Ian_Gere

I 'kin told you about the vision issues, you cheeky young whippersnapper(sp?)! /jk

Except that I have grave reservations about Hero Sharks, even though I wear them

I think full length AK's look daft with a suppressor and the front sight pillar still on. Can't say I like those grip-pods on anything either, not even L85A2's. I would take the front sight and cleaning rod off and add either a top cover with rail or a side mounted rail for a red dot, or just do without the suppressor. For a grip I'd go with something folding.

Hear that, Dev? I want an award!

0:-) St. Moi Let me know how you get on with them, Alphabet? I bought a set of the wire rim ones a while back because they were cheap on fleabay but I haven't got around to buying any goggles yet.

If you mix your lighter paints with varnish you can build up layers of semi-transparent colour which will look more like the patina of real wood. Good idea to practice on something else 1st.

It's the ejection port cover, mate. Looking good.

When I was @uni I knew a Norwegian bloke whose name is "Terry" but the "y" sound is more of a 'ye' than just 'e'. But he didn't tell anyone and neither did any of the other Norwegians (and there were plenty). He was known for 3 years as "Ter-jay" because it's spelt "Terje"...

I don't think that night table would work in a doorway. Even if you have the shield part right up against the left door frame, there wouldn't be enough room to swing the club properly. Without training.

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I've had a lifchik, AKS-74U carry bag & RS sling sent from the Ukraine. The shipping was a bit eye watering, IIRC (maybe £25 - I forget the deets now but it should be further back in this thread sometime around late Jan early Feb), but I didn't get hit by customs. Edit: just found the order email - it was only $20 shipping, so not that bad at all

If it takes a pic to explain something, Kieran, yeah

Let me know how they work out for you, please.

I could do Chuck Norris with my bare hands. I wonder if Chuck-Norris-Zombie would be any harder to kill than, say, Paris-Hilton-Zombie? Oh sod it...! @Longshot: as BD says, some very valid points, but the point of the doorway is to limit the zombie's potential movement - you literally couldn't miss. I agree that how much damage an untrained person could do with a sword is debatable, but taking me with my sword as the example - I am strong enough to swing it with enough force and it is heavy enough that no outstretched arms would deflect it significantly, if I was going for a downward chop, from my right to left, to the zombie's neck/shoulder interface. The resulting wound would kill a real person by shattering their vertebrae, severing the spinal column, and they would also exsanguinate. Dunno if merely separating the brain from connection to the nervous system would kill a zombie, but the force of the blow would stop it in the doorway, and, since there would be no significant suction from flesh to blade, recovery straight back before raising the blade straight up rather than swinging back (to save energy and time) would be a doddle - I would get a 2nd go which would sever the head, or leave it hanging by skin down the zombie's back or chest... How long could I keep it up for (ooh er missus)? Fear is a great motivator and yeah adrenaline can make a person tremble and initially feel weak, micturate, fill their boxers, and/or puke, all of which are unpleasant, but do not preclude them fighting when their lives are at stake. In my own case, I have had some experience fighting real 'angry men', so I expect that I wouldn't suffer more than a little piddle... Having met Ed on a number of occasions, I would expect him to do ok. He might well suffer some ignominious incontinence, but that would not stop him doing the business if his life were at stake.

@Longshot: I'm hardly one to criticise anybody for essay writing on forums, or for taking essentially meaningless discussions in deadly earnest, because i do both and have very good reasons for why... however, in this thread i'm convinced you are being intentionally obtuse for the sake of 'winning' an argument, which is fine on a forum dedicated to, or with a predilection for, pure rhetoric, but feels unhelpful here, even in a daft thread... I think it's fairly obvious that Ed intended to use his katana/doorway combination in the only sensible way - while standing just inside the doorway, with enough room inside the room/hallway/etc to swing and/or maneuver a standard length 30" katana, he would use its length to either stab the only zombie that could get near him, through the doorway, through the brain, or slash if the stabbing proved impossible. Any defeated zombie would fall where it stood, right in front of and in the doorway, creating a trip hazard for those coming behind. I have reservations about an untrained person's ability to successfully stab a moving head sized target and recover a 30" flat sided blade, however taking the zombies' complete lack of self defence into consideration, I think that on balance that 1st zombie would not get through the door. Thereafter, due to the trip hazard, Ed would have sufficient time to use a foot to brace the body while he recovered the blade, but he would require good luck to bring it to bear on the 2nd zombie while still close enough to the doorway to pile the 2nd dead on top of the 1st... I think that stabbing through the mouth would be effective. It would allow the severance of the brainstem, either in the 1st thrust or, partially acting against the mandible as a pivot, during recovery. I have been attacked with a baseball bat twice in my life. Neither occasion went that well for me, but obviously I did not die, and, you'll have to take my word for it that, the only reasons I came out of either encounter without sufficiently grievous bodily harm to prevent me from taking up airsoft years later was because, despite the injuries I did receive, I remained enough of a threat to my attackers with my bare hands to decide that they had made their point... I don't feel that I could have done anywhere near so well against a sword.

