£10 cheap enough?  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/650nm-Red-Dot-Laser-sight-Combo-w-CREE-LED-Flashlight-Light-Torch-UK-BIG-SALE/113104483369?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Nice and compact, fits on a pistol or a rifle.  On/off switch (no strobe mode or multiple brightness nonsense to get in the way), or an optional momentary pressure switch.  Has a fairly bright torch, or a laser, or even both together if you're feeling kinky.

Comes with 2 small li-ion batteries (16340's, I think).  You'll need to buy a generic charger for 3.7V lithiums, one with a sliding contact that can charge various lengths of batteries.  Typically sold as 18650 / 18450 chargers.

But £10 for the basic unit is a decent deal.

I've been using an ultrafire wf-502b for a couple years now. 3 brightness settings plus a strobe. Gets me through the rare night game anyway. Fits in all of my mounts. 

I went for your recommendation Rogerborg, thanks to the op and to you for the linky

That’s part of the hobby. 

Now you have the fun of fixing them.

The ape is an easy fix considering its a split gearbox. Get a new piston and install it, wont take more then 20 minutes first time. 

welcome to airsoft, its why i have so many guns- i can generally keep 1 or 2 going at any one time

Nice one.  I love PayPal for this, and just fire up a dispute 5 minutes after the promised delivery date now.

It was second hand. Just a few years old and had trouble figuring out what was causing the fault. But it ran flawlessly today

Things like this do my swede in ! 🤬

hence I only buy 2nd hand these days from guys I know off from there online foot print , don’t know you or of you ? Then sorry I ain’t buying from you .

In fairness @Druid799 it was working fine for about 6 months. Then just after Xmas it developed an intermittent fault that was really awkward to diagnose. Think the motor was just knackered, it just seemed more like to be a connector/contact wiring issue as it was so random. 

Looks pretty damn awesome as it is dude to be honest. Apologies for not being helpful lol.

depends what your bothered by eg colours of camo if you are getting a camo one . Also if you are gonna stick with it . I found the cheap stuff perfectly serviceable. 

I tend to switch between loadouts. Been running about in my tears of the sun impression for best part of a year. Mix in my more pmc black/tan loadout when playing non woodland or cqb 

well I'd go cheap then if You are not gonna stick with it

checked the measurements with a chart on a supplier and everything seems to match up to being coarse threaded. on a m3 8mm bolt it says there should be about a 0.7mm distance between the threads which there is. So fingers crossed. Ordered 6 in both m3 and m4 sizing's just in case.

RM4 looks really interesting and you can re-wire to rear with the RM4A1 buffer tube. I'd give it a shot, it just looks like fun.

Beyond the Iceplate suggestion (not sure how well it would fit) from @SeniorSpaz87 I don't think you'll have another option if you want to avoid a backpack/bladder.

The only other option would be a canteen on your belt.

An Iceplate will fit anything thats designed to fit a SAPI. Something not often advertised about them is they come with straps to hang it on the inside of your vest as well if you already have a plate in/cant take a plate.

I have plastic plates In the cpc so could remove the rear one. 
now just to find someone who actually has the qore system in stock 

I got one second hand in a like-new condition from the classified section on here. Only skirmished it the once so far. Its my first ever aeg so am only comparing it to diabolically bad rentals, to me it feels like a dream obviously. Externals are pretty nice. I've heard reliability is iffy but can't really speak on that as I've not had the thing long enough. Trigger response seems snappy, shoots accurately and has a couple of nice bits like a maple rubber as standard. For what I paid it feels like a killer piece of kit.

But then you go and look at someone who knows their shit, e.g Negative Airsoft on youtube, and he fucking hates them from what I've seen 🤷‍♂️

Edit: The one I have is a VFC Avalon Saber Carbine - it comes out of the box with a maple leaf rubber, tightbore barrel, basic mosfet and some nice externals. Its definitely not the best gun in town but I got it for like 270 quid or something so I really can't complain, especially with combat machines going for 200+ these days

It depends on which model you fancy. Some of them are shit and some of them are decent. Avalon series isn't bad at all. And then they made Sig AIR MPX/MCX which is a disgrace...

VFC defo stepped up their game regarding GBBR though. Almost everyone praises their HK 416A5 or the new SIG MPX.

