mightyjebus

As well as owning a few AEG's I spend a bit of time upgrading/changing/modding some of them. I'm currently working on these 3. These are the original STAR L85 AEG's with the polycarbonate gearbox shells. There is nothing wrong with these shells but I decided to replace them with the metal versions. The L86 has been left as stock externally, the AFV has had the newer style flash hider and a LLM added. The L85A2 has had a RIS, ACOG, MRD and wing mount added along with a tam grip pod and rail covers.

Not really..I live in an old nuclear bunker

i've been in the sun too long

possibly but since I used to be 1 it souldn't be too bad

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completely stock. And since it's raining outside and I have nothing to do here's a couple more pictures.

The secret is..... a paint brush. Before taking the picture use a paint brush to give it a quick clean as it gets into all the edges and removes the dirt etc.

the best way to check is to take the inner barrel and hop unit out and look down the barrel as you turn the hop wheel. you should see the hop rubber appear as a bump and get bigger until you can adjust the hop any more. this will tell you if the hop is able to be applied when it's in the AEG. If you adjust the hop and the bump doesn't appear there is a good chance the nub is missing.

it sounds like a hop problem. with a FPS of 280 you should still be getting 40 meters. adjust the hop so that the bb starts to swing upwards at the end of it's flight. If you put maximum hop on and this still doesn't happen the you have a problem with the hop unit or hop rubber/nub. be careful adjusting the hop to max as it can jam bb's inside the barrel. if this happens stop shooting and use a cleaning rod to clear the trapped bb. loosen off the hop for it to stop happening. If the hop unit is workng properly then it looks to be an airseal problem. this can be caused by a few parts: cracked gearbox shell misaligned hop unit torn hop rubber poor compression in the cylinder If it's a cracked gearbox - get a new shell make sure the hop unit sits flush onto the front of the gearbox replace the hop rubber if it's torn did you replace the nozzle with the correct type?

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actually you can mod the existing gearbox to make it EBB. It's not simple and involves cutting a slot in the gearbox so that you can connect a rod to the piston and it will shorten the gearbox life but it's still doable.

you think the Amoebas are uglier than these?

If you think the gold AK is bad I'll post up a few pictures of really bad AEG's

I can see where the confusion is.... simply because I have loads of AEG's with mini tamiya's and I haven't got around to replacing them all to deans so it's easier to keep the LIPO's as MT and use deans to MT extensions for the time being. The torch/Peq is this one ELEMENT PEQ16a

finished the work on the MP5. Also managed to get the RIS off the front of my TM 417 and replaced it with a 9 inch VFC one. Need to get a 1.5 inch barrel extension to finish it off. And lastly got around to sorting out this VFC HK416 to be more "SEAL" like. Just got to decide if I want to spray and stencil it.

The LSW uses the same calibre as the Minimi and could shoot accurately out to 600 meters due to the longer barrel. It's biggest failing, as found in Afghan and Iraq, was the magazine only held 30 rounds. For a support weapon this was found to be useless. The original idea was to stop the infantryman fielding a LSW from using too much ammunition. Turns out, funnily enough, that when you need to use a support weapon you need lots of ammunition. The LSW could fire very accurate small bursts, just like its predecessor the LMG [bren], but both suffered from small magazines. Both were never meant to be used as a full time support weapon and would be supported by the GPMY but it was realised in the Falklands then Iraq and Afghanistan that something with a bigger ammunition capacity and lighter that the GPMY was needed. It took nearly 40 years for the military to buy, off the shelf, the minimi. I wouldn't be surprised to see the minimi replaced eventually with the 7.62 version if NATO decides to stick with the 5.56 calibre (there's a possibility that a new 6 or 6.8mm round could be used in the future). It was used as an stop gap DMR but the 5.56 calibre isn't a very good round for DMR use plus the Susat is bollocks for that type of work. Like the Sig226 the L129 was bought as an urgent operationally requirement and I think it will probably be replaced at some point in the future to something British made (god help us). As for the original OP then consider a Gates WarFET if you decide to build a DMR. It's a programmable MOSFET that has the pre-cocking feature. I have one here and it's very good. The pre-cocking isn't that good on full auto but since you want a DMR then fitting one of these would be a good idea. If you are unsure of pre-cocking then I'll explain. When you use pre-cocking the mosfet primes the cylinder ready to fire. it pulls the piston back and as soon as you touch the trigger it fires and resets the piston in the back position ready to fire again. The benefit of this is instant shots, like a bolt action sniper rifle.

alright dave...best ongoing joke ever

I think he means my MP5. The only original parts are the inner barrel, hop and gearbox.

Project MP5A2. This isn't complete yet as it still needs a new stock, cocking handle and thread protector for the flash hider. It started life as a TM MP5 and has had a A2/A3 style hand guard and lower receiver fitted. The upper receiver has been replaced with a metal version. Internally it will have a mosfet installed and a few other tweaks. The magazine is a 3D printed version that I made.

The Russian loadouts are becoming more popular nowadays. a few years ago you might spot 1 guy rocking some soviet gear but a good example was CS last week where there was 5 guys all done up in some good Russian loadouts

I been collecting/skirmishing for a long time and pick stuff up all over the place. I quite like the asian sites for some of the gear (Kryptek copies) but occasionally I buy the real stuff (Crye) and Russian stuff. The Russian stuff is actually quite cheap to be honest and is very hard wearing especially the Gorka stuff. For example you can buy Gorka 3 for about 50 quid on ebay whereas a pair of Crye Gen 2 trousers will set you back over 100 quid. Here's some sites to check out and I have had no issues with the stuff arriving: ebairsoft.com asiaairsoft.com http://airsoft.tiger111hk.com/index.html for AEG's etc then I'd suggest: combatsouth.co.uk fire-support.co.uk I'm biased as I'm part of the Wasps team from Combat South (oldest airsoft team in the UK and possibly globally - and I mean that both ways {age and time together}) but the reason I started going to CS was it was and is the best site in the UK and the guys at the shop can pretty much get anything and make everything you might fancy. If you can make it to the site then try it but remember to book in advance if it's a themed game (vietnam, Xmas etc) as it fills up quickly because it's such a good site.

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safe zone and mag in with permission from marshalls.

if you have a CYMA AK and the replacement stock is a CYMA then yes. Same for most other makes VFC ETC. If you try to fit a VFC to a CYMA or other brand stocks to another brand AK you may run into problems

Russian loadout from today.