alxndrhll

[DESIRE TO EMULATE INTENSIFIES]

Nice bodge, that.

When I can be bothered to find something a bit ‘nicer’ I’ll probably replace the paper clips but it’s functional for now. Only advice is to be careful with your pin vise as you go through the middle of the nub thing, mine were hollowed out so it went much quicker than expected!

The VSR definitely has a better home with you than me, I couldn't be bothered with this stuff!

Truth be told it's slowly but surely becoming my favourite part of the hobby!

They look pretty darn good to me.🍂🍃

The naivety of youth. Would i swap being a fat 36 year old has been for a 26 year old whipper snapper, bloody right i would haha

Outside of getting a decent haircut (though not recently), having a bit more salt'n'pepper going on, being a bit more 'coloured in' and no longer having big white discs in my ears I don't look a huge amount different... but I'd definitely welcome having 20 year old me's legs and lower back again!

i used to have hair as well haha 

Trying to play God eh..?

Not bad 😉

Aye, it’s all dyed in some

way, shape or form. Though I suspect that part might either get removed or clipped down a tad and dusted with some

brown paint. It has a habit of popping up across the ‘lenses’ when acquiring cheek weld, which is less than ideal.

Long raffia does that unfortunately.

Aye, fortunately the vast majority of my crafting is cable ties so super quick and easy to adjust as needed. Did a quick field test while out with the dog this morning, really happy with the colours just need to have a play around with the right side of the balaclava and the raffia to make sure it’s not hindering the use of my scope. I’ve intentionally done less crafting on the right side with that in mind as is, so hopefully not too much tweaking needed.

the highlight for me as a youth was getting the chips wrapped with the page 3 girl

too expensive for a chippy nowadays, nearly £8 for cod and chips here

old chippy by me if you went in just before closing you could do a deal on whatever was left

Had 2 jumbo sausage, large chips, mini fish and 2 scallops for £2 😆

Our mam used to send us up the chippy on a Friday night for a shillings worth of chips and some free fish scraps for the cat. We never had a cat! 

What we did enjoy though was the batter that fell of the fish and into the drip tray. The chippy would always give us kids a free bag. My god it was swimming in oil lol. 

Bag of smiths salted crisps was 3d and had the little blue twisted salt packet in bag. Happy days🙂

Regards 

Looking good mate👍

I think the lights on top are a bit of a location giveaway though.🙂

Fair point, I got a bit carried away and just started lobbing everything on it. There’s half a pack of bonbons, some crayons and a 22” monitor hidden on the back somewhere.

Awaits sales ad for  "Fully upgraded SRS, shoots like a laser, never skirmished, just doesn't suit me"

I don't make a habit of lying, and I'm doing the 'tech' work... so we can go ahead and omit 'shoots like a laser' 👀.

Sidenote, what a superb narrative that would be.

it's just part of ak life sadly, guess maybe i don't find it so bad as i'm not so big on the taccing out.

It's also just different elements of modifcation versus what I'm used to. Fettling a barrel nut or the like to get everything sitting flush on an AR is just a less daunting prospect versus taking a lump off the back end of rail and filling out a bit of outer barrel to get the latch working right. Largely because a barrel nut is generally going to be cheaper to replace than an entirely new handguard or outer barrel if you entirely botch it.

In other news, my first order from Zenitco arrived this morning, so that all went fairly smoothly. More than happy to order from there again for the handguard itself (and anything else that takes my fancy).

i know what you mean, very daunting having to take a file to a brand new and pricey rail/stock to get it to fit.

on the flip side, internal work on the ak's is much easier than the m4 platform so it's got that going for it.

Fuck! Kill it kill it.

Man I'm never going in the woods again! Lol

All progressing nicely then.👍

Regards 

To add to what @alxndrhllsaid in case it wasn't clear: TM's VSR Gspec is a shortened version of their classic VSR and is pretty much the benchmark BASR.

Oh, right, neat.  I do with I'd been able to get a shortie MB-02 rather than the longer MB-03.  If I do get back into sniping (woodland is booked) I'll probably just throw in a shorter inner barrel and take a hacksaw to the outer.  Can't be doing with lugging around weight that's not contributing to performance.

FWIW I believe 303mm barrels (prommy are ideal unless you're planning on going all in... like this idiot) reap the most reward when it comes to VSR cylinders, I won't even pretend to understand why I'll just throw the phrase 'volume matching' out there in an attempt to sound smarter than I am. I honestly can't remember where I read it, but it was definitely on here and from a source I deemed more reliable than the internet at large.

Edit: It was in this thread, I was quickly skimming to try and find it. Barrel talk starts toward the end of page 1 and follows onto page 2.
 

oh never agree to hold things, first person to pop up with the money is first to get it.

only exception is if you're chatting with a few folk at one time then i tend to go in order of whoever messaged first (assuming they take a normal amount of time to reply)

Yup, never hold shit.

Anyone who takes more than 24 hours to decide is simply wasting your time.

It also works the other way,i wanted to buy a RIF messaged the seller ,agreed to buy  asked for paypal  address and then nothing,bloke went dark on me .

How hard is it to let someone know that things have changed.

