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Tamiya do some really solid stuff, their paints are excellent too!

fuck no. Those things are absolutely lethal, mate of mine fired one clean through 8 beer cans.

Semapo are really good at customs declarations too, I expect your label will read $12!

I don't wear anything different for a normal skirmish day, if I'm out overnight or on stag for a milsim I'll wrap up warm, but just running round in the woods I wear the same thing all year round

I too have in the past dabbled with painting space marines! (from the age of about 11 WH40k 2nd edition!) through til late early 2013 when I kinda lost interest with the release of 6th edition and the stupid sh*t that came along with it! Have sold almost all my stuff now, with the exception of my Red Scorpions (spent too much time on some of them to part with them for less than an incredible amount of money), still got a few photos though My old Black Templars Marshal, was really proud of this guy at the time :-) A Deathwatch guy I did for a painting competition on the Bolter and Chainsword forum (didn't win). Magister Sevrin Loth, this is the model that started me painting Red Scorpions and to date the model I'm proudest of. Red Scorpions captain. Painted a small Blood Angels Sanguinary Guard army a couple of years back, never got to play with them. Made £300 on ebay for them though!

I reckon egg timer is the best option so far, find a way to put it in a tennis ball to protect it and muffle the sound a bit and you're onto a winner!

I didn't even consider that when rubbishing the effectiveness of them; sacrificing all your night adapted vision for a brief moment of blurry monochrome, hardly seems an effective trade off!

Get that into the stalker thread! How effective are they?

You've never seen a consistent GBB pistol? Not been looking that hard then!

61 feet is more like 18 metres though. My glock will reach out accurately to 50m, tested on a measured range at a site. Not only that, the trigger response on an AEP makes me want to cry... You can almost feel the delay!

AEPs are sh*te though.

out of all that, the AEP is what gets your attention?!

also going, me and all the guys in my group will have radios.

ahh yeah, you're right, shame. still a good option for a solid plate carrier though.

or just replace the lenses entirely with lexan, it's less prone to fogging than glass too!

While ONE of those IR LEDs isn't very bright, a whole bank of them can be seen from a good 30 or 40 yards away pretty easily. I know, I've done it. Once someone's vision has fully night-adapted those little red glowing LEDs are very very obvious. Not only that, the lenses on those things are (obviously) very cheap and the image you get is not at true 1x magnification, it's often more like 1.2-1.3x, combine that with the fact that the lens (singular!) itself will be offset from your face by several inches makes walking about pretty hazardous in itself, especially given that with only one objective lens, regardless of the amount of screens inside of it you'll have no stereoscopic depth perception. Trust me, if those spy goggles were useful on any level then people would be using them all the time, I play a LOT of night games and have only ever seen that kind of stuff a handful of times and in all of those cases the person using them has ditched them in favour of a torch in fairly short order. They're a nice idea, but in practice they're £35 worth which with night vision stuff is effectively 35p worth. You're genuinely better off with a keyring LED torch.

Tennis ball with a clicker inside and an IR v-lite taped/glued to the side so you can find it using your night vision. I wouldn't recommend anyone tries to use the toy 'night vision' types in any serious way though... the bank of HUGE IR LEDs on the front glow pretty red, provides a nice bright red aiming point for people to shoot at your face!

Yeah, 99% of the time a drop-leg holster is a pretty bad solution to a problem that doesn't really exist. Put it on your belt instead, if you find that it's too high then you can get a 2inch drop loop to lower it from the belt a bit so it doesn't interfere with chest rigs/plate carriers/clothing.

For 400 with a standard AEG limit at 350, I don't think I'd bother, for 450 though I bloody would! I like to get up close and personal on people though, so the MED would kill it for me.

yeah, the JPC is pretty much designed to hold SAPI plates and soft armour backers in the lightest way possible while still being sturdy enough to jump out of a plane with it on and fight in it.

pretty adjustable, though even the small size is designed for an adult.

semapo make the best repro stuff you can get.

it's a little bit over, but you could probably make the money back by selling some of the pouches: http://www.semapogear.com/index.php/multicam-6094a-type-vest.html

That's me told! We're still rocking SUSAT