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Did his right hand divorce him? I’ll admit that I was taking the piss by making the offer; however, I was somewhat surprised by his response. I do wonder what has gone so wrong in his life to make him the way he is. As I am a bit of a c**t, I have prodded him again by raising the offer to £15.

I offered £10 for that completely shit MP5K in the classifieds a while back. This is the charming reply I got from the seller: Wouldnt cover the postage, packaging and fees, do you get many free guns? I could just through it in the bin for the sake of 34p i'd get from your serious offer >.> am going to seriously reject that, but thanks for taking the time, to waste my time and hopefully you dont live much longer if this is how you spend your life... What a prat.

Little tribute to my former unit's heydays.

My AR collection... p.s. i didn't like the blue carpet pics.

My new knowledge of KYAirsoft London Warehouse is the most useful thing to come out of that advert...

Migration is happening middle of next week (Tuesday through Thursday). The old forums will be made accessible in a read only mode for a few weeks afterwards, but again the plan is to move as much data as possible anyway. For the avoidance of doubt: accounts and posts will carry over as well as any existing threads, but probably nothing else. You will be able to log into your existing account as normal.

H&K Fire Selector Red (TM's version anyway). Feels quite regal and opulent to me.

If only more people used "barrel socks" irl, we might not have quite so many retards on sites😏

My Bullpup collection, a few springers & ex 2 tones as this was before I got my UKARA... The newest addition will be a WE GBBR L85A2 once the postie gets here.

Maybe that's the goal, don't judge 😂

Having a morning playing around with toys. 1st purchased a couple of weeks ago, WE Apache MP5K. Lovely gun, spotless condition came with 5 mags to give me enough to field a whole game (with the other 3 I already have). Local site have opened an indoor CQB and I think this is the coolest way to play the game. I have added an e-shooter tracer unit for the full laser beam effect 2nd Completed the DMR upgrade to the LCT G3, maple leaf 6.02 510mm stainless barrel, 4uantum hop rubber and nub and m130 spring. Shooting 1.88J on .36 BB’s like a laser. Had the selector modified to only shoot semi. After a couple of games it decided to shoot only full auto? Modified the trigger contacts as it was arcing giving the full auto then it decided not to fire at all. Now fitted a e shooter mosfet to solve those problems and now it’s shooting very well with a very short trigger pull. Modernised with the LCT m lok handguard and an unknown fore grip from the box of parts, trying to make this monster easier to handle, might look at adding a small bipod to the front but not convinced it will get used and just add weight? Any thoughts? 3rd WE Apache MP5, modernised with a Cyma m lok handguard to keep it looking like the G3. Had to modify it with a hacksaw to make it fit, like the look and it gives me options for torches and tracers for CQB or fore grips for woodland.

Brit/American crossover webbing set is finally in a decent place. Should hopefully only need a few very minor tweaks now (famous last words). Pic added for @Diemaco

Mate, without even looking at your ad, to claim something is "new", but has had 100+ bb's through it, & more importantly, has absolutely no warranty is horseshit. As for the price, as long as I've been playing, around 24 years, secondhand sales have always been priced at between 60-75% of the cheapest readily available rrp (depending on certain factors), where does yours come in those parameters ?. As for ending up on macks, this is, & always was, the only forum that allows members to critique prices (from any source), its not a personal attack on the sellers themselves usually, just on what people unrealistically believe their items are worth. Sometimes its a lighthearted giggle, but sometimes its also an exercise in preventing less knowledgeable people getting turned over, which to be fair, should be welcomed. Welcome to the forum 😉

Probably the loss of the safety on his beloved MP5K.

I wouldn't even trust my nearly boneyard eyeballs with that

I'm looking forward to running my with a cigar and telling everyone I love it when a plan comes together.

👋🏻Hey everyone! Thought I’d introduce myself my name is David, but on the field I go by Foreign Airsofter. I’m originally from Latvia, and after serving in the French Foreign Legion, the nickname “Foreign Airsofter” just felt right a little nod to both where I come from and my time in service. For years I wanted to get into Airsoft, but life always seemed to get in the way. Finally, at the beginning of this year, I decided it was time to jump in and I’ve been playing as much as I can ever since! How it all started I built a campervan in the UK, and my partner and I set off on a nearly 3-month road trip around Europe. On my birthday during that trip, I decided to treat myself I bought my first Airsoft rifle and officially started my Airsoft journey! Originally, I wanted to go down the sniper route, but after doing some research and chatting with more experienced players, I decided to start with an AEG. I picked up a Tokyo Marui HK416D, and I absolutely love it it’s almost identical to the one I used during my time in the French Foreign Legion. When I got back to the UK, I dug out my old army uniform from the attic, grabbed a chest rig and helmet off AliExpress, strapped a GoPro to my head and hit the UCAP Bunker with just one mag and had an absolute blast! I even recorded that first game for my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ForeignAirsofter Since then… My collection has definitely grown (I’ve even managed to get my dad hooked on Airsoft 😄). I keep telling my missus I keep “winning” new gear somehow, but for some reason she’s not buying that excuse! Funny story before my very first game, I actually took my HK416 apart just to understand how it worked, and that’s where my interest in tinkering and upgrading began. I’ve since added a sniper rifle to my loadout and really enjoy both playstyles. I love big outdoor fields and Milsim events, though I don’t mind a good CQB session now and then. I used to play regularly at Ground Zero and UCAP Bunker, but I’ve recently moved to South Wales so I’m looking forward to checking out the local sites and meeting more like minded players in the area! I did use a my fried GPT to make my gibberish easier to read ahha