Be polite in both buying and selling ,you never know one day you may come face to face and have to have a Duel  for  Honour ..lol

I can see a tree in your room.but where is the ghille suit?😉

Looking good. Well done

👍

Regards 

You should do your crafting on the field (arrive early, leave later) so that you get a direct feedback

I'm not a fan of fake leaves but hey, if it works for you, carry on

I’ve done a mixture of onsite crafting, and crafting at home using reference photos. I agree to a point, which is why there is plenty of space to add natural vegetation on the day of. But have found natural greens need supporting with artificial ones (be that haloscreen or artificial leaves, or a mix of the two which is the route I took), natural greens have a habit of not staying very green for long!

Thats a great thing as we move deeper into autumn and winter because it adds to your variety of brown tones, but it’s a pain when you wanted some vibrant greens!

As with anything to do with ghillie crafting it entirely depends on where you’re playing, I certainly wouldn’t expect this to perform well in a pine forest for instance.

Looks like a load of dead bat wings. Dont let batman find out what you have done.lol

Gonna be great when finished 👍

Regards 

at the risk of getting a bit philosophical, i think it's more of a doctrine/culture thing when it comes to the russians insofar as their focus seems to be more "close enough for government work", at least outside of special forces.

the thing i notice with the russian stuff is what often doesn't necessarily seem the most comfortable if you're sitting thinking about it (eg if you're messing around at home just holding the thing) just fades into the background when actually on the field.

For sure, outside of something being obscenely heavy I don't think many of the things we mess around tweaking do much once you're playing... but I definitely think they have an impact on how you feel afterwards. Much the same as a pair of ill fitting boots, you don't notice anything when the adrenaline is going and you're focused on other things. But then you sit down at lunch and realise your heels are throbbing. In that instance, unless you're a dope, you probably look at getting some new footwear because you know what the root cause is... and the same applies to me for attachments and the like. Though without intentionally trying to sound like a 'elit3 0per8r' (because I'm certainly not), many throw these things on RIFs for looks and don't actually know what they exist to aid with and with that, know what they could improve in terms of comfort by changing things out. We have the luxury of not having to consider a whole host of stuff that comes with real firearms to largely follow whatever list of priorities we have for our RIFs.

All comes with the caveat that folks should do whatever the hell they want, as long as they're having fun and not putting anyone (including themselves) at risk of any injury or grief.

(Thank you for saving my Saturday afternoon with a natter about ultimately useless shit, Christ I am so bored)

yeah i do agree. whilst i'd be the first to advise new starts not to cover their gats in superglue and drag them through wal-mart i also don't do super-light guns. the latest krink build is verging on sa80 heavy and that's just an optic, suppressor and 2dp  in my defence, it's mostly for the exercise and my crippling addiction to blued steel.

 i'm not against putting carbon fibre on an m4, to make it light but that m4 will have an alloy reciever. its a weird philosophy i know.

i can see your viewpoint on the whole comfort thing, maybe my views are centred around my build just suiting most standard length stocks.

plus ofc arguments about effectiveness with this sort of thing in airsoft are kind of moot anyway given if we really cared about performance we'd be running those stupid m4 pistol things the speedsofters use

Hey lookin' fine.

Do you have to put plant feed on now and again? 😉

Regards

Every now and then, y'know, depending on the weather 😂

Haha. Looks good though. Might have to do mine.👍

Deffo the green man of the forest!

Very nice 👍

Just a thought. You dont suffer from hay fever I hope. 😉

Regards 

Of course you ask that question and i immediately forget what length the pdi in my aksu was. I wanna say 250 but honestly cant remember.

It did finish up right at the muzzle nut so was fine for different muzzle devices (although i was running a huge can because hpa+can=silence)

Internals wise changing little is a good move. The base cyma internals arent too shabby although air seal might need a little tlc and a fresh hop rubber to lift some proper weight ammo.

Haha, always the way! I won't lie, it's weird having to be even remotely specific with barrel length. I'm much the same where it's largely HPA with a can so if the barrel over runs the outer a bit it's not an issue.

I'm curious to see how long it takes before this ends up with an F2 in it... or gets kicked to the curb to be replaced by a GHK. But I convinced myself going for the more budget option of cladding an AK in Zenitco was likely the right call, at least to begin with. This one is very much a fashion over function (though I'll happily take both). In all my years I've never used an AK, so jumping in at the deepest of deep ends to start with seemed ill advised.

I think a Perun V3 or an optical unit of some sort (titan v3 or the new aster v3) would definitely fix the semi auto lockups.

As far as batteries, my E&L can only take batteries that are less than 17mm in diametre if I want to fit them inside the gas tube.

If you go for a warfet, I recommend routing it through the front, into the front trunnion so that you keep the whole top cover dedicated to batteries. I didn't and I'm stuck to 7.4s (my 11.1s are too chubby to fit in the gas tube).

X-Fire are fantastic. I tend to default into a PDI barrel into all of my weapons and the order process is weird but yes very fast delivery. My last parcel got caught by customs. £16 charge (£12 handling - thanks parcelfarce) on a £36 barrel but I honestly don't care as it's easier and often cheaper than sourcing from anywhere else.

Can highly recommend Echigoya guns as well from Japan , been using them off and on for years and never had a problem of any sort and as an added bonus every now and again they chuck out free international delivery , couple of yrs ago a team mate picked up a TM recoil Scar L for £350’ish from them all in ! 

I'm glad it's back at Swynnerton 

I trust you've booked onto the coolest team, Los Lobons?

Ye GG&L is suitable.

Also Tutorials is fine if you describe what you're doing (especially WHY you do X instead of Y)

EDIT double post lul 

Much appreciated!