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AM I DOING AN AIRSOFT RIGHT? KTW Flintlock pistol and musket.

Well, yesterday at Red Alert was our 4th, and final, Battlesim in the Vukodlak war story line. The past three years Vukodlak forces have been victorious. Having played for Vukodlak in previous years, this year I decided to marshal which, as with many battlesims, meant playing as a civilian/quest giver. I spiced it up by playing as a pirate. I was giving out quests to find my lost parrot. There were 3 inflatable parrots hidden about the site, but I had drawn an eye patch on one, and in my quest spiel I mentioned that Polly only had one eye. If they brought back the parrot with the eye patch they got a reward. I also had a bottle of grog, which got hidden, and there was a reward if they brought me "alcohol". The main objective of the day was to find all the items needed to arm a rocket, and then launch it. The rocket is something I've been building recently, but kept off of social media so it would be a surprise for the players on the day. There were two nose cones, one for each team, a round one and a pointy one (pointy is scary). Other civilians had other quests. The drug dealers were selling bags of stuff, for in game currency. This could be handed in to the sheriffs for a reward, or bartered with other npcs. There was the Hobo wandering the site with his wheelbarrow full of junk, but underneath the junk was a laptop that contained the launch codes. Driving around in his pickup was the arms dealer. He would sell you weapons that you could plant on any unarmed civilians you may have shot, and thereby avoid a war crime. 😉 The Camels wanted water, mostly... Some civilians were mercs, that would fight for a team for short time, if paid well. At the end of the day Vukodlak were victorious AGAIN, despite some excellent play from the Calladian forces. It was a bloody marvellous day, that ended with both teams wearing massive grins and swapping stories over a beer. So roll on 2025, for a whole new story for our next battlesim! Unfortunately a lot of people had already gone home before we took the last photo after debrief.

The Mafioso AMT Hardballer (aka the Terminator Pistol) with full stainless internals. Another wall hanger

Expect a call from Iran asking how quickly you can deliver a few hundred

Just an FYI, if you're selling cool clothing in various cam patterns I'm interested... If you're selling cool clothing in various patterns in sizes smaller than 3xl... I hate you! I'm a 56 yr old f4t f(ck, now where did I put those maltesers? Oh, Yeah... I ate them.

Captain Crack Sparrow, thank you.

Had to keep this under wraps, until after the battlesim. New game objective, find all the components required to launch the rocket, including the nose cone.

That's a rip off of thunderbird 3. 😂

Not printed by me, but @GenuineGerman (Who I can not thank enough for doing these for me) Late war M16/XM DOD Stamps! I made sure to smudge it a bit like seen on 99.99% of the real M16's for that added little bit of authentic touch

I don't sadly. I do get asked about these every now and then. Just hard to source along with loads of other small plastic parts. I'm working with a friend at the moment to get our own injection molding setup up and running, will take a while but once it is then small parts like this should be readily available.

THANK YOU! I wanted to paint Thunderburp 3 on the side.

Same game as the Captain, pics by Daniel Wiltshire, going back to my og team's camo. Had a great day with great team mates. And those accusations of war crimes are ludicrous.

Latest part for a little project: Extra points if you can guess what I'm building!

Only if you did the Jack Sparrow running style. Bonus points if you had a bottle of rum too

Found someone in Manchester who makes them, £6.37 for 3 was my quote.. also recommended by someone else in the Airsoft WhatsApp group https://lancashirearmament.co

JUMP!! Steady on mate 😂

Not owned 8fields kit, but I've never had a mag, pistol or rifle, fall out of those kind of pouches, so it's probably safe to assume you never had it adjusted tight enough, not a criticism just an observation. As a young squaddie literally 4 decades ago, one of the first things we were taught was once your kit was loaded up, have a good jump around in front of your mates, looking for anything that might make a noise & give you away, & that everything is secure. Good rule of thumb before your next game.

