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This reminds me of a chat myself and other marshals had about dumb responses to asking players what weight bb they're running at chrono, the best one being: Player steps up to chrono Marshal: "What weight?" Player: "Ummm" Player hefts RIF Player: "About 4 kg?"

I'd ponder on whether you're being invited to do something that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the thing that you enjoy being good at.

I would expect (hope) that you were asked because, as you've been playing there a long time, they have had the opportunity to experience your temperament and disposition, and feel you have the right kind of personality to be a marshal, and unless the site is a shitshow (playing there for a long time suggests its not), then that's a compliment. As well as being able to watch over the players in terms of safety, cheating etc, a very important part of being a good marshal is being able to deal with people. You need a level head and a calm manner. You need to be able to confront people, in a professional, civil way. Not aggressively, but firmly. You need to be able to deal with an angry, or upset, or simply over excited players confronting you about something they feel passionate about. We've all seen the angry dickhead marshals. The marshals that seem dismissive or uninterested. They escalate situations, and reflect very poorly on the site they work at. A marshal shouldn't be shouting at players, unless the player in question is about to do something stupid and/or dangerous. How would you deal with a player reporting another player for non hit taking? Or those two players getting in each others faces? How are you with emergencies? Say someone has sustained a nasty injury, are you calm in those situations? How do you feel about the sight of blood? Can you stay attentive to the game day when you're not playing? Or are you going to sit on a log looking at your phone, or chatting to a pretty girl? And while not a neccesity for a marshal, to me a great marshal is one that interacts with the players as a team. Can you remain enthusiastic and encouraging for the players all day? You've been assigned the red team for a skirmish day, and they are losing every game so far. Could you rouse them up? I work at an Airsoft site, and before that I was a volunteer marshal at the same site, and we still have a lot of volunteer marshals. They don't all encompass all of the qualities above, but they have at least the important parts. All of them still play. Some play roughly every other weekend, using the marshaling day to accrue a free game day, while others play a lot less often. The less often ones, however, are loooong time airsoft players, and they still enjoy the hobby but feel the need to play less. I play less these days, but when I do I'm a better player for the marshaling experience, and I appreciate my play time more. I really enjoy marshaling, I'm glad I started. Mind you, I'm a bit weird 😁 Try it, see how you like it. You say you love the site, this gives you an opportunity to pay back the fun you've had and possibly even make suggestions for improvements. But one piece of advice; don't let it go to your head. You're just a guy herding toy soldiers. And if you don't have your high viz on you're just a guy. There was a guy at a different site we went to play at the other week, who was shooting medic state players on our team. When questioned about it the conversation lead to an angry "I'm a marshal!" Get in the fucking sea, ya prick. Have fun! All the replies here have good points, but this one is worth highlighting 😉 Airsofters leave their brains at home when they pack their kit for a game day. You WILL have to deal with absolute mongs, macho dickheads and all kinds of stupid questions (oh god, the ones that think they're funny....). You need a lot of patience.

You do if your shoe size is higher than your IQ.

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I marshalled a few times, i think as i was quite sensible and had my head screwed on. You need to know the site very well, as you'll get the same question about 90 times "where's respawn?" Agree with the memory and attention span thing, yup, the game brief was for them to be listening, not looking at daves new NGRS/HPA whatever. You need to be able to have a laugh too. Dont get too chummy with the regulars, that can be seen as favouritism and be prepared to get shot. A LOT.... Hi-viz=easy target!! Have the confidence to talk on a radio. Some people are shit scared of them. If you can get people to enjoy it, whilst not being bell ends (and we've had a few super special ones at my usual site--the guy who wasnt hit calling turning his M4 into a cricket bat and swinging at a 12 year old kid--was kinda the pinnacle of knobheadism, if you can keep your cool then you'll love it. Its certainly a different angle to the usual playday. Enjoy it if you do it. Its a laugh.

So it's getting there. Just need to find a way to replicate the correct paint type. And alter the bolt.

As for what a marshal is supposed to do, my take is: 1. As much as is possible, ensure safety. 2. As much as is possible, ensure that everyone has a good time. 3. As much as is possible, ensure that everyone knows what they are supposed to be doing. 4. As much as is possible, ensure that everyone knows the rules and follows them. 5. Deal with situations that arise in a calm and effective manner. 6. Remember that players are customers. The biggest challenge that I found as a marshal was that some players are absolute dickheads.

I marshalled at SPC in Shotts and then managed/ran the Wargames Centre in Ayrshire for 4 years for the owner. It’s not easy, you try to be fair, make sure the game brief is understood, make sure everyone is safe and deal with real issues, and as long as the marshal team pay attention (not staring at phones), everything else is really up to the players. You’ll never please all of the people all of the time. Some folk thing they are Jonny Concrete with laser shots, others can start the quiet rumours that someone isn’t taking hits, then it spreads like the flu and you need to get right into the skirmish, which hurts, to ensure everyone is playing fair. It did sour my view of some players, but also there are many moments where your faith in humanity is restored..to a degree 😂, when you get a genuine ouchy or safety issue or just congratulations for great shooting or gamesmanship. There’s generally many more good guys than dickheads, and you just need to keep a level head.

