Ian_Gere

Can't say I like masks usually, but that looks ace. Truly the work of satan. Well done you

Sorry, skim-read. Didn't engage brain. :-)

Psion, check this: http://www.uktactical.com/acatalog/copy_of_Holsters.html

So far the beardy peado has brought me: Viper Belt Mounted Pistol Mag Pouch Velcro Adjustment - Black - £7.24 inc P&P new from fleabay Which I want for keeping my pocket knife in, rather than a mag, because it has the side opening buckle to lock it in place securely. VIPER MODULAR MEDICS POUCH - MOLLE UTILITY POUCH - BLACK - £13.49 inc P&P For Mark V thunderflashes or equivalent, multi-tool, LX Tape, Tissue/Bog Paper, spare lighter, and any other little bits'n'bobs I feel the need for in the field. FLYYE 1000D MOLLE DISTRESS MARKER STROBE POUCH - BLACK - £12.89 inc P&P new from fleabay I have a speedloader disguised as the type of distress marker this pouch is made for, but it has a broken part which I need to fix before use. It looks easy enough to do, but the pouch will hold my 2 pistol mag type speedloaders if I can't sort the other one out. Oh and I forgot that a while ago I bought an OD Denim British General Service Shirt - £8.70 inc P&P surplus from fleabay. I bought this as optional wear for WW2 days. Obviously it isn't bang on period correct, but there were shirts not too dissimilar to this around during the war... A pair of braces, some tapered black wool kecks, a bag for ammo & pyros and I'll look like a partisan of some description... Oh and I also bought a 18650 3.7v 3000mAh Rechargeable Battery + AC Charger - £3.79 inc P&P new from a HK fleabayer. I'm less than convinced that the battery is a genuine UltraFire, but I have one which I suspect is the same type of knock off in my C8 torch and it has worked fine so far; it just didn't come with a charger. Ooh bugger, I almost forgot: A set of Snap On Hex Keys 2mm-8mm for £10.36 used from fleabay. I was getting sick to the back teeth of various cheap/cheapish Hex/Allen Keys rounding off when I wanted to tighten something very tight, such as the one on the flash hider of my L1A1 or a bolt which I've been using to hold a replacement LCT type fire selector onto my AK's, so I went for the best. And also some Viper black knee pads 2nd hand but in almost as new condition - £8.10 inc P&P Lol! And a nylon bore brush for SA80's - it'll clean 6mm bore just as well as 5.56mm - I've already got one of the new type stiff pull-throughs and 4 rods + handle of the old screw-together type, so it screws on to either and will not scratch the inner barrel like the brass/steel ones would. I forget but it was about £3.50 from some surplus website or other - if anyone wants to know I'll be able to find it lol!

I was thinking of rotating the bayonet lug through 90 deg. Gangsta!

I want one, Tariq! With a bayonet on it!!!!

Warrior Assault Systems RICAS base unit plate carrier in Black £64.10 inc P&P from fleabay. I'd vaguely had my eye on this and was only going to bid up to about £35, not because it's not worth more, but because I don't really have the money spare. Well, not without sacrificing something previously decided anyway. I just really want to try using a tight fitting PC, to see if it helps with my bad back, and, at least with a good one like this, it should do up tight and stay that way. But that is definitely it for a while. I can't afford to put any bleedin' pouches on it right now, so I'll have to wait on generosity for xmas and my birthday (commiseration even)...

Check these out @Patrol Base. They have pretty much the best deals on surplus boots in the UK, so if those don't suit, they have a fair few options.

I don't think his was ex rental, Finius, but it was damaged. I'd have gone to £80, maybe even £85 if it seemed otherwise ok, but he was adamant on £105 and I didn't have the money to arrange a f2f meet and haggle him down that day. By the time I did have the money spare he'd sold it. Yeah, I think I know what you mean about the sound of the TM AK range. Describing sound is very difficult in English, particularly the timbre (the word you're looking for btw). As a sound engineer, what "woody" and further away than it is suggests to me is sounding like a combo of something that is hollow being struck and that the sound is muffled. Woody could also suggest a filtered waveform called PWM, pulse width modulated, which can be similar to a square wave, that you get from brass instruments, but with a slight variation in the wavelength, and a low pass filter taking the harshness out by removing a degree of some of the upper harmonics plus a comb filter altering the balance of harmonics so that the "harder edged" brass sound square wave, which is comprised of odd numbered harmonics layered on top of the fundamental harmonic (that which determines the pitch) is complimented by a small amount of even numbered harmonics (which on their own, added to the fundamental, produce a triangular waveform which sounds completely artificial and a bit unpleasant usually) because, even though a pure square wave has none, a natural sound will have even harmonics, just very quiet in comparison to the odd and a comb filter can boost them selectively while also reducing the amplitude of some of the odd harmonics selectively... See what I mean? WTF does any of this mean to a lay person? You might just as well describe the sound as "a bit brown" and, funnily enough, some people do... Muffled and far way are both effects produced by a loss of upper harmonics - they are the 1st to die out in reverberation and the easiest to block by some mechanical means... Anyhoo, yeah I really want to try that paint job myself. I have an ICS AKS 74U which, if I can get a decent RIS to fit, I may have a go with. I reckon that using 2L round plastic bottles for some of the stencils might be a good plan for some parts, as well as flat ones for others. I dunno about my AKS though. For 1 thing I think that a funky paint job like that would need to be on a gun with a silencer and a more substantial stock than the basic steel frame my gun has, or it'd look silly. Yeah, I could modify it, but it's the only CQB length AEG I have...

