you for your help 👍

WAS Black ops cribbs & Black ops portishead , but not any more , banned for questioning the owner ! What did you question?

I always love the look of matching trousers and carrier/rig. I fuck with the setup, dude.

That's the same as mine except black! I've just had a look at one of my spare EPG-C grips, the flanges either side of the height adjuster may still need cutting down a bit, the end bearing on the XT motor is shallower than a regular motor, plus you don't have all the empty space around it where the tabs mount on a brushed motor. Plus they do usually put the motor a touch too steep for me. Not so bad that it shags the motor but not the best meshing!

Would love to make a Colonial Marine load out..... watched Aliens the other day for the gazillionth time. LETS ROCK!

Airsofters gonna airsoft 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Drawing todgers in the frozen stream at AWA was a fun way to warm up the pews whe. It was -6 a couple of Christmas' ago. Also fun chopping down ferns, brambles and stinging nettles "for the greater good".

Absolutely anyone over 18 can buy an IF (and there'll be plenty of shops which don't enforce that rule) and anyone can buy black spray paint from the Halfords round the corner, or maybe even the same shop that sold them the IF. 2 minutes later.. well sick pistol bruv.

Has everyone forgotten the point of firing bb's at each other?

I have seen people sent home for shooting out of bounds after clear warnings about not doing so, deliberately taking out a hot gun, letting off a round in the safe zone (that was an interesting one), smoking weed in the lunch break, and repeated non hit taking despite warnings.

I'd say airsoft is way more accessible than in the past and far more mainstream than ever. With the rise of social media companies are able to reach a far greater audience including those who might not have heard of airsoft. The same applies to youtubers. Compare this to 20 years ago when the only online places for airsofters was a couple of forums similar to here. Costs are comparably lower as there were no clone companies so your choices of manufacturers was pretty much TM, Classic Army or ICS and magazines were £25 - £30 each

It's OK, we won't hold it against you! Thing is that while we know we're just playing toy soldiers with better sticks, there's a huge swathe of the general populace that think it's silly and unfortunately there's more of them than there is of us. I mean, there's way more violence and injury connected with kickyball than there is with airsoft and yet it's the most popular sport in the country.

WIP ... Lightweight Recce Loadout : VIPER Sepc Ops Chest Rig with added shoulder pads and Scrote Pouch. Pistol is secure in the rig and I'll be getting some 5.56 inserts to replace the current bungee retention. Comms will fit into one of the utility pouches to either the left or right hand side of the rig. I need some Kneepads and I'll be using a better belt than the one I'm wearing in the pic, but otherwise the rig is comfortable, has a decent amount of storage which can be increased with the addition of a daypack, keeps all the bits and bobs snug and secure and leaves your hips etc free of encumbrance.

Foil & Saber fencing use simple electrical circuits in a limited space where the two participants are tethered with a cable to the control box. I've thought about it before and honestly don't know how accurate scoring could be achieved with airsoft. The closest related tech would be laser tag but that is obviously more accurate than blowing BBs out of a tube so they wouldn't be compatible. Personally I'd be happy to drop the whole BB firing thing to be replaced with low power laser or IR and mechanical recoil. It would essentially be a version of laser tag with more realistic weapons. I'd miss making holes in paper targets of course but worth it I think to eliminate the honour system. (And no, I'm not going to bugger off to play laser tag instead because they don't use RIFs 😄) But having a robust scoring system would be the first step to making it a legitimate sport. Although the premise of people 'shooting' each other in mock combat for fun may still have some opposition.

fencing as a completive sport is done indoors where as airsoft is quiet often played outers where there is tree branches tall grass, knocking into structures and weather such as rain. Any suits sensors would be going off every other second.

It's a difficult one, changes in society haven't helped. For example, 40 years ago every youngster & his mates chased each other around with realistic looking toys & no one on the street gave them a second look, the miltary was treble it's size, & there was literally a waiting list of people wanting to join up, in London almost every borough had a ta Hall, cadet units representing all 3 services (+ plus the marines), surplus stores aplenty, & very little gun crime, essentially lots of things to nurture interests in shooting pastimes & there was no stigma applied to anyone remotely interested in anything "gun shaped". Fast forward, sprogs in nurseries & primary schools are forbidden from even fashioning a pistol from lego, the army is tiny & can't fill it's ranks, a massive proportion of the ta & cadet units have disappeared, a small number of terrible gun sprees have massively impacted all forms of gun ownership, coupled with commonplace gun crime. All of this has changed UK societies mindset on guns & associated pastimes. Needless to say those of us that are hooked have an uphill battle to encourage others to consider joining our ranks, or even turning out once for a "taster" 🤔

I sympathise with the need for a system of defense such as UKARA, but to be fair to the OP, my son's situation would mean that if he were 18, it would be incredibly difficult for him to maintain a UKARA defense, and once I leave the UK, it will be the same for me. We'll only be back for a month or two at a time with lots of family visiting responsibilities to fit into a limited budget when it comes to car hire, fees, ammo, and possibly having to rent an air BnB for the duration. Hence, as discussed in other threads, I maintain an album of site generated pictures of me and him participating in the hobby to help us form a defence of our own should we ever be pulled over by the fuzz with a car full of RIFs. Which I know doesn't help with retailers... but then this is the reason for this thread I suppose. Mind you the OP didn't do himself any favours by not at least trying to explain the situation. Just playing devil's advocate.

And theres the difference between you and I. I do care about people actively undermining the defense that keeps our hobby viable. You apparently don't give a fuck...... And for what its worth in this thread you've pretty much proved that "if I have to explain this, you still won't understand".

This! UKARA was created in order to demonstrate that the industry had a means of ensuring that RIFs were only being sold to people who intended to use them for airsoft. It may be imperfect, but it was a key element in ensuring that we would not have to play with brightly coloured IFs. Salty little bugger, aren't you?

For my 5 pence worth, although the current system it could be argued isn’t the best it is something and it’s recognised. When I was reenacting I had all the insurances and memberships but I could only ever buy rifs that corresponded to the time period I was portraying. My quite brutal answer would be if you can’t make time to play frequently then maybe Airsoft isn’t for you.

Given that the requirement is to "take part in three games at the same UKARA registered game site over a minimum of two months, e.g. the third game being 56 days or more after the first." I am slightly baffled as to how you are unable to play frequently enough.

Can we please stop trying to find ways to bypass (the not exactly onerous to acquire) defense we have.... please and thank you.

So after a fairly long hiatus due to having more kids (Clearly can’t keep it in my pants). I finally have the time and more importantly money to get back into the hobby. All I need to do now is restock all my stuff. if I don’t tell the missus how much it was she won’t mind haha 😂 But I’m a few years older definitely not wiser and can’t wait to get started again.

Agree, my similar bugbear was with UK retailers selling guns too hot for UK sites (& UK laws) & expecting you to pay extra to "downgrade" 🤬. Although I haven't heard of it happening so much in recent times, maybe it's been addressed ?

Pictures courtesy of Daniel D. Wiltshire at RedAlert's BattleSim Lite yesterday. Shirt & Trousers : Arktis Greek Lizard Chest : Arktis 2REP Crossrig Shooters belt : bits and bobs incl. IMIDefense holster, Arktis ammo pouches, UK Tactical dump pouch

Yes, one of the posts ever made. At least we know you are human

A few of my CTSFO inspired builds