Tanaka Performance Centre 629 in Nato Green ( baby-puke green 😆) Literally in mint condition,boxed with all its original bits ( including the fill adaptor)

Its other peoples thoughts and opinions that dial 999 and report suspicious person i think he might be armed. Its other people ( armed cops ) who decide wether you look like s threat and shoot you. Its other peoples opinion wether you are prosecuted or not. Its other people opinion wether you get sent down or not. DO NOT DO IT.

Heckler & Koch collection... We don't talk about the blue one.

Deadpool (Soft Pool?) 2.0 got some photos yesterday. I'd done a cosplay show earlier and thought I'd get some shots with the shiny new drum Deagles. I'm also making an appearance at LAC's zombie night next month, so I got some shots of the Zombie Pool mask too. Not gonna be to everyone's taste, but I usually get a few laughs (and shot in the ass a lot! 😆)

I honestly don't think that's the solution, you might get odd looks in daylight... you'll get a cavity search by the polis doing it at night.

Yep, ridiculously small, unlike his prices😏

3 hours between Sithnix joining the forum and appearing in "Mack's" is that a new record?

It's great to see this being observed. I always say that 2 minutes is important, it's 2 minutes the fallen will never have and for 1 Sunday a year 2 minutes isn't asking much from people.

Following the rather less than wonderful experience last time out, I set out on a cold and foggy morning for Airsoft Plantation. The site was not quite as busy as usual, with probably only about 100-120 players present. For once, I didn't have any guns to test and set up, so my pre-game experience was rather more relaxed than it generally has been of late, leaving me time to chat with other regulars, the site owner and Luke, one of the marshals, who was also at Splatoon last time out. The first game of the day was a fallback. Starting at Swaziland, we had to drive the enemy out of the DEA base and then push on to get five players onto the bus located at the back of the mortar pits. We had infinite buddy regens after a 30m fallback, while the defenders had three lives to take wherever they chose after a 30m fallback. I started off on our right flank, pushing up along the site boundary with a group of players and flanking the DEA base; we managed to take out a lot of defenders to our left, although our advance was slowed by a couple of very annoying snipers. Having cleared the DEA base and after an impeccably observed two minutes silence starting at 11:00, we pushed on to the mortar pits, where everything bogged down a bit. We slowly fought our way in against tough resistance; I was particularly pleased with a flashbang that I lobbed over some bushes which I thought a couple of the enemy were hiding behind; after a shout of "Oh, fuck!" and a loud bang, seven of them walked out with their hands up. As we moved forward, I used the SR47's range and accuracy to help neutralise the defenders on the bus by making it too dangerous for them to appear at the open windows. Eventually, five of our players made it onto the bus. Huzzah! After the usual short break to reload, the game was turned around; suspecting that some of the enemy might try to sneak through the scrubland along the edge of the firebreak, a small group of us took up position in and around the fort. They did indeed do so and we had a great set of firefights, along with more lobbing of some of the 16 flashbangs that I won in one of AP's raffles a few weeks ago. Inevitably, I was eventually hit and retreated to a position behind one of the berms, from where I picked off enemy players who showed their heads above the fort's crenellations and those trying to force their way around by the comms truck. Being hit again, I was falling back when there was a shout that the enemy were attacking in force from the other side of the mortar pits. Moving over there, I found a spot behind a car from where I was able to interdict their movements across my front until a couple of snipers appeared, one of whom potted me. The enemy completed their mission. After luncheon, which as usual, was delivered delivered very efficiently, we walked out to the mortar pits for our own commemoration of WWI, a very short game with the two teams lurking behind facing berms and, after the application of copious amounts of pyro by the marshals, having to "go over the top" towards each other. It could have been trivial, but it was actually quite thought provoking. After that, we played another fallback game; we started at the border, with infinite regens on a marshal, while the defenders had one life in each of the village and the mortar pits. Our objective was to clear the village and then capture the bridge in the mortar pits. We pressed forward against a stiff resistance, which involved me making multiple trips back to regen on Luke, which is always a somewhat disturbing experience. After a hard fight, we pushed into the village and cleared it; myself and another player then swept the village, making sure that no defenders had been left behind. Having done that, we followed our colleagues towards the mortar pits and were moving into the fort, which rather dominates the bridge, when an enemy player popped up and shot a load of us in the back; clearly, our sweeping of the village was not as effective as it could have been! Having regened again, we joined the push towards the bridge, which was duly taken. This game was duly reversed and I found myself on our extreme left, lurking behind the hut in front of the still dried up pond; in the pond were a sniper and a couple of other players. It was a great position, from which I was able to slow down the attack by sending a large number of attackers back to find a marshal to regen on. As the pressure grew, the players in the pond bugged out; I was unable to do so, so I sold my life dearly. Crossing the firebreak, I moved into the brushland with a few comrades in case some of the enemy swept through that way; quite a few of them did and we had a running fight with them, engaging them to slow them down before pulling back to new positions. We held them at bay, but another group to our right eventually pushed through to the bridge, ending the game. It was a typical AP day of well thought out games which engaged both the experienced players and the fairly large number of rentals, played in a good spirit apart from the couple of typical tiny tantrums that seem to happen whenever grown men play with toy guns. Weapons used: Hurricane Kit SR47 Golden Eagle AMD-65 ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)

