Rogerborg

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.

Only £185 to perhaps get a working, used, ratty example of £165 worth of brand new gnu + sight + case. Everything we've come to expect from "selling for a mate" flippers.

Sure, although that's a lot to drop on a plastic CYMA. I have a CM5xx, it's solid internally, but given the toytown plastics, I wouldn't spent much on it. It's more of a great starter/backup gun, or for trying out things like the grub screw method. The easiest and cheapest way to get an easier trigger pull is this... No, bear with me: middle finger trigger pull used to be taught by the FBI and police academies for "point shooting" with revolvers. There are solid arguments against it in real steel - weak grip, harder to maintain trigger discipline - which don't apply to airsoft AEGs. I'm a natural airsoft middle fingerer, and would recommend giving it a try.

This thread really needs pictures.

I'd avoid the low end CYMA CM5xx M4s. While the internals are fine, the plastic feels (and is) really cheap. When I say I have no regrets about getting one, it's more because it was a decent base to play around with internally and externally, and it's still in the backup-backup bag as a last-resort gun. As far as I'm aware, there isn't a bad budget G36. They all have a rotary hop unit, the length is fine for CQB or woodland, and I really like the ergonomics. The only downside is that the battery space isn't great, but it's not really a problem either: I run ~1400mAh block batteries and always change at lunch anyway. You can run G36 mags, or with a ~£10 magwell adaptor, it'll take M4 / STANAG mags instead. I'm happy with my Jing Gong G36C, it's my my go-to now. Based on a disassembly video, the CYMA looks essentially identical, and CYMA V3 gearboxen (as used in their AKs) are well regarded. That said, PatrolBase have an "Evolution Airsoft" for £10 more which has a microswitch (meh) and a quick change spring (nice). That's more of an unknown brand though. Might be worth a punt, you might want to stick with CYMA, but either way, I'd recommend it as a platform.

Well, I now generally play with a non-realistic fantasy lasergun, so there's that.

What would you like to achieve with the CYMA that it's not doing now? Do you want to run it as a DMR? True, they're not the best motors, but CYMAs sold in the US and EU tend to come meatier than in the UK. TaiwanGun, for example, reckons about 1.5J for the CM0.32... although GunFire says ~340fps / 1.1J, so, eh, who knows. Just noting that as an aside, I agree with the assessment that it's not like chucking a new spring into a Specna Arms M4.