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I can hardly talk, my MK12 was built from scratch so not exactly the cheapest way to go! I'm fortunate in that I can handle the engineering involved in putting airsoft bits together well enough.

Fair point, but the point is that you don't have to buy a £325 base gun and then spunk another £300 before it becomes a useful DMR. Bolties are very much more in the camp of needing to spend money to make it work well (outside of the odd outliers that have been "pre-upgraded"). If you work on the concept that a DMR just needs to have good range and accuracy then a completely standard Cyma M14 and some decent ammo will happily meet that criteria. Yes, a good trigger response is nice to have but it's not the end of the world if the gearbox is a bit lazy when you're in a role that affords you a bit more time to take aim and place your shots. If you had Luke fit a ZCI barrel and a maple leaf rubber and nub, that would improve it a good deal and not cost you anywhere near £300. Just for clarity I'm not saying you shouldn't have done that, I'm saying that if you don't want to sink £650 into a DMR, you don't have to.

Steiner OTAL at a guess. Might help if you got a better pic.

Let's be fair though, you don't need to spend that much on the base gun OR pay someone else that amount to make it better. There's plenty of decent base guns out there around £200 that will work just fine and cost a lot less to upgrade. Of course, if it's your money and you're happy with it then more power to your elbow, other people's mileage WILL vary.

Chunks of it are 3D printed but yeah, some parts look to be machined.

Sooo.... he's added shell ejection now https://www.reddit.com/r/airsoft/comments/wec8l3/shell_ejecting_function_has_been_added_to_the_gm6/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

If you stay with Gate, the Nano ASR will work well for what you want. https://gatee.eu/products/aeg-mosfets/nanoasr As the Gate products share common connectors you can fit the same wiring to your M4 and swap it over easily, or even upgrade to a Warfet in your M4 without having to rewire it.

I've only used a plug in Kong Power Burst Fet in mine. Why specifically the Warfet? I don't see any real benefits to having a programmable 'fet in an LMG.

https://m.dcinside.com/board/airsoftgun/316488 Link to the build.

That listing suggests en166 f which is only low energy impact. Not really good enough for airsoft but about what I'd expect for a fiver.

I stand corrected!

That plate carrier does use placards. The pathfinder attaches to the clips that the placards would use.

There is a version of the Wraith stock for normal AEG as well.

I agree entirely but equally I do think we're a bit guilty of overestimating how big a market the UK is compared to the rest of the EU. The bit that annoys me more is that US companies are happy to ship to us under the same regulations and I daresay we're an even smaller part of their market than we are to EU sellers. I think there is an amount of "you made your bed so lie in it" involved from EU sellers and to be fair to them I do agree that we seem to want to have our cake and eat it in as much as we left the EU but we still want to be treated as if we hadn't. As far as selling through PB, DCA et al goes, it's a win-win for TG and GF. They can work on easy to manage bulk sales arrangements through retailers instead of individual purchasers, they know where they stand on VAT, Duty, joules legality and shipping costs and they still make margin. Plus all the whingeing customers direct their ire at PB and DCA instead of them. I can't say I really see where the appeal is for them to sort out a UK VAT registration.

The thing to remember here is that as part of Alibaba, AliExpress is a large company exporting a vast array of products. They operate the checkout process on behalf of their sellers so they have hoover up all the little VAT payments made on small items and pay it as one big VAT bill. Individual stores (like Evike Europe) don't have that kind of volume of sales (and by extension staff and/or systems) to make it commercially viable to sort out your VAT liability when it was "us" that decided to leave the nice, easy single market arrangement. Several of the airsoft retailers I had previously used in Europe have refused to take orders purely because they don't want the hassle.

As you're in the US, the Desert Fox events use their own app based force tracker: https://www.desertfoxevents.com/blue-fox-tracker not sure if you can download it and use it at other events, maybe have a look and see what it does. You can of course use ATAK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Team_Awareness_Kit but that is very much more detailed and aimed at military/LEO/Search and Rescue

This one might work: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002120111176.html?spm=a2g0o.store_pc_groupList.8148356.18.5fbf2031a0gMdI&pdp_npi=2%40dis!GBP!￡19.95!￡19.95!!!!!%400b0a119a16588425551724202ec518!12000018806363958!sh The Spectre DR I just picked up has a 37mm thread for a killflash so, yeah. Pretty variable!

Is it an earmor ptt?

That. Is. Awesome.

That's the exact motor in my MK12! Is nice, I like.

How exactly does the movement of air affect an optical sensor? Take your time answering because my engineering background is in Controls and Instrumentation.

Where do you get this stuff from? Maybe have a read of this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26882/#:~:text=During glycolysis%2C a glucose molecule,produced in the later steps.

So you actually need to take the foam dust filter OFF the vent strips to stop them from fogging, the bit where the BB can get in is that to REALLY open them up to vent you basically pull the lens unit forward and the outer edge hinges open. There's definitely better options out there. If you can afford them, get fan goggles (ESS Profile Turbofan or Revision Desert Locust with fan). Or just buy some decent mesh ones from our very own @heroshark I'm currently running Bolle X810 goggles and I have to be honest but I fail to see how a BB got in there if he was wearing them properly.

I used to have a set of those but ditched them when a BB got inside through the vent gap.

Are you new here? In all seriousness though, while that's a dangerous assumption to make with ANY airsoft parts, that bit should work but don't be surprised if it doesn't. You could replace the handguard with a free float style one and then you're just looking at whether or not you want a dummy gas block.