Old School Airsofters.

[mirinjawbro]

i miss buying guns back then; i got excited. i have lots now but never get excited when a new one turns up.           age? had too many? i miss that feeling waiting for the delivery man.

 

being a counter strike nerd i always promised myself id get the full set.

 

not far of 20 years later i have

 

ak47 4,5

m4a1 gbb

kwc desert eagle

glock 18c

mk23 nbb

ASG .l96

 

 

hours of browsing wgcshop, uncompany.       seems so long ago now

 

 

[Archer]

Someone say Western Arms ?

 

My small collection ( another 2, just not pictured)

 

 

[mirinjawbro]

what made them so expensive (i mean 2000-2008 or so) 

 

Marui was expensive for me back then but WA were over £200 per per pistol (from memory)

 

do they still exist?

 

 

 

 

[rj1986]

Big in Japan still, but dont really bother with international markets nowadays

[THE CHIEF]

Western arms para ordinance and infinity's used to rule the roost. Guided V12's, gigant if you was a looney. Maruzen MP5K's that would blow apart any time. Always wanted a maruzen tech9. Missed out. I used to spend ages flipping through the smk catalogue

 

I remember a guy called Simon at tech brigade buying a western arms U. N. C. L. E p38

[JimFromHorsham]

5 minutes ago, THE CHIEF said:

Western arms para ordinance and infinity's used to rule the roost. Guided V12's, gigant if you was a looney. Maruzen MP5K's that would blow apart any time. Always wanted a maruzen tech9. Missed out. I used to spend ages flipping through the smk catalogue

 

I remember a guy called Simon at tech brigade buying a western arms U. N. C. L. E p38

the gigant ! Lol !! 
 

 

 

 

this was peak performance ! 

 

 

[heroshark]

8 hours ago, THE CHIEF said:

Maruzen MP5K's that would blow apart any time. 

Still have the early version M11 cqb2. Backend is taped up but it still goes.

[Druid799]

On 29/06/2022 at 08:39, Cannonfodder said:

I'm feeling like I'm the only one who didn't get into airsoft because of a film.

Don’t worry mate I got in to it because I thought I was going paintballing ! ?

[ChoffNose]

I got into it because I'm a gun nut ?

[Dan Robinson]

I got into it because I was watching the lad have a wail of a time when I took him for a day, that I did a half day rental for the rest of the day, now its become a father/son thing.....    Problem is I have adult money to buy my toys and he has to rely on windfalls of cash here and there for relatives. ?

[Lozart]

54 minutes ago, Dan Robinson said:

I got into it because I was watching the lad have a wail of a time when I took him for a day, that I did a half day rental for the rest of the day, now its become a father/son thing.....    Problem is I have adult money to buy my toys and he has to rely on windfalls of cash here and there for relatives. ?

 

I think the only "problem" here is having a kid be jealous of his dad's toys! I call it a life lesson but there you go.

[Dan Robinson]

Will find out in half an hour when he gets back from school - unless of course he's reading this - because I know his user name on this forum LOL.    

 

 

Boy - you're not that clever!!!!

 

?

To be fair to him he has been spending a lot of time lately planning ways to make himself money.  The current, genuinely good idea, is upcycling.

[Druid799]

4 hours ago, Dan Robinson said:

Problem is I have adult money to buy my toys and he has to rely on windfalls of cash here and there for relatives. ?

Take him to the nearest shop you can find and tell him he can have whatever he wants , once’s he’s finished taking everything to the counter asking him how he’s going to pay for it ? When he looks at you all confused tell him “that’s the reality of life son , sometimes you can’t have what you want unless you can pay for it yourself !” Then elbow him out of the way and buy yourself something REALLY EXPENSIVE ! Be a valuable life lesson for him ? ????

[Lozart]

5 minutes ago, Druid799 said:

Take him to the nearest shop you can find and tell him he can have whatever he wants , once’s he’s finished taking everything to the counter asking him how he’s going to pay for it ? When he looks at you all confused tell him “that’s the reality of life son , sometimes you can’t have what you want unless you can pay for it yourself !” Then elbow him out of the way and buy yourself something REALLY EXPENSIVE ! Be a valuable life lesson for him ? ????

Harsh.

 

 

 

But fair!

[Druid799]

5 minutes ago, Lozart said:

Harsh.

 

 

 

But fair!

 I know this every time I look at my self in the mirror I want to see Chris Hemsworth looking back at me , but all I ever see is a short fat bald grumpy Welshman , Life isn’t fair ! 

[Dan Robinson]

1 hour ago, Druid799 said:

Take him to the nearest shop you can find and tell him he can have whatever he wants , once’s he’s finished taking everything to the counter asking him how he’s going to pay for it ? When he looks at you all confused tell him “that’s the reality of life son , sometimes you can’t have what you want unless you can pay for it yourself !” Then elbow him out of the way and buy yourself something REALLY EXPENSIVE ! Be a valuable life lesson for him ? ????

 

His words were "its not fair you have a job that pays money.  Why can't I get a job?" 

 

LOL.  Poor fella. 

 

He didn't know I was in my office from 8:30 Monday morning to 3am Tuesday morning getting the end of year accounts ready for the accountant. Hence I treated myself this week. 

[Shamal]

7 hours ago, Druid799 said:

Don’t worry mate I got in to it because I thought I was going paintballing ! ?

Phew. That was a close shave then. ?

7 minutes ago, Dan Robinson said:

 

His words were "its not fair you have a job that pays money.  Why can't I get a job?" 

 

LOL.  Poor fella. 

 

He didn't know I was in my office from 8:30 Monday morning to 3am Tuesday morning getting the end of year accounts ready for the accountant. Hence I treated myself this week. 

Yeah likely story. That ones been done to death.

You gotta come up with something more believable ??

 

Regards 

[Dan Robinson]

It's true.... Slept through all my alarms and was anhour late for work the next morning. ?

 

Thankfully it was me that had to administer the bollocking so it could have been worse.  ?