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Being a sci fi buff I've always wanted to unleash my inner John 117 or Doomguy on the airsoft field. None of this MTP stuff or fancy plate carriers for me. Anyway, having been inspired by @Rogerborg's rather fantastic Warhammer 40k armour and having my eyes popped at rather mental cosplay piece prices on Etsy and the like, with the winter nights ahead I decided to build my own unique armour set from EVA foam. So, here goes. 20 quid worth of a camping/yoga/whatever mat fresh off Amazon. But none of that boring smeg for Eezer G. We're doing summat much more exciting... and it's going to get shot to shit too, authentic battle damage ? Did some measurements of my torso using a vest and started hacking at the mat with a nice sharp craft knife. Keeping the shape basic for now, with additions to come later. Measured my noggin and cut out a space for it, and here's what we end up with. As luck would have it, the shape I cut out for my bonce ideally suited shoulder armour bits, so I traced another one out and chopped away again. Next up, forearm and shin bits. More measuring and cutting, heres what we have. That's enough for tonight, happy with the start so far. Will dremel away the rough edges, sort out attachments and cut away some of the abdomen for ease of movement next I think. Loving the pattern, which I deliberately used for effect. Its worth noting I've never done anything like this before, so it could all still go tits up, however all a learning experience. Ebeneezer G

Really great day out, even when losing most games. Ghillie cape/cobra hood is working wonderfully, had someone within two feet of me while lying down, and it enabled me to shoot many, many children ? I think some of the rentals got a bit confused with taking hits, buuuut they couldn't see me so I just shot them again if they acted alive. They seemed to get better through the day though, so they do learn!

Some AR builds I've finished in the last year or so. If I went by my usual social media schedule I'd end up not posting them for a couple of years which feels a waste so just overviews for now and I'll post more later. Krytac LVOA-S KWA LM4c TM SOCOM

Mmm, there's a strong scent of flipper there. I mean, it's all the same overpriced junk at the end of the day, I just like a bit of honesty when I'm being dry-humped.

Says to self...Today I must not go charging through the stream..it's cold and it's probably not a good idea. Comes back to safe zone at end of the day, soaking wet. Bollocks! (I'll do anything to try & win)

Good day at Special Ops at Emberton (nr Olney nr Milton Keynes) Everyone as friendly as always, people took their hits. Perhaps because they saw me setting a good example so many times ? After yesterday's problems with my batteries it was pleasing to get through a day trouble free. Almost took the old AK out for a walk but ended up sticking with the M4 just because 4 hi cap mags on the belt is very reassuring. Made one 'hero moment' taking out the bomb carrier and his escort before returning the bomb to my team. Not bad for a fat old bloke with dodgy ankles knackered but happy... soaking in the bath ?

I have fitted one. Although I have not fitted the Marui red dot personally, the area does look the same once the slide is fitted. I did also get this from Kim at Volante during my purchase. "I recommend to use it with RMR mountable aluminium housing as original FNX can't mount RMR size sights." I would email Kim at Volante if you have any questions as he is absolutely brilliant to deal with and I always find him helpful. The slide itself went on with minimal fitting. Certainly well made with good tolerances. There is a lack of full markings on the right of the slide. Better that than the wrong markings I guess. Metal RMR cover and sights would have been a nice extra. Recoil impulse has improved. I can still empty a full mag, rapid firing with no adverse cool down effect which is good enough for me. The obvious comparison has to be made with the Cybergun/VFC version of course. I made some mods to mine which need to be taken in to account. My VFC versions have the same internal upgrades: Azimuth lightweight blowback housing and nozzle. (This improves gas efficiency at the expense of a small amount of recoil impulse as I found the standard set up started to suffer cool down effects by the end of the mag if the gun was rapid fired). Marui HOP rubber, I key and inner barrel. (Standard set up was terrible). Guns Modify 125% recoil spring (for Glock 17) which is just a bit weaker than standard but fitted in conjunction with the lighter blowback housing to help fight cooldown. Handling both brands shows a similar weight and feel. No extreme size differences to note. Firing them both side by side shows similar FPS with green gas. VFC has the edge on recoil. VFC has better trademarks. Marui HOP beats VFC hands down. Fantastic stock unit, not even on halfway and lifts .30s with ease. VFC has a few minor QC 'foibles', most of which can be dealt with. There are many other details but the bottom line is the Marui version is a better skirmish gun out of the box (or with the metal slide) but the VFC has the edge on details. Once modified it does bring them closer. Different people want different things out of a gun but I feel the perfect FNX would be a hybrid of both. I hope this helps ?

Come on,thats not why you really clicked on it

Had a great airsoft day today. Low numbers but I like those days, so much more tactical. All the players were in good mood , no issues with hit taking , hard faught games and blowing pumpkins up with pyro, what's not to love ? And the GBBR went well all day, infact the cold got to me before it did the to the rifle ?

The latter, & on here they usually get called out on it, the exceptional ones get "honoured" with a mention on "Macks" ?

Forged 6061-T6 upper/lower receiver Viper Tech BCM MCMR GBBR. M-LOK handguards, receiver pins, buffer tubes and buffers, buffer springs, gas blocks, and pistol grips are original parts from Bravo Company and V Seven. I installed Aimpoint AB's T2 Red Dot Sight(with Scalarworks LEAP) and Vortex's Micro 3X Magnifier on the upper receiver rail.

