Rogerborg

Just dropped by to farm dopamine from virtue signalling about being the respectfulmost supporter of some pretty SSketchy characters, I guess. If you do want to render some Russian conscript too terrified to pull the trigger at the sight of your Viper chest rig, I'd check out the local drop off points carefully. The one nearest to me appears to be just a rando wanting to be given military surplus, but apparently has no plan to get it to Ukraine. Bear in mind that Stephen Glennies exist.

As you prefer plain speaking, I'll be absolutely clear: if you pay someone else that much to build you a toy gun to play pretend soldiers with, you're a complete and utter mental case. Genuinely not right in the head, and probably going to end up as the subject in a page 5 regional news story involving a domestic tragedy. No caveats, no nuance, no exceptions, no apologies.

Stans. Stans everywhere.

I'm sure @andrey is an honourable man.

Seems like typical airsoft thinking of "They must be worth what they're asking, or else they couldn't ask that much." Looks like the prices are just coming down to where they should be, i.e. Raven / Nuprol / AA levels.

Well, quite. I'd have assumed the rest of it was spares-or-repairs junk after seeing that. I notice that he very carefully didn't show the mullered gear or the tappet plate. It's not like he could have been unaware of them, so (as well as the lie about the hop unit) I'd call deliberate villainy on that.

"Fully custom paint job, adds £200 all day long". Or maybe that's just "factory custom" TM hi-capas. 🤔 I would love to hear Luke's "Skylaar" take on that.

There are loads of things that it could be. The first thing that I'd check is that the spring on the front of the hop unit is still there, and pushing the hop back against the geearbox. Then I'd check that the nozzle is secured in the tappet plate, as it's easy to miss this when re-assembling. Ensure that the nozzle isn't either loose, or stuck, i.e. that it can be pushed back under spring tension, and then returns by itself, but that it can't be wiggled back and forth easily. Check that there's a good bit of puff coming out of the nozzle. Either way, unless it's the hop spring, you're going to have to go back inside the gearbox to see what's gone wrong there. Be sure to check that you've got good air seal on the piston, cylinder, cylinder head and nozzle before reassembling, but I'm sure you'll have learned that lesson.

Bump caps look like a decent solution, I might pick one up just for general work purposes anyway.

I'll always pluck this low hanging fruit.

Sure, it's required by the The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer. The lighter and cheaper the better. I don't even go as fancy as MICH 2000s, the M88 / PASTG toys are good enough for the likes of me. US $13.70 / £10.29 delivered from Ali Express on my last one.

Did Tokyo Marui assign him a waifu who flew it over and personally lubed his slide?

This is my point. What matters is what happens on site, on the day. Both in terms of what players do, and what marshals and site owners do in immediate response. I'm sticking with my view that time served, good-at-the-job door security make the best site staff. It's much the same skillset: being friendly and welcoming while spotting potential problems, sounding them out and heading them off early, and ultimately being prepared to say "End of discussion, leave now" and mean it. Back your local bouncers.

He's utterly amoral, and he's realised that the airsoft community is very trusting, and ripe for exploitation. He even scammed money off the back of Help For Heroes. This resulted in a criminal conviction, which you might want to mention to PSNI. http://www.thedownrecorder.co.uk/pages/?title=Man_stole_charity_donations

Imagine if you handed Luke at Negative £1,400 and said "Make best M4 gnu m8".

Prices on that are all over the place, from £195 at PatrolBase if they had any, which they don't, through £235 at SurplusStore, to £300 at ZeroOne. Either way though, I don't see how including some random mags and battery, and removing the warranty adds 1/3rd to the highest retail price.

Sadly, I'm not, at all. I'd hope they were, but I doubt it. And I'd expect half of them to be back on the next game day, pretending ignorance, saying "No patch, no problem", or just not giving a toss. I'd like to be wrong about that, but the players who aren't a problem don't need told how to behave, and the players who are don't listen or care - that's why they're a problem. It's not the patches, it's the players. Airsoft sites don't need so many rules, and they don't need so much being said. Actually punt the dickish 5-10% off site, on the day, and all the problems are gone. I say this in the full knowledge that it's far easier said than done, and it's something I've got no interest in putting into action. But that doesn't make it any less true.

Sorry to hear this. Swaps are particularly pernicious as there's no money to be claimed back, although to take it any further you'll need to put a value on what he's stolen from you. https://www.psni.police.uk/crime/fraud/Reporting-Fraud/ to get a crime reference number. https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/recover-debts-owed-you leading to https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/small-claims-process after a letter before action. Or you may be able to claim via https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money The very best of luck with it.

She does have form for hanging around airsoft sites getting photographed. I wouldn't ascribe too much critical thought or intent to it. Previously on her LARP-of-a-LARP.

I guess this is a good a thread as any to derail by asking for recommendations for cheap TM Glock 17 plastic slides. I'm pondering downgrade/realgrading the pot-metal slide on my AA R17 as it was struggling a bit in the cold last weekend on green gas. But at £45 for what's probably a plastic slide from Eagle 6, versus £55 for an entire plastic R17 (including a magazine) at Bespoke, it's a bit of a no-brainer to dual wield.

Quite, I know that airsoft is used for tactical training by some agencies and individual trainers, but we don't want the slightest suspicion of that being the "fundamental" purpose of it. I am genuinely concerned that anyone associated with a skirmish site seems to sincerely believe that to be the case. It doesn't appear to be a joke, even lost in translation. Given that the 1936 Act was drawn up in response to the threat of both Brownshirts and Bolsheviks forming paramilitary gangs, and the current security focus on groups like Britain First, I'd like that sort of ideology to stay a lonnnng way away from our toys and sites. They do knuckle-drag among us, and we dodged the Luger with this "European polytheist". Fortunately the airsoft aspect of it never really got picked up by the Daily Wail press.

I agree, and was actually being a bit disingenuous with the ratings. Her natural shots are quite prettyish-girl-next-door. The more stripper-slap she puts on, the less appealing I find her. I can't fathom why women do that, or are paid for doing it. Anyway, I'm sure she'll be devastated to discover that I'm out of her league. She's just going to have to cope though.

No, but if they do have insurers, they might be very surprised to hear that they're actually indemnifying a paramilitary training facility.

Up to a point, and most of us play pretend soldiers to leave real life behind for a bit. Ideally we'd bring nothing to the site except BBs and a magical belief about the accuracy of our toys. However, that's not always possible for all people at all times, i.e. if you have family in an active war zone. I have no idea if that applies to anyone at my local sites, but I wouldn't particularly want to find out by making a point of saying "Offence is taken, not given".

Looks to me like a 5 painted and dressed up like a 7 or 8. I stress that this isn't generalised misogyny, it's very specific to this grifting frippet.