Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Help Wanted at Free Fire Zone Bulby Wood Site
Can you help please?
New Woodland SITE (Bulby)- Bunker Building on Sun 23rd Nov - Please reply to this email if you can help.
All helpers must be 16 or over.
There will be a free woodland walkon game to all those that help.
If have any friends who do not have guns then the free game can be used to take £20 off the price of a hire gun day time event.
We have more bunkers to build at the new woodland site and any help we can get will be appricaited.
Anyone available to help please reply to this email.
If you have any of these please bring gloves and your lunch.
We will meet on site at 10.00 and work for about 5 hours.
Many Thanks to all those that offer.
Directions to Bulby Hall Wood, 9 miles North of Bourne, LINCS
Phone contact on game day ONLY is 07835 402410
Site - If arriving from A15 Rippingale Crossroads Postcode is near PE10 0SD (this is approx 1 mile east of the site)
If arriving from A1, Colsterworth roundabout Postcode is near PE10 0RY (this is approx 1000 yards north of the site)
Site entrace map info
Grid ref: TF048269
Lat: 52:49:49N (52.83021)
Lon: 0:26:44W (-0.44551)
Multimap link
From the A1, Colsterworth roundabout approx 9 miles to site
Start out at A1 Colsterworth Roundabout
after 3.87 Turn left onto Tanners' Lane
after 0.36 Bear left onto Irnham Road
after 1.03 Continue forward onto Corby Road
after 0.95 Turn left onto Hawthorpe Road
after 1.39 Bear right Unclassified
after 0.09 Turn right Unclassified
after 0.06 Turn right into track leading to the wood
From A15, Rippingale crossroads, approx 4 miles to site
Turn towards Kirkby underwood onto Rippingale Road (stay on this road for approx 3.5 miles)
It will take you through Kirkby Underwood
Past Callans lane wood
Past a left turn to Bulby (Do not go left to Bulby)
On a right hand corner you will see a left turn into a field and that is the entrance to Bulby Hall Wood.
If you get to Hawthorpe you have gone too far.
Info - See www.urbanassault.org.uk for VCR and membership info
Info - FFZ membership now available £5 with card please provide passposrt sized photo with name on the back
Info - Please read about VCR Bill www.ukara.org.uk
Please sign in at FFZ by 9.15 on Sunday.
FPS limit for AEGs 345fps, Sniper fps limit - 500fps
Firesupport Airsoft Shop - FREE delivery to site on game days
www.fire-support.co.uk email sales@fire-support.co.uk tel: 01733 247171
Next GAMES www.urbanassault.org.uk or www.freefirezone.co.uk
SAT 15th Nov @ MILSIM Urban - NO HIREGUNS
++SUN 16th Nov Woodland game @ Bulby Hall Wood - 10 hire guns
--WED 19th Nov @ Urban NIGHT AEG - 6 Hire guns
SAT 22nd Nov @ Urban - 23 Hires
++SUN 30th Nov Woodland game @ Bulby Hall Wood - 10 hire guns
--WED 3rd Dec Urban NIGHT PISTOL and SHOTGUN - 5 Hires
SAT 6th Dec @ Urban - 23 Hires
++SUN 14th Dec Woodland game @ Bulby Hall Wood - 10 hire guns
--WED 17th Dec @ Urban NIGHT AEG - 6 Hire guns
SAT 20th Dec @ Urban - 23 Hires
Thursday, 13 November 2008
The Art of the Tactical Carbine
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Next Project
All that aside, I saw on this forum that one of their members had modified a PLCE yoke as the load-bearing element for a custom Swedish chest rig. I thought that this was a great idea, and could see no reason why this should not work with other modular chest rigs such as the Tactical Tailor MAV or, in my case, the SOTech Tomcat.
First problem I ran into was sourcing the buckles. The Hellcat has female side-release buckles sewn to the chest rig, with the adjustable male section attached to the shoulder straps. Without wishing to take anything away from the modularity of the rig, and not wanting to ruin it in the event that my experiment with the yoke fails, I don't want to unstitch the buckles so I needed to find some more exactly the same. Fortunately, the buckles have 'Lock Monster' embossed on the back, so I started my Google search with that. Google did not fail me, and I found a couple of distributers that handled 50mm Lock Monster buckles. After sending several emails out (including one to SOTech thamselves), I have so far got two back:
Response 1
We have a $100.00 minimum order and 200 piece minimum on our stock
items. Listed below is the name and web address of a company that sells
plastic hardware wholesale in small quantities; please contact them for
your requirements.
Adventure 16
Website: www.adventure16.com
Thank you,
Toni Lopez
Sales & Purchasing Assistant
JOHN HOWARD COMPANY, INC.
Helpful enough, I hear you say.
Response 2
Please tell me if the female protion is adjustable or not?
Also give me your address and I will mail them to you.
