TheFull9

No problem. Better them than zero-one.

The amp number is just a measure of capacity, more = more shots. The numbers that matter are your voltage and C (discharge) rating. Basically stick to 7.4 for most guns, you can't go wrong. A C rating around 20 is fine for pretty much everything, but small changes in the discharge rate don't make any big difference really. Long as you don't go too high, you'll be alright. Get this charger: http://www.componentshop.co.uk/quickshop/index/view/path/800ma-charger-for-2s-or-3s-7-4-11-1v-battery-packs-complete-with-mains-power-supply.html And a couple of these: http://www.componentshop.co.uk/7-4v-800mah-20c-continuous-discharge-airsoft-lipo-battery.html The batteries will fit in the buffer (stock) tube. That's the other good thing about LiPos, you don't need the extra storage space of a crane stock if you want to use a thinner stock. Going by the recommended battrey for the RIF on the zero-scum page it's a mini tamiya connector in the rifle, which would make sense as most AEGs use that connector. I don't recommend shopping there in future though, there's much better stores out there run by higher quality people who don't sell knock-off shit as the real deal/provide some of the worst customer service in the industry. They don't deserve your money.

Follow through the link I posted, they do a good LiPo charger with appropriate mains adapter that I've been using for years and charges batteries quickly for about £13. If budget is a concern, NiMh is an even worse option. Airsoft stores charge f*****g stupid money for obsolete batteries, whereas you can pick up a 7.4v LiPo that'll easily last a day if you're not a hi-cap spammer for £6-8.

Folks ordering VHS tapes along with these NiMh batteries? Get on here http://www.componentshop.co.uk/ Get 7.4v LiPo or 9.9 LiFe (similar results generally), better in every way. Do not waste your money on heavy, bulky, over-priced obsolete batteries, totally pointless.

http://www.ur-tactical.com/ is the store front for the actual manufacturers of OPS stuff, I always go there if I want anything from their line-up. Depending on how much you actually order it can work out cheaper than Hueys after shipping and customs, but probably not if you just buy like 1 shirt or whatever. Obviously their stock and selection is pretty substantial.

Decent kit mate. Need to get yourself an account on imgur of flickr though, dem piccies be tiny yo.

No quite, I couldn't agree any more, I was saying the same thing. Apart from the fact I don't much fancy paying for the privilege of doing something I get forced to do in work's time (very occasionally, luckily), that aspect of 48hr milsim games puts me right off.

There's no functional/compatibility difference between M4 and M16 magazines in the real world. They're just 30 round 556 mags, of the many that are out on the RS market, barely any are weapon specific. They come in dozens of different capacities, mid and lo cap work just the same way (purely different capacity for BBs inside), only when you get in to hi-caps do you start needing to wind wheels. I'd advise that 10 mags is excessive personally, your gear will be so much less heavy and bulky if you just drop those 6 real-cap mags and carry maybe 1 more mid-cap. That's the way the majority of players run their gear for a reason. A 'good' mag is robust and feeds consistently, that's all that matters with a magazine (unless you personally want a certain look and that's up to you). I rate the PTS EPMs as the best on the market right now: http://www.landwarriorairsoft.com/airsoft-magazines-c3/mid-standard-capacity-c52/pts-pts-150-rounds-epm-magazine-black-p3702 You can drive your car over them and they'll be fine (I know, I did it). I'm not sure what's good as far as availability in the UK for cheaper mid-caps these days. G&G get some mixed reports but I'm not seeing a lot else as far as 4-5 packs of midcaps in stock anywhere. I always used to recommend these: http://www8.wgcshop.com/wgc2008/main/product_detail1.php?search_From=category&item=MAG-AMAG-013&search=special&rs=Magazines%20-%20AEG&catid=17&cat=564&view_choice=b Very much worth it if you order some other stuff at the same time (given the enormous selection that WGC has compared to british shops).

