RostokMcSpoons

People would start calling me 'Twiggy' That's out the running I'm afraid... as I mentioned I've already got some BTP webbing and pouches. There'll be some pics on the 'What have I just bought' thread once my next delivery comes in. (Prepare the 'Get out' GIF for use!)

Bejeesus, @Tommikka works for Skynet!!!

Blimey, that particular beast is ... £40 At that price point I'd fear it's the gun. However it is a Cyma AK, and so by the Law Of All That Is Airsoft, a Cyma AK is infallible! The only connectors typically used in airsoft are the Tamiya ones you mentioned (either big or small), and Deans connectors which have two connectors arranged in a 'T' shape. It sounds like you have the second type. Does it look like one of these? At the price you paid, I'd have expected a NiMH and a very simple wall socket charger with Tamiya connectors on gun/charger/battery, but it sounds like they've given you a new battery with Deans, or as you say a 'custom' type. So for the The two batteries The charger Please give us pics

@Cannonfodder But there's only one of those you can buy off the shelf

Surely you "Went kinetic to achieve the mission objective" ;D

Yeah I realised DPM is probably designed for the Fulda Gap as much as anywhere However, I stick with my assertion that MTP is a better camo for my site at this time of year, and although I might be chucking £30-50 on stuff I don't really need, when has that ever stopped us, eh? But I suppose the darker camo is going to get broken up a bit by my new multicam battle belt and harness. I'll get someone to take a pic of me at the site this weekend, see what it looks like at a distance. Also, I really ought to check to see if the site will stay open through this winter!

Maybe I'm over-thinking the whole camouflage scenario, but looking around at the people at my site last week I thought that the lighter-coloured camo patterns were doing a better job of blending in with the autumnal vegetation and the grey tree trunks than the darker DPM that I was wearing. I had to stick close to those lovely dark green holly bushes *ouch* It's almost like the army had actually managed to improve their camouflage pattern since them olden days Anyway, I've already been buying some of my bits and pieces in BTP (a combat belt/harness I'm picking up today, holster, mag and utility pouches) in preparation for the day when I'd change over from my old kit to the current pattern. I'm feeling like I make the move earlier than I thought. What is the recommendation for the kit to buy? I'm expecting just to get a jacket and/or heavy shirt + trousers to get me through the autumn/winter/spring period, but is it better to go windproof rather than waterproof? There are the obvious variances of desert vs general purpose, but are there more nuanced differences in versions of the camo that might catch me out? (Especially if I buy from different sources... which is quite likely I'll have to, as the larger sizes - i.e. "fat b'stard" 38" waist, 44" chest - seem often to be sold out) Obviously I could spend ages just looking at surplus sites and eBay, but it's really to avoid any 'gotchas' rather than me being lazy. Honest!

New addition to the battery family... a couple of Turnigy Nano-tech 11.1v Li-Po's, 1200mAH. Having bought a Titan that I expect to power any of my guns all day long, it was a bit silly buying them, but I couldn't resist seeing what the extra Rate Of Fire would be like. Yeah, it's fun And these particular batteries were disposably cheap at less than £8 each. (HobbyKing). As I found my old ammo can I've got somewhere decent to store them in, so I'm a little less nervous about having Li-Po's in the house. I made a pic with the other batteries, because I'm constantly impressed by the shrinking size of the batteries these days. This new one is just 130x20x16mm My old 9.6v NIMH brick and the 600mAH stick show how far things have come.

Re the Negative Airsoft video... someone helpfully put the times in for each segment in the top pinned comment, so you can jump straight to each manufacturer

I've been waiting for a good moment to use that Father Ted reaction ;/

I messaged the seller, asking "please don't sell this to people who might use it at an airsoft game"... New message from: airsoft987 (7,004) ok. This item was ended. Phew!

Action Hobbies has a nice cheap 3-9x40 scope with illuminated reticle for £20, BF deal. https://www.actionhobbies.co.uk/products/3-9x40-ir-zoom-scope/ Nice red dot with flip-up cover + killflash... £43 https://www.actionhobbies.co.uk/products/jj-airsoft-tr02-red-dot-killflash-black/ and a Viper VCAM belt + harness for £15 https://www.actionhobbies.co.uk/products/viper-technical-harness-set/

Jeeeesus.

4.Made of high strenth/tough materials. That suggests 'plastic' to me. With some bad typo checking! So hopefully they originally had 'transparent' and it got chucked out of whatever translator they used as 'glass'

I'm a guy who subscribes strongly to the idea of 'suppressive fire'. I got quite a few kills on my last game when I was spamming shots at an obvious location and people would either peek into it or jump out from it. And the rest of the time I like to think I'm stopping them from using a good firing position to shoot at my team. Also - I've paid good money to be there, I'm damn well going to fire my gun as much as I can - it's fun Firing lots of single shots and 3-5 round bursts I estimate that I used around 1500mAH worth of juice (at 7.4v) for a full day's play on Sunday (one Li-Po emptied, plus a bit from my Titan which I wasn't sure was working ok, so was my backup). I used up a bag and half of BB's, so between 4,000-4,500 BBs in that time. It's good to hear the Li-Po storage thing can be abused somewhat. I can't find my old 7.62 ammo can to store 'em in though, just using a Quality Street tin at the moment. I suspect that'd melt pretty quickly in the worst case scenario ?

