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I don’t think that the most ‘modern’ designs go for as much padding with some trends towards ‘jogger’ style, and in some cases they may be less likely to advertise features as ‘padding’ due to some of the more serious tournament rule wording on clothing, eg you can wear two layers of clothing which includes counting the bounce vest and/or slide shorts - if it’s a thick quilted materiel on the trousers then that’s just hard wearing materiel and not extra soft padding to promote bounce rather than bursting paintballs My ‘best’ ones don’t appear to be on the market anymore, and at the time a few years back were highly pricey at £200+ or even more- but I didn’t pay that - I won a pair in a raffle. I also would not have chosen the colour scheme which was (supposed to be) very white but for me was promptly stained by dirt & grass They were low slung in the crotch, combined with thick quilted material plus a extra front panel to clip across and another internal crotch panel of foam like materiel Thick all over for general padding, extra layers at the crotch, stretchy in areas and didn’t let in the wet when Knealt on wet astroturf or muddy puddles No endorsement on any of the following but a search of the Laysick name should show a few similar looking designs with extra crotch, Angel can cover some old school designs, Dye, Empire & exalt have some handy ones but beware of too lightweight and joggers Anthrax can be useful, and if you can handle Photoshop you can get fully / partial custom design prints (Ask for templates, do your own design and unless you use their consultancy design they don’t much different to just buying new off the shelf https://www.anthraxpaintball.com/custom-paintball-pants

I wouldn’t bother Slide shorts are primarily designed to provide padding around the hip and thighs for abrasion when sliding (hence the name) Many if not all current designs will have groin padding If you’re going to be diving around then they are worth it, otherwise it’s another layer to get you hot & sweaty - especially as they are likely to be worn as an extra layer on top of your underwear and under your trousers Baggy trousers perform the job without adding to what you wear, and easily absorb impact Bear in mind that airsoft BBs are fired at maximums of either 1.3 or 2.5 joules, which compared to paintballs maximum of 12ft lbs / 16.3 joules There is the added difference that paintballs are a larger frangible sphere vs airsofts small solid sphere which means the burst of a paintball disperses energy. I have been shot a lot, I enjoy the adrenaline that comes with that (also a painkiller in itself) BBs are a short sting, paintballs are more of a slap. I’ve also taken more dick shots than I would like - in photography paintball designed baggy trousers do the job fine - a padded groin that is loose and baggy. For CQB play I opt for a box in cricket shorts (they make me feel enclosed, but when you’re being shot at from a couple of feet away on the stairs they help! Paintball tournament referees typically wear a towel hung from their trousers which deals with absorbing impact, I’ve considered that when photographing but don’t need it when trousers are baggy, and as a photographer I’m not in the middle of the field but on the boundary. (On practice / training days I would often go into the middle of the field for photo opportunities, and may be laid or squatting directly in line of shot, but still didn’t need that level of crotch protection) …….., Protect your eyes, protect your fingers with gloves, your ankles with supporting boots. For your body loose clothing does the job Unless you are a diver & slider I would not bother with slide shorts, but perhaps look at paintball trousers that have some thicker padding at areas such as knees, thighs & crotch ** note that I write in English, therefore I say trousers, they generally get listed in American English as paintball pants Avoid the tight skinny jean types of paintball trousers - they look stupid and don’t have the padding , also beware of “paintball training trousers / training pants” as they may be thinner and lighter without the padding When you look up paintball trousers you will see scary higher prices (compare those shorts at £55 to trousers at £100 / £150) Shop around, particularly for late season sales and last years range etc - or even better look up eBay and vinted Another option is workwear trousers - check out your local DIY or trade counter and see what they have in heavy duty work trousers that provide multi layer / padded zones etc

Genuine gifts still have a value When crossing international boundaries there is a different threshold for taxes and duties on gifts The potential problem with the Chinese habit of marking as ‘gift’ is that it is a fraudulent customs declaration, and an obvious fraud However customs are used to it, they will just get to it when they get to it

Biodegradable BBs are expected to degrade in years and decades as opposed to standard BBs which will take centuries Every ‘degradable’ object also needs to be in the right conditions, airsoft bio degradable BBs are likely to need to be stepped into the ground to be subjected to pressure and heat This will mean that they are not suitable for the land that you have access to

Theres nothing wrong with budget brands (provided they are up to standard) My first goggles were the entry level, and I kept them for many years (with lens changes), a couple of paint jobs and they were in my lending collection. Even when going on to ‘premium ranges’ I also bought a rental type, because I wanted that colour scheme and they fitted my head (I still have that set in the box)

