Essential ... and not-so-essential bits to bling my new DE M906C "TO THE MAX" (well, a little bit)

[RostokMcSpoons]

It is, but I did it on my three within a matter of weeks.

I kept it simple, Halfords OD paint for better stealth in the woods I skirmish at, it works well and made my gnus unique. Each to their own of course.

Or you could paint it fluorescent pink or something, whatever floats your boat ?

I'm very keen on camouflage.  When it's the start of the day and I'm looking at people on the other team dressed up in black kit I'm always pleased, I'll actually be able to spot them.  The ghillie suited snipers give me no chance but I kind of think it's almost cheating to be that invisible ?

Anyway at the moment I'm still wearing my old s95 DPM and using scrim or sniper tape to cover stuff up.  It'll do for the time being.

I had a fun hour at my local site trying out my guns on the range, burned through several hundred in the new gun, it's absolutely brilliant.  But I'm getting wound up by hi cap mags

Haha, see what I did there, wound up ha ha haaaaaaa I'm here all week etc

So I'm thinking I might change to mid caps sooner rather than later... Will I find them a pain in the a**, unless I buy some fancy Odin speedloader to go with them?  Do I need to buy quality mags or will a cheap set of asg polymers (10 for £50) do ok?

 

[Jacob Wright]

I’ve got a whole heap of ASG midcaps and never had a problem with them. 
 

And I second what Ebeneezer said; give it a paint! Can’t go wrong with Halfords sprays!

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

I dropped down the investigative rabbit hole and found Lonex 200rd mid caps at less than a tenner each, when bought in a 6 bundle.  They seem pretty good from the few reviews I've seen.

So a couple of options there!

 

[Ebeneezer Goode]

Nothing wrong with running DPM and Camo tape. Thumbs up from here.

Personally, I have both mid and hi caps. Purely personal preference, however Im not bothered by rattles or the odd winding. My UAR only takes hi caps so I don't have much choice, however I've got three cheap Battleaxe stubby mid caps for my Commando that are fun to use with that. Again, try it and see how you get on.

 

[Fatboy40]

So I'm thinking I might change to mid caps sooner rather than later... Will I find them a pain in the a**, unless I buy some fancy Odin speedloader to go with them?  Do I need to buy quality mags or will a cheap set of asg polymers (10 for £50) do ok?

I enjoy laying down quite a lot of covering fire (expensive knee pads I have allow me to kneel for absolutely ages in unusual spots), as well as the odd attempt at a perfectly aimed single shot, and personally I hate mid-caps.

I bought myself some bloody expensive PTS EPM1 mags a while ago, and I just don't like them at all. I don't do milsim's so I use 370 round Nuprol full metal M4 mags and I prefer their weight and with a little shake I can very easily judge just how much I have left in them (I run with three of them, plus a small bottle that holds around 1,000 BB's, so I do get through quite a lot).

 

[Shamal]

Mid caps are fine. Just pick your shots. They fill just fine with about 20 pumps from a large capacity viper speedloader.

One benefit,I find,is that there is no rattle when you run(not that I run lol)

I go out with six fully loaded mids and a full speedloader and that will last till lunchtime.

Regards ?

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Well I guess the benefit of playing an m4 is that I can buy the mid mags, try them, and if I want to ditch either set after experimenting, I won't have any problem selling them on!

 

[Stevobeavo]

For mid caps I've found all I've tried have worked well. Im currently using some ares Amoeba ones. 5 for £45 

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[RostokMcSpoons]

Those have the built-in Magpul things, don't they?  I thought they looked very smart when I saw them - do you actually use them though?
Very reasonably priced for sure...   I'm struggling to find stock outside of Amazon though (where they are £20 each!)

By the way how are you finding that angled grip?  I've got a stubby vertical grip on the way

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£10 from Project Airsoft  https://projectairsoft.co.uk/products/vertical-foregrip-m-lok-and-keymod?_pos=1&_sid=2721e922a&_ss=r 

But I'm looking at the slightly angled stubby grips, the short broom handle style, and the angled grips like yours... fairly unsure which I'll finally prefer.  Where did you get that one from - all the angled grips I've seen are just for RIS, or are the skeleton style metal which I don't like so much

 

[Lozart]

But I'm looking at the slightly angled stubby grips, the short broom handle style, and the angled grips like yours... fairly unsure which I'll finally prefer.  Where did you get that one from - all the angled grips I've seen are just for RIS, or are the skeleton style metal which I don't like so much

Have a Google for BCM Gunfighter Mlok. The real steel one is only about £25

 

[Stevobeavo]

https://www.surplusstore.co.uk/ares-m-lok-foregrip.html

That's the grip. I really like it. Hand feels natural holding it. Need to put it on my 904H and see how it feels with the longer hand guard

 

[Nunfa1]

I do like my fore grip:

https://mpa-airsoft.com/product/magpul-style-angled-fore-grip-110mm-black/

It is very small though.

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

I really ought to wait for the one I've ordered to turn up to try it out, but I found this one....

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It's £8 and it looks just like the stubby grip on Battlefield 4, which I use on all my guns in that game.  I don't think I can resist having it ???

(I'm also really tempted to get an F2000 one day as I've racked up 45,000 in-game kills with that)

Stevobeavo,. Where did you get those Ares mags from?  I do really like the look of them, but can't find any stock in the normal retailers...

My alternative is the Lonex 200rd mids, fire support have got those in stock still.

 

[Stevobeavo]

I got them from Crawley surplus a few months ago. They weren't on their website and still aren't but maybe send a screenshot to them and see if they have any in stock. 

I was down there yesterday so I could have checked for you, always the way isn't it lol. 

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

I got them from Crawley surplus a few months ago. They weren't on their website and still aren't but maybe send a screenshot to them and see if they have any in stock. 

I was down there yesterday so I could have checked for you, always the way isn't it lol. 

Email sent!  Thanks

Next question for you lovely people with a stock DE 904/6 ... what weight BB's are you using?  I seemed to be ok with the 0.30s, I burned through a bag of Geoff's a bit too rapidly when I was on the range last weekend...  but they're a bit expensive, and I didn't get a chance to chrono to see if the hop was excessive and knocking the velocity down too much.  (It seemed ok)

So I'll probably step down to .28 or .25.  I think my TM AK is back down at 280fps now, I need to have the option of sharing the ammo.  I think .30's are too much for that.   (I didn't test it though, too busy with the DE!)
There are some bargain (bin) prices for 0.25s, like 5100 rounds of Lancer Tactical Bio's on eBay at £16 with free delivery... a quick google for reviews suggest they're fine.

What do you run with?