TheFull9

Hope you lot don't only like people that wear matching kit. \

You can't kink shame someone that has no shame. I've got a Typhon shirt and a whole set of Raid, 2 sets of UCP, some ABU, set of NWU1 and I paid too much money for Aus Navy DPNU and blue OpFor DPM. I love my leopard print G3 shirt too.

Edit - Posted entirely by accident 😅

Never thought I'd see a PSG-36.

You can't believe what most people say on airsoft forums about camo, they're emotionally invested in their purchases, same as phone OSs and everything else. Most of the advice is regurgitated from being read on other airsoft forums and passed on through 10 gens of players with the original info coming from kevin down the pub who was gonna join the TA but 'decided against it' (too fat). Look at your site pics in summer and winter, wet and dry, find the dominant colours and match as best you can; assuming you don't just wanna wear MC Black or whatever. Over the years I've come to a very rough rule that if you can have 4 uniforms of the common military style you'll be fairly well sorted almost everywhere you go in Europe, these are some reasonably obtainable/practical examples as of 2022: Dark green (very heavily vegetated woodlands with little floor vis) - US Woodland, Temperate DPM, Tigerstripe, MC Trop, Ranger Green Light green (ground is most covered in standard grass plants) - Multicam+family, AOR2, Concamo, Tropical DPM Dark brown (probably most common, soil is brown) - Temperate MARPAT, Flecktarn, Coyote Brown, Concamo Brown Light brown (dead leaves on the ground when dry) - Desert DPM, AOR1/Desert MARPAT/NWUII, Desert Tigerstripe, US 3 Color Desert Obviously there's a billion caveats, there's in-betweens, variances in batches, variances between mil surp and commercial stuff like mil-tec, there's at least dozens if not hundreds of variants of just Tigerstripe and none of this takes in to account different garment types like softshells or GTX etc etc etc... I always liked this image I got at a game as a good example of the 4th category. Typical English woodland but DPM would be shit here. I looked up pics from the site's facebook page in advance and chose accordingly; should've gone full AOR1 if anything. I think GreenZone and ATACS-iX could maybe be considered quite well rounded as multi-area patterns for UK woods much of the year and the design technology advancement in them vs the '80s movie' families (US Wood, DPM, CCE etc) is clear. But Multicam has the most consistent results all around in my observation, which obviously lines up with its' mass adoption around the world - part of that is because it's cheaper to issue 1 set of course.

Pretty clean, not far off an actual gun ad in a print magazine state side.

'Should'? 🤔

You can buy a generic AR and it'll look good and fine with 100 different loadouts. You can own some surplus trousers and a t-shirt and have a hell of a time with 100 different guns. People who tell you you're 'doing it wrong' deserve nothing but the block list.

Anyone interested can now sign up for stock notifications here: https://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/f9-gear-ammo-hub-a1-48539-p.asp Stock is due to land on these shores in a few days, should be available to buy next week. No two ways to say it, it'll cost a good bit more than the MkV, a lot of which is due to all the extra hardware that's packaged; including 3 male tubes so your tubes cummerbunds can click right on. There'll be RG and MC, but only just breaking in to double digits of each and unfortunately once they sell out they'll be out of stock here for at least 3-4 months. Apologies if that seems like hype driving, just want to give out the pertinent info as I know there's a few gear lovers out there who are interested. If anyone ever has any questions not covered by the product description please do ask me.

Definitely never seen a long recoil airsoft gun before. Dread to think the amount of work that took.

You can only just about get black anodising to match, you'll often not get it even between the same company's batches of tan let alone different manufacturers haha. Bits of mis-matching as a result of periodic upgrades and accessory swaps are a sign of something getting actually used, it's a good look that you can't fake out of the gate, has to be built up over years to be convincing.

Personally, I think it's the best placard on the market, because obviously I made it do everything I wanted along with various things the Spiritus Mk4 and SHAW ARC V2 didn't do - those being my other favourites when I began prototyping early 2021. The specific laminate fabric used is the best one in existence for a loop-lined placard and is only available via FirstSpear so it is gucci no doubt. A good chunk of the cost is the fact it comes with a set of Tubes which hopefully I'll be able to make optional in future but currently isn't logistically viable. I'll post a link to TK's listing when they get there for sure. Most updates are still here https://www.instagram.com/f9gear_/ and it's still available on thefull9.net for any Americans, French or Swiss who might happen to be reading lol.