Your original photo does not work for me, but from the specification sheet and reference to Lidls it looks like they could be these : https://youtu.be/WcFNrOIzpYs The impact level is very basic at EN166F which is just for general workshop / workplace use - to protect from things thrown up, not from things being shot. They are not even rated for ricochet It’s better than nothing, but the inclusion of your son sends the wrong message Don’t drill them - not just because you don’t know the effect that it has on what you drill into, but you don’t need any (extra) antifog ventilation as you should not be doing any activity to cause fogging in them (I say ‘extra’ because the video references a small element of ventilation, which if that is the right goggle then it indicates that they are designed just for workshops etc and are for just keeping the dust & cuttings etc kicked up away from eyes Assuming you have a safe and legal environment, for home target shooting get some airsoft shooting glasses with EN166B rating, and ideally a strap, even if it is just a surfer’s glasses strap to hold them in place (There’s no point in glasses having impact ratings if they bounce off your head on impact)

I’m not familiar with anywhere out there where you could browse a shop A web search shows Platoon stores and Modern Warrior have airsoft shops, full goggle ranges are less likely as these look to be airsoft shops rather than mixed or paintball. Skirmish Billericay has a photo implying a bit of an airsoft shop. I have played there in the past but don’t know if they would have much stock for goggles

@Chai. The real answer for full face goggles is to try them on All full face paintball goggles (from real suppliers - not AliExpress & Temu) meet the same safety standards such as a foam surrounded eye zone, and they all have vent holes on top to aid sweat / hot head venting and around the mouth to vent hot breath I would not think that BBs would penetrate the vents of any (compliant) paintball goggles. You could take a BB and push it through a vent, but a flying BB will have to be flying at a perfect angle and still have to have high energy to push through The safety design standard is for .68” / 17mm, paintballs which are designed to break, but nowadays paintballs go down to .50” and .43” but goggle designers know at least in the back of their mind that they have a potential slice of the 6mm bb airsoft market - they are not going to knowingly increase the chance of BBs going straight into the mouth when trying to add airflow In the price ranges starter / rental goggles have a tough plastic then the mid and premium ranges go softer which can help head fit but especially for airsoft ‘real style guns’ allows for some give on leaning your cheek in Top of the range gets the newest feature designs, and they filter down the range over the years In my original days lens changing on entry levels (and also mid range) was a major technical task, easy quick change lenses arrived and should be across the ranges these days (I have not looked at a current entry level lens change) (Talking of lenses - avoid the prettiest reflective coatings etc, they will scratch just being looked at - I made the mistake of buying new lenses to play the next weeks game but fitted them while photographing an event and scratched them to hell in minutes) Different brands and models fit heads differently Dye tend for minimum physical coverage to minimise the air held for fogging which is fine for small heads or big heads that don’t mind exposing chins and mouth I could get on with the Dye i3, exposing my mouth when shouting but the i4 was far too little My perfect head fit was the Angel Eyes prototype, but that will never be sold and the large design is marmite, love it or hate it I have tried on the CMD among a few new releases when they came out, but my go to favorite that fits me for all my needs is the VForce Grills range If someone has goggles ask nicely to try them on, otherwise get yourself to one of the retail shops dotted around, or at larger events there are often trade stands Up north BZ paintball, in the Midlands get to a CPPS tournament weekend, down south It’s Super5ives and further over to the South West it’s On Target Supplies The CPPS tournament in the Midlands would have traders with their complete ranges at the start of the season, though will still bring most out at this time of year, as the season comes to an end there may be bargains to be had If you’re more to the South of the country, Martello of On Target down near Plymouth is the man with the full knowledge - he is the one behind Paintball magazine having personally reviewed every goggle on the market and has decades of experience playing, event organising and site running in both paintball and airsoft Chris of Super5ives around Portsmouth began in the paintball world, but played/plays both airsoft and paintball. He was the man behind the build up and merger of the paintball & airsoft societies in Southampton University, and ran his own tournament I think that all his staff at Super5ives are players

Look up your attachments in the profile area https://airsoft-forums.uk/attachments/ I am guessing that like me you got close to the quota maximum The two solutions are to go through and delete old unnecessary ones that are just wasting your limit, or to minimise broken links in the forum would be to edit the relevant post with a scaled down copy while you delete the large copies

…. Annoyingly I don’t seem to have particular props in my photo galleries @Cooperman26 I would recommend that you take your dynamite to your local, they may be willing to blow them up with some checks, but I’m more inclined that they would be willing to use them as dummies … or you could end up running your own themed game

