TheFull9

I've definitely seen lots of those at sites, especially so indoor games. If they're well made, then it makes sense really. 100% cotton isn't an ideal fabric for airsoft use, but for £9.. well if they work and last there's no real arguing with that. Personally, my experience over the years has been that one of the biggest reasons people end up buying the wrong gear/stuff that doesn't work out for them, is that they don't ask the right questions to begin with. Not to mention the classic "hey guys, I just bought X, is it any good?". So yes while obviously I could figure out the meaning, I think encouraging people to ask the right things to begin with is important. I also tend to think that people being too lazy to just type out a proper query don't deserve to be spoon fed information in return; but hey I'm sure somebody will take the opportunity to jump on me for being an awful person for holding that opinion at some point or another.

Ok, and what are they? I mean I could guess but I'd rather find out for certain so nobody wastes their time giving information that's not relevant.

Is that a combination of 2 questions?

I feel like I missed a release... do you have a link?

Nothing against you personally Bt.

They sure know how to market something, I'll give 'em that...

That's why I focused on the cost of the machine, not the time taken. I can't say I know anything much at all about mill work but it seems like the sort of thing you need some training and experience to really do well, so again, that's worth money. -- Value of the end piece obviously rather hinges on which brand the grenade itself is and the ad doesn't say, but either way I don't see the price asked as a total dream. To me, certainly doesn't seem anything like the same league as the idiots charging hundreds of pounds for a 2-tone ACM spring Bolt-action that they've added a £12 scope on to.

Gotta get dem youtube views doe. He says.. haha Do you have any evidence regards the above? I'm not taking sides or accusing you, but life has always shown me there's 2 sides to every story. I spent a fair amount of time with him at the milsim I did last year and he seemed just fine, but I'm not going to pass a judgement one way or the other from one game.

That actually looks fairly neatly done, and machine work like that isn't something just anybody can do with a hacksaw at home, the equipment can cost a bloody fortune. Doesn't look like normal airsoft pot metal either since it's not dull, crumbly and the metal full of air bubbles.

You playing woodland or CQB? Question answered real easily on that one. If answer is both - go shorter barrel; accuracy difference will be fook all. And if at all possible, give your money to a store run by half decent people. Pro Airsoft Supplies, Land Warrior and Airsoft Zone are generally good - Zero One are a (as demonstrated with solid evidence by myself any many others over the years) bunch of scumbag criminals who love scamming airsofters.

If you personally really want to do that then obviously it's your gun, but it makes no practical sense and to be honest, even aesthetically it's illogical because the 9mm MP5 is literally the worst candidate for a bi-pod there is. It's a close quarters usage weapon, stick to a red dot and a light. Bi-Pods, short mags and magnified optics only make sense on weapons firing rifle rounds, generally 5.45mm (AK-74) or above; preferably 5.56x45mm or 7.62x51mm replicas if you want an an actually authentic look. Believe me I went there at the start stick a bi-pod on my first AEG, so have plenty of other guys. I ended up chucking the thing after 1 game and there are plenty of other people who've done the exact same thing. If you can, try and hike that drop-leg holster strap as high up as it'll possibly go. Every site has at least a couple of very new players every game with their Viper drop-knee holsters flapping around like a fish out of water, you don't wanna be that guy, it's just uncomfortable and slows you down.

Just as an FYI, the current production mags from PTS are nothing to do with Magpul designs as things currently stand. Magpul actually pulled their license as far as any replicas of mags/accessories go a couple of years back now. Luckily though PTS are still using the same plastic (tougher than some RS stuff) and similar internals to their old E/PMAG line, so as far as midcaps go I've personally yet to find anything that gets close quality wise.

Can the paddle mount be removed from your fobus? http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/fobus-molle-adaptor-platform-for-roto-holster-10661-p.asp

Is it any good? That seems awfully cheap for a set with that many pieces. Then again most airsoft metal is cheese anyway so perhaps it makes more sense than one might first imagine.

Winter comes around every year, never a bad thing to invest in kit for adverse conditions. Hot weather is easy (comparatively), you only need one layer. If you want to be as comfortable as possible in whatever sorts of inclement weather you might encounter, you need a lot more stuff and it'll cost a lot more to get a full system together.

I always strongly advise separating your insulation layer from your softshell; that's the way any serious outdoor/military professional does it and for many good reasons. I think in the long term you'd probably end up buying twice with Highlander; going just a little bit more to at least get a Helikon ought to yield quite significant jump in quality (though obviously both are at the budget end). Bear in mind plate carrier are just about the 'best' insulating layer ever (well, not in terms of moisture transport but pretty much in terms of heat retention) so if you put too much underneath your rig you'll boil yourself once you start really running around. Check eBay for some surplus fleeces and cold weather base layers, they're pretty decently made overall, especially the new stuff and you get infinitely more value for money with issue kit than you do with an awful lot of apparel from places like Mil1st and other airsoft-grade gear stores.

Real awesome project mate, great work. Will be a sweet (and unique) piece all around when it's done for sure.

There's a very small number of companies that have made a very small selection of their product lines in female specific fits, but you're talking tiny numbers compared to male/generic fit uniforms. Overall, I'm fairly certain that an ACU style ATACS-FG set in a female cut does not exist. I'm pretty sure Sacarathe is right and that MASSIF has done some female-specific stuff, but I've never seen anything from them in any ATACS. I've definitely seen some 5.11 stuff for females, possibly Tru-Spec/Propper too but it;s not something I've really looked in to; the proportion of women in the military/LE (and airsoft is probably even worse off in that regard) just doesn't work financially in terms of apparel manufacturers designing and producing kit for women. If you specifically want ATACS-FG it's just gonna be a case of taking time with measurements to get the closest thing possible. If you search for female/women's cut on eBay you might get a few results in UCP, Multicam and (primarily) plain colours. Again 5.11 would be the brand that I've seen the most of in terms of female specific tactical apparel.

