jcheeseright

hitting the keys too hard?

contact lenses were the solution I went with initially, work perfectly for one day games. If you're going to do weekend games etc though I recommend getting some prescription inserts for a pair of goggles, expensive (ish, about £65) but well worth it.

I have a degree in photography (not recommended as a career path, I didn't make any money!) so I think I can probably help here. What you need for this sort of thing is a half decent DSLR, a tripod and a remote for the camera (it isn't 100% required but it's REALLY helpful). Set the aperture of your camera really narrow (like f25 or so, bigger the number, smaller the aperture) and make sure your lens is in manual focus. Then you need to put the camera into 'bulb' mode (this will make the shutter stay open as long as the button is pushed... this is why you need the remote!). Make sure your ISO setting is as low as you can reasonably go and snap away The longer you leave the shutter open the longer your star trails will be, experiment with your f-stops as too high will give you an underexposed image and too low will overexpose. Since the black bits in between stars (on a clear night) are actually the complete absence of light you should get really good contrast. A few hours worth of 4-5 minute exposures composited together can look really cool, some remotes have a bulb & timer function built in which will do it for you.

Fog is caused by moisture condensing on the lens, for this to happen the lens needs to be colder than the ambient temperature (which is not the OUTSIDE temperature, it's the temperature inside your goggles), which it pretty much always will be since your face heats the air up. Fan goggles work because they force the air inside the goggles to be constantly replaced with fresh cool/dry air which doubles up on the effect; less moisture in the goggles and the ambient temperature should be largely the same as the lenses. The 100% fog proof solution would be a heated lens, even 1 degree would be enough to completely eliminate fog but it'd be power hungry and you'd have to deal with looking at filaments in the lens!

Woodland and milsim I'll wear a gum shield to protect my teeth (get one made by a dentist, a £5 boil and bite from sports direct might not cut it!) as I'm not that bothered about getting welts on my face most of the time. Getting shot in the lip REALLY fucking hurts though. For CQB it's full face every time, not a mix of glasses and lower mesh, full face. I tried glasses and lower mesh and had a number of instances of BBs hitting the top of the mesh and finding a gap below my glasses. Never took a hit to my actual eyeball but got close enough that I wasn't comfortable with it anymore.

Nope, the inside isn't threaded, it slides on to a thinner 'middle outer barrel'. TM used to do them the same way back when, saves money on metal I guess.

Got banned from every major provider 'moved away'.

I loved mine, the noise alone when racking the slide was enough. That said, they do have issues, the tanks leak eventually; mine took about 2 months of regular use to develop a slow leak that I fixed with a bolt through the middle pin hole. The plastics aren't brilliant, they're not awful either though, as Proffrink said though- do not fall over on it! Loading arms as mentioned have been known to be a weak point, though mine personally didn't fail. the 3/6 shot switch is a nice gimmick, I left mine in 3 shot mode most of the time for the better gas efficiency and 10 shots per shell rather than 5. the ability to slam fire a SHITLOAD of BBs very rapidly scares the crap out of people too. I sold mine because I just don't play enough CQB to get the full benefit of it, but if I had a decent regular CQB site I'd pick another one up without hesitation.

best red dot: http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/aimpoint-128-c.asp

hold on, £95 for a day and a bit of airsoft... there's plenty of other providers doing full 48 hour non-stop games at that venue for less.

Probably because no one will buy them anymore!

they're definitely the real deal, I bought a few a couple of months back and they're identical in every way to the ones I already had.

Only issue I can think of is storing them all!

I'm fairly sure someone somewhere is still making the SOPMOD magazines... MLEmart have had a few loads in stock over the last few months

caps lock is not your friend.

the ones from component shop will fit comfortably.

easiest way to check for a leak, even a slow one, is to fill the magazine up and put it in a bowl of water, give it a couple of knocks to remove the surface bubbles and wait... if you don't see any more bubbles then it isn't leaking!

You're going to the wrong sites, I can think of at least 3 sites within an hour of me that have helicopters ranging from Wessex Mk4s (like the one in the video) to Lynx Mk7s.

I just couldn't help but laugh when his knees buckled and he started screaming.

Putting up a high accuracy GPS receiver for the British Antarctic Survey, they could have done it themselves but it would have taken them weeks. We had a helicopter and a free afternoon so we got volunteered.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/54%C2%B021'16.0%22S+36%C2%B037'13.2%22W/@-54.354452,-36.6225247,471m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

I dropped one full of 220kg of batteries out of a helicopter down the side of a mountain in -20C and it survived 90% intact and the contents were unharmed. They're pretty indestructible.

Pelican 1720 is what you're after.

New fangled?! They've been on the market for like 5 years!

Blue force gear ten speed, fastest pouches ever.