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@Ian, I like the massive mags in the 74U. Looks like the Russian version of a few sawn-off G3s with extended mags I've seen in photos from Northern Ireland in the 70's. @Ed - I can only second what's already been said, that sniper sure is a work of art. L85 now has the remaining rail space covered in XTM covers. Useless, but I like the look (much like the original plastic handguard) And now for something completely different (well, different for me) The latest addition to the armoury, JG's Umarex branded G36C. Going to keep it as basic as possible, as frankly it doesn't need anything other than the grip.

Since you're not trying to copy any existing military force or anything, I'd go for a Harris up front AND a standard foregrip, think it can look pretteh baus.

Moments! It's called moments. And as above. It's from where anything and everything comes from. The Internet.

Yes Nick, but that isn't as long! Holding up heavy stuff when it's far away from you takes more effort, do you know nothing about fulcrums and pivots and all that physics shiz? Pfft. Where did the "Do you even lift?" thing come from in the first place? =/ Anyway, the range currently is about 40m on a flat trajectory, maybe up to 70 if you shoot at people mortar style, but I don't think it'll hit a person with one shot at anything over 30m and it's far too cumbersome to run around with taking pot shots at people. My L85 will easily out gun it, same sort of range, but snappy semi auto and obviously also full auto. That's all based off the performance with .3g Blaster Devils as well and I run my L85 with .25s firing at roughly 50fps less. With .20s hitting a person would probably be about as easy as threading a needle in a hurricane.

I hear what you are saying, but no. The Swedish airsofters are very big fans of realism, and milsim, of which gas powered replicas play a big role. Almost anyone and everyone who playes airsoft has at least one gas-powered replica in their arsenal, be it primary side-arm, primary system, grenade launcher or fun-SMG gun. The market is huge and the demand is huge. I say that it is "technically" illegal because GBBs do exist and are in use, fairly wide spread, but importing them and enjoying the full awesomeness of what is GBB and GBBRs is hard here. As for the market shares, perhaps I see it from a different light being a GBB/GBBR afficionado, those numbers are guesstimates at best but I felt I had to put something in to show how much we are losing out. EDIT: It is in referense to the "gas blow back" segment, where gas-powered airsofts account for 90%, and CO2 for 10%. And 30-40% are for the gas blow back segment in general vs. AEG and spring powered. Maybe I see it differently there, but I had to put something in. And it is in referense to models on the market and not what is actually in use ! There are times for both gas and CO2, we just need the option and variety of models. It is even as bizzare as, multi-power-option GBBs, ie. those who can take both gas and CO2, are banned as well. If it CAN be powered by anything other than spring, gas or CO2... And as you say, having CO2 be legal, which is more powerful, and then gas to be illegal, it makes no sense. I hope I cleared that up a little bit! More GBBs to the people !

I've decided to stick with mine, the gun sounds so unusually loud to me with the standard piston fitted that it sounds like it's damaging itself lol. What's it going in when it arrives? Be sure to get the AoE right when you fit it using the spacers provided, or you could end up shafting it, your piston and your cylinder head. Mine just went right in without needing to adjust anything though, but it's worth bearing in mind.

Yeah, I don't think the 552 looks right on anything. My mate has one on an M249 and it's the same size as the entire receiver. Really doesn't look right. But yeah, I'd generally consider myself an L85 purist in terms of it having to look "military issue" so either SUSAT/Irons + original green furniture. Or new with RIS and all the other gucci bits like mine. If it isn't in one of those two configurations, I generally dislike it. Like CKs from a few pages back... Stubby fore grip, Spectre and those rail covers he had? Eurgh no. But with an EOTech it actually looks quite good. If Arma2 is to be believed, then they are actually used for night ops as well. Since you can't use an ACOG/Spectre/SUSAT with NV gear.

