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Finally a decent picture of my Authentic Battle Damaged 40K Imperial Guard costume. So many deaths for the Emperor yesterday.

Pretty good Hallowe'en event at Biohazard, equipping a friend-of-a-friend with loaner gear. He wasn't expecting to be loaded with with M4 and pistol (both with spitfire tracers), and grenades. He had a blast, got right into it and was pushing like a proper speedy boi - sometimes even still with BBs in the mag. Biohazard have the top floor open now, which really increased the length of a whole-site fallback game, and it's got a fair bit of potential for further development, kudos to them for that. We had the usual barely audible briefs in the echoing safe zone (bad), mostly very fair and good natured play (good), and laissez-faire marshalling (good or bad, depending on what you were there to do). Some rental blind firing and trigger spamming was in evidence, and I Had Words with a Sergeant McShouty after an earful too much following a zinger in the face. All hugs and back slaps before the safe zone though. Much amusement from a wee lad who was about 4 foot high and ran around the whole day with a pistol and backhand knife, coming around corners fast, low and stabbing. The costume competition was obviously a fix, being won by shop bought efforts rather than my hand crafted pretend space soldier rig. Granted it was hilarious being shot by knights, bananas, and a squad of Telly-Tubbies, and I don't grudge the winner in his inflatable T-Rex costume, firstly for even getting into the play area, but then for actually playing pretty well - you wouldn't think an 8 foot dinosaur could be sneaky, but he actually managed some great ambushes. Clearly a natural predator.

First visit to adrenalin in North Yorkshire. The site is very well run and despite the monsoon all were up for what lay ahead. This particular event was a Halloween special battlesim which all proceedings were donated to charity. At chrono they had multiple weight bb's and use whatever they had closest to the weight I used. Then we had a brief under shelter and off to the first game. Quick games, fast changeovers, not a single person being a dick. Lots made a great effort to get dressed up as nuns with chainsaws, fluffy bunny's, zombies and a very mixed array of costumes to have a chuckle at. Later on the zombies had god mode (cannot die) so after almost being stood on by one after clever concealment I had to run. By this point I was on my 3rd 150 rnd mag so the bb's weren't flying down range as normal but the game style was to not be seen and shoot to survive. Now somewhere between my hiding spot and 150m worth of zig-zagging through dense bracken /woodland the rear part of the butt stock fell off, thankfully the battery fell out as I sprinted across the trail as a Marshall found it. So for around and hour I looked but nothing was found. Since I only took the kac sr15 and the mk23 I didn't fancy the rest of the day as the afternoon consists of a huge firefight between both teams. I called it a day after another long search as as it was raining, didn't want to f my sr15 up by being silly in the rain. Thankfully I have these exact spares at home so I don't have to buy the pts eps stock that I really, really want. I only got 3 hrs gameplay but it was more than enough to establish what a great site this is. Thoroughly enjoyed the event.

And a rape dungeon is pretty damn good for struggle cuddles, but it's not anything to be proud of.

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Woooo west midlands airsoft high command is re opening ?

I am reading ?

Cheers mate. Im definitely up for it. And yes, a large part of airsoft is cosplay... Think I'll rope in the Mrs to help, she's very arty crafty and good at this sort of thing.

Do eeeet. We're all LARPing to some extent, we might as well do it with gusto. EVA foam really is super easy to work with, and cheap too. You can find patterns online: pepakura templates, Facebook groups, or buy them on Etsy if you can't find anything free. I just did my own templates for that using parcel paper and sticky tape, the only shaped joins there are on the shoulder pieces, and that just takes a bit of trial and error to figure out the curved cuts required. The whole thing is painted using about £2 worth of acrylic, you can do it on the super cheap.

That's great. I've been tempted to make some sci fi armour myself in the vein of Halo/40k/Starship Troopers/Aliens. Nothing OTT just a chest/shoulder piece of some sort. Just not sure how to go about it... as for "weathering"... nothing like genuine damage for authenticity! Have seen your lasgun previously on the guns thread and long admired the job you've done on that ?

You've clearly never seen my cellar.

Loving the loadout @Rogerborg. Where did you get the armour or was it home made?

i'm not saying i disagree with such a subjective assessment.......

Happy Halloween everyone.

Pffft.. Stop being such a normie.. Eye pro is for squares!

Yes, I own a modded MK18 and they are the same internally as far as I can see. It doesn’t look much like a MK18 now though

Last weekend at Gunman Alpha. It was my first time using the leaf suit and was a blast. I had someone about 3m away staring right at me.