I think the biggest problem with VFC is that it had very bad reputation regarding reliability and QC years ago and it difficult to change on that view especially when it's not popular in the UK compared to the States or Asia and your sample is gonna be always small because most of the people not gonna choose a VFC over a Marui/Cyma/G&G. So people keep parroting each other instead of trying one and see it for themselves. Other issue is that VFC is so freaking expensive compared to the rest.

My personal view is that it's very difficult to fuck up AEG's nowadays. Internally 99% of them is the gonna be the same....

Lol, you youngsters have a while to go to catch me up 😃. 

Felt my age for a couple days after last Sunday's skirmish, now wishing I had booked another for Sunday, didn't think I could cope with 2 in a row, so made other plans.

@ghostwalker @sonofsammo you crazy kids! I'll be 48 end of the month, played with a guy at Ironsight last weekend that was 64!

Happy birthday by the way @ghostwalker!

Thanks guys. I would play everyday if there was a site running everyday oh and i could actually afford to lol.

Steam powered airsoft guns...

🤔

Well @Rogerborg it would be more reliable than my gbb pistol on cold wet days like yesterday I guess. 

@Albiscuit i did a review of scorpion airsoft in west raynham in the sites section (you asked about it back in september)

@GemsHD - Love Peter's site for most parts really.

The ZCI barrels are great for the money

Personally i find them underwhelming unless its going on an over-gassed gun like an arp or firehawk that has a short barrel.

If you just drop it on a longer barreled aeg its not gonna be that nice imo.

They really sound good. Like, good as in pegging a piece of card against your bicycle spokes to get it sounding like a rea motorbike... grrrrr...

If the video posted earlier is anything to go by....

I’m heading there on November 17th for their Sunday game day. Looks a decent site just wondered if anyone had played it. 

I had no idea it existed, now I really want to go, but a bit too far for me unless I do an overnighter! Can you put a review up afterwards please??

will try to remember to. I think airsoftcamman on YouTube may have some gameplay from there on one of his videos. Not 100% sure 

@ghostwalker fixing a MK23 feeding issue is a piece of cake.

All you need to do is a light file job to the feed lips. Plenty of guides on the internet, even Noviboii made a video on it (on Vimeo, not YT, for some obscure reason). less than 30 seconds for 2 mags.

STOCK TM GBBs should be the way to go, plastic slides means more gas efficiency and less propellant used to cycle the whole thing, which results in less cooldown (given you aren't speedsofting your way through the day, in that case nothing beats a HPA tap). Placing your magazines closer to your body (in pockets for example) could also work.

@Skara @sonofsammo Think after much tinkering today i might finally have the asg mk23 working half way decently. Tried the filing down thing from Novs video but it didn't appear to be the fix. Then saw in another video that the little plastic rod that 'picks the bb up from the mag and into the hop' sometimes catches on the rubber valve infront of the feed lips. Filed it back a bit and hey presto.  It actually managed 10 rounds in a row!

Yeah they are the hex/Allen bolts. Figured with no airsoft , it was time to give my kwa erg a good clean up. Discovered the previous owner had Mullered one of the rail screws. Will try a Torx. Have also ordered a extractor set just incase. 

Look up "Grabit" I had a stripped screw head that I couldnt get out even when supergluing the alan key to the screw. The Bit removed the screw easily.

I'm just trying to stop one's leaking thatvhad already had everything everyone recommends done in the past. New valves, new routers, even stripped down and out silicon sealant around the oring and sides to prevent the base leaks

I tried fixing mine too and they were gas tight for a game day before they sprung a leak again, plus one of my gas tight ones also sprung a leak so I just said "screw it" and gave up on them. Fortunately I have a bunch of STTI mags that have been gas tight for years, so I just swapped the feed lips and gas routers over because the STTI feed lips are wank

I'm hoping it's sorted for now but we shall see. Stripped them, cleaned every oring, re lubed all the ones on valves and then redid the sealant on the base plate and inside of the mag. They have geld gas for 12 hours so far

lol, fair enough, maybe it was all that messing with my mate's polarstar yesterday has me in a bit of an hpa obsession now lol

I'm lucky, dive shop is 10 mins walk, I just get them to fill the HPA cylinders, I can carry two in a backback.  Might work out more expensive in the long run, but I don't fancy going down the scuba/refill route.

The kwa erg is all mine!!! Now i just need a rifle case big enough for all my rifs!