TheFull9

Nice, been waiting on this after various brands got excited and started putting out the HKey versions perhaps too quickly. Had an AG comp and silencer arrive the other week and they're nicely made for sure.

Had to bring over SMTAN's post.

I passed @Skara's experience/findings on to the owner of Tactical-Kit (good, chill bloke and former airsofter btw) in the hope of finding the truth and maybe making things better in the process; this is the sitch, directly copied from my IG DMs: Thanks for the info. We are going to change our shipping to Italy. We used to ship via Royal Mail but there was issue with Italian customs and we had three customers open PayPal disputes. All the goods were finally delivered so we ended up losing the goods and the money. After that we banged up the shipping to Italy and shipped via DHL on a next day option so to avoid future losses Unfortunately due to shipping costs increasing because we moved to DHL instead of Fedex we’ll have to put our Euro prices up Been one of those lose-lose situations really, unless you're Italian and got totally free kit a while back lol.

People really must vote with their wallets on these events, I've never heard of one going remotely well. Maybe some years ago I missed one, but I'm pretty sure for the past few years they've been both really terrible and expensive? I only had that once myself (the mythical blue fox 2) and it made me extremely wary I'd have to say. There's zero chance I'll put my faith in any organiser without a track record of both decent length and solid quality. Granted my feasible opportunities to attend multi-day events are probably a lot rarer than some so I'm extremely cautious, but even if the time and effort were immaterial (which they really aren't), when you're paying something like £80-150 just for the entry let alone fuel and supplies, the experience simply can't be an unpleasant mess.

Will be a very stiff type of foam, but if you get some generic stuff online and cut it just a hair on the large side for the PC, then once you squash them in there you'll have more than enough rigidity for airsoft but it's flexible enough that it bends if you really need it to.

Some 1-1.25" foam from ebay, cut to the shape of the plate bags, done, works great. Off the top of my head the -S is SAPI small and I think PTS do Smalls in their foam plates if you want a pre-made solution, or generally anything foam or hollow plastic that's a small - though I'd stick to foam as sometimes if a plate of any solid material is a little too tall you can have exposed hook velcro on the inside that'll eat your shirts (though I don't own an LBX PC, but that's common).

Thanks for the @ I think you're on the right track but you can save on bulk/storage space and probably money even further if you cut out the panel and just have a placard with inserts for whichever type of mags you're running with. Myself, for a good while I was building a collection of PALS placards in different colours with different types of pouches on them to just tear'n'swap between mag types, then I saw the light and just got rid of almost all of those for 1 placard per colour and 1 set of inserts that can cover all of them. Definitely saved me money and a lot of storage capacity. No way I can't sound like I'm self shilling right now, but my placard was specifically designed from day 1 to fit 3 x soviet steel 762 AK mags with the feed lips facing down, which to my knowledge are the biggest, fattest 30rnd AK mags going and there's still a little bit of extra room. I own a Mk5 and it's awesome, brilliant construction, but Spiritus aren't fussed about catering to AKs really. I think the 5 works with 545 mags going bullets down and just about with 762 plastic mags bullets up, but I never see it regularly done because there's just better options out there. It isn't really wide enough for 762 mags (especially with the back rib) and going bullets down in the normal way. Might not matter if you're rocking hi-caps, but if you want 3 mags then I'd look at a placard other than the Mk5. If you go for anything like the Minimo, Spiritus Thing 2 or Ferro Chesty wide I'd have to say also that velcro adhesion is quite important in my experience, as I always found the edges would peel on my Chestys and once the peeling starts and you run it can propagate. The Mk5 is a brilliant laminate which will last even your grandkids, but because it's thick and so structured it won't really curve to your chest where the Ammo Hub will, possibly also the Ferro DOPE though I don't own one.

Can't remember exactly when I bought this gun originally before embarking on my external mods, I think it's pushing 9 years or so. Being a very very run-of-the-mill V2 AEG AR I didn't think he'd record it but there we go. No I didn't do any work to the insides myself nor did I know what was in there, I never look inside my guns 😂

I watched for something like a year-ish and decided to drop in 3 AR AEGs for him to upgrade. Far as I can tell his bread and butter is internals and specifically AR/M4/M16 family V2 AEGs and I own a good few from the days before anything decent came with a mosfet. I've done them up externally long ago to how I wanted them but I'm just not interested in AEG internals, so it seemed to make sense and he's not too far from me. Only slight downside is I'm in a rather unpredictable line of work (especially this week) and once he starts working on whatever RIF you've given him he'll be sending quite a lot of messages/short videos and asking questions etc through the process, and right now I don't actually know when I'll have the free time to be able to get on my phone at any given moment. If your schedule is more consistent though it's a pretty big upside really, you can give feedback and make budget decisions as the work's being done. Whether his way of upgrading AEGs is 'the' very bestest way... meh, I don't think there is one. Airsoft is a cottage industry, it's simply not big enough of a business such that there are universally proven best ways to squeeze out the best reliability/performance and tolerances are all over the shop with these cheap parts. What these guns are not is F1 cars or military jets where people with doctorates are 3D modelling airflows around every component, weighing every milligram and timing every system to 1/100000th of a second because people's lives and £billions are hanging in the balance etc etc. Arguing on the internet about filing gears and X69 vs Y96 hop rubber is stupid.