I spend a lot of my disposable income on 'Real Steel' kit, but I'm well aware it's a seriously frivolous waste and I definitely consider people who buy more sensible stuff to be more intelligent than I am in that regard. I spend easily a dozen hours per week on gear reviews, videos, web stores, contacting custom manufactures and other web stores along with my contacts in the US etc, all in order to find the best possible stuff to fit my personal needs/wants/criteria (again, serious waste of time when I could be down the gym or socialising or doing some open uni or something). However I emulate nobody as the gear that the SEALs or whoever wear is good for real combat... average at best for airsoft, IMHO. Plus I have my own rank/beret badge/unit patch etc and while it is not even 1% as cool as the SAS or whoever I would not put on sgt tabs and a para beret or commando dagger in a million years, and to my mind personally dressing like anyone else in the military is no different. But that is just me personally, what other people do is up to them.

n1ck - As I say I'm just speaking to the lurkers reading the thread here. There's just a lot of good, mid-range gear out there which people rarely seem to buy because they don't know about it (a lot of the time) and it pisses me off personally because I've told a good few people who've been starting out over the years "do not buy that super cheap looking crap, spend the same/less on a good, basic chest rig and all will be well". They go ahead and totally ignore said advice, the massive multi-scam armour carrier that came with 27 different pouches and cost £100 totally falls to bits and just plain hurts them when playing and they end up buying the good stuff from the brands I suggested, but not before pissing that other money right down the drain despite consistently talking about how tight their budget is. Plenty of Condor and Pantac (and all the similar brands) is more than adequate for airsoft and this is where people so often just go straight for the jugular and call me a gear snob (not saying you are, again just past examples here). Fact is a genuine Crye JPC will not last as long as some BULLE gear (for example) because Crye build things in different ways with different end users in mind and that's ok, but the point is I'd never say more money/higher price = better stuff for airsoft as it just doesn't. Conversely really cheap stuff and some stuff in the middle can be crap as well, people just get so fixated on nothing but the price tag it's crazy. And as I say, buying a £40 rig once is a lot cheaper than a £35 rig twice. Price doesn't equal value. Baz - Personally I have to say, for that money I'd tell people to buy Warrior, but it's a personal preference thing, if you want the specific 6094 look then obviously a DCS isn't gonna be for you and that's fine. Either way the forums dedicated to milsim are where the few remaining true d-bag gear snobs hang out. Not everyone on them is bad any stretch, but the real twats will gravitate towards such places (generally the sorts who've never served so much as a day in cadets). Reading through many threads on DevTsix as I have been recently (just because I've been through every other loadout thread on every other forum) there are a lot of sh*t personalities on there, just as an example. I wouldn't ever bother being active on a board like that.

Welcome to airsoft. I'd say you've done just what 90%+ of everyone else that's ever gotten in to the game has done. Not that it's a bad thing, you can't know what kit you'll like until you buy and try a whole load of things, there's no way around that realistically. I do wish some people (speaking generally here) would avoid some of the really low end market-stall level tat gear though, because some stuff out there (we're talking full plate carrier + pouch sets in the $40 sort of region) is so atrocious you may as well roll up that cash and f*****g smoke it. I get why people buy the more basic stuff to start with, who wouldn't unless they're a millionaire? It makes sense to look before you leap as you might just find you don't like the game after a little while. But you'll seriously not like it if your rig rips, tears, sheds pouches, pokes you with bits of plastic and wires and falls apart after 2 games. Even worse are the retailers who peddle the really low end vest for like £80+, I've seen Viper cross-draws for nearly £100. There is worse than Viper out there, but the prices on kit that some airsoft specific stores charge is insaaaaane. Not only is it generally BS overall, but you're just straight up tricking the customer in to thinking they're buying something fairly high end, when it simply isn't. You can buy Warrior PCs for less than a lot of the airsoft-quality rigs sold by RIF retailers and I would use WAS stuff for real any day. Flyye is great for airsoft, but I would not trust my life to it. Gear is like everything, I see people throw away money on such rubbish when it comes to eye pro, chest rigs and holsters etc. If you want, you can actually go out and spend a lot of money on gear made out of sh*tty materials that's been sewn using sub-standard thread by a person who's got no idea how to sew gear together. Or you can most likely spend less money and start off with a solid, simple, effective rig like this: http://www.flecktarn.co.uk/sdtmb6nx.html Or this: http://www.uktactical.com/p-7530-warrior-light-assault-rig-coyote-tan.aspx Which will abso-bloody-lutely guaranteed last longer than you want to keep it for before you sell it and move on to the next flashy/shiny new toy. I do blame a lot of the airsoft retailers in many cases. We're not a nation with a military or firearms culture in general, 99.9% of the population are not going to realise it's a good idea to look further than the little 'vest' link underneath the 'SMGs' link at their preferred airsoft retail site. If those stores wanted to do right by their customers they'd learn about how good gear is made and stock stuff that is genuinely high quality and cost effective, not stuff that looks good on a website but is of utterly obsolete design (which is most often the case) and often of comparatively shoddy construction in general on many occasions. But anyway I could rant about that for a long time. FAO the lurkers reading this - Buy decent stuff. Something isn't 'cheap' if it breaks on you right away and you have to buy another one. Something's 'cheap' if it lasts you years and years of hard usage and performs well throughout that time.