My Cyma XM177

You build such nice guns Matt.

An example stock used JG bar £130 plus postage doesn't include the case. New in the UK can be had for £130 or approx £70 from Taiwangun once they start selling to UK agai.

Yeah, I heard about that too. The guy I get a lift with is one of the staff and he pulled over on his way back from the lockup to give them a stern talking to. With what happened recently in Liverpool, that could've been baaaaaaaaad. Was a bunch of kiddies waltzing down the A27 with guns out. I'll still sneak. I did last year in a tinsel ghillie and got away with a lot more than I expected, so I'll try it again.

Damn. Maybe I'm too forgiving. It was just very confusing in the morning, I'd shoot the rental kids, and they'd sort of run off behind some bushes and come back, one even dry fired at me when dead, so I pointed my gun and him and he puts his hand up and says "no I'm dead". Just a strange situation tbh. I held a lot of them off in that water tube game later on though, and they seemed to be taking their hits pretty well during that game. I didn't notice anyone else, personally. The wind didn't help at all though. ? I heard about this at the end, sounded like someone was walking along with a bare gun out, but if it was you with gun bags that's a serious overreaction. Christmas game should be good though. No sneaking for me at that one

Trip to specsavers due soon?

Nice idea , until you remember you can only play once a mth AND most of your Airsoft guns will go totally tits up if you don’t wrap them in 18ft of bubble wrap to play ! ?‍♂️ Doh ! say’la’vie ??

Hi, ALL! ? A new project, with my rig, a bit of fun! ?? Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is! ??? ?GAMBLE?

Exactly the same as @MagpieTactical wrote. I used the same battery and winced every time I tried to get the battery and MOSFET in. The battery extension unit takes all the hassle and worry away. It also has some slots on the side to get some airflow in there as it's enclosed with the normal end cap. I sold my ARP9 to fund my MTW but recently won another from an Instagram competition! It's yet to turn up but fingers crossed!!

I use that exact battery in my ARP556. I do have the battery extension unit as well though. I tried without the extension unit, but it would take a lot of bundling of the wires mosfet etc. I got the Extension unit at the same time I got the Arp, so never worried about buying batteries that would only fit in the standard stock length

I don't even have an mws, but scrolling through the forum on my phone it previews part of the last reply, the text above was what I saw?, needless to say I had to click on it to get some context, otherwise I'd have probably had bad dreams tonight lol

I have often wondered, like you say; avid collector or selling off boneyard kit? I guess if it’s declared as boneyard then I wouldn’t see an issue, but I’ll admit I’ve not looked into his sales posts.

Austrian Box ready for tomorrow. (Sunday 21st)

Feeling arty again, some shots of the tools. Tactical cat likes the UAR...

Easy. Take your gnu, skirm loads and do t treat it lightly... chuck it about, clatter it off stuff, chuck it in the mud... hey presto, one genuinely weathered gnu...

Painted my Scout with NFM OD paint and added an aimpoint, also in NFM OD.

Yep

Haha. Well I guess that if airsoft don't work out for you then at least you are half way towards scuba diving. ? Regards

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It's OK @EDcase, Wes is the only one in our group without an air tank strapped to his back! I'm working on him though!!

Hello Wes! I think you should HPA it!! You know it makes sense!!! Do it, do it, do it!!

if anyone was wondering the VFC GBB MP5 Solid stock fits straight on.

I bought a pistol from him. Think he's a trader of some kind. Selling at Red Alert site in Newbury. Not 100% happy with it because price was a bit high and it turned out to have a missing rear sight and right safety. (He knocked off £5 but its going to cost me £15 for the sight) I'm not going to bother trying to get money back though as it shoots OK (to the left). I'm hoping it'll be OK once I have a tinker and clean-up

I had a rather bad day. Decided to take the t11 out for a spin, numbers were low so I thought it would be a fun easy day. Couldn't be more wrong. Wind kicked up instantly so I basically had to shoot ghetto style the whole morning, plus I kept making bad positioning decisions so I ended up with a whopping 0 kills day. Well, one, but still disappointing. I suck at sniping and my field doesn't help.

Good and bad day.... went to use my AA T10 for the first time and the cylinder head blow out of the cyclinder. Now I need a new cylinder and head

I can't say I had the same, unfortunately. Rampant non-hit taking I can usually deal with (they didn't learn with me. Was dinking them with the 1.1J VSR and they were just ignoring it wholesale), but then both of my gas pistols also said "nah, too cold" today and then to top it all off with a guy charging at me to do a knife kill and I had to actively stop myself from putting him in an arm lock since it's a reflex at this point since I started martial arts. Muscle memory and reflexive reactions are interesting (at Worthing, knife kills are stealth kills to avoid the situation that almost happened with me today) Roll on next game day. These things happen and my last few game days have been cracking. I was due a bit of a crappy one, so now that universal balance is restored I can look forward to the Christmas game next month safe in the knowledge I've done my crappy one already EDIT: And either there was an error in dispatch, or a Karen just called the police on me as I headed back into my house. All the gats were fully covered and in bags (I've been in this hobby for 16 years, I know how it works), nothing was showing, but just had two coppers turn up saying they were called to this address, though they didn't say what for. No trouble and they went on their way, but quite coincidental that I just got home like 20 mins ago and had them turn up. Probably just an error, but rather coincidental.