Before I got distracted was building m723 mog and m727 movie rifles

Wow, it sounds like they're giving you every excuse under the sun. If it's a repair under warranty my next e mail would say they've got a week to either complete the repair work or issue a full refund or you'll be taking legal action If they really do have a massive amount of warranty repairs to do then it makes me wonder how crap their stock is

Kraken. I see you're a man of taste

I may or may not be taking my outfits with me - although i might only take the lightweight rig as its hot and humid AF over there. The pews will be lovingly stored with a parent - probably the old man as he has real steel to look after so he knows how its done. No point taking them to the land of little people as they'll all need downgrading. The thought of me rocking up to a field there dressed in full Osprey kit and juggernauting my way around the game zone squishing all and sundry is rather amusing. The MK4 is size 190/120 and i have brassards and a full collar for it somewhere. Made that mistake last week trying to buy shirts at a retail park in Chiba (not China).... Japanese 3xl is an L there too. So me trying to get into a shirt with 3xl on the hanger was.... an exercise in itself.

I kept on looking at Ospreys but wasnt,aren't sure of what i want in a load out. Ive a Warrior Elite chest rig coming this week. Id love to say that if i dont like it I'll sell it but isnt it right that whoever does with the most toys wins? Try selling it on here first. 😉😉

I have an Osprey plate carrier that is pretty chonks... I keep planning to put it on ebay with some pouches - but then I'm a lazy fecker.

As @Sewdhull mentioned, it's all down to fitment. Some hop rubbers will fit tighter than others, some barrels are slightly bigger outer diameter than others. You could also look at something like this: https://www.airtechstudios.com/collections/g-g-cm16-srs-7/products/universal-advanced-hop-up-chamber-inner-barrel-ring which will help hold the barrel centred and secure.

If the smoke was coming from the trigger then I doubt it was the battery as they're in the stock. I'd say it was a problem with either the wiring or the motor. Imo you did the right thing sending it back. Too many people in this hobby are happy to buy something, find out it doesn't work and then spend more on fixing it. As far as I'm concerned, if I'm spending several hundred quid on something it had better work out of the box or it's going back

It's the fit really and yes some clips fit better than others at least that's been my experience. I have used a little epoxy to pad out the clip so it has no play, but you need to carefully align stuff and then let it cure. In short, I roughed up the barrel flats, degreased em, then put a little epoxy on the flats and put the clip on. Once the epoxy firms up take the clip of and use a knife to tidy the excess. In a perfect world id put the epoxy on the clip but it doesn't adhere as well to the clip as the barrel. If the barrel and bucking are moving together you can shim the bucking to the hop with PTFE tape. Also make the front part of the hop snugger onto the barrel (where the ring goes in if you have one) If the barrel is moving inside the bucking you can shim the front part of the bucking to the barrel and make the front part of the hop snugger as above.

So I have been really struggling to find a minerva piggyback Placard in stock anywhere, I really liked that some of the UKSF lads had adopted it for holding flashbangs on the front of the mag pouches so because I couldn't find one anywhere I decided to make my own I used an elite spanker triple molle pouch with a pistol pouch front and a thread picker removed the pistol pouches and bought a meter of multicam elastic, I have a girl at work who is a brilliant haberdasher and has done some kit repairs for me in the past so I gave it to her to do for me but unfortunately her machine couldn't get through the thick material so I went to hobbycraft and bought a pack of needles and thick thread and some beer because this was going to take absolutely ages 😂 I'm more than pleased with the outcome it only took about 3 hours of using pliers to ram the needle through and I only stabbed myself about 15 times 😂

We're doing a lot of maintenance right now. More bridges to come, some structures to be torn down and replaced, some repaired, some new ones. Woodland with a few knackered barricades just doesn't cut it. The decking will be gritted and painted, for extra grip. Think skateboard grip tape, on a larger scale. We've had 6 of us jumping down on this one. My welds hold 😉 20240425_150829.mp4 Oh, and I added this today. YARRR!