You do the mods or pay someone? I bought some EMAGs yeeeears ago to do the exact same, have lots of TM standard 82/30 USGI mags sitting around, but never managed to combine the two.

This isn't announced anywhere else yet, but I'm happy to say that Tactical-Kit have purchased a small batch from me, so these will finally be available on home turf (in a couple of weeks or so). I set my wholesale price pretty damn low tbh and because they're so light they're relatively cheap to ship in bulk, so while sadly the £ price is higher than the $ one Americans get, it is going to work out in the region of £15-20 cheaper to buy from TK than to pay the shipping and import taxes yourself if you ship the Hub alone, which overall I think is a decent result considering the distance from the sewing machine to a shop England. They only exist in MC and RG so far but hopefully that will cater to the majority, if they sell well then other colours may come to TK over the course of the next year or so, depending what they want to buy from me. Obviously for a placard this is the top end of the market and if you don't run a Tubes'd up rig/G-Hook PC/762 AK I wouldn't blame a soul for getting the Spiritus Mk5 instead which is bloody close in terms of quality, but if you want those Tubes and absolute maximum modularity from a British company (military owned, if that is something you're in to), then maybe take a look.

I don't think there's a ton of CPC owners here tbh, I'm a FirstSpear man myself. My assumption would be you'll just need a different radio pouch, something like the spiritus expander wing so you can set the height, or go with a standard PALS pouch external to the cummerbund. Maybe someone else owns one and can chime in though.

If you're set on a mag type, like you only use common style 556 mags and Glock for example, they're locked in as the gold standard pouches at this point.

I not saying 100%, but it's a very wide reaching law and covers both information and a myriad physical items. People are so afraid that many retailers won't int ship things that aren't even technically covered by it because the penalties are so harsh. Many exhibitors at SHOT won't allow pictures through NV/Thermal because of it. If someone's read the law and can say for sure it only applies to US patents to correct me they're welcome, but honestly even if that's the case some feds could still try to drag you through courts for such a thing even if they knew they were wrong (or more likely, were ignorant of the law as happens in every country).

That's how a good proportion of airsoft stuff is done; guns, lasers etc. MP7s are one of the rarest HK mass-production guns in the US as well. Far as I can gather from looking around and shooting one once, unless you've got a super good long-term relationship with a very rich and well connected firearms dealer that's well established they're not easy to find, I'd be tentative on whether the handful of rental ranges that have them would just let some foreigners have at one with measuring devices. I mean maybe for enough $ but hard to say, that info would be ITAR so I think they'd be taking a very serious legal risk if they allowed it.

Depends if you're damn sure you're going to keep it. Painted guns are generally the less common sight on the field because, as with any item, it dings the resale value and a lot of people are just too afraid to make the leap/commitment. A camo gun vs a big block of black certainly doesn't hurt your chances of being seen in the bushes at a decent distance that's a fact.

Puts my zip-ties to shame.

October to April purchases minus some HK bits and the Brit Tac belt. Hope you folks like squinting at slightly different greenish digital camos...

Given the price of parts individually vs in a whole gun I'd consider saving up enough to eventually buy a whole TM pistol; that's not even factoring in the propensity for various different brand bits to often not get along vs the high reliability probability of a simple factory build.

If you could tolerate some side PALS the minimo is the way to go and will work great as it comes, but if you really don't want the side then an option is the Ferro Chesty Mini plus two of the female parts from these sets (either will work): https://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/itw-1-repair-buckle-6199-p.asp https://www.contactleft.co.uk/all-products/1-25mm-itw-qasm-quick-attach-buckle-coyote-brown.html

Nothing to apologise about mate lol, but if there's 2 people in just this small thread it's probably common and a design flaw; someone else will now say they don't have it but I'd bet this issue will show up a lot as the guns get more prevalent and get used over the next year or so. That's airsoft, unfortunately it's a niche tinkerers' hobby, and sure you have the same consumer rights as with anything, but you'd just waste your own time getting repeated returns quite likely. Sometimes you've gotta bite the bullet in this game.