Bugger, that reminded me - I want some Krylon myself! I've just been waiting for Patrol Base to have Flat Black back in stock and woohoo, they do... 1 can £10.14 inc. P&P - best price I can find in the UK. Edit to add/Re: Patrol Base P&P costs GBP3.15 for 1 311g item - Royal Mail cost for 1 packet up to 750g 2nd Class Recorded Delivery? GBP3.15 To any/all ye airsoft suppliers who may read this, that is the kind of P&P that will bring me back to them... I'd have been happy with £3.85 to cover packaging materials TBH, but when it gets to the fivers+ I feel skanked and that predisposes me to look elsewhere... Edit 2 to add: pound sign failure, Dev. Can't remember if this is exactly what Ed was on about, but it's defo similar lol!

I almost bought 1 of those a couple of weeks ago Finius, but the bloke wanted a daft price and stuck at £105 in the pre-f2f haggle and its under-folding stock was knackered on 1 side... I was still tempted though, because I've heard a few TM AEG's and they're pretty quiet firing, compared to most AEG's. I haven't heard a TM AK though. Is it quiet? If it is, I'd find a cheap Beta Spetsnaz front end and put a PBS 4 silencer on it to cover a new TBB. If the new front end had plastic wood effect furniture, I'd replace it with an aluminium RIS and folding foregrip and if the stock was plastic too, I'd either replace it with a side folding stock, or get a wooden stock and cut it down, or just make it from scratch, and fit 1 of those sniper style adjustable butt plates on it. Spray the whole thing, including 8 AK47 metal mid-caps & 2 plastic waffle hicaps, in urban camo using Krylon Black, Grey Primer and Fusion Flat White - the last 2 with various degrees of Black speckling (using sheets of plastic from blister packs etc. as templates with 3mm, 7mm & 15mm length paisly pattern* shaped holes in) to darken them down and bits of the Black lightened with Grey/White through the templates. *Think about that shape and how it appears at a distance. The black on a lighter background or light on black background would create an optical illusion of colour in the concave curved bit, blurring the edges of blocks of colour. Where does the brain get information with which to fill in the visual field when the eyes cannot resolve what is actually there into a sharp focussed image? The surrounding colours is where...

Not planning on robbing a bank are ya? Just ordered from http://www.armysales.co.uk - British Army Issue 120 x 55 cm Green Towel 100% Cotton Terry Towelling £2.49 - thought about getting the micro fibre type but I like cotton on my skin. Web-tex Military High Gloss Parade Boot Polish £1.25 - running out... SA80 Nylon Spiral Bristle Bore Cleaning Brush £3.32 - will clean 6mm bore just as well as 5.56mm but not scratch like the brass or steel types. Sub-Total: £7.06 UK Shipping (Weight: 0.70kg): £4.99 Coupon(Ebay10%): £-0.71 VAT (20%): £2.27 Total: £13.61 Right that's it for this pay cycle... unless something unmissable pops up lol!

58 Pattern Water Bottle & Mug (plastic) £3.99 + £3.49 P&P - I only wanted the bottle, but for that price who cares? 58 Pattern Mug (enamelled metal) £8 + £2.75 P&P - arguing with the seller now b/c it's in rough condition... SA80 Cleaning Kit £6.50 + £2.75 P&P - the new type zip up pouch, atomiser oil bottle & stiff pull through (not a full kit by any means lol). I got this for a few reasons: I don't like the idea of using pressurised cans if there's a good alternative, plus the atomiser is much smaller than a can of Abbey; the stiff pull through should work just as well as the plastic rods that come with AEG's and it coils up in the pouch, which is much easier to carry around than a rod long enough for an AK, let alone for my L1A1; I can put a few other bits and bobs in the pouch and that'll be a handy, little AEG maintenance kit. British army General Service Olive Green Shirt £4.95 + £3.75 P&P - I'm slowly heading towards a cold war loadout. Viper Black Kneepads £5.11 + £2.99 P&P - I'm also building a special forces style all black loadout. Actually, I really should make a gear wanted thread in the classifieds... Some M4 thread size Nuts & Bolts £0.99 & £1.79 inc P&P - for general repairs. They're stainless steel wich isn't ideal, but, through experimentation, I think I've found a way of making them black in a way that will last. Snap On Allen Key Set 8mm - 2mm £7.11 + £3.25 P&P - how fcuking annoyed was I getting with cheap Allen Keys rounding off when I tried to tighten a hex-bolt up properly? 1m Black 25mm Flat Elastic £1.19 inc P&P - I need to make loops to hold a torch pressure pad onto various AEG's. 2 x Large Flameless Ration Heaters £3.90 + £1.00 P&P - for the night game @Skirmish 15/12/12 These are way better than the standard size and leaps and bounds better than the US MRE type. All from fleabay. Fweabay is my fwiend Oh yeah, and from cadetfactory.co.uk Viper Black UBACS shirt £34 inc P&P - hopefully I'll have it before the 15th, but if not, I want it for my spec ops loadout anyway.