I was just 45 and I'm on 3 AEG';s & 1 pistol (+1 2 plastic 1/2 arses that are best ignored). I've only spent a wallet-stinger on 1 of them though and that's the same with my loadouts - bit at a time, except the RICAS I bought recently, which was 2nd hand and cheap by a lot of your standards @£65.10 inc P&P and the various pouches I'm planning to get will have to trickle in... So it's not just teens, TM. I'm not going to jump on the rich-kid bash either. If my parents had had more money than they did and my dad wasn't as tight as a duck's arse under water (and airsoft had been invented), I'd have loved a whole gunroom full of choice. However, something I remember about a few kids I knew whose parents were minted (I went to a good school) was that their attitude towards cool possessions was definitely different to my own. For instance, scientific calculators had recently become available to the great unwashed and word had come down from on high that henceforth all calculators except those which were programmable would be allowed in exams. Programmable? Pro-fcuking-grammable? Well, back then t'internet was still a twinkle in Tim's eye, so finding out what one of those was wasn't that easy. But it was an intellectual exercise anyway, because, for my close friends and I, the price was so prohibitive that it just didn't matter what they could do. It took me so long to save for a bog standard Texas Instruments scientific calc that, by the time I had it, Casio had brought out a range of programmable ones which would have merely taken a few months more saving for me to buy. Anyway, there would have been no point, since I couldn't have used it in exams, and so, despite it's lack of even so minor a bell/whistle as solar panels, I loved that T120 and knew how to use all its functions except those for statistics, indeed that i can remember the name 31yrs later, even though the maths has largely fled, is testament to how much it meant to me. The thing is, without consciously thinking it, I knew that that calculator would be the only one I would ever have for the medium-term foreseeable future. There were other kids I knew who had several within a fairly short time and, except for one lad, none of them did more than scratch the surface of their machines' capabilities. They were just what we now call bling. To be fair though, a person need not be particularly arsewanking to be shackled to that treadmill. I mean, how many people have you met whose car/s cost considerably more than their transport requirements actually merit, who also must to work like dogs to pay for it/them, so that in any spare time they have when, in theory, they might take a vehicle out for no other reason than the pleasure of driving country roads, they are too knackered to do anything of the kind?

This MOLLE rig from Bulle is available in Olive as well as tan and I would strongly reccommend it to any beginner to airsofting. In comparison to other vests on the market, the Recon Chest Harness is an excellent choice. Of course made from Cordura, I'm presuming 1000D, you can rest assured this will not break on you, and isn't a cheap China-soft "knock-off". As the title suggests, it's primarily intended for a lightweight reconaissance loadout, as with the idea behind MOLLE you can completely customise your vest to personal preference. Therefore, you can do away with unwanted pouches and only attach the ones you need, making the platform very adaptable. On this particular product, not only is there plenty of webbing all around the rig, but two huge inner pockets. In addition, the flap in which you would usually mount an admin pouch can be tucked into the vest when not in use, and secured by two press studs. Needless to say, consider purchasing some pouches along with your tactical vest / chest rig / harness for your magazines and additional equipment such as grenades or ammunition. I'd reccommend airsoft-club for pouches, as although everything is Chinese-made, it's generally pretty good and a good price. (Remember you've got to pay quite a lot for shipping) Delivery times are long however, some packages will take over two weeks to be delivered, so bear that in mind. Alternatively, you could get a triple STANAG or MP5 magazine pouch (or other obviously) from Flecktarn.co.uk (where I purchased my harness) It's more expensive but their delivery is absolutely great and overall in general you'll receive superb service. I also bought a Bulle Olive Admin Pouch, which I might also do a review of. I'm sorry if this review wasn't great as I've haven't done a lot of writing other reviews or anything recently but as aforementioned I'd like to recommend to anybody, especially beginner airsofters looking for a great value rig for their loadout. J

My Osprey arrived this morning, it fits fine, but attaching stuff to it is basically impossible. It fastens in the middle at the front, so I can't attach anything molle to it that covers the middle section... Since I've got 3x double mag pouches and 1x double mag pouches, I have to have my mags in a 6 and 2 config with more on one side that the other and all the added bulk on both sides makes it impossible to put on and fasten properly... Is there a sort of molle cover I could attach to the front of it or something? Does anyone know what I mean? When I'm not so bogged down with work I'll have to post some photos as reference or something.

Uni work! HATE IT SO MUCH! Anyone know if doctors can prescribe anything for chronic CBA?

Picked up a SIG-X5 Open to replace my old X5 Closed which sadly exploded recently. Pretty happy so far, it seems that in the past year KWC/Cybergun have re-designed parts of it which I didn't like/were badly designed. Best bit is, I can recycle a few old parts (like the outer barrel) meaning I don't have to customise everything all over again. And should I need to, I can cannibalise the old X5 for spares should anything break.