There'll be some lead in there I'm sure.

Well.. that's really not difficult.

Some folks would perhaps recommend checking your hop bucking to make sure it's not dried and split/cracked and maybe look in the gearbox, but honestly if there's grease still on the internal mech parts and it shoots as it should, I wouldn't personally see a need to do anything much with it. I've got tons of AEGs I don't use for years at a time, never had any problems when pulling them out of storage. People who say you need a 'license' of any kind are almost certainly ignorant of the facts and not to be listened to. You now need to provide a defence from prosecution against the laws laid down in the Violent Crime Reduction Act. The main way that airsofters do this is by playing 3 skirmishes at an appropriate site (one that holds public liability insurance is the rule I've heard most often from people who know what they're talking about) over a period greater than 2 months but less than 12 months. At this point most sites will then give you a membership which should prove you're an active skirmisher. You can also get your name added to the UKARA Database (again, not a license, just a database entry) and it then makes it even easier for retailers to check your eligibility to buy, or more accurately, be sold, RIFs. The VCRA covers sale and manufacture of RIFs (amongst a few others things) but there's no prohibition on ownership or usage for skirmishing. If there was, there would overnight be literally thousands of people all around the UK who suddenly became criminals looking at some seriously unpleasant sentences. Regards the second question, the law also only covers imitation firearms, not accessories for them like grips and sights etc, so buy away in that regard. Edit - Too slow at writing...

Where are you playing? I think I've seen maybe one (could've been the clone) being used in my decade airsofting. Seen an awful lot more ICS L85s, G&G F2000s, TM/CA AUGs and other bullpups than I have TM FAMAS's (famii?).

IMHO, they're far better at marketing than they are manufacturing (and to an extent designing) tactical gear. Pricing wise, they're just slightly above the mid-range; Tru-Spec and Propper. Though in the US there's tons of discount codes floating around to use on the actual LBX site and in the UK we have Hueys who have 10% sales fairly regularly, so you'd be silly to pay full price anyway. Either way, that said, looking at the apparel line (only product from them I personally own) they use 65/35 Poly/Cotton which yeah, is fine for airsoft, but when I can get the 50/50 NYCO stuff from Tru-Spec for the same sort of price it doesn't make a lot of sense to go LBX. I slight prefer their aesthetics but, if I was telling someone what to buy in terms of value for money (obviously the main concern for most folks), it wouldn't be the LBX. My primary gripe with them isn't material selection though, their stuff will hold up to airsoft usage for a while, but they commit what is to me the biggest cardinal sin in gear manufacture; which is lacking quality control/checking. I wouldn't personally buy any of their plate carriers anyway because the clips for the placards are a proprietary spec and won't work with the Haley Strategic stuff or Mayflower/Vel sys panels. At least they were made that way for a while, they should really update to the normal 1" QASM buckles but that seems unlikely as it would then make their own older gen panels incompatible with new PCs. That aside however I've got a few mates who've bought the Armatus rigs and found the stitching to be shoddy and generally looking like the person operating the sewing machine was pissed. Or, far more likely, poorly trained and being pressed to work too fast in the Peruvian factory. In one particular case one buddy had a nightmare with their CS; took literally months of hard work to get his PC sent back and get a replacement after showing LBX the evidence of what was wrong (decent company would've sorted this out in no time at all) and when he eventually got the replacement after another long wait, that was also sewn like s*** and he had to go through the entire cycle again. After all that and him exhibiting a frankly saint-like amount of patience with them, the second replacement was again badly made and it took him even longer and more unnecessarily hard work via e-mail to eventually get his money back. Could be an unlucky example of course, but you wouldn't get anything even remotely like that sort of trouble with LBT themselves I'd wager. On the design side of things, yeah they got Costa in on it (maybe) and no doubt some of the LBT team and they really popularised the concept of the quick swap front panel, which is definitely a good thing. The co-operations with S&S (briefly) and HSGI on making some really good placards made a lot of sense. Their proprietary camos I'd agree with jc are nasty looking to my eye, but they were one of the first to bring a grey uniform and gear to the market which was again, good to see at the time. As mentioned however, the proprietary clips on the carriers ruin the basic cocept a fair bit and really limit you. I'm not sure why the Gen1 Armatus is so slick either, it's a setup that would make sense in the shooting/home defence realm but their gear isn't built to a quality that befits such applications; it's entirely airsoft grade stuff and I wouldn't dream of trusting my life to any of it. With that in mind they really should've added load bearing options (PALS or otherwise) on the cummerbund and back of the PC, which would've made it much more appealing in terms of airsoft use I think. Hopefully the Gen2 will be available after SHOT and that'll address a lot of those issues.

Honestly, I find it rather odd they're still manufacturing it in apparently almost the exact same way that they have been since it was first released. Or I assume they're still making new ones, I still see them at retail sites and it seems very unlikely they've still got stock left from that long ago. Either way, it's probably about the only decently skirmishable FAMAS on the market but it's still antiquated and frankly obsolete on the externals especially. Left stock the old (pre recoil) TM AEGs do just run and run forever typically, but they're often still rather pricey overall and externally the G&G combat machines are a fair bit nicer than the FAMAS to my mind. Even the other old TM guns like the plastic bodied AKs and ARs are quite a bit better than the French rifle in terms of the receivers etc.

I don't use imgur, but if it's anything like flickr you can pick the size of the image when you copy the URL for posting, might wanna try looking for a different/larger setting that regard. I can't really see anything from that tiny picture mate, same with your shots in the loadout thread.