I managed to get just 1 XTR446 from somebody in Portugal off fleabay... £9 + £6 P&P!!! TBF there are no legends left on the buttons, but it's not that complicated to remember what I need to.

From Circuit Airsoft Closing Down Sale Umarex H&K G36V Electric Blowback AEG (Black) £120 inc VAT - what, are you 'kin serious? ......................... ................. .............. ........... ........ ...... .... ... .. . No, but at least one jammy fcuker got exactly that sweet deal! Barstid! What really makes me nauseous is that I did know about Circuit closing down yesterday, from the current discussion about mesh goggles, but I didn't bother to look until an hour or so ago. The only consolation I can take from this sad event is that it wasn't the KV version, which is the one I actively want; but still, since I'm planning to mess with it quite a bit anyway, this would have been just as good a starting point as a stock KV, just not what I would want in the interim :'( About all else I can think of is that there seems to be a question of reliability hanging over them, which is not what you need when buying from a company closing down. What I did get was:- HEROSHARK DAGGER NOSE Cost me £14.40 (£23 from heroshark.co.uk) - Somewhat bizarrely, IMO, these were the cheapest and the most discounted (£6.80 vs £4.40 or £4.20). I'd have chosen them as the best of the four available choices, because they are the only ones without a pillar in the centre or two separate 'lenses' - the problem with either of those being that when you glance to one side, the vision of the opposite side eye is compromised by the frame, which thus must interfere with depth perception. Hey ho, I spose not many people think about things like that, but fresh from a discussion about the relative merits of various types of eye protection and types of mesh, I can't help it. The whole reason I decided to give them a try, apart from the fact that I feel that there is a good chance I will not get on with them so it's only worth a punt since they're going cheap, is that the gaps which are wider than other types of sheet mesh offer less restricted vision... I mean, duh! Such wide holes increase the slight risk of being hit in the eye by a fragment of shattered BB, but, for much better vision, that's a risk worth taking I reckon. Why then, given the option, and accepting that slight increased risk for better vision, would I choose anything other than the most open field of view? Somehow I feel it probably has to do with the way a game character or three look... you know, in the same way that some people would rather wear a desert UBACS in a British woodland than CS95 DPM lol! MAG 140 Round AK74 Magazine Long (Bakelite) x 2 Cost me £5.40 each - TBH I hate this colour, even though I have six the same that hold about half as many BB's, but they didn't have any in black - I spose that's what Krylon is for lol! They have got some Lonex AK47 Flash mags, but I've heard bad things about them, compared to the STANAG type, so I don't feel that £28.80 is cheap enough to take a punt. G&P Military Distress Marker BB Loader For £6 I thought fcuk it, why not? It does seem to look just like the real thing lol! G&P 8.4v 2200mAh AK Type Battery £13.20 - a 2200mAh battery for less than the price of a 1400 - woohoo! I expect that it'll last all day, even if I end up laying down a lot of covering fire. This photo, the eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed, isn't an 8.4V - it has 8 cells so it's a 9.6V - but I'm sure dodgy pics wasn't what caused Circuit to fold. However... P&P: Standard Parcels Service £15.86 - yeah, that's not a typo, it's a piss take and that kind of thing can't have been good for business. Still, for a total of £60.26 for this lot delivered, I feel like I've done pretty well for my wonga...

Waiting for some stainless steel tri-glide buckles to replace the plastic ones on my 3 point sling. A plastic loop gave up the ghost @Brit Tac so I thought I might as well do 'em all at once. I'll have to use Krylon on them at some point. Buggered if I could find any made from black laquered steel, or even just plain mild steel, but at least SS won't rust... I could've just replaced the thing I spose, but there's nothing wrong with the laquered steel clips, the webbing, or the side release buckle, so, since it cost £4.50 inc P&P (after I complained and accepted 1/2 back rather than getting a full refund and sending it back or a replacement) and another £7.25 for the buckles (actually I ordered 6 so I can do another sling also, for £14.50 inc P&P) that's still plenty cheaper than a good brand, even if a can of Krylon was only enough for these buckles.