Commercially, there is very little scope on the profit line on individual sales let alone the up front development & testing I wouldn’t think that it would be worth it for an aftermarket add on, but there could be scope for lookalike pyro. The issue I would see is it being a nieche item for a smaller market - but there are wide ranges of pyro for different purposes For player enjoyment there is the scope for reusable prop pyro. A few decades ago there was a small very expensive market, nowadays there are various choices and sites / organisers have access to enthusiastic people with ideas - the dynamite you have made is perfectly valid for use as a dummy prop It could be used in two ways without having to go bang itself 1) as a non functioning dummy 2) as a device that remotely controls pyro (effectively fireworks control systems) My gameplay began using the former, and we decided that we wanted to run our own games (or more precisely the site owner called our bluff and gave us a date in the calendar) We didn’t manage it straight off, but we wanted things that function, and began to ‘better’ our props — bumping into an ‘almost original’ member brought us the right man with the skills to put ideas into effect and have ‘real functioning’ props operated by players (or in a couple of cases ‘almost functioning dummy props’ that we watched them use while pressing buttons in our pockets (He fooled me with one device that I handed him a toy laser rocket launcher to modify - he just used it as is to be pointed at a reflector and used a remote detonator in his pocket)

It was pretty much a matter of ‘need to mention’ on record Common sense is not very common

I’m going to put on my health and safety hat for this - though one use pyro is pretty much cardboard & paper wrapped around a small amount of pyro/explosive, there is a lot of science in the design of that cardboard and paper on top of the Pyro/explosive mix. One set amount of pyro/explosive will burn/detonate in a particular manner - it could be a ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ detonation, with different combinations of flash/bang and the energy can be balanced between volume/blast energy Then put it into a different tube of cardboard and paper that blows apart and directs force out to both ends or favours one direction rather than the other Put a carefully designed flashbang tube into another tube and you change the way that it performs In our events we have used many devices and prop ‘explosives’, however our prop explosives such as for example dummy C4 have been the players device that transmits a signal to detonate the unmodified pyro nearby These would have to be looked at on a case by case basis, and should be tested / approved by sites based on their effect and also their insurance which can instantly be invalidated by not using pyro as designed https://enolagaye.com/products/mk5-thunder-flash/

The thing is that ‘tactics’ can be applied, just not the ‘tactics’ that ‘tactical players’ want The tactic to deal with attacking a fully hostile close up urban environment is to obliterate it with air power and/or artillery then roll armour over it - preferably before the defenders crawl around under the fresh cover (Stalingrad style) That tactic cannot be used if you have friendlies out there or, want to make the local civil population friendly etc and don’t want to scorch the earth So you have to send in bodies at a high attrition rate - which means you go as slow as possible trying to stay alive, stacked up to throwing in grenades - (as long as you don’t have friendlies in there) The alternative to being slow and methodical is to be fast and furious We play games where we don’t die. The worst that can happen is we have to walk further to respawn Fast and furious gets you eliminated, but gets things done along the way. If those behind you are advancing to full the progress by the speedy boy then the respawn is worth more than a stacked up queue that’s making no progress To slow the speedy players organisers can set trip wires & booby traps, and I apply spawn rules / life limits

List items on a declaration in an appropriate manner eg a package could be declared as ‘books’, and a total value no need to list every title, author, publisher etc A priced invoice would be expected to be as per the bookshops catalogue which would list each individual title An airsoft RIF with accessories could be declared as “airsoft equipment” or “airsoft rifle and accessories”, and the total sale as valuation If a retail sale then an invoice would list as per the catalogue such as “wonder rifle xz79” plus “magazines qty 7” or could actually have sold as a bundle such as “wonder rifle xz79 starter pack” Be informative Unless you are giving a present of £1000 worth of airsoft guns and gears don’t make a false declaration calling it a gift Take note that customs declarations stating “gift” are red flags to customs staff It’s the traditional go to false declaration of dodgy Chinese sales to evade import tax and customs duty ((((But it’s a pointless false declaration, the gift vs sale just changes the taxation threshold slightly

You make a customs declaration by filling in the relevant information on the forms as you buy the postage, which will often generate the appropriate labels, but if a declaration is not on the label then download a customs declararion form to fill in seperately You make a legitimate customs declaration by being honest with the information that you provide https://youtu.be/96Ym6s5aH5M https://www.ups.com/gb/en/shipping/how-to-ship-internationally/personal Sell for £1000 and declare at £1000 and that is legitimate Sell for £1000 and declare at £900 and it would be fraudulent Sell for £900 and declare at £900 and it would be legitimate

You need to make the customs declaration when sending, but he would be the US importer and liable for what is on (or missing from) the declaration. He also becomes liable for paying customs fees & tariffs plus legal issues. He can however ask you to comply with legal requirements, if you don’t comply with instructions then he can claim any loss against you, if you do comply with his wishes or there are other matters that get picked up then he remains liable UKARA does not apply - it is the the UK, but US legislation does apply - and is for him to comply Tell him to investigate the customs & legal requirements of his country and his state, then discuss what you both need to do Make a legitimate customs declaration and back up the valuation with a receipt in the package If undervalued on mates rates then you can declare the actual sale, but customs could value at actual (assessed) second hand US value and charge him fees accordingly

At least they aren’t the ones who come onto an airsoft forum following their arrest for a firearms offence looking for some form of validation of having over powered paintball like guns with inappropriate projectiles loaded ready to go in the bedside cabinet next to their baseball bat, machete and crack.