The thing is you can take pretty much any military and find something nasty that they've done. People need to stop looking for offence where there isn't any

Maybe I need to clarify, my understanding anyway, is that the current forum address, name, everything, will remain the same apparently, so the new site is currently dormant while the set up is configured & relevant data is transferred across, once that is completed & proffrink is happy with the configuration (he's doing his best to ensure the look & ease of use is very close to the existing setup), then literally a "switch" will be thrown & all access will be to the new software/site, via the existing links. If that all sounds like i know what im talking about.........suckers😜 All o know is "sometime this week", obviously with something this big, there are always teething issues, bearing in mind that proffrink has done this off his own back, & incurred costs in doing so, in the hope that the new setup is good for years to come 🙏

Correct - they all do, and they all have to by law Both due to pressurised containers and due to hazardous materials The carrier becomes liable for the unknown contents of their packages on our roads and airways People disregarding the rules and making false declarations are also the reason for ‘empty’ canisters being subject to the same rules. Even a dismantled HPA cylinder & regulator will be hard to find a willing carrier for a private sender - and once found will cost a few ££ (Some would try to defend themselves that UK postage won’t go by air, despite much of the internal mail going by air for speed, and then complained that packages became seized and destroyed) A starter is The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1348/contents Carriers pretty much prohibit private senders, and require business senders to use appropriate methods under contracts. Proper declarations, and appropriate methods cost money Search

Forgot i ordered this, and wasn’t meant to (as I’m now leaning into RS shooting which is eye wateringly expensive) but being a TM fanboi is hard work.

Getting there with the MWS, VFC Storm Grip on the way as well as a genuine Diemaco stock. Internally fitted a Jaeger NPAS, although as its getting colder now I probably won't end up needing it! Also dug out my ancient set of para webbing, can't wait to field it.

Seriously wtf is going on with used Airsoft lol

I love the classified section on here, but my wife doesn't. 😆

Oops..

Ah my nemesis returns

Guys, no personal attacks please. Very few sites are shit, how they're run is often the issue, BUT Usually the biggest problem are some of the players themselves, wannabe tough guys/teams with overinflated ego's that think they're better than they actually are, or downright cheats, & if a site fails to quickly nip this shit in the bud, a poor site reputation soon follows.

Now for my Sniper/Bolt action/DMR collection...

walt behaviour

If you regard that review as being very constructive, I think you need to look up the meaning of constructive. You are sitting at the side and throwing stones. Being constructive would involve engaging with them to discuss the issues that you found and probably suggesting ways of resolving them. Doing that was what led to Ray offering me a marshaling gig at the old site. I sent him an email setting out the issues that we had encountered over a few game days and how I thought they could be overcome. His response was positive and thoughtful. Last time I went to the new site, I had a conversation with Ray about the work being done and why I didn’t see it as positive. I and others have also engaged with his team. I have done the same at other sites, not because it feeds my ego or anything like that, but because I want great sites to play at. Maybe you could engage in a similar constructive manner.

Any pics I post are always a bit naf so trying something a little different. Don't really have a 'studio' area I can use & don't fancy trudging up & down stairs to utilise the garden (esp in a wet & windy Scotland) or the tiled flooring in my conservatory so my mancave floor will have to do. Honest opinions on the simple carpet background please...

I can’t remember when I last posted new additions to my collection. so here we go: dr black type Z Dr black type Y MOS toxicant ninex19 vapor gen5 glock 34 gen5 agency arms im going to try my hand at stippling and so I can do a “big A” frame for the agency kit.

He's back again with no time stamp and extortionate prices still 😂

Had a few deliveries today, here's a before & after... Cheap stock is a bit wobbly but waiting for one from our classifieds, LPVO is a temp fixture until a reasonably priced clone 'Optics suite L900A1' arrives on the market (planning on it going on my Ugr-i eventually). A similar reason for the Mawl-1, it'll be relaced by an LLM3 once a decent 3D printed or clone is available. After all that... the Magpul foregrip is pucka.