I dunno how many SUSATs I've handled, lost count long ago, but that much paint missing is certainly possible. If it was scuffed up before getting to theatre then used for months on that arid, gravelly terrain.. yeah.

I wanted a PC in US woodland for yeeears but none on the market quite did what I wanted, so even though it's not setup yet I'm gonna have to post the SHAW because I bloody love it tbh, lol.

I wouldn't say squeeze exactly they made untold millions from kids buying skins in WZ1 haha. You might be right on the pass, but then again they'd get a *lot* of new pass subscribers if it was included.. we shall see, could go either way. For me the SP got worse and worse each time through the original modern warfare trilogy, and the old and bitter part of me thinks they'll make the same mistakes again. Possibly forget about the super popular but slow CQB and child insurgent levels from MW2019 in favour of absurd, un-immersive enormous action pieces that only appeal to 13 year-olds. Fingers crossed though.

There's rumour it'll be on the microsoft game pass and I haven't used my free trial for that yet, so maybe. I'd bet Warzone 2 will be free so I'm definitely not buying it at CoD prices just for the single player or regular MP.

Usually when I get a notification of a quote I think 'oh no, here we go' when I've said anything that could vaguely be construed as overly negative (while objectively true) about the worse end of the chyna stuff. Glad my memory wasn't at fault on that one. I think I also had some OPS Kryptek at the time, along with some Platatac and Kryptek company. Have since changed round a few items but the Plat and OPS were probably the best ever made in the patterns. I'd take Mandrake as much of a meme camo as it is over nov's latest wringing out of airsoft noobies to buy himself a bigger house.

The palette is fine for a modern pattern, but you're definitely on one if you think the Notritsch company can magically make a better camouflage than Pencott or Concamo etc. Combine that with their well known and documented track record of very poor customer service... I've browsed the site a couple of times, had no idea the product range was actually so large. What actually happened of course is they were working with Templars Gear in some form or another, took the designs and ran off with them to factories in China, probably not the ones that treat workers maybe half way acceptably either I'd wager. I don't know if anyone else remembers, but when Kryptek was in its' heyday many years ago TMC et al made knock off G3 sets in approximations of Mandrake, Highlander and Typhon and they sold like hot cakes for a minute as they combined the hype camo of the day with the popular combat cut. I'd see folks wearing them still a while later, except they were all grey looking having faded terribly after a few uses+washes. The looks of the Nov apparel offered all very much remind of the same sets and some reports I've seen line up with that.

Had to redeem the previous super trash pic.

Almost forgot to say cause the forum was down when I tried - got my Midwest Industries MP5TR in (pic + M-LOK) and it drops right on to my gun. Really was expecting to have to get it milled underneath or inside the claw parts to fit, but no, very surprising.

If you replace that unreliable and potentially dangerous chinesium mask with some legit eye pro you'll get 2 birds with one stone. In fact more like 3 cause you'll look way cooler. From the company's own product description: "Interchangeable lenses anti-fog Ansi Z80.3 certifieo the impact resistance: for lens 420 FPS in 5 meters" First off google Ansi Z80. Then imagine a 500FPS rifle accidentally shoots you close up; you're entirely unprotected.

I've updated the owners thread 👍

Finally picked mine up from 'my guy' on Saturday, thought I'd provide my findings on accessory fitment: -Real collapsible F stock required the rubber buffer removing then further metal milling under where it sat, my example also needed some material removing from the tops of each stock bar. Unfortunately I can't provide further detail as I didn't witness the process. -VFC lighted forend goes right on; the TM pin is a bit of a bugger to get through as things stand so I may ream out the hole in the handguard a fraction but it can be used as stock with some persuasion, nothing too serious. -Magpul plastic handguard is tight af to get on and off where the rear of it goes around the round chamber area of the receiver, pin is fine though. I think I'll take some sandpaper to the inside of the handguard to make battery changes more reasonable in the safe zone. Just my personal findings with my gun and accessories.