If you're going to be a scamming twat then don't post your advert on the same site as you're stealing the pictures from The same photos as here

Another "I've broken it, buts it's an easy fix. No, I won't fix it. Thats £450 please" https://www.usedairsoft.co.uk/rif-s/gas-powered_1/tm-mws-gbbr-cqb-plus-extras_i62522

I've marshalled previously, well player marshalled to be precise, essentially the site "owner", who managed a number of locations at the time, was also a member of the team I played with, & as a team we prided ourselves on honesty & fair play, so if ever any of us attended his sites, it wasn't unusual to be asked to bolster the staff numbers. Being a player Marshall was a good compromise, I got to play for nothing, but also did my best to ensure everybody got the kind of gameplay they were entitled to, which is essentially what we all want isnt it ?. Dunno if I'd want to do a dedicated hi viz Marshall , i enjoy playing too much.

I have marshalled to a degree. I wouldn’t fancy being a site marshal - dealing with the weekends players who might be regulars, might be a one off etc A good marshal can make a game, when it’s a marshal running a rental game it works well to have one on each side who knows how to motivate different types of players in different types of games, putting in a bit of competitiveness up against their opposing marshal I do like to run an experience, and to run an event. Putting players through their paces. The core events that we have run were born in the era of events run by players for players. I went to other peoples events, aspiring to do the same, and ‘knowing’ what I/we could do better. The scary moment was the day before our first event once the site owner had relented to give us his site for the day and all the other teams supported us and booked in. We ran our first games in collaboration, and prefer to do that. True marshalling conducted by site staff, and ‘game management’ marshalling by us. A marshals role is to do 3 things 1) Keep everyone safe 2) Deal with an emergency 3) Ensure players have a good experience Checking for hits is somewhere in there 1) Has to happen all of the time 2) Has to happen when needed, ideally minimised by (1) 3) Should appear to be the active thing being done For our collaborative events site marshals ought to be focused on 1 & 2 and our game marshals doing 3 whilst having an eye on 1 & 2 We would direct missions, depending on event take part as characters, and make the game/rule decisions Site marshals giving a safety overwatch, calling out a hit that’s not been taken, look out for players not behaving Though a marshal shouldn’t be in the way, and shouldn’t be standing in hi vis staring at a ghillie sniper in a bush, they should be ready to walk straight into the line of fire to pull someone out of a game or in a worst case scenario getting their body physically in the way whilst setting the alarm to stop play. Even with just occasional marshalling / running it can take away actually playing - partially in a good way when having more fun watching people try and play the mission you came up with (and how they interpret it) but also at risk of taking away the fun of getting out and shooting people You could find that you thrive in marshalling, it gets you in the game, as close to the action as you like and you don’t have to keep walking out to respawn on elimination

I've done it a few times and run some themed days. Marshalls deserve a bloody medal ! As a group airsofters have the attention span and memory retention of an average 1 year old , and organising them is like hearding cats. Playing is much more fun

I marshalled at two sites over a few years; it nearly put me off airsoft so I went back to playing.

It was dry this weekend so the rattle cans came out!

V3 clicker's PDF is available if you want to salivate before it's released fully: https://perunairsoft.pl/clickerv3.pdf

Tokyo Marui Glock 17 gen4 2 spare g17 mags Cow cow hop unit Cow cow blowback housing cow cow nozzle spring flamingo 50 bucking ZCI 97mm barrel 9ball Glock gas routers

Standard 30-round style stanags that only take 30 BBs? Nuprol make em. Can select 30 or 140 BBs with a small switch.

Yep i'll buy this PM sent Thanks Tackle

The worst one for me, just because a marshal questions your hit taking you don't have to chest bump them and ask them to come out to the car park 🙄

an 11.1v crane lipo is recommended on the patrol base website, they'll be able to sell you a battery & charger too. says it's fitted with a deans connector so the battery will need this connector too. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/cyma-cm-009b-m16a1-aeg-platinum-edition

Seeing as this thread has been resurrected. Best... Ares L1A1, probably because it's the only pew I've used the RS. Have to add the Ares L85A3, it's a rif I craved for. Worst... Ares L85A3, coz the fecker was obviously a return to Extremeairsoft & they passed it on to me as new (on closer inspection it had a repair to the charging handle (a common fault) & a stripped thread on one of the dissassembly screws. Favourite... Cyber gun Scar-L two-tone, my first pew used in a game & it's never let me down (getting a pine needle stuck in the hop while changing mags doesn't count). Regrets... Galaxy M200 from BBguns4less, didn't realise it wasn't 1:1 scale but it was cheap, you get what you pay for I guess (it's never been out of the box). Got a few two tones before my UKARA, I don't regret buying them but I do regred some of the shitty rattle can jobs I did on them.