I've seen those frames on WGC, they're only a few dozen bucks. For some reason they just decided to call that scroll-work style 'Ivory', bit stupid in the modern age I think given certain things, but the name could just be a translation issue. You couldn't make something as thin as a Glock frame out of actual Ivory anyway, it'd break before you could even assemble the internals let alone fire it.

Certainly unique. That much is for sure.

On a basic level, just a TM S70 Nickel then google "1911 grips dollar bills" and find some you like the look of. Not sure there's any outside the states so postage may cost a bit, I've not searched extensively. I've swapped the inner barrel for a tightbore that colour-matched (rather than the stock brass one) and added the extended spring guide rod for extra bling factor, but that's just an extra detail and only really effects the look when the slide's locked back.

'sup homies

Second time today I've seen blue DPM, where's it coming from?

VFC SR-16 upper re-threaded to proper RS specs. ALG Defense barrel nut installed along with the barrel and gas block/tube, all nice and straight and secure. Just need a new muzzle device to properly cover the inner (since it's slightly longer than the outer) and I can finally finish this build. It's taken ages since there was originally a VFC URX II on there which consist of a primary barrel nut, the rail itself which screws on to the threads that are on the outside of said barrel nut, then another outer-barrel securing nut. All 3 parts were torqued to insane values way beyond what's needed for airsoft and while there is a proprietary tool available to remove the outer barrel nut, there is no tool on the airsoft market for the tiny little primary nut or the actual rail. Took a lot of improvisation to get the damn thing apart so as to switch the forend.

You want to take an airsoft GBB Glock slide in your baggage going to the states?

Of the dozens of different brands and models I've owned, the british issued combat shirt has proven the most practical and comfortable for airsoft use. They're available in MTP and dessie DPM for absolute peanuts on eBay; best bang for your buck by a long stretch to my mind. Getting a higher quality trouser that'll accept internal foam padding around the knees is generally cheaper and easier than trying to get something Crye style. Anything sold by tactical-kit or hueys should be good and you're well covered if they should happen to fail you unduly quickly.

I probably am. Of the female players I've known/met/seen, I've yet to see a single one with a 1911, it's not a very popular platform these days. I've seen a few lads with pink M4s but nobody else with super-fabulous sidearms to match (which is the way I like to roll). With the wide availability of cheap Glocks and M&Ps the striker-fired guns have taken over mostly, whereas when I started airsoft everyone had 1911s, Hi-Capas, 226s and M9s with a few TM and KSC Glocks floating around, but the M&P was just a twinkle in TM's eye at that point. It makes sense for the G17s etc to be popular because they are the most practical, a fact that very much mirrors the RS world. But yeah, not much market for ladies' 1911 accessories.

Here you go - http://airsoft.tiger111hk.com/p27441/FMA-Hand-Grip-for-1911-&-MEU-GBB-(Spade-Pattern,-Pink)/product_info.html They call it 'spades' but I'm just ignore that and pretend they're little hearts for extra silly factor.

Occasionaly I have to buy actual airsoft stuff in order to actually be able to play the game. Needs must. G&P URX Tool 4 x SOCOM Gear Lancer L5 mid-caps Cheap 'sansei' type mask for the lower portion CORE TM G17 spring sets 1911 grips the same shape as the Magpul ones, but these knock-offs have lots of little hearts to make up the grip texture

To my eye, the OD in that picture stands out a lot more than the multicam.

I was speaking to the thread generally, trying to clarify the mis-understandings some people were having; not at you specifically. That's why I didn't quote you.