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My Cyma XM177

Some good news on the Taiwangun situation. I've been contacted by TG today to ask if I would take part in a pilot shipping to the UK using DHL, given I have an order that's been sat in my account for months (a couple of CYMA RIFS for Nam' themed games, plus a few other bits and bobs). No details as yet on postage costs, or whether TG are registering for VAT payment at source (which I doubt), plus they seemed very cautious in their correspondence, making the point they wanted to make sure the process is better than UPS before opening up to orders again to the UK. Given the experiences many of us have had on the forum and some of the financial losses that TG have taken, I think this is sensible and understandable. In my experience DHL have been infinitely better at parcel delivery post-Brexit, so I think this is a really positive step by TG. Hopefully I should get the order finalized this week, so I'll keep the forum posted on progress. If we are lucky they may open up orders before Christmas, which I think is probably a motivating factor for TG.

Ah, I fixed the wobble with a velcro sticky pad inside the mag well on mine, but I guess if you have a mix of mag manufacturers then each one could need a different amount of packing. I'm the sort of guy who frets about camouflage, so I won't be sticking bright colours on my mags anytime soon. But perhaps a bit of light grey electrician's tape I have will do the trick. It's a bit silly of me really, all my other kits is a real mish-mash of black / black camo / olive / S95 DPM / multi cam. Probably not very effective! And then someone sticks a big bit of yellow or blue tape on my arm as well, and I'm worrying about my mags

What a rollercoaster! Glad your stuff didn't get stolen

It's 2021, you don't have to pretend any more. Nobody will judge you for proudly declaring that you love P90s. I will judge you.

I do it for identification in case I drop one. Though some of my mags have it at the top because the mag well on my gun is a little large so it prevents wobble and misfeeding.

Got my handguard fitted now and the space for the battery created max space for a battery is about 77mm long by 40mm wide looks like PEQ style batteries might be the way to go or one of these expensive titan batteries: https://www.landwarriorairsoft.com/batteries-bbs-gas-chronographs-c5/batteries-c62/titan-power-version-7-0-7-4v-3000mah-li-ion-brick-battery-deans-connection-p10821

Well, these have arrived And they are fitted. Just waiting on new batteries to fit (hopefully) in the handguards.

My airsoft day has been shit. UPS delivered me a couple of bags of BBs, a new foregrip, and a Titan battery. But didn't bother themselves ringing our loud doorbell, just left it out front instead. So some thieving git nicked it all. Arse. Edit:. Blimey. AirsoftAnonymous sent me an email at 9pm (which I've only just read) to let me know UPS made a bollox of their status updates, so it's not actually been delivered and then nicked after all! Huzzah! So it's now a good day ?

Almost done with this build. Just waiting for an r-hop patch and a longer rail for the bottom so I can move the grip to the front(which will need to be cerakoted. ugh.) Edit: P90 style sling works a treat on the stock!

It's so dumb. I need one.

Not usually a fan of bright coloured rifs. But damn, does this look fine. Great job

Both are very good reasons. If you don't want to lose your mags its worth putting some colour and maybe a bit of sharpie on them. If you're so worried about camo then use red tape as that colour doesn't show up at distance but will help if its lying on the ground. Your initials in sharpie will help identification in case someone finds it.

Wouldn't worry about it too much, Aslong as it sounds good the lube should be doing its job. Majority of stock guns are not greatly lubed from the factory however they are usually using a thick heavy grease and lots of it with the aim of trying to make it be as "long lasting" as possible. My advice is to only relube it when you are going to have to open the gearbox at some point.

Silly question perhaps... when people are selling gear or showing off loadouts, I see a lot of magazines with tape around them in 'non-Tactical' colours... Is that just for ease of identification so you can spot yours if someone else picks one up? Or is to more easily spot them if they're on the ground? Should I be doing it too? (yub yub, fnarrr fnarrr) How often does it actually help???

GLS like Gunfire maybe?

Well after yesterday's travails, I have to give UPS (grudging) respect for delivering my parcel on time, ringing the dell bell and knocking on the door nice and loud. So although he didn't wait for me to open the door before sodding off in a cloud of dust, it arrived safe and sound One FMA Short Vertical Grip installed, after a bit of futzing... the m-lok bolt was too short so I had to countersink the hole from inside the grip to give it the necessary wriggle room. But damn, it's nice! Just what I wanted. A bargain at £8, it gives me true BF4 vibes! and my Titan 7.4V 3000mAH Li-Ion stick battery fits perfectly in the stock... No perceived difference in either trigger response or RoF from my 7.4v 1500mAH Big Foot 25c Li-Po. A couple of bags of Longbow 0.28g bio bb's complete today's haul from Airsoft Anonymous. These seem quite highly rated from a couple of reviews I've read, and reasonably priced at £12 per 3000.