Best Regards,
Ann Parrino
Customer Service Manager
How about that ? Ann Natmo has surprised the hell out of me by offering to ship me some buckles without even asking for payment. Is this too good to be true ? We'll have to wait and see.
Stay posted.
Photos from the recent abortive barrel installation
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
L119A1 Project
With a barrel on order at a slightly elevated price, of £62 thanks to the appalling rate of exchange against the dollar, I waited with baited breath.
The barrel arrived last Friday. and appeared to be of excellent quality, arriving as a 3-part set consisting of the main section, an extention that screwed on in front of the foresight, and a sleeve that slid over the end and replaced the washer at the end of the Marui barrel. The barrel had a nice weighty feel, and the parts all fitted together nicely with no play or wobble.
I was away at the weekend, so I had to wait until Sunday night to install it on my almost finished L119. Off came all the old Marui M4 front end with very little effort and on went the main section of the new barrel, fitting perfectly and snugly into the Guarder metal body.
Fitting the Delta ring, foresight and the cup at the front all went well, until I went to install the two halves of the Marui RIS unit, where I encountered two issues.
The section of the barrel at the end that attaches to the receiver is much thicker than the stock Marui barrel and the RIS does not fit around it. No problem there, out with the files and the Dremel to grind a bit away. The second issue is much more of a problem. The Marui RIS is not long enough to be held in place between the delta ring and the cup, there is about a 5mm defecit.
I havee no idea how I'm going to solve this at the moment. I have emailed DragonRed to ask their advice. I have posted on the DragonRed forum for advice. I have also emailed AFSAirsoft to ask them and they claim that they do not supply DragonRed with these items even though someone on the ASCUK forum said he bought a barrel from DragonRed and showed pictures of it complete with the AFSAirsoft label still attached to the packaging.
I now have two possible solutions to my problem.
1. Buy a new RIS unit. Simple enough, but how do I know that the unit I buy will be long enough to fit the barrel?
2. Buy an Element CQB barrel to replace the main section of the DragonRed barrel. Another suitable resolution, but makes me feel like I have wasted a lot of money.
I haven't taken any pics of the gun as it stands, but I feel like I needed to have a moan and to warn other prospective buyers of this barrel.
More to come, undoubtedly.
Friday, 24 October 2008
L119A1 News from AFS Airsoft
Thanks for your patient, the L119A1 Metal body & Steel Barrel set has ready for delivery, please place your order by reply with this Email, and please find the enclosed file for reference, thank you.
Best regards,
Sales & Marketing
AFS Airsoft
AFS can be contacted by email at afsairsoft@gmail.com.
Monday, 13 October 2008
New Free Fire Zone Woodland Site & Dates
PLEASE REMEMBER TO GET YOUR MEMBERSHIP FORMED STAMPED WHEN YOU ATTEND A GAME
>> Normal sunday game £15 (walkon), £35 (with hiregun)
>> AEG fps 345
>> Sniper fps 500
Costs
HIRE GUNS (inc game fee)- £35 per gun - Requires deposit of £20 paying by card per gun at time of booking
Walkon price with own gun £15
Pyro £3 each or 6 for £15, 50 or more £2.50 each must pre order
bbs .2g and .25 Excel and Marui (1 bag £10, 2 bags £15, 3 bags £20)
You can pre order a box of bbs (either 10 or 12 bags in a box) and the cost then is £5.50 a bag
New number 07925 959398 games days only
Directions to Bulby Hall Wood, 9 miles North of Bourne, LINCS
Phone contact on game day ONLY is 07835 402410
Site - If arriving from A15 Rippingale Crossroads Postcode is near PE100SD (this is approx 1 mile east of the site)
If arriving from A1, Colsterworth roundabout Postcode is near PE100RY (this is approx 1000 yards north of the site)
Site entrace map info
Grid ref: TF048269
Lat: 52:49:49N (52.83021)
Lon: 0:26:44W (-0.44551)
Multimap link
From the A1, Colsterworth roundabout approx 9 miles to site
Start out at A1 Colsterworth Roundabout
after 3.87 Turn left onto Tanners' Lane
after 0.36 Bear left onto Irnham Road
after 1.03 Continue forward onto Corby Road
after 0.95 Turn left onto Hawthorpe Road
after 1.39 Bear right Unclassified
after 0.09 Turn right Unclassified
after 0.06 Turn right into track leading to the wood
From A15, Rippingale crossroads, approx 4 miles to site
Turn towards Kirkby underwood onto Rippingale Road (stay on this road for approx 3.5 miles)
It will take you through Kirkby Underwood
Past Callans lane wood
Past a left turn to Bulby (Do not go left to Bulby)
On a right hand corner you will see a left turn into a field and that is the entrance to Bulby Hall Wood.
If you get to Hawthorpe you have gone too far.
