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  1. Eh. Anything that's wrong with a pistol is likely to cost you less to replace the part than to post it back to Poland and wait 3 or 4 weeks in the hope that they might sort it.
  2. This is why I always keep a PornHub tab open so that I don't get caught reading about airsoft.
  3. Batteries, mags, foregrip, optic (not listed as included). None of which explains why it's £160 more than a brand new one. William, please understand that the retail price isn't what you paid for it, or the highest price that you can find. It's the lowest current price, which is indeed ~£210. And that's new. Used, you can knock a third off of that. That's if you actually want to sell it. If you don't, that's good too. Lots of folk list stuff that they don't really want to part with.
  4. The guy selling them out of a suitcase on the beach assured me...
  5. ^^^ BLOCKED AND REPORTED.
  6. I'll round your 2p up to a whole 5p. Very well noted.
  7. Mrs B forgot to buy D cells for Miss Borg's robot arm kit, so I spent a happy hour diking[1] and soldering[2] a 7 cell nimh crane stock battery down to 5 cells /~6V, then crocodile-clipped it in to power it up.

     

    Needless to say: BEST CHRISTMAS EVER.

     

    [1] http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/dike.html

     

    [2] 59.5 minutes swearing at Chinesium peasant solder, then 30 seconds getting it done with German master race solder.

    1. sonofsammo

      sonofsammo

      I have to ask.... Robot arm kit??

      Linky!

       

    2. Rogerborg

      Rogerborg

      Sadly, it didn't turn her into a cyborg.

       

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    3. sonofsammo

      sonofsammo

      Ah.. Still cool though!
      I was asking cos my daughter has weak arms due to her disability, so robo augmentation would be awesome!

       

  8. First time I've quit half way through the day.

     

    No shout for chrono opening, a rambling, incomplete briefing that left newcomers baffled, "10 minute" breaks that dragged on for half an hour while the marshals yakked it up in their office, then to top it off, getting shouted at because the chief marshal had forgotten where he'd said the spawn points would be, and blamed the players.

     

    Given that lunch would doubtless have dragged on for 90 minutes or more, I wasn't minded to hang around for more of the same.

     

    Shame, as the actual play was fine, there just wasn't enough of it.

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    2. Musica

      Musica

      I asked a question before in the brief and was told it was already covered instead of having it answered. Then it turns out they didn't cover it and both teams are stacked at a stairwell because no one knew who was up or down. 

       

      Was the chief marshal the young boy? 

       

      Problem with the Depot safe area is that it's too good so everyone sits down and wants to be "last out" to get maximum arse on chair time before the games. I too wish for less down time more pew time. No one needs more than 10 minutes between games in the safe zone.

       

      Going to try Biohazard out this month hopefully. You maybe should give it a bash too. 

    3. Rogerborg

      Rogerborg

      Yup, the Depot.  It's generally fine, but it very much depends on who's running the day.

       

      I'll be positive and say that when Baz is running it, he does a great briefing that sets us up for a fun day, and generally keeps it rolling along nicely.

       

      Baz wasn't running it yesterday though.

       

    4. Steveocee

      Steveocee

      Sites need feedback like this though. On X day it was awful and as long as you can give constructive reasons then they should take note of this. Also by the same action, positive feedback should always be given where due.

       

      If you weren't a level headed individual you could have come on here, really blown off about it and discoloured lots of other peoples opinions and given them really bad press.

  9. Now your channel is just like everyone else's.
  10. 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.
  11. You'll want to keep in in a perspex case to stop it being licked by other players.
  12. Currently tea-dying a shirt that's not quite the right shade of beige. I suffer for my art.

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    2. StayOnTarget

      StayOnTarget

      What tea ya using?

    3. #blackadder
    4. Rogerborg

      Rogerborg

      ^^^

       

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      Morrisons You Can't Afford Any Better teabags.  40 out of a box of 80, an hour steeping, soaked overnight, washed, came out pretty well.  Changed "fawn" to more like "camel", if not full "coyote".

  13. They now appear to be sending out limited-distribution Facebook messages, because nothing says success like keeping your venue a closely guarded secret.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. Feeling cute, might die for the Emperor later.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. How do these things ever work?

     

    Trying to restore the air-seal on my MP5K, we're talking tiny fractions of a mm in barrel alignment between "won't feed" and ""dribbles out".

     

    Never, ever replace the stock parts in your gnu. Ever.

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    2. Rogerborg

      Rogerborg

      Ironically from going too hot it's now weak tea. Those MP5K hop units are cray cray, they don't seem to want to match the profile of any hop rubber that I've tried, and I'm not even sure where the original has gone.

       

      Well, after hours of fiddling it's working fine in the garage now.  What could possibly go wrong on the way to chrono. ;)

       

    3. Adolf Hamster

      Adolf Hamster

      Hope you brought a backup....

    4. EvilMonkee

      EvilMonkee

      I feel your pain.  I lost the c-clip on my GHK AK last night and now the barrel won't go all the way in so the airseal is shite and BBs just dribble out.  New c-clip on the way.......

  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. I'll try and take some pictures as I go, but I'll be flakking off first.
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