GeorgePlaysAirsoft

Got an Angry Gun L119 handguard to have a longer option, couple of A1A extended MWS Pmags with Magpul Mag-Link couplers, some Guns Modify MWS Pmags, Strike Industries overmolded pistol grip & a few other bits. Need a longer barrel now 🤦‍♂️ 
 
Oh also got a GHK G17 steel premium model with a TLR-1s

My “Honey badger” at home, the syrup ferret:
 
 

You’re right they do, last one I went too was a while back and it was a themed night, totally forgot about it being an option.
 
They are deffo on the cards, that’s for sure.

Nice! I had a fondle of some DTNVS and photonis white phos tubes a week or so ago, ive been looking into NODs more and more but there’s not many night games within reasonable distance to me 😖
 
 

Smol laser / light combo.
 
Surefire XVL2 IRC: 

bit of a blast from the past. a Prime LR300 kit. It's had a bit of tinkering with a Gate Aster and some Maple leaf to bring it up to date inside.

Cheeky wee purchase of an IdoGear shooters belt from Ali Exp 
Quick delivery from just outside HK, took only 8 days, way faster than their estimated delivery date.
Seems solid enough, holds my secondary and a mag & dump pouch quite solidly
Nice feeling to be able to order a Medium for the first time in about 8 yrs!!
Tired of being a porker, lost 3” off my waist so far this year, and I’m motivated to get back to a 32 ish waist 🤞

It’ll get tried out next weekend, can’t wait!
Getting my loadout perfected for NAF , so as I can sit about and talk shit with my boys and not bother to play
(it’s a festival after all innit!!) 😂
 

I was at Gunman Tuddenham on Sat for the night game.  All in all, a good evening.  Start time keeps on slipping later and later from the aimed 7pm which is bit annoying but hey.
 
Lots of friendly fire but typical of a night game.  I just wish people would use the call and response properly.  Yes, if you don't reply, I will assume you are NATO scum and shoot you.
 
Sneaking through the village and trenches is a hell of a lot of fun.

Did another game at gunman tuddenham and it seems I'm about to be a cheerleader for them again. 
 
Thoroughly impressed with the management team, ran a relatively complex game with a more advanced rule set, objective style etc and frankly they smashed it out of the park. 
 
The site has clearly invested in their terrain and made good use of the features already there. The variation of experience available has improved and consistent with what they're advertising. 
 
The game play was good, objectives well thought out and hit taking/sportsmanship very high as well. 
 
Add onto that, my little group played effectively as a team and it was about perfect. 

Ah, you must be the big brains around here. Didn't want to make an advert implying I do want to make a swap for definite. I did say potentially. Thank you for the information though much appreciated.

So Camelot was certainly ‘a thing’. The first hour or so of Saturday was great, the rest of the day was… pretty shite. The age old story of too many players and a grinding stalemate that resulted in nothing much happening… for a further 2 hours.
 
And the reward for that in the afternoon? A reverse of the same game. Woo.
 
Sunday (today) saw many players leaving due the general not so great experience from the day prior which led to far better flow. The games being a defenders hold and fall back versus attackers. Again, the afternoon saw this reversed which given how enjoyable the morning was I was happy to see. I’d defended in the morning, I generally prefer attacking.
 
My newly jazzed up MCX was a monster all weekend, so thanks very much Dave if you happen to read this. With how well that was performing the weekend could have been a total wash and I’d likely still come away with a smile on my face. As ever, the folks I played had a huge amount to do with everything good that came from the weekend.
 

 
 
For those that care, I’m third in from the left. Playing surrounded by giants, I’m bang on 6’ for reference.

Seemingly old habits die hard, and as much as I liked the look of the N4 MWS build it was; A) Shorter handguard than I like. B) A lot more cash tied up in what’s meant to be a ‘back up’ of sorts. So I’ve reverted back to the 11.5” URGI, but did pick up a new stock, stock riser and red dot. The Holosun 403R now sits on my Unity riser with a QD to easily swap it around on the replicas I use that on (3 of the 4 I own) and replaces an old faithful Vortex Crossfire which is back on a standard lower 1/3rd sitting on the AK.
 
It’ll not doubt get painted once the weather outside is a bit nicer... or wind up selling it all because it'll rarely get used over the electric options I have available to me. Self awareness is important and all that... 😒.
 

I’ve just come across your post and agree entirely.  It did feel like a ‘mini milsim’ and the standard of player effort was very good. 
 
