Rogerborg

I have a BattleAxe magwell adapter in a JG G36, it seems "airsoft universal" in that it very nearly fitted and just needed about 10 minutes with a file on the inside and outside to get the magwell into the gun, and M4 mags into the magwell. Now they feed better than G36 midcaps ever did, although there's a fair few inside the adapter feed that will never feed into the hop - I've got into the habit of flipping it upside down when changing mags. I'd agree that £180 is waaaaay too much for the JG. Looks like PatrolBase were flogging them for an absolute bargain £88 but are of course out of stock. I can't speak to the other makes, or even how the JGs perform now, as I bought mine from an earlier batch with an adjustable spring tensioner which is super useful for tuning between sites and BB weights, but seems to be an idea that's come and gone. Stock performance was OK, and the consistency with a Maple Leaf 60 degree and ZCI barrel is fine for CQB and OK (but not perfect) for woodland. With a Big Dragon M140, 11.1V and a Perun AB++ it'll burst fire as fast (or faster) than the mags can feed. As a point of personal perverse pride, I've never opened the gearbox, even to shim or re-grease, just spooged some silicone up the nozzle and some chainsaw oil into the shell - you can solder a mosfet to the trigger tabs outside the shell. It Just Workstm. If I were buying now, I'd probably feature-whore out on the "Specna" for the QC spring and the EBB.

Oh, here's something still available: Hordes of the Things. It's a super-generic, very abstract system for any sort of fantasy army battles that you don't want to take too seriously. It uses units rather than individual figures, so essentially you cut out some rectangular bases and then do anything you want with them: stick miniatures onto them, or print out flat or stand-up pictures, or just scribble "Giant atomic tree-squid" onto a Behemoth base, then get on with playing. You can use it for anything you can imagine: a Shooter unit could be elven archers or Thark radium-gunners[*], they operate exactly the same either way. The rules are pretty simple, and it's designed to be played on small tables. There's some emergent complexities too that you'll spot after you've played a few times - and you can play pretty quickly. [*] Here's someone using it with 40K 15mm minis. That's like 200% heresy!

Yup, Eisenhorn has been pitched for years - this might actually make it happen. I'd like to say Gina Carano as Kara Swole, mostly because it's fun to say Gina Carano and Kara Swole.

Great suggestions above. Talisman is on the board-game side of that equation, sort of swords-and-monopoly, and a very gentle introduction. But it's Games Workshop money, and looks to be out of stock everywhere, it's just the expansions for sale. Thing is, there's so much variety and tastes vary so much that it's hard to know what to recommend. If you want an overview, there's a great YouTube series, Tabletop, that covers... well, tabletop games, hosted by Wil "Shut up Wesley" Wheaton. Most of the episodes are watch-with-kids friendly, it's what I used to get my children playing. Some of them are pretty entertaining just to watch, not necessarily as recommendations (for playing with people that you have to live with), like Munchkin. The full playlist is here if you want dive in.

Exactly that. Abstracted hit-point systems are for daft lightweight theatrical fantasy. There are plenty of storytelling systems if you want that, or blow the dust off a copy of Rolemaster and see how many permanently crippling injuries you can rack up from a housecat scratch. I'm fascinated to see what Cavill and Amazon do with 40K, given budget constraints - they won't want another billion dollar Rangz flop on their hands. The suggestion I've seen is that they'll go for something in the crime series rather than raw bolter-porn, which could be intriguing - if done right.

Ah, right, I think it's 5E they're using, I'd formed the impression that 6 was already out. I was surprised to see that D&D: The Final Frontier film is, while a little cheesy looking, pretty much Monster Manual fanservice. Mimic, displacer beast, gelatinous cube, owbear and what might have been a stone drolem just on a cursory viewing of the trailer. It's almost like they don't actually hate their audience. And with 40K, it seems that we're getting the world's strongest nerd, Henry Cavill, exec producing and acting in a live action series for Amazon. I reckon he only does acting work in order to be able to afford the plastic crack.

Epic was rightly named, and the best thing was that you could put together an entire army for not much more than one 40K hero mini - which is probably why GW killed it. Doubly so if you played with folk who didn't mind you subbing in whatever else you had to hand. I won a tournament using a 100% cheese force consisting of nothing but spray-painted Marine Scout companies deployed directly onto objectives or into hand-to-hand via toy-shop Micro-Machine helicopters serving as Thunderhawks. One bloke was on the verge of tears as his beautiful Titans and Baneblades went down under a swarm of suicidal stabby scouts, wailing "But all you're doing is swapping your cheap units for my expensive ones!" Member when "elf" and "dwarf" were character classes? I member. Mmm, I'd spotted that WoTC were doing their best to turn fans into foes by killing off the community licensed system. Utterly tragic, given their history with being the David cease-and-desisted by TSR's Goliath, then after the success of MtG buying up most of what was left of TSR, and now becoming the worst of TSR. That said, both of my kids are playing whatever the 2nd-to-most-recent ruleset of D&D is, in separate groups, so there may be some life in it yet even as a gateway. I'm gently suggesting to them that other systems and settings are available.