That was just a little joke at my own expense. I like the site and the people who run it.

@Jez Armstrong has a lot of experience with these, I'm sure he'll have an idea ?

stupid lack of TM spares making me reverse engineer the SCAR selector plate. Photo is PLA printed prototype on top. Final version will be done in Nylon resin.

My neighbour just yelled at her kids so loud that even I brushed my teeth and went to bed.

Reminds me of this…

Hi, been playing around a year now after a 12 year break! unfortunately due to a health condition I can’t play as much as I like but I get out when I can! My favourite site too play is Ambush airsoft in Cobham and second is gunman airsoft’s camp bravo…. I'm here too learn, socialise and occasionally buy/ sell gear…. I have a few different Rifs at the moment but I’m trying to find “the one” main gun atm! It’s proving to be an elusive search! 😂 all the best, Matt

Finally got inspired to remove the magazine cover from my Secutor Velites GII M870. Turns out it was really easy and just needed a squeeze to unhook - not the strip-down I imagined. This has allowed me to repurpose an electric drum magazine I had on an old springer. It's a stocky little thing now but should get a lot more use, as I won't need to reload every 5 shots. 😁

From the Surefire site: The caps are intended to block out low level continuous background noise. The design of the earplug itself is what reduces the impulse of things like loud bangs. I used to use a set in CQB before I started using comms so yeah, give them a go. EP4s would be better though.

To those saying I should get my ankle checked, I am. Going to a&e. Will let you know where they amputate. I'm expecting just below the chin.

If you don't need comms then have a look at the Howard Leight Impact Sport or Earmor as mentioned above. Second hand Peltors might be a shout but good, high quality ear protection can be pretty spendy!

It's Raresoft time

Urgh, tell me about it, by the time I pulled the trigger on buying an XR-5, I could only find it in DayGlo Blue, and the paint and varnish keeps wearing through on the rub points. I'll likely just start taping over it. Thomas, the legal position is that it's a strict liability offence to modify a non-realistic imitation firearm into a realistic imitation firearm, even temporarily, in private: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/36 However, it's a defence to do so for the purposes of playing airsoft at a site with 3rd party liability insurance: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/37 as amended by https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-violent-crime-reduction-act-2006-commencement-no-3-order-2007-firearms-measures There's no age limit on the defence, or particular criteria to claim it. The UKARA-style 3-games-over-8-weeks scheme providing the level of evidence that retailers considered necessary. You can make your own decision on it. Practically speaking, it's only going to come to the attention of the state if you do something silly with the gun out in public. At that point, Firearms Act 1968 Section 19 applies, and it doesn't matter if it's a realistic imitation or not. Since you already have the gun, and haven't gone on a rampage with it, I think you can be trusted not to do so if it happens to get blacked out. However, I'd agree that the lowest risk option, particularly while you're under 18, is to use sniper tape, which comes in solid colours or camos. If you tape up on site then remove it at the end of the day, then you're satisfying the letter and the spirit of the law.

Picked up a cheap WE MEU that had a lot of bubbles and wear under the slides paint, sent it to West Lasers for a burnt bronze cerakote and engraving. I wanted something unique, and after playing through a bunch of the Tomb Raider remaster the past few weeks it seemed fitting.

Well, that's....a choice. Also - you don't need to start spamming new threads for the same pics you've already posted elsewhere.

That would be fine as the tape is temporary, I'd recommend the self adhesive stuff as it won't leave a sticky residue when removed. Something like this https://www.military1st.co.uk/28301b-mfh-fabric-self-adhesive-camo-tape-5cm-x-4-5m-od-green.html?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwydSzBhBOEiwAj0XN4F76tE9X9PqYJAF1BRYZY-iqKCJ2CljeG7VIk4CILjWGaylylL3iqRoCumAQAvD_BwE Personally I wouldn't paint the parts as the blue will start to show though when the painted parts get dinged and scratched through normal use

Welcome to the forum Nobody has a ukara licence, they don't exist. Now I've got that out of the way on to your question. By cover the blue do you mean temporarily while playing or permanently? The former is absolutely fine and can easily be done with a roll of sniper tape. If you mean permanently then IIRC it's technically illegal but if you can show you're using it for playing airsoft (at a proper site, not dicking about in a mate's garden) and don't do anything stupid with it you'll be fine

How front heavy do you want your AK? да

Here's one of my son gearing up. I've had to blur his face as he's still on "Active Doody"!

Metro handguard set