Info - See urbanassault.org.uk for VCR and membership info
Info - FFZ membership now available £5 with card please provide passposrt sized photo with name on the back
Info - Please read about VCR Bill www.ukara.org.uk
Please sign in at FFZ by 9.15 on Sunday.
FPS limit for AEGs 345fps, Sniper fps limit - 500fps
Firesupport Airsoft Shop - FREE delivery to site on game days
www.fire-support.co.uk email sales@fire-support.co.uk tel: 01733 247171
Next GAMES UrbanAssault.org.uk or freefirezone.co.uk
++SUN 19th Oct Woodland game @ Bulby Hall Wood - 10 hire guns
--WED 22nd Oct @ Urban NIGHT AEG - 6 Hire guns
SAT 25th Oct @ Urban - 23 Hires
++SUN 2nd Nov Woodland game @ Bulby Hall Wood - 10 hire guns
--WED 5th Nov Urban NIGHT PISTOL and SHOTGUN - 5 Hires
SAT 8th Nov @ Urban - 23 Hires
++SUN 16th Nov Woodland game @ Bulby Hall Wood - 10 hire guns
--WED 19th Nov @ Urban NIGHT AEG - 6 Hire guns
SAT 22nd Nov @ Urban - 23 Hires
++SUN 30th Nov Woodland game @ Bulby Hall Wood - 10 hire guns
--WED 3rd Dec Urban NIGHT PISTOL and SHOTGUN - 5 Hires
SAT 6th Dec @ Urban - 23 Hires
++SUN 14th Dec Woodland game @ Bulby Hall Wood - 10 hire guns
--WED 17th Dec @ Urban NIGHT AEG - 6 Hire guns
SAT 20th Dec @ Urban - 23 Hires
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Help Wanted to Cleanup Urban Assault
Can you help please?
URBAN SITE - NO GAME AUG 16th - CLEANUP HELP Needed on Sun AUG 17th
Please reply to this email if you can help.
All helpers must be 18 or over.
There will be a free walkon game (value £25) and a bag of Marui or Excel .2g or .25g bb's to all those that help.
If have any friends who do not have guns then the free game can be used to take £25 off the price of a hire gun day time or evening event.
As an ongoing exercise to fight the vandalism we need to do a small bit of clearing up.
Anyone available to help please reply to this email.
If you have any of these please bring gloves, shovel / spade, brush, Bucket / container.
We will meet on site at 10.30 and work for about 5 hours.
Many Thanks to all those that offer.
Fire Support
Urban Assault
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
I could sit and play with it all day...
I found a link to this on MilitaryPhotos.net, along with this little gif...
Monday, 28 July 2008
The Monday Gunfight
Ladies and Gentlemen, Kurt Wimmer's Equilibrium.
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Monday, 21 July 2008
Army Code
Lots of people are eager to get their hands on this, and Army Code/Massive Defense are obviously aware of the high demand for this largely pointless accessory, and have priced it at £29, which has to be at least £20 too much. As their supply of the now mythical L119A1 barrel has dried up and they seem unable to say when they will again be in stock, I'm not gonna hold my breath. Modifying a standard M4 foresight with milliput (or not being so bloody obsessive about my L119A1 project) is now again on the cards.
Presumably, they have it at this price to pay for their new website.
The Monday Gunfight
Friday, 18 July 2008
Just Plain Crazy
Thursday, 17 July 2008
New Links
I'd also like to take this opportunity to give props to the amazing Tokyo Model Company who have just supplied me with a NSN ACOG replica and a detachable sling mount in lieue of the Army Code barrel that I ordered in February. I've pretty much given up on Army Code, but the L119A1 SFW project will go on.
Midweek Motivation
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
The Monday Gunfight (Slightly Later Than Advertised)
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
L119A1 Project
Hi David,
Thanks for your email. L119A1 Front sight will release in the coming few weeks. Meanwhile I don't have any news for when will the barrel back in stock.
Thanks & regards,
M.D.S./ Massive Defense Shop
www.massive.hk
Bugger.
Full Battle Rattle
Midweek Motivation
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Generation Kill
Generation Kill starts on FX on 13th July (presumably in the US only, initially). Get downloading it, or wait for it to appear in the UK in 6 months or so. In the mean time, enjoy the following trailers and promos and check out the official HBO Generation Kill website...
Monday, 7 July 2008
The Monday Gunfight
Part One: The Bank Robbery Gunfight from Heat.
Friday, 4 July 2008
Brilliant email from Ebaybanned
Hi all,
We forget to pay for my hosting renew money so ebaybanned be shut down from HKT 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm 3 July, 2008 . I saw some man said Paul are raided ? Why i will be raided ?? Gun look is illegal at China but i have not store any ''gun'' AND most important, here is China, everything can be fixed by cash!!