Very sorry to hear that, and I'm glad you got it back. Out of interest, what sort of hourly rates and parts markup are airsoft "professionals" charging? I ask because I'm very lucky to have a local trusted garage that's held their labour charges at £40 an hour for years, which I consider an absolute steal. I wouldn't expect any kind of professional technical service for a penny less than that, regardless of the number of gears involved.

That is my litany of faith every time I hear the seductive whispering of the Financially Ruinous Powers. It's their property, they can do as they like with it. But it's our fandom, and our money, to spend or not as we please. I don't expect a visit from the Legal Inquisition, but then who does?

+eleventy for naming the rogue. As to the gun, maybe spooge some silicone lube up the nozzle and then blow it out, to lube the piston ring. Other than that, get out and play. Bear in mind that a "new" gun could have spent months in warehouses, shipping crates and shelves before getting into your hands.

100% this, or at least not here, in a forum that she could easily find. Please don't take this wrong, and I understand that you want to get this off of your chest, but this thread contains way too much information.

Is this a serious thread? If you're not selling a (whole, complete) realistic imitation firearm, then no offence is being committed. If you are selling a (whole, complete) realistic imitation firearm, then technically an offence may be being committed, but nobody will ever care. Is this a real concern for you?

Seller is a geezer, innit. *MUST SELL*, go on mate, mug me off, make me an offer, quick mate, I've got five other blokes on the line begging for it.

What will you be doing with this information?

Same with my CM.516, I'm pretty sure either PB (or TaiwanGun, upstream) just lop some coils off of the stock spring.

She's already stolen it from you once, she'll just keep the money if you hand it over first. So arrange to pick it up, ask to see it before handing over the cash, then just take it off of her one way or another without paying a penny. Tell her it's a civil matter. Forget the VCRA offence. The police won't be remotely interested, and even if they were, her defence is that she's selling it to you for use in airsoft skirmishing. The CPS won't touch it. Sorry to hear that she found the receipts.

But with a 24x optic you'll be able to see them sweat from their pores as they don't take their hits.

Solid performers, decent quality plastic, but zero bells and whistles, and hugely overpriced now compared to Specna Arms, Double Eagle, Lancer Tactical and CYMA equivalents.

I guess she found the receipt then.

tl;dr version: if you decide to go down the bolt action route, just buy a Silverback TAC-41, or SRS. They look expensive, but it's cheaper than finding out that trying to spend less means that you'll end up spending more. Also, ahoy and welcome to the wonderful world of airsoft "upgrading".

I have to know why it's on a teching bench, with some digital calipers. What's he being doing to it?

Ahoy, welcome, and no. No, no, and no. Airsoft uses 6mm plastic BBs in the 0.2 - 0.5g range, at about 1.1J auto, up to 2.5J for bolt actions. Please, please don't show up to show off some "home defence" gear that's legally spurious. Airsoft sniping is fun, but we can all put a crosshair on a target and pull a trigger. After that, it comes down to how well your toy gun is shooting, and the vagaries of weather and airsoft physics. You can forget holdover at airsoft ranges - the way airsoft hop works means that your BB will go pretty much straight, then plummet sharply. I don't mean to come across too harshly, just to be clear that in airsoft most of your shots are going to miss, and that you're there to take hits in good cheer, not to make them. If you come with that attitude, you'll be welcome anywhere and you're likely to find folk who are happy to help and support you. People have played airsoft in wheelchairs, or motorised 4x4 or 6x6 mini-tanks. Whether you can compete is going to be entirely dependent on your local site. Indoor CQB is a good shout, you can have a great time playing a slow walking game and covering choke points, and playing with a light SMG/PDW or pistol is viable. In woodland, you'll find a much wider variety of sites. Some of them are flat, dry and compact with loads of cover, some of them involve lonnnng slogs through swamps to engage and respawn. So please don't be disillusioned if you start out playing at one of the latter sites - other alternatives are available. Give it a try, you'll find that airsofters are a very welcoming bunch. Just ask someone about their guns and see if you can get us to shut up.