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Not exactly, but close. I have a CM045A. It's built like a tank inside and out. Good gears and well made GB shell. Standard V3 box so very easily upgradeable. RoF is fair but nothing too blistering. Accuracy is....alright. It's a pretty short barrel so don't expect miracles as standard. That said, a decent hop rubber and TBB should do well to sort that out. Very well put together gun that is all metal apart from the foregrip and pistol grip (wood and plastic respectively on mine). For such a small gun it's pretty weighty. Most of the major components are pinned together so a set of punches would be a good investment if you plan on taking it apart much and don't want to wreck the pins. Gearbox removal is pretty simple. Nozzle is a clear hard plastic number which looks a bit fragile to me but time will tell. Upgrades? Fill your boots. Standard V3 stuff all round. If you want to use a tracer you may have to do what I did and cut the very end of the inner barrel down. When you unscrew the flash hider the inner barrel extends by about an inch or so which covers the sensor in a tracer and stops it working. Sight mounting options ARE a little limited. The short length of the AKS74U means some soviet scope side mounts don't fit properly. There IS a little rail adaptor that can be fitted into the rear leaf sight but that does require drilling and tapping the top cover (plus you'll have to buy it from the US). To be fair, at the kind of ranges it works best at iron sights are fine or a red dot at most.

Interesting idea. I was wondering about rigging up something similar myself! I guess how it looks it dependent on how well you route the pipe. You could probably tuck it all away at the back of a helmet, but I don't wear one so.....

Try the good people of Heroshark http://www.heroshark.co.uk/ If you specify the type of goggles you wear he'll custom cut the mask to the right shape for you!

Sounds like you need to get a mesh mask and mod it as per Brightcandles suggestion. Having tried the smaller lower face only type masks and then getting shot IN the ear, I'd certainly recommend sticking with the bigger masks like the Raider style if you can!

I use a Black Bear Raider mask http://www.military1st.co.uk/bbav2g3blk-black-bear-airsoft-raider-mask-gen-3-black.html with ESS V12 Advancer goggles. Unfortunately nothing that isn't mesh will ever be totally fog resistant but taking the filter foam off the eyepieces and opening them fully for best venting works well enough. The fit nicely enough with the mask too: I'm on the right by the way. Just for reference - that's the lift room at The Malls!

Haha! Not just you mate! Thanks for that though, interesting stuff. That dual fan setup looks good.

As long as you've not used it as a walking stick to cross the bog of eternal stench a quick wipe down and a clean out of the barrel should be fine. Disconnect and remove your battery when you're not using the gun, but unless you submerged the gun at any point I wouldn't be too worried about massive water ingress that could damage the battery.

It's not just that forum though. I used to regularly post on a bikers forum call The Rev Counter. If a noob said the wrong thing there it was a 15 page minimum flame war almost instantly. The general consensus was "welcome to TRC, grow a thicker skin". Unfortunately the rise of the keyboard warrior with the shield of anonymity has all but destroyed many online communities. I'm just glad it hasn't got to this place yet!

That's interesting actually as I already have an old JT mask from my paintball days (ah youth....happy times, simpler times). How much are the fans?

As far as I can tell they're the same thing. Emerson and TMC seem to be different brands by the same manufacturer depending on where the item is being sold.

Do you have pictures?

Yeah, I had a look at their site. I have to admit I'm tempted because head shots in CQB are getting on my tits. I do sweat like a rapist in church though so it'd have to be really well ventilated to be able to see where I'm going (hence the question about space for fans).

Got it today. Not bad at all actually. Well worth £12!

You think that was bad? You should see the verbal arse raping people have had for daring to mention - nay even just have a picture of themselves airsofting on their page - airsoft on OAF (Operator as Fuck). Makes that ARRSE thread look like a vicars tea party!

Anyone know if this is do-able? Having changed to an MOE grip on my M4 I find the grip position and size far more comfortable (I have big hands, see). I've had a look around and while the usual write ups for the MIAD and MOE grips say they should fit ALL M4/M16 variants I have a niggling doubt in my mind as to whether or not they'll fit on a SCAR (the gearbox isn't an entirely standard V2 and I'm sure I read somewhere that the pistol grip attachment is higher up meaning the motor never quite meshes properly in an aftermarket grip). If anyone has tried and succeeded/failed I'd be very interested to find out!

Is this the Proto full cover thermal mask? I'd be very interested to see how it does with fogging. Is there much space that could maybe be fitted with small fans?

The foregrip is back to front too.

So it would be fair to say - not worth it if you have a gas pistol you use every now and then but definitely worth it if you have all gas rifles?

Exactly what I did. I found I actually needed to trim the pad down a little to get the AoE right.

They're not my guns I hasten to add. Mine would have more skulls. And boobs. I did paint them though. Shotgun extension tube for a Berretta 12 bore and a mock suppressor/barrel shroud on a S&W .223 Good friend of mine does practical shooting competitions and these are his guns.

Flames. It's the new Multicam.

Pass. But I'd be leaning more towards JCheese's price than yours to be honest.

Insurance and brokerage costs are very much dependent on who the carrier is and what the value of the items in the package are. You'd need to get a shipping quote through Evike if that's where you're buying from. The duty and VAT calculation is a bastard. You have to include the shipping cost and the insurance then calculate the import duty, add it on then calculate the VAT on the whole lot. So you get taxed twice in effect. Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with a bastard filling. This is the calculator I used in the past http://www.dutycalculator.com/new-import-duty-and-tax-calculation/

It was the assumption that life is that kind Also - where did you get the 25% from? Was it an assumption on VAT/duty? There's online calculators that will let you know exactly what you'd be paying. You also forgot to add the value of the insurance to the import duty cost calculation and there's no mention of brokerage fees either.

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