Any retailer that accepts JustCos is doing so on a ‘nudge nudge wink wink’ basis, and as a sales offence under the VCRA lies with the seller and faces a number of thousands of pounds fine (potentially also prison time) - it’s unlikely (I am not aware of any VCRA sales prosecution), but a bit stupid Cosplay as a hobby is not covered by Ang VCRA defence, and no Comicon, nor other related event in the UK permits cosplayers to carry RIFs (Even the event quoted as partnering with JustCos banned RIFs) Cosplay as a profession would align with the VCRAs theatrical defence - and a professional cosplayer will carry appropriate Public Liability insurance Cosplay societies may fall within the theatrical defence, and when attending a Comicon as featured guests ‘performing’ to the public may fall under different criteria / rules which may permit RIFs JustCos is a load of bollocks, made up as an excuse by one retailer I tested it out by buying JustCos membership then asking the awkward questions. I was eventually refunded for being “too stupid” by asking for details of the cover instead of just using it as a fake ‘defence’ to purchase a RIF

That’s what makes it even more rare

@Lyndication Are you looking through just sights or do you have any form of extra electronics such as a ‘scope cam’? A digital view may still have digital artifacts from the BBs path, making it easier to ‘see’ in flight as it is continuing its route but suddenly ‘disappear’ as it loses power and has more of a drop To a lesser degree we can optically see something similar in that the brain sees it where it expects to see it, but the power drop takes it out of the expected area There may also be lighting / contrast effects as it passes though areas - more ‘lit up’ in the open flight area and perhaps a darker area when you get to their cover The flinch is the giveaway - perhaps it’s an ‘oh shit’ millisecond when BBs are spotted, but typically it would indicate that they have been hit and therefore have opted to not take the hit Note that ‘in action’ BBs are deceptive - you notice lots of BBs arriving near you, and surely yours must be arriving near them as you can see their flight line. But fire lines are often at the extent of a range, ineffective fire could be arriving at both ends landing at each others feet A potential tip is to angle your fire upwards, an optimum arc then gains a few extra feet ….. a second tip is that it you are in the woods with tree cover that prevents arcing upwards is to lower your weapon, angled upwards and you gain approx half your height - a ‘normal’ person would kneel down to lower their line of fire, but it you want to add some embarrassment hold your gun down at crotch level / between your legs

Not a lot - as long as the functional elements of the design is for airsoft, and is UK compliant then airsoft has a convenient clause exempting from firearms legislation (so it’s not a low powered air weapon / air gun - which are legal but are under firearms legislation) Dont be a dick with it and you should not find out what they think The legislation that would apply would be the VCRA - if it is not clear nor in the specified bright colours then you would be manufacturing a RIF The manufacturer is responsible, but you won’t need to prove your use to yourself so UKARA membership would not be a requirement Make it for airsoft and as long as you are old enough then you are legal Finally …. Are you capable of doing so? It would make sense if you are making a body for standard internals to go in - and it has been designed by someone with the knowledge / skills to do so Or if printing specific parts to modify an existing two tone etc, then the VCRA still applies - but you as the modifier are the responsible person. The original VCR draft had a specific offence of modifying an IF to a RIF no applicable defence, but the final legislation can be read to include the defences - so only do so for airsoft purposes

Totally agree, it’s entirely nod nod wink wink There was much more credibility for the retailer who just put in a tick box of “I promise that I am buying this RIF for legal airsoft skirmishing” (and if I recall correctly is no longer in business) Any retailer that promotes a fake define is worse than one who just ignores the VCRA - and if/when an authority chooses to act they are likely to be an easy target especially as the judiciary are never happy with offenders that just take the piss Those of us who like our hobbies should be happy to condemn those who endanger them On the ‘theatrical’ slant of cosplay, that is the route that JustCos could have taken with a cosplay society insurance policy There was someone on the forum a few years ago enquiring about how to get a RIF for cosplay, first leading to the ‘no answer’, until it clicked with me on who they were and that I know them - an actual ‘paid professional cosplayer’, complete with full insurance etc with the genuine ability to lay claim to ‘theatrical’

You aren’t paying for the knock off DDPM, it’s the cocaine in the pocket National Stock Number 6505-00-619-8716 National Stock Number (NSN) 6505-00-619-8716, or NIIN 006198716, (cocaine hydrochloride) was assigned January 1, 1963 in the Federal Logistics Information System (FLIS). This NSN does not replace any other NSNs.

Every cloud has a silver lining … it didn’t fail at the 23:59 mark