Sorry if my stupid late payment make you inconvenience
regards
Paul
I shouldn't say too much here. His English is infinitely better than my Chinese.
Saturday, 28 June 2008
L119A1 Pictures
Friday, 27 June 2008
L119A1 SFW Project
Events Calendar Added
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Killbuckets Custom Guns & Paint Jobs
L119A1 SFW Project - Problems So Far
1. The base plate on the grip won't go back on. The holes in the Guarder large grip don't quite line up with those in the Marui base plate. Coupled with the fact that the screws for the Guarder grip are very short means that this is a right bastard to fit properly. I currently only have one screw holding the base plate on, which doesn't strike me as being a very good idea. It all has to come to bits again due to a reason that will become apparent in a moment, so I'll have to try and find a longer screw that fits, or do something else about the misaligned holes.
2. If you follow the instructions on 858 Airsoft (which is for the standard M4A1), you will find that the gun comes apart very nicely - excellent instructions guys. If any of you have ever read a Haynes car manual, it usually says somewhere that reassembly is just the disassembly instructions backwards. Not so in the case of the Guarder metal body. As it turns out, you have to fit the mechbox back into the top part of the receiver and not the bottom, which is the way it comes apart. That was where I got up to last night, with the mechbox installed into the bottom half of the receiver, and not being able to get the two halves back together. As it was ten o' clock, I thought it best to leave it before I got cross/tired/destructive. A quick look on the internet, and I find a set of instructions on the Guarder website about how to put it together properly. I'll do that tonight. Why they don't ship the receiver with a set of these instructions, I'll never know.
More tomorrow, hopefully with pics of a much more complete, half finished L119A1 SFW assault rifle.
Sunday, 22 June 2008
L119A1 Project
The Colt Canada metal receiver and large grip are now sat under my coffee table waiting for me to have time to fit them. The SFW build is almost under way.
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Four More Killed in Afghan
A full report can be found here on the Telegraph website.
Rest in peace.
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
L119A1 SFW Project
The Colt Canada M4 metal body and the Guarder large grip are now bought and paid for and ready for collection at Fire Support when I'm over in Peterborough on Saturday. Hopefully this is a step forward for the L119A1 project that I've been trying to source bits for for nearly four months. I'll get some pics and a review up sometime next week.
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Charlton Heston's Basement
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Airsoft International Magazine
I have no idea why, but I have never had a link on my site to Airsoft International Magazine. The situation is now remedied and the link can now be found on the airsoft links page.
Monday, 9 June 2008
Colt Canada Body at Fire Support
On the down side, I emailed Tokyo Model Company today about the Army Code barrel (Army Code still having not answered a single email from me). Unsurprisingly, Army Code have still not manufactured any more, so I'm still waiting for that. The CQB version seems ever more likely.
The next step is actually taking my Marui M4 RIS apart to fit the new bits. Something I've never even thought about doing before. I'm hoping to include that as a photo-blog as the project gets going. Stay tuned.
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Tokyo Marui 1911 MEU(SOC)
From Wikipedia:
The MEU(SOC) pistol, officially designated Pistol, Caliber .45, MEU(SOC), is an air-cooled, magazine-fed, recoil-operated, single-action, semiautomatic handgun chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. It is based on the original M1911 design by John Browning, and has been the standard-issue side arm for the Force Recon Element of the United States Marine Corps' Marine Expeditionary Units from 1985 to today.
Read the full article here.
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Centrepoint Update
Not much of an announcement. Sorry.
Demonstration of HK416 Action
Another new site I've come across is Military Spot. Haven't had much of a look at it yet, but will do in the near future.
Monday, 2 June 2008
The ongoing saga of the L119A1 build
Still waiting for the Colt Canada receiver too (ordered around the same time from Guarder via Fire Support who, like TMC, could not be more helpful. Will this build ever come to fruition ?
Stay tuned.
Friday, 30 May 2008
Friday, 23 May 2008
First attempt at this email posting business
Here are some links I found the other day.
The first is not a new link, but a link to a redesigned site over at <A HREF=”http://www.uktactical.com/”>UK Tactical</A>. Nice new site, much better than the old one, good work fellas.
Next up is also an old site, but one I rediscover every now and then but always forget to add to my <A HREF=”http;//www.fadedempire.co.uk/centrepoint/airsoft-links.html”>Centrepoint airsoft links page</A>. Dead useful site with loads of stuff you need to know if you’re considering doing any custom work on a gun yourself. Give <A HREF=”http://www.mechbox.com/site/”>Mechbox</A> a click.
Finally, a link to a YouTube video showing a 3D model animation of a <A HREF=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsCqAjKl8lU”>V2 gearbox</A>.
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Centrepoint Airsoft
I hope to be updating it reasonably regularly, but if I don't, it just means I have better things to do at that point in time but, like all of my other web presences, I'll be back soon.
Enjoy.