MrTea

Army Armament R85A2. Despite all the listings i've seen of this RIF saying the handguard is nylon/plastic, this one appears to be metal. Only gripe is that the sling loop got snapped during shipping. Fire-support have an ICS one in stock, chances are I can modify it to fit. Just need to get a dovetail to RIS converter so I can use optics with it, an A2 style charging handle and then it's on to internal upgrades.

My RIF appears to be assigned to Parcelforce so that's a bonus I guess. Shame that it takes 1/2 weeks to clear customs. I did ask the retailer to put my UKARA on the label but i've also messaged Parcelforce themselves to make sure they definately have it.

Let me know how long your customs checks take. I've got a RIF stuck with customs ATM on the same date as yours and mine came from HK. Also, let me know if you had to fill in any additional paperwork. Ty.

CO2 is a dry gas. Most bulbs/cartridges dont come with lube added but you can add a drop of silicone oil to the top of the bulb before 'charging' it and it'll help lube keeps the seals in good condition. 1 bulb per mag usually lasts me all game day unless i'm forced into using my pistol a lot.

According to Taiwangun on Reddit they're close to being able to ship directly to the UK again. They just want to make sure that everything is going to go to plan before they launch it. See here.

It is but my own forgetfulness is to blame. @Lozart if you plan on ordering to try out their hop rubbers etc. let me know and i'll split the postage with you

Tried that and unfortunately by the time I got a reply it had already been handed over to DHL. Oh well.

I have the exact same belt. Zero issues so far. Works well.

It doesn't look like it however shipping appears to be a flat rate just under €20 so best make it worth your while. I wanted to try their hop rubbers and nubs but forgot to add them 😅. My order was dispatched this morning with DHL so I can't even adjust my order.

If you were selling this as a functional prop for cosplayers (in the correct place) you might get your asking price tbh, I think you're selling it in the wrong place here. The Warhammer crowd have a lot of cash to throw on their 'plastic crack', even more than airsoft folks from what i've seen 😁 Personally, It looks good but it's too clean, it could use some weathering to match.

If it's the VFC one it can shoot a scatter of BBs like a shower shell or a projectile like a ball. Here's a video showing shower shells and a tip/cap type shell.

To test this i've dropped an order in for their rotary hop unit and associated extra parts. The UK is on their international shipping page in zone 2. Can't see any issues coming up unless they manually cancel the order. Time will tell

I'm planning on it however the way my shifts have been lining up recently mean that I haven't been able to get there. I kinda like the lower numbers games. You get a lot of freedom to move around but I understand where you're coming from, there's a lot more action with the bigger groups.

No pics as of yet but I've just got some guys tan A&K Masada (ACR) that's been sat around for a while. They say it's had the wiring repaired and the hop unit replaced as the old one cracked. The first thing I did is test fire it and jesus christ, this is the single loudest gearbox i've ever heard. Backing the motor height down a bit helped but holy crap it's loud but at least it works. I go to take the rails off the handguard and find that the guy has GLUED the rails to the bloody handguard... With a fair bit of effort I managed to get them off but left behind the glue. Once removed it appears the glue has discoloured the handguard so it's been given a quick once over with tan and brown paint as replacement handguards (in tan) are impossible to find online. Checking the wiring, it's been shoddily repaired with what look like spade connectors. Not massively worried as I planned on throwing a front wired Perun V2 hybrid into it seeing as it's a standard V2 gearbox. There's a fair few other things going on with it that require minor fiddling to fix. Looks like another potential project where the only place I forsee any real issues is surrounding the hop unit but there's a german company, Begadi, who make replacment CNC rotary hop units, hop arms and C-clips all for the Masada so I might skirt through that relatively unscathed.

Every time i've visited they had small yellow or orange zip-ties that they'd put on all guns/regulators to verify they'd been chrono'd and in the limits and I assume they applied them in a way so that they can't just turn up their regulators without removal. Not sure why they didn't this time but it's annoying to think that these woppers could be adjusting their power on the fly to intentionally hurt people. I don't understand why HPA locks aren't mandatory. Players have shown plenty of times they can't be trusted.

Played at District 23 again last night but this time with almost double the numbers than normal. Games were decent and the level of gameplay was fantastic minus one guy refusing to take a trade-kill when we both shot each other within touching distance. I just walked away, can't be bothered with that. Some guy had an absolutely silent Mk23 that you never heard before you felt it. It was insane. One dude got the drop on myself and a teammate and rather than shooting us in the back or legs, chose to shoot both of us in the back of the head with a HPA pistol. Cheers pal. One negative is that the staff never tagged/ziptied guns or regulators at chrono and I think some of them knew it and might've given themselves a bit of extra juice. Project gun performed fantastically again and never had any issues with BBs striking the tracer since swapping to a shorter Blaster Unit.

Ideally, you want an inner barrel that matches (or as close as possible) to your original inner barrel length. Additionally, if you're changing the inner barrel i'd suggest doing the bucking and nub at the same time. Personally, I always use the Maple Leaf Macaron 60 degree bucking on AEGs with the Maple Leaf Omega nub. Usually around £15-£20. Suppressors are mainly used for hiding longer inner barrels without having buying a longer outer barrel/handguard, housing tracer units or purely for aesthetics. Not functionality. 90% of noise from an AEG comes from the gearbox and not the muzzle. Peq boxes are pointless and mostly for aethetics or external batteries.

Is buying a Army Armament R85A2 a potential move if I want an L85A2 with the Daniel Defence style quad rail without paying through the nose for an ICS/G&G AEG and then sourcing a rail for even more cash? I'm aware that the R85A2 is crap in terms of reliability and internals quality however they're clones of the G&G L85s so spares should be plentiful and any issues that the gun has can likely be solved and internals upgraded (which I plan to do) for less than the cost of the other base guns. I can get one from the US for about £200 with the quad DD style rail included. Not bothered about working on it as it's half the fun i've found so far.

I'm so so deeply tempted to get a M9A3 but i'm still loving my Shadow 2 minus the slide locking issue due to the shitty ass recoil buffer piece that I still need to grind down.

Case and point. ActionHobbies just had a Mk16 (scar-l) TM NGRS with 3 mags up for £260. Came back 30 min or so later to send link to someone else, gone. Which one of you was it?