So a while ago I started to build a hk21e machinegun based on a jg g3 but the gun was a bit screwed and I made a bit of a hash of upgrading it so That rather killed my motivation for working on that. I recently sold off that gun as part of my process of swapping entirely to gbbrs. Having watched a few explosive enterprises vids I decided to give this another go. This time the base gun is a we gbb g3. It came to me with the barrel shortened and Ive just picked up a proper hk21e style clubfoot stock for it. Im planning to model and print most of the bits for it in plastic and then send them off to be done in aluminium when im finished. This is just the first step. 1 new sight block that just sits on the cocking tube and dosent go down to the barrel. 2 front handguard cap with a block hidden under it which bolts to the handguard pinhole to keep everything rigid 3 a sleeve to go over the barrel to give it the proper machinegun profile. I have sanded and painted this bit since the proper barrel is tapered and making one of these in metal would be a pain. will probably leave it plastic. It just screws onto the outer barrel nut and gets pinned in place by the flash hider. next up is to make the rear handguard cap and order some steel or aluminium tube to make the actual handguard. Ill be building a pinhole into the rear handguard cap where the belt feed mechanism attaches. This would normally be on the reciever instead of the magwell but Im trying to make this in a way which requires as little modification to the base gun as possible. Once the belt feed assembly is made ill be making a box mag to slot onto it, fitting the guts of a 249 box in there, hpa tapping the original mag and drilling a hole in the front for bbs to feed in from a spring tube. Im not really a fan of hpa but for a gbb lmg like this its simply the best option.

HPA is only more reliable if (like gas) you're happy to do the maintenance. A well set up AEG can be consistent enough for a game where the slightest whiff of a breeze can make a mockery of the money you've spent on making your gun super accurate and consistent! Thing is, social circles (like many corners of the interwebs) are basically echo chambers. All your friends think HPA is great, therefore you are more likely to go HPA because that's all you've heard about.

If you find any let me know lol. I had some 3d printed a couple of years ago and they lasted really well but the last one has recently failed. Most places seem to be out of stock. Patrol base had them but it was crazy postage price.

To be fair, I caused a war crime deliberately. I was exchanging shots with one of my Outcasts, who were playing for Vukodlak, and I had just been payed 100 snozzbucks to merc for Calladia. At that moment the arms dealer pulled up, so I threw all my weapons in the back of the truck. Now an unarmed civilian, I stepped out of cover and Ramon shot me in the chest. Boom, war crime 😁

Awe, MANN! let it go

Going to guess m723 mog sniper ?

Funnily enough I was planning on sticking some gear up that's around the uk 3xl size, I think most of it is od or black though, need to check🤔

Preach! I think that the nuprol battery I bought as a newbie fell apart 🤔

Thanks, I am using 11.1v already so should be good. I looked at those but they may be a bit thick for the Double Eagles. I'll purchase 1 and check but I know for sure the 1000mAh will fit and should last 3 or 4 30 minute sessions the way we play.

Or maybe you just bought a lemon 🍋 ?

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Fortunately the number of players who use DMRs tends to be fairly low; at least at my site, I'm one of the only players who uses one. So if I were marshalling, I'd make a mental note of the players running DMRs when chronoing and I'd keep an eye on them through the game day and make sure they weren't spamming. And I don't think so. All the non-programmable mosfets that I know, things like the gate nano aab, also don't lock them to semi-auto.

£250 preowned, or £165 brand new and an extra £40 for the drum mag https://www.usedairsoft.co.uk/rif-s/electric-powered/m1a1-full-metal-thompson_i60427 At that price point, I think I'd rather buy this... thing https://staffordshiremilitaria.co.uk/product/airsoft-guns/cyma-custom-m1a1-thompson-submachine-gun-wolfenstein-airsoft/ 🤔

Yeah the parts are out there, but you might be ordering from here and there. Last time I looked Emperion had loads of stuff.

I've met a couple of folk who use that style, usually they speak of modding them to get them to work. But the odin and its clones are a better design

Retiring from bright pink and white, into normal camo, NVA strichtarn, all surplus items. (The ak is not period accurate but seeing as it cost me £80 I'm not complaining). UTV grenade pouch not accurate but its just nice and easy. Really like the webbing style nice and simple.

A particularly gopping 2-tone at that.

Mine and my sons setup for now. MWS + Glock 26 GHK G5 + 4.3 Hi-capa

Gunbilical cord 🤢 Sorry