You'd have to modify a chainsaw to make it much use as a weapon - take the chain brake off so you can swing it around to use at various angles and reroute the air intake so that it doesn't get clogged and stop the engine if the saw goes through clothing &/or flesh (as it is designed to do). Which would also mean that one tired-arm slip from you and that's you finding the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" ironic... (because you'll never walk again)

A lot more M4's on the field than L85/86's. Do many French players carry a FAMAS?

I did some bo and jo training when I was a teen, but with my current sword all I've done is chop up wood for my fireplace. It's quite an odd instrument - guard like a katana, double handed varnished wooden grip riveted with brass like a massive steak knife, heavy bar of 316 Stainless Steel which is straight and single edged - it's not that sharp for most of its length, only the tip and 6" or so down is properly sharp. So its legal... its main problem is no ferrule. A good sword does cost a lot, but it depends what you need it to do as to whether the job takes a good sword to achieve. Cutting rotting flesh wouldn't take a good sword. The point about getting the edge caught in bone is a good one. Not in my case however because most of the length isn't sharp enough - it would just shatter any bone under a good swing of it, like a 'kin broadsword lol! Bear in mind too that light-ish imitation katanas and fantasy swords are not made from folded iron and steel, just any old mid-carbon steel tempered more for spring than hardness, even if the surface of the blade has a pattern resembling a swordsmith's hand placed mud stippled edge or a grain like a damascus steel blade: they are just patterns stamped/etched onto the metal. It would turn after the 1st cut that hit bone, but thereafter it would still be sharp enough to cut rotten flesh but not to jam into bone. The problem for most of these blades is, like mine, they have no ferrule, so if you did stick 'em with the pointy end and ran the blade even just halfway through, it could be very difficult to pull back out, because flesh sucks tight against a blade unless it's flat sides have a trough or raised hollow ground peak so that air is sucked into the wound as the blade is withdrawn. My sword was made in Pakistan - it has no frills, it's just a bar of steel made for fcuking people up by chops that crush muscle and shatter bone. Decorative swords probably wouldn't last chopping through more than a handful of zombies - you'd be better off with a machete, parang, or bill-hook, or maybe a full size kukri. James is right about 28 Days Later stylee zombies though, except I've never seen a zombie film where the survivors have used Molotov cocktails. You'd have to imagine that burning saturated solution of sugar in petrol with a dash of washing up liquid for that extra splash-ability would put paid to the gnash-ambitions of pretty much anything...

Pair of brand new unissued CS95 DPM kecks £8 delivered from fleabay. <-another pair £9 delivered Viper DPM UBACS used £21 delivered from fleabay - shouldn't really have spent this money, but it's good stuff @ good prices so hey ho...

You do realise these people read forums, mate? Next time you want anything Famas-related... Kerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-CHING!

It does look good, Josh. Question: is it so good looking IYO that we needed to see the same side twice?

I think I'd be more likely to cut my own limbs off with a scythe than do a zombie any damage with it! I have no idea whether a BB in the brain would actually stop a zombie, but you have to imagine that 20-30 might. There'd be precious little to laugh at in a real zombie apocalypse so I expect I'd have a go. My sword in one hand and bill hook in the other FTW...

It's a fine looking beast, Ed, even though it is an AR. It's the turrets/adjusters/whojimmaflibbets on the side of the scope that I can't quite capitally circumnavigate...

The sense of symmetry appealed to me, Ed.