Actually, £1250 for the hicapa is about right.
approx £1000 worth of parts individually plus assembly and tuning plus custom cerakoting.
Most skirmishers won’t benefit From the outlay but if you are a speedsofter and only use it as your primary especially on hpa or a competition shooter the increased longevity of parts and reliability makes it a little easier to swallow the price.
plus given that a decent tuned hicapa shoots as well as any tuned aeg then I’d personally rather put the money into the fully cnc airsoft masterpieces hicapa than an internal tuned but still a pot metal krytac