Are you going to the one this weekend at Tuddenham?  I was the player that travelled from Derby, and all being well will do the four hour round trip again this weekend, it was that good last time.

yes very impressed with gunman tuddenham it has now become my "local" - they basically seem to do everything right which is very refreshing. the saturday night game was very good fun though (and feedback was provided so this isn't a totally unproductive moan) i thought our little squad of "the leftovers" was somewhat penalised for playing the objective as we didn't get any contact for 1.5hrs. fine for a 24h "milsim", less so for a 3hr "mini-sim". I wasn't sure if that was because the enemy team had no reason to intersect our path or whether they were just unable to. On the otherhand, its a testament to how fun nodding about at night is as that 1.5hrs went very quickly and felt more like 30 mins, if that.

I haven't seen much of interest yet but a Stechkin APS with stock from VFC.  GBB assumed.
 
 

The last piece of the puzzle now arrived. 
A custom made full steel accurate L7A2 barrel to finish off my steel L7A2 gpmg. 
 
Just need to get it engraved with the original Enfield markings, and to get it altered to take the original inokatsu hop unit. 
 
Now going to convert my old barrel into the newer type HK L7 barrel, and to use to replicate blank use too. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

My little creation. Since I couldn't find the metal G&P rail kit I improvised to make M11a1 as useful as possible still maintaining slim shape (that is why there are no side rails).
 
Used it last weekend and it was cracking fun. 
 
It is bit of a ugly duckling and won't be everyone's taste but it works perfectly for me and it is Daddy's Lil Monster

"in my day...." 
*Insert old man vibes here*
 
This is a flippant comment due to starting work 10 minutes ago, however to the point
 
Any day where you go Airsofting and think - worth it, or tinker and get things 'just right', buy any kit or *that* piece of kit, new gun day, first day you bring your mate along, hell even good toy cleaning day is part of the golden age.
 
 

This is all so tragically jaded 😂. I've been playing for give or take about 20 years, and for the most part it's all about the same for me. The access to decent reliable GBBRs is a big win, as is my personal access to more disposable income and being able to transport myself pretty much where ever I like.
 
There have always been idiots, there will always be idiots. Social media is fine, its been a great way to meet like minded people to chat shit about what is, and likely always will be, a very niche hobby.
 
Biggest 'issue' I've seen creeping in more and more is how stand off-ish and 'clique-y' it's become. Everyone seemingly wants to find a reason to hate everyone else that isn't in the group they play with, and has an attitude going in to playing that it's going to be shit. Not that the latter is anything new, airsofters hating airsoft is a founding pillar of the hobby... for reasons unknown to me.
 
Edit: I guess I'm not shocked by the general concensus given we're in the land of the dinosaurs... a forum.

For me it's whenever the person gets their rose tinted glasses out. 
 
I remember being new to airsoft and hearing all these stories about amazing events that happened "just" before I got into the sport were.......cut to a few years later and I am hearing these amazing stories about events that I went to that I thought were shit but had nuggets of gold in them. The stories tellers made it seem like every game'/event was pure gold and it wasn't shit was a couple of good moments. 
 
Chat to people now about Tier one at Stanta and lots of people will reminisce with fond memories. At the time it was basically the same event 3 times in a row at stanta with almost no variation except for a decrease in the quality of the game play and event each time. They'll chat about CAG and their events at Otterburn.....that happened like twice. Or the sandpit and how amazing it was, despite the fact they used about 10% of the site (was amazing for big event games though!). 
 
 I'd always encourage people to just make the best of it now, what's happening now, what events/sites are there that exist now. Sparta closed recently (never went) and people were obviously upset to lose a great venue, well.....if it's so great -  go! Don't just settle for just going to your local week in week out - get out there, vote with your feet and do the stuff that looks interesting now, before you look back on whatever site/organiser it is, cause it's just a matter of time before they close down. 

I’m sure some bits will change around once it’s getting used in anger but the arrival of the can and sling sees this one just about there.
 

3D printed "FANTA" cover for the surefire can, I only had red filament left so the paint has come out a bit lighter on top but I think that looks pretty good

I think it's almost certainly down to the costs associated and the number of players needed to make it viable with using these venues and whether the venues are actually good for Airsoft. 
 
For anyone that did operation blue fox at the fire college, it looks like it should be awesome, crashed trains, planes, oil type platforms, industrial rigs, office buildings, replica motorways with cars etc. Play was awful due to the distances between each set area, all attack routes were via open fields with no cover, attacking areas with great cover, excellent sight lines etc.
 
A lot of existing Airsoft sites aren't actually big enough to host these sort of events (such as the sandpit, which is now closed). 
 
There's a few sites that I have the impression might be big enough but for whatever reason (probably financial) big events are being run there. Not every event provider wants to do more than provide skirmishing