No kidding. What do you think of Binatone stuff? I had a headphone amp once... had being the operative word.________________________________ Yeah I know what you mean, Ed. I tend to be a fairly unsociable cnut and, tbh, there are good reasons for that; but the way they run Skirmish makes most of those reasons irrelevant. It's pretty simple I suppose: we're all there to have a laugh and any reasons we might otherwise fasten upon to judge, dislike, or be suspicious of each other don't seem to get much if any of an airing. I've even found myself making a jokey reply to a xenophobic comment, the staggering ignorance of which would ordinarily have been my cue to make that person admit they were a fool, or demonstrate it in no uncertain terms, one way or another. Not that I'm suggesting anyone should go along with that kind of thing, but honey catches more flies than vinegar etc. For that reason I'm not going to name'n'shame either, but it wasn't anybody you'd be disappointed in... I wouldn't say Pocket is a dick. He's a very different person to me and he's fcuking enthusiastic, which is either cool or really annoying depending on how I'm feeling. I can't get on the military tip like a lot of airsofters do and I spose Pocket is on it more than most. I mean, yeah i dress in British Army DPM and have a MK6 helmet, L1A1, bla bla, but it's a game/sport/hobby - I almost joined up when I was too young to know better but nowadays I'd be more likely to volunteer to airsoft bollock naked than recommend being a soldier as a sensible career choice

Yeah they do. It's the little rubbery holes on the fingers... sounds weirder than it is, lol! I think they will, Ed. You could offer to put some tape over the fire selector maybe, as perverse as the notion is... Although they let me use my L1A1 before I got the replacement fire selector to replace the filed down one that allowed full auto, so you'll probably be alright. I just struck me... it's really cool having a local-ish site where the cock factor is generally so low!

Funnily enough, the hard knuckle gloves I ordered from China arrived t'other day and, although I didn't know it when I placed the order, they are Fauxkleys! I ordered the XL size and I'm really impressed with the fit (I have major probs finding gloves to fit my fingers properly); I am glove size 9-10 for reference. Got my 350 lumen gunlight - £12.50 from China inc P&P, 3 different mounts, 2 end caps (1 button, 1 pressure pad), and 1 18650 battery - my only issue with it is that to access the different functions, the various brightnesses, the emergency flash, and the strobe, you have to click through the cycle of functions each time to get to the one you want. Also bought British Army NBC gloves and MK V overboots, plus an S10 respirator with canisters, 1 powder decon pad, and an OD satchel - I've already got some other decon stuff and chemical weapon detector paper pads. Oh, and a couple of different S10 microphones that fit over the speech diaphragm I think, but I'll have to get a real Bowman headset to use them, which I'll then have to modify to use with my z-tactical PTT, which is more of a ball ache than it sounds.

Full set of 58 Pattern webbing - sadly it isn't all matching in the degree of fading, but it's not bad enough to look ridiculous. It still has the paint on the metal sliders on the belt & all metal tabs & loops etc. in good condition. It was sub £20 inc P&P so I'm happy enough. I think I should get another water bottle pouch for it, for the sake of authenticity... & a steel helmet too - I like the look of the MKII Para style but I'll have to see what crops up at a good price. Thanks for the nod re MKV NBC overboots, Dan. I've found a pair to buy & they do look better!

Cheaper than £12.98 all in Dazzer? If so a link would be handy for the lurkers :-$

That's a good point which I hadn't thought of. The jacket hasn't shed any charcoal though and I have sweated through the shirt I was wearing into the inside of it in places I'm sure. I didn't realise it was that loose... I've got some of those on order too, in black. Cheaper than yours though - £12.98 inc P&P - Here. Oh and a C8 Torch with pressure switch. £12.50 - not bad I think.

No, I'm leaving it in for now. The jacket was still in its' vacuum pack when I got it, but the kecks don't show any signs of the wrinkles that they come out of the package with so I'm guessing they have been unpacked for quite a while. I suspect that I may well take it out eventually... but I've worn the jacket for skirmishing a few times and it's not insufferably hot, especially in cold weather (obviously, lol)

Good man yourself! I want one...

Quite possibly, but I want an authentic cold war loadout to go with Agnes (my L1A1 SLR) I've just discovered a very good deal for a whole set of 58 Pattern webbing too and NBC overboots in the right size I fully realise that wearing this gear is going to be extremely hot, but I fancy testing it out as it was designed to be used before I modify any of it - eg I've found a company that sell the wire mesh that 1/2 face masks and some goggles are made from, so I'm thinking of replacing the lenses in the S10 with mesh and I expect I'll end up in just my pants under the NBC gear