At 3000mAh you're just needing to buy one Li-Ion battery rather than two Li-Po's. So there's that. On the downside... where can you get one for £35? Seems to be £45 at Land Warrior, or Airsoft Anonymous (out of stock)? And at 20cm I don't think it'll fit in the buffer tube. Not with the wiring to contend with as well. (But you've got the 908 crane stock, so you may be luckier than me in that regard. You can certainly opt for the nunchuck version instead) Next is the 'Li-Po' vs 'Li-Ion' quality of life stuff... You can't store a Li-Po with much charge in it. If your charger does discharging down to a storage voltage then you're ok. My ASG smart charger doesn't have that, so I've either got to buy a different charger, or find another way to ensure my battery is run down to its minimum level.

I would say that while some here say 'pockets are fine' I had a couple of 'interesting' situations where I just couldn't swap mags within the same calendar month. So a belt / chest rig with a least a couple of mag holders would be on my essentials list. Preferably the plastic shell type, or with a metal insert, so you're not even fiddling with retaining cords etc (but not losing mags either). You could refer to my "will my webbing wobble thread"

Watch the Sweary Man (c)(tm) dissect each manufacturer here: Skip the first 3 minutes. It's long and there are lots of Naughty Words. But as a tech he'll give you an idea of how good each company's products are. (He likes Cyma and Double Eagle at the cheaper end, but there are some other manufacturers I know sod-all about that he rates too, and they might actually be in stock)

Yeah that's a good choice. I've just been through the same journey as you, ending up buying a Double Eagle M906c... you could search for my threads, if you're a masochist ? I'm actually keeping an eye out on the Black Friday sales as I would like to pick up a bargain backup gun. Your choice did catch my eye again yesterday, but it's still at full price. Very nice gun though and was in the running when I was originally looking. Now the interesting thing is Patrolbase actually have the M906 marked as a Black Friday deal at £120/130 which would be an absolute steal. (and it would piss me off somewhat as I paid £40 more) It's still at 'OOS' but why lower the price when it's been like that for a few weeks? Are they going to reveal some stock on the day? Worth keeping an eye out for that!

Yeah fair enough Druid. I shall resist the small temptation to try this 'experimental' 11.1v battery in one of the two old guns and just try it in the DE Btw with its MOSFET, does that add some extra protection? I might use my M16 as a base for some experimentation, either going dmr, or super shorty.. plenty of room to add a MOSFET, would it be worthwhile? (If there's more than a simple answer to that I'll chuck that question in to a separate thread)

I'm not sticking my tip in there for anyone! Yub yub kersnip! On a slightly more serious note, I got a new set of connector leads for my charger (to dodge my dodgy soldering on the original set). As I used the Titan it a little on Sunday, I decided to top it up. I expected a good few minutes of charging to do that, so when it took *seconds* I suspected the worst. I got my battery monitor on it, and sent the readings off to Titan to confirm its charged and healthy. They replied very quickly. With S1 = 4.20v and S2 = 4.21v, I'm (allegedly) "fine and dandy". Which means the two or three hundred bb's it powered on Sunday were merely scraping the icing off a big 3000mAH cake!

Excellent. I'll order it. I looked for some helping hands but mostly at the cheap end of the spectrum there are plenty of "it's rubbish" type of reviews, so didn't bother. I bodged something with a small vice, and a lump of wood and some blu-tack when I was doing this previously. Not great but better than stuff just loose on my desk Yowzers, 6 secs 0-60! Speedy! It's a bit pricey for me though, I think I'll stick with life in the bus lane

As a curious bystander who doesn't know about the AR latch, I googled and found this: ... is that what you mean and is it useful?

Yeah, but that's with their 'full fat' spring giving > 400fps. The problem is over-running the gearbox when there's less resistance from our namby-pamby 310fps (when new) springs. So that's why Patrolbase etc recommend the 7.4v instead. I'm sure there's a degree of 'CYA' in that, but it makes logical sense. The good news is the empirical evidence suggests the DE internals are well put together and can cope (at least for a decent time) So 11.1v is not a terrible idea. In fact with all this talk of the damned things I've just ordered the cheap 11.1v 1200mAH Nano-Tech from HobbyKing (slightly different version from the one I'd seen that triggered my previous post), because it's a stupendously cheap £11 delivered, so I'm going to try it. And I could do with an extra spare battery so why not. As I said to Jake though, I've got a couple of guns that'll fill in if the DE dies on me. As he's just got one, it's a slightly different equation. I seem to be fairly unlucky with my kit, I may be being unreasonably risk-averse (Here's the cheapo battery: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-nano-tech-1200mah-3s-15-25c-lipo-airsoft-pack-t-connector.html)

My soldering iron is also from Maplins and just has a very pointy tip to it. It is a pain to get heat into anything other than the solder itself. I'll buy a better one off eBay or Amazon edit: is this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preciva-Temperature-Adjustable-Electrical-Maintenance/dp/B08CKXJMKT/ref=sr_1_12 good enough? That includes multiple tips, a stand, tweezers, the de-solder pump... and a multi-meter for the princely sum of £17.50