Frontier Airsoft is based in the UK near Stafford. We provide fun, competitive team based shooting games in a woodland environment suited for all players regardless of experience or age. Our 30 acres site consist of some dense woodland , trenches , pill boxes and barricades , 2 forts and several land rovers and caravans. All this man made cover make the Frontier site the ideal mix of CBQ style fire fights with plenty of woodland cover and the range for all you snipers and sneaky players out there who like to hide whatever the time of year Our age limit starts at 14 (full face mask till 18) and we keep our prices very competitive – lunch is included in the price and consists of a large Baggett (ham or cheese) , a large cookie , a chocolate bar and a can of soft drink On average we have between 30 – 60 players but have had over 90 on site comfortably We run our games from 9am till 4pm (with 50 min for lunch) and usually each individual game runs from 30 min to 50 min (so there are about 6- 7 per game day) Our staff are all veteran players (all with over 50 shoots in 2 years) and can offer friendly advice if your new to airsoft We have an onsite gun mechanic and you can book in for repairs between events (so two week turn around) More than anything , what makes frontier different from other sites is the role-play elements we use to complement the games Although you will be playing the regular style of games , capturing objectives , rescuing hostages and generally shooting people – each game also has a back story and this is played out during the games – for more information , please the “what are you fighting for” section of our main website: http://www.frontierairsoft.co.uk/ Any questions please give us a call on 07590 255 914

Hiding behind something doesn't make good camo Also I've found in airsoft no one looks around themselves! FG is far superior to any camo I've seen yet in a woodland enviroment.... I've had people look straight at me not hiding behind anything and not see me in FG You know what I spend so much time going on about camo I;m going to have a "Nick's approve and disapprove camo list" thread.. I think I'll do it tomorrow!

Good lard, man! £15! I'll have to check that out on principal... even though I don't have or want any DDPM, MTP, Coyote Brown, Chocolate Chip, or anything else that matches lol!

I've used Wolf Armouries for the last few years for various bits and would have to say that they are hit and miss. At time their service is good and at times it pretty awful. My last visit to their store resulted in me walking out empty handed due to the unwelcome feeling I was given despite recognising staff who have helped me before. I would continue to use them as they do have a pretty wide range of products but my main gripes about Wolf are.... 1. Website needs a face lift. It is poorly laid out and there is a real lack of detail about their products and plenty of images are missing for products that any new player would not know anything about. 2. Their shop is in a right state. Its too cluttered and messy and trying to find a specific item can be a nightmare. Their actual armoury out the back seems to have been depleted of guns! 3. Customer service skills of the staff (Not all the staff, one or two are quite friendly and helpful) needs addressing. I have 10 years retail experience with Europe's largest mobile phone retailer and having been based on London's busiest shopping street (Oxford st), I can vouch that good customer service not only leads to a better customer base, better profits and FREE advertising through word of mouth. Come on Wolf, pull yourself together.

To be honest, for an old TM AK47, if it's ex-rental, about £50 is a nice price to pay, £105 is a bit much IMO. A tenner on the other hand is just ridiculous. TM AK series tend to be fairly quiet in a sense, I think though it's more that they have a different sound to most guns; a lot of AEG are very "snappy" in their sound, whereas the AK series tend to be a bit more "woody", if that makes any sense at all, if anything it makes them harder to hear at range, mostly because they sound further away than they are... Interesting project you've suggested, I quite like the idea of the paintjob especially - it's going on the "serious contenders" pile

Well I got the spot at UKAPU. I'm now on their committee as the student representative. I guess I actually have to stay in Uni now... There's always a cloud to the silver lining lol. Hopefully they won't demand anything really mental of me.

Bit of an old topic, I know but I feel the same with iAcorn regarding the website. Their website is an absolute mess. There are rifles on there with little to no information regarding the item and no images. I certainly, as well as everyone else, would like to see what they are buying and what stats and information are associated to that item. I have only been in Airsoft for a short time and I'm actually avoiding to use them and favour companies such as LWA or Airsoftworld. I do hope Wolf Armouries find someone capable of rebuilding their website and put accurate details up. However, I have never brought anything from them or been instore so I won't comment on customer service etc.

Its worth a go Not paying for anything XD Need to find something better than fraps to record PC stuff as the compression is terrible. Recorded myself playing a level on metro 2033 and the recording ended up to be 40GB or something stupid XD