Rogerborg

Now your channel is just like everyone else's.

That he has one and it seems to be out of stock at most UK retailers. But you'd have to really want one to pay £20 more than new retail for a pre-licked one.

You'll want to keep in in a perspex case to stop it being licked by other players.

They now appear to be sending out limited-distribution Facebook messages, because nothing says success like keeping your venue a closely guarded secret.

Neat, thanks. If I get the magwell LEDs in, it'd be great if I can pew a few reds through it to see if they light up OK before I buy my own. Hah, I've just bought 5,000 greens as well. Don't suppose you know the colour temperature of the LEDs in your tracer unit? The Emperor protects. I mean, apart from the billions who die in His name.

Because Guard don't live long enough to get corrupted. Nah, next up is to sort out the soft kit, and glam up the lasgun up a bit. I might throw some LEDs into the M4 magwell converter and switch to red tracers - the little Lighter-S can only really handle greens. Then I might laspistol my AEP, I rather missed having a side arm in (very) CQB. This was only intended to be a one-off, but it's all worked out so well that I might make it a regular bit of dress up.

Who's the bigger nerd: the nerd, or the nerd who's on the internets reading a nerd thread about how to turn a toy gun into a toy space gun? Mostly dying for the Emperor. As above, I was super paranoid about being accused of hit dodging due to the armour, so I was calling myself out to hits from ricochets, gun hits (to be fair, it's a big target), and even just when people were pointing in my general direction. Great fun was had though, and it was interesting how many folk sidled up in ones and twos during the day to quotebomb, mention their chum who makes 40K cosplay gear, their own plans for producing bolter conversion kits, or one chap offering to just gift a spare purity seal for the toy space gun.

Here we go. Both the toy space gnu and outfit are still works in progress, I had to rush everything a bit for this weekend. The gnu needs the M4 magwell adapter and VN straight shortie mag, more twiddly bits and a red torch shoved up the fake barrel, but if you want to make a chunky lasgun (and everything's chunky in the grimdark) then you really can just wrap a G36 in EVA foam (which is also what I've used for the armour). The basic construction is 8 pieces: #1: long contiguous side piece #2: stock top (about 5cm wide, IIRC) #3: vertical piece between stock and top #4: top piece (about 6m wide, IIRC) #5: front piece (shield shaped) #6: magwell front #7: magwell rear (a small piece just below the mag release) #8 = #1 other side piece Curve in both sides in front of the magwell to make a handguard, use some bits of PVC waste pipe as a fake barrel, whatever you've got to hand for the top tube and sights, bit of grip tape, twiddlies, and you're done. Impact adhesive or hot glue to hold it all together. The foam over the stock is heated and pressed in so that it's contoured around the hinge, which helps to keep everything nice and snug. There's no wobble in use and with some basic sights cut and dremmelled into the top posts it's accurate enough for CQB. I've left it open up the back (the rear of the real stock is just visible) and all along underneath the stock and trigger up to the magwell (there's a small #7 cross piece at the back of the magwell at the bottom, underneath the release button). This means the G36 can just slide straight and out from the back. Cut some holes for the rear sling mount and the bumpy bit on the right hand side (still visible through a hole that I haven't yet covered) and they'll key into the foam and hold it nice and securely. The G36 is intact and unmodified apart from the rear sight being removed to help it fit, and the front rails just for lightness. I can get a small carabiner in to the sling mount through the hole in the left hand side. The fire selectors are exposed on both sides, but you could probably cover one or both of them over as well. The actual foam cutting and gluing only took an hour or so, the rest of the time is sanding, filler, sealer and paint.

Feeling cute, might die for the Emperor later.

Bigger isn't necessarily better for airsoft: I'm there to sling balls, not yomp. Well, I guess we'll see. Fingers crossed for them, they've had a dreadful run of luck from losing two sites plus having poor weather more often than not. Surely they deserve to catch a break.

Bear in mind that the definition was only nailed down in 2017. Retailers should know this by now though. If they're selling Section 5 firearms, I want them out of business.

It might be, but Golden Eagle clones cost less and (notionally) come with a warranty. But, but, TMs are more reliable. But, but, that's a broken one.

That had occurred, and I've got a M4 magwell converter, but it doesn't feed particularly well. Mind you, neither do G36 mid-caps.

I'll try and take some pictures as I go, but I'll be flakking off first.

"G36 lasgun conversion" turned it up. I've been minded to do some 40K Imperial Guard toy gnu dress up for a while, and have just started on the body armour[*]. The gnu itself is trickier, but I reckon swaddling a G36 in EVA foam should do it. It'll come out chunky and oversized, but that's apropos for the grimdark. I reckon it should be possible to make a complete sleeve that slides over the gnu, from the front backwards, and another piece for the stock that slides on from the top downwards. Good enough for space army work. If it doesn't work out, I've got an shortie M4 with a bit of a hooky air seal that might do instead. Or in extremis, I might just laspistol my AEP. [*] Caveat: I'll have to be super aware of hits, but then again I often call "hits" where someone has just pointed their gnu in my direction and pulled the trigger, regardless of whether I felt anything or not.

Hallowe'en challenge accepted.

Oops, missed this. You can replace the grips on any 1911, they're screwed on. However, I would not recommend getting one. Raven is a sub-brand of Nuprol, who just take the cheapest stuff that they can get their hands on and punt it out with a big markup on it. You're therefore two brands removed from the company that actually made it - that's not a recipe for improving quality control.

Oh hai, just bumping this thread since I appear to have wrecked the air seal on my Galaxy hop unit doing a tracer mod to it. Since this is one of the top hits for "Galaxy MP5K hop", I thought I'd mention that the closest looking unit that I can find is listed as being for a Jing Gong MP5K, e.g.: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/163763040376 I'll confirm or correct that information when it arrives. [UPDATE] Yarp, the Galaxy hop unit is a clone of the Jing Gong. However, I appear to have bought the last one on the planet, so this information might not be that useful.

And they'd only been there a year. Sounds like shenanigans occurred: Hammer II Operation: let's just say it was all a bit underhand. It is an amazing site and a great landlord. We were just put in an impossible situation I'm guessing some sort of council / planning / complaints stramash. Looking to stay in Ayrshire, I see. Eh, Kilmarnock is already far enough that I have to factor in not just the unlucky weather they've had (rain thread!), but also the time and fuel costs in. And the answer has always been "nope". Let's hope they can move closer to Glasgow rather than further out into the boonies.

Were you on his lawn, playing your darn gangster-hop music too loud again?

I love you for your personality.

Why would I want to end a pointless online spat? Sad but not surprised to see that the £600 uber-LMG hasn't shifted, and neither have Krytac LMGs at £300. They move at £200.