RobHedley

A couple of Vickers I made for a EH show a few years back

Just got my MWS last week  This forum/Thread has been super useful and loving looking at everyone's builds! She is stock at the moment, just added the Vortex Strikefire II, foregrip and a NuprolNX400 Torch/Laser so far

Trolling me or have no grasp of sarcasm?
This site is perfectly welcoming, join, converse, it's fine. Don't expect to join, list items for sale overpriced and everyone thank you for it. We look out for each other, people who get their threads mentioned either take the dose of reality and price realistically or have a fanny fit.
 
Maybe if you'd gotten involved in a few conversations and got a feel for the community you'd have realised the worth of what you were selling and then not have tried to make yourself out the victim here.

And all you had to do to save the cash was undercut the actual inventor and stifle innovation. Bargain! Those clones are the reason that we never got factory-supported magazine adaptors and it took 5 years and counting for new models to come to market.
 
If they'll continue to prioritise the cheapest possible product at the expense of innovation and quality, airsofters really have no-one but themselves to blame when they get sold shitty, obsolete products that don't work properly out of the box or break shortly thereafter. It's not a coincidence that in 1995 a mobile phone looked like this and in 2020 looks like this, but a 2020 M4 AEG gearbox looks exactly the same as a 1995 one. It's not a coincidence that local airsoft retailers are going out of business (especially in the States) because people would rather save a paltry amount of money than support any actual customer service. It's not a coincidence that Magpul withdrew from their partnership with PTS in disgust and as a result we can't get PDR-Cs or FPGs any more. There is a direct link between people forcing manufacturers into a race to the bargain basement and manufacturers not having any incentive to make innovative products.

The "I would never pay £x for x, so they haven’t lost a sale by me purchasing a rip-off" argument sucked when it applied to pirating music, films and videogames and it sucks here. People buying it is the reason it’s produced. The entitlement of "I want it, but I don’t want to pay for it" is frustrating. It apparently cost TM $1m in 2008 dollars to develop the NGRS system; how are they supposed to recoup the first significant investment in AEG design since they invented the AEG if consumers set an arbitrary limit of "no more than twice the cost of a bargain basement clone of your old gun"?
 
It’s especially irritating with straight clones like the M12 because the clone literally doesn’t do even one single thing better than the original, except be cheap and poorly made. Even CYMA have improved over TM in important ways like having metal receivers. I fully support and will buy things that obviously borrow heavily from an existing design if it’s improved - I’ll happily buy an VFC, because even though it’s mostly a TM clone they’ve massively improved it by making it steel and wood rather than plastic and plastic.
 
This is all far from unique to the Sidewinder, it’s just especially annoying because it’s not the property of some huge faceless corporation. It’s literally one guy who designed an amazing product, put in a truly astonishing amount of his own money and time developing it, getting it manufactured, dealing it to distributors etc., and all so it could get ripped off and sold for profit by massive companies inside six months. At this stage it’s hard to tell if we deserve innovation.
 
Anyway, apologies for dragging the thread off topic.

Here is the first iteration of my new DMR upper for my MWS. Once I have the internals sorted I’ll probably convert it with a MK12 front end. At the moment it’s throwing out .36g bbs at 300 FPS with just the benefit of a longer barrel and some joule creep so getting a DMR FPS on .4g bbs shouldn’t be too much harder.
 
I don’t really do the sniper thing enough to warrant a new gun so when an upper came up on the classifieds for a good price it was hard to pass up.
 
 

Longtime lurker, first time poster. I blame this thread entirely for encouraging me to buy and modify an MWS 😁 (thanks?). Have had a number of AEGs and GBB pistols, but this was my first venture into GBBRs.
 
 I stupidly decided to go down the expensive and difficult route of modify my first MWS to recreate John Wicks TR-1, albeit with a few minor changes. It's more akin to the current version sold on Brownells as opposed to the version seen in the movie. A little bit of both I guess. So far its mostly externals, but I intend on working on the internals as well. Once I have some more money that is 😅.
 
AngryGun John Wick Conversion Kit (TTI TR-1) AngryGun High-speed Bolt Carrier (FDE) & MPA Nozzle AngryGun AMBI Charging Handle AngryGun Rear Receiver QD Mount BCM MOD-3 Keymod Forgrip BCM MOD-3 Gunfighter Pistol Grip BCM Gunfighter Stock BCM Trigger Guard BCM Keymod Panels GunsModify MWS Steel Dust Cover J P Enterprises 45º Canted Rail CYMA Quick Detach Dual Scope Mount (30mm) RMR Red-Dot Sight (Clone) VisionKing 1.25-5x Rifle Scope IronAirsoft PMag (Just for show. Terrible mags!!!!!) PMag Base Plate/Extension

Ugh boring. Where's the screaming shit fit?

that's how to do it, well done that man!

i hope you dont feel bad cause i was only joking when i said that it was bullying 
if anything you have been nice so i would like to say sorry and thank you for the advice
 

just leaving this here i'll be posting updates of the internal upgrades.
Great job with forum guys. 

This is why I always keep a PornHub tab open so that I don't get caught reading about airsoft.

Shh dont tell my secrets to the wife FFS!

What's wrong with this picture?
Yup, that's right! It's fucked!
So I have to replace the nozzle set - any advantage (other than availability) to going non TM?
And if not, anyone know who has the TM nozzle kit in stock?
TIA 😁

Well after reading this topic and wanting a gbb rifle you guys did it and make me buy one for myself... Thanks🤣

picked up an f-1 skeletonized receiver with trigger pack for dirt cheap. 3D printed an MWS barrel and barrel nut for the spare 250mm stock barrel. designed my own handguard. angry gun hopup and adjuster. ML packing. OEM bcg and charging handle from impulse 101. sub $300 build! 

I love this thread!!! Every morning when I get into the office the first place I head to is here!! Just to see who has been triggered whilst I have been away. This has to be one of the top contenders!!

Dammit I don't check the forum for maybe 6 hours and miss the most exciting thing to happen this week 😞

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Well this is definately a return to form for macks at least

You've played for 11 years and yet your go to price reference is that bunglecunts shop? 
Hmmm... 

Lol what the fuck is going on?

I'm confused. Although not as confused as you, apparently.
At what point have I used foul words?
And you offer me out, but somehow I am the child?
In your sales thread I was civil and tried to help you change your position so you could actually sell the RIF you were looking to sell.
And you can't take a joke (this is the internet, after all - and I would have said exactly the same thing in real life) about there being a thread specifically to help people value stuff? You'll note, if you look, that I have just used that thread for exactly that reason.
This thread exists to help prevent people who don't know any better from being taken advantage of, whilst having a laugh at the same time. Read through it and you'll see what I mean.
If you are incapable of understanding that, then it says more about you than it does about any of the rest of us here.

 

...and the winner of the award for “ word salad of the week” goes too.....