New Player, What Guns to Get

Rogerborg said:
Workmate Alex did manage to lock my JG G36C up multiple times by semi-auto spamming it.

You know what you should never do to quickly clear a lock?  Shove a long Allan key up the nozzle and push hard on the piston to allow the motor to pull it the rest of the way.  Even though it works, and you might not strip your piston rack, definitely don't do it. ;)
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A v3 lockup you just give it a blast in auto and that solves it.

 
Adolf Hamster said:
A v3 lockup you just give it a blast in auto and that solves it.
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Narp, this is locked up with the piston almost fully back.  The motor doesn't have enough starting torque to pull it that last little bit, and will happily pop the fuse if you try. It might be a peculiarity of this specific example (airsoft, eh?) but it's happened a couple of times. I can see why: DC motors have an issue with starting under load when the rotor and magnets are lined up.  It's not specific to V3 triggers, but it feels like it's a contributing issue given the sloppiness of the contact point, and the observation of Workmate Alex trying to trigger spam and audibly stopping half way through cycles.

It's not over-shimmed. I've just rewired it to 16 awg to give it more of a chance.

 
At this price point I would say only second hand if you want both and still have an option of selling them once kid gets bored. That being said you can snatch second hand ARP9 and a drum mag for 200 - eliminates need for any other equipment (sidearms are cool but it’s flavour rather than useful accessory) like battle belt and mag pouches. You could easily leave £200 in necessary clothing alone before you spend a dime on guns. 
 

ARP9 is great, super light (the lightest RiF money can buy and is all the rage these days - these are great out of the box and will run for a while before needing maintenance (electronics is prone to fail but it won’t happen immediately and fix is not expensive). Also ARP9 has one of the best if not the best drum mags out there. Compact, easy to wind, last absolute eternity on single wind.

Otherwise I would recommend CYMA AKs - these are great bang for your buck. Avoid CM.028 series and go for CM.040 (AKS-74 full size AK with folding triangle stock) or CM.045A (short AKS-74U with wooden handguard) - avoid CM.045C though, it has completely dogshit handguard that makes replica insanely front heavy, a few questionable length RIS mounts aren’t worth the hassle and there are better handguard stocks be had on AliExpress for couple packs of cigarettes. CM.048 with wood furniture might be tempting but while it is full sized AK I recommend checking out in person how long and unwieldy these things are. Any of these will probably outlive your son’s interest in Airsoft to begin with. 

CYMA has great AKs but I would recommend avoid their M4s.

For pistol every now and then a second hand ASG CZ P-09 with a bunch of mags shows up for 60-70 pounds. It’s a very good sidearm but as with all gas guns, magazines are on the expensive side (20-30quid for a new mag depending on a gun).

keep in mind you will still spend additional money on necessities like couple of batteries, charger, spare magazines (hence why I love ARP9’s drum so much - 50 quid and done), BBS, gas, eye and face protection. Airsoft is not a cheap hobby to get into but you can cash out at any point. Two-tone don’t have nearly the resale value though (but second hand wise makes it cheap to get into).

 
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