Just got home from another cracking day at Worthing. Took the VSR with its MED to make sure I gave my new sidearms a good pacing and ended up using the MP7 all day, so the HK45 is still untested. The TM MP7 on a lipo is a total beast. Set the hop for .25s on the 45m target and it was hitting it every time, with a great rate of fire and snappy trigger response. Couldn't ask for more from what is essentially a large AEP. Had it in a thigh holster that didn't get in the way, didn't wiggle about and held it nice and secure. Massively happy with that purchase! Had a game where I took a position on a flank. Every time the other team pushed I took them out if there were only 1 or 2 of them, which happened a few times, and when the guy I was with got hit and the enemy team moved past us (after one said "you are dead, right?"), I crawled up to him, dragged him down and mediced him back in, which amused me since he then started shooting them in the back to their surprise. However sometimes they sent large waves of 10 players through and I just held position and stayed still. Wasn't in my full ghillie, just my leafy hood and US woodland camo, and a wave of them moved about 2m in front of me without spotting me. One took cover about a metre to my right, but didn't see me tucked in and then didn't look back. Trigger discipline allowed me to stay alive and then radio in to my friend who was on base defense so he would get some others and just take out the attacking wave. My heart was beating so fast as I watched them all move past my position against the tree in the ditch with my MP7 in hand. This is why I play the sniper role. Not for the long range shots. It's moments like this that make it special. Rest of the day was a lot of concealed overwatch picking people off at long ranges. Leaves are starting to fall from the trees, so sight lines are starting to open up at Worthing.

Rocking the combat Jellybeans this past Sunday..

Probably going to sweat to death during my next game but eh, it's a bit of fun right?

Firstly, forgive my wife's squint photography and the assortment of kids toys etc lying about!!! Here's my first loadout cobbled together on a budget purely out of practicality. The clothing I already had, the gloves and balaclava are what I use riding my motorbike. As a sci-fi fan I'd love a sci-fi loadout inspired by the Colonial Marines from Aliens, Halo, Doomguy etc, this one has sort of ended up a weird mashup of USCM meets 80s British Army... At least it offers protection and camouflage plus it's unique to me. Might get a more futuristic piece like an XR5 or an FN2000 in time. Currently looking for an AEP as a backup (prob 1911 or DE).

There's no right or wrong way, just what suits you & sometimes the situation/scenario will dictate what works best. as a young squaddie we were instructed to have our mag pouches (58 pattern) on our sides/hips, mainly because the "reaction to fire" taught was to drop to the prone position, obviously mag pouches on our front would have been inaccessible & also increased our target profile, not good. but as an old knackered airsofter, if I drop to the prone position, I ain't getting up, so I don't do it & therefore can justify having mags on my chest. end of the day we're just playing at it, whatever works, same goes for the rigs, for some players this is a glorified fashion show, much of what's worn & carried is unnecessary, but it looks the dogs bollocks lol ?

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Waiting for PRE + elimination panels + qd sling mounts, and will be ordering a real EXPS2 next month.

Most of my kit in one photo, still some not included lying around. Guns - Asahi MG34 Shoei MP44 Custom Real Steel build K98K w/ Rudiger Hildesheim ZF39 Custom real steel build MG42 Tanaka Luger A fair chunk of the uniform is now real or very very good repros (SMWholesale etc). Taken years to get to this point.

Just a few images of my WW2 load out and East German circa 2020 fantasy load out.

Been working on my feldwebel 2/Pz.Gren.Rgt.125 for the winter of 44-45 mainly operation wacht em Rhine and Nordwind. Decided to give my a-frame another go set up with zeltbahn and blanket instead of my pack. Hope you guys like it and I've got my winter 44 wacht em Rhine windhund impression to photograph next.

I used to play alot about 5 years ago. Sold all my gear to fund travelling/wedding. Decided 3 weeks ago to get back into it. Here's what I've got since, but unfortunately unable to play due to tier 4 ? -ASG YHM M4 with lonex A1 motor - Was recon plate carrier - OD gloves - OD dump pouch - 2x3 m4 mag pouch - 10x valken mid caps Still waiting on these to arrive - pressure switch and mounts for Olight M2r - warq full face mask -Source kangaroo 1L hydration system

Picked up a 2nd WAS 901 so have set it up for my AUG. Warrior 901 modified by the person I bought it from. Bib section removed making it lighter and more flexible. British Tactical double mag pouches x3, British tactical OMG open mag pouches x2. FMC Airframe with Urtactical cover and battery pouch in ranger green. PIG FDT gloves.

here are a few from the last time i played with my new set up for the xm177

Getting there with my WW2 British kit, webbing all Blanco'd green. Just gotta get myself a lid, and decide what patches I'm going to have...

Couple of pics from the gangster city event at sparta.

I had to throw on my non airsoft North face jacket as the rain was really dropping. Ended up tearing a sleeve somehow so it's now joined my airsoft kit box.

so £145 with a leaf sight oooooorrrrr brand new £115 (3 in stock) with change to find a sight if you need (purely cosmetic), doubt postage is over £30 either https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/gp-military-type-m203-grenade-launcher-short