Correction - Russia do a thing knowing the risk & not caring

Yep, they have this notice now: Shipping to the UK should resume within several weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please email us at shop@taiwangun.com and we will let you know once it is back ON. ? We still have to see how cost effective it is...

Hey guys. So this same gun has been rebranded as a Matrix Calico Jack. Not sure if it is exactly the same but it seems to be. Re-lubing, 6.02 barrel and a 95 spring has it shooting 349.0 to 350.8. the only annoyance is the battery compartment and the inability to switch to a buffer tube. Going to try to find someone to print one of those extensions. Thanks for all the work you put into this. I was about to abandon it and buy an arp556 to start building but I think I may stick with this guy now.

On my quest to pervert rare airsoft guns I present v1 of my JS9 build. v2 is currently printing, with a few small mods and a proper retention system. Ideally I will find a compatible SMG mag that is only as wide as a MP5 mag, but wider to do a proper QCW-05 or QCQ-05 build. If so I will redesign it to fit around said mag - the real Q-series uses a 5.8mm bullet that results in a longer mag (front to back).

I bought it from Amazon: RovyVon Aurora A1x

I was trying to buy smallest possible torch with integrated grip to use on pistols. I found one made by UTG but nowhere to buy anythere outside US. So I decided to make my own. The hardest part was to find smallest possible torch with instant on light and highest possible lumens. The one I got is a size of AA battery and has real output of 650 lumens. Not bad for such tiny EDC torch. Next step was easy with bit of help from thingiverse and my limited cad skills I manage to produce this it's tiny c.8x6cm!! tested on the game day and was better than expected perfect pistol torch with grip

still sticking with the lightweight load outs so much less hassle

Note that the idea of writing cheques is not something The Youth Of Today really understand ???

Finally got the new lower + tracer unit for my gun; Need to get some red tracer BBs now Anyone know where I could find some .30g red tracers? 25/28 is the heaviest (in red) I can find anywhere.

A few little bits and pieces have turned up in the last couple of days... The sling was from Action Hobbies' bargain bin. Bought on a whim, it's pretty good. It'll get replaced by a QD 2-point sling eventually. The scope mounts are a bargain from Ant Supplies. Delivered very quickly, free p&p. I decided these mounts are too low, so I straight away ordered some extra tall ones, £6.50 (I've got a decent red-dot, but fancied using that old 4x32 scope I've had since I was a kid, to see how it plays) The M4 tool came from Ant Supplies too. Thought it'd be useful to have when I'm futzing around with my old CA M15. The Kombat UK holster is pretty decent for a cheapo. At least if fits on my Molle properly, unlike the belt loop one I had before that I had to lash in place with paracord. The BB Pouch was also bought on a whim... it'll be useful if I keep running hi-caps, perhaps even more so if I go ahead with buying mid-caps. And last, and perhaps least, the Project Airsoft stubby grip. Hmmm... 3D-printed rather than moulded, not what I really expected. It fits fine, but just looks cheap close-up. The grey grip tape is so fierce it can do double duty as a sanding block, but I guess it'll grip into my gloves (and perhaps shred them). The best thing about is - I'm now sure I want a vertical grip on my gun - so I'll go and buy this one from Airsoft Anonymous I got a couple more bits from Project Airsoft that aren't in the pic (as they're small and wouldn't show) - a high-cap mini funnel device, and a M92 gas mag 'thumb saver'. The funnel will work, but I'll probably lose it. The M92 doesn't fit my M9 mag (but probably will with some filing)... and I'll probably lose that too!

My lovely airsoft relic is now mostly done. I'll do some fine tuning when I've got access to the range at my local site, but I'm really happy with this. Don't see many of these around these days, much less with a real-steel Remington m700 wooden stock. Now I have the perfect bad-guy sniper rifle for filmsim events as I can dress up as a civilian dissident with a sporting rifle now. Only thing I need to get now is a leather rifle sling to finish that sporting rifle vibe.

Need to get better pictures, but got the British trades done on my Hi Power

LCT m70ab2 modular

Did this to my AKM

Though at the price Dave Custom Airsoft is asking he can f*ck off. £340 for a budget E&L that retails for £190 elsewhere (WGC Shop)...There is only so far you can take the piss even if you are UK based. I would rather order from WGC and chance Border Control and added fees than pay £340.

DHL though, that's gonna sting for sure. I asked one broker last week to quote me 60kg (non rifs) from HK and got back £1350.000 lol...Hopefully they have negotiated a decent rate, however DHL are firmly in the won't ship replica camp so not sure what they can do about that.