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Stirling Airsoft have sent over details of Op: Sea Angel which will be taking place at the end of April:

Stirling Airsoft have just announced details of the upcoming airsoft combat mission Operation: Sea Angel which will be taking place on the 27th-29th of April 2012.

Op: Sea Angel will offer a new experience for Stirling Airsoft’s players as the mission will include the opportunity to work as part of a sea-borne assault team, establishing a beach head for a land-based assault upon an enemy-held installation.

Places for Op: Sea Angel are extremely limited with just 30 places per side, of which 14 places on the US/UK Coalition Task Force are for the boat-based members of the mission, so email bookings@stirlingairsoft.com or call Matt Belgrove on 07831429407 for more details and to secure your place before they’re all booked.

Prices start at £60 per person for land-based players and rise to £250 for players taking part in the boat-based element of the mission.

Bear in mind that Op: Sea Angel is a Stirling Airsoft Combat Mission rather than a regular Themed Airsoft Game, which means that players will be operating tactically for the entire duration of the weekend from the time the mission begins on Friday evening until EndEx on Sunday morning. Stirling’s next Themed Game will be Op: Wildcat which takes place at Catterick on March 10th and 11th.

Don’t forget to become a fan of Stirling Airsoft on Facebook and follow @StirlingAirsoft on Twitter to keep up to date with all the latest news and upcoming game announcements from the Stirling Team.

(Stirling Airsoft)

Popular Airsoft have announced the winners of the 2nd Airsoft Players’ Choice Awards, we are delighted to have won the Best English Language Airsoft News Website award for the second time, congratulations to all the other winners and commiserations to those who have missed out this time:

After two months of narrowing down the nominees and then voting for the winner per category for the 2nd Airsoft Players’ Choice Awards, we finally announce the winners in each of the categories. We cannot really tell the exact reasons why they won, only that each of the winners is determined to be popular among Popular Airsoft readers who have voted.

A good number of the winners of the 1st Airsoft Players’ Choice Awards have maintained their awards for the 2nd time, and some changes in some categories happened, knocking out the previous winners. Some categories had some close voting and one category, the Best Airsoft Blog, was a lively one, with the finalists making their case on why Popular Airsoft readers should vote for them.

The Best Airsoft Blog category actually gave us an idea of allowing each finalist to submit a write-up or a video on why our readers should nominate or vote for them for the 3rd Airsoft Players’ Choice Awards. This will even the playing field for the next awards as we shall give the finalist a chance to campaign directly to our readers even for just 24 hours. It will be a first come first serve basis, and it will be an optional thing for the finalists if they want to take the opportunity to present themselves at the Popular Airsoft website.

And here we list the winners of the Popular Airsoft 2nd Airsoft Players’ Choice Awards:

Best Airsoft Retailer for North America
Airsoft GI

Best Airsoft Retailer for Europe
Gunfire

Best Airsoft Retailer for Asia
RedWolf Airsoft

Best English Language Airsoft Magazine (Print or Digital)
Airsoft International Magazine

Best Non-English Language Airsoft Magazine (Print or Digital)
WMASG.pl

Best English Language Airsoft News Website
Arnies Airsoft

Best Non-English Language Airsoft News Website
WMASG.pl

Best  Airsoft Blog
Pyramyd Airsoft Blog

Best Online Airsoft Community/Forum
Airsoft Pacific

Best Airsoft Video (Posted Online)
EvikeTV- Mo’ Molle, Mo’ Problems

Best Airsoft Event (with over 500 players)
Oklahoma Invasion

Best Airsoft Product Review
Airsoft GI – Cheytac M200 Intervention Sniper Rifle (lic. by SOCOM Gear) Review

Best Airsoft Podcast or Videocast
Airsoft Medicine

Best Tactical Gear Maker
Flyye Industries

Best Airsoft Pistol (regardless of power source)
Tokyo Marui Hi-Capa 5.1

Best Airsoft Gas Rifle
WE M14

Best Airsoft Electric Gun
Magpul PTS Masada

Best Airsoft Gun Manufacturer
Tokyo Marui

Best Airsoft Upgrade/Parts Maker
MadBull Airsoft

Special Airsoft Player Award
Jeffrey "Meals On Wheels" Paskiet of Florida, USA

Congratulations to the winners and we have a prize for you that will make you remember this moment. Please do contact us as soon as you can as we’ll need your address where to ship your prizes.

We’ll be announcing the winners of the raffle prizes for those who have voted during the finals tomorrow. Besides the winners per category, some of the voters will luckily get something.

Our heartfelt thanks to our sponsors who have helped us make this a great success for the second year, and we are looking forward to working with them again. Please take a moment to know more about our sponsors by clicking on their logos below:

Main Presenter:

Sponsors:

See you then at the 3rd Airsoft Players’ Choice Awards!

Best regards, The Popular Airsoft Team

Here is the latest newsletter from the Special Swedish Milsim Group (SSMG):

Dear Airsoft Warrior, We hope you had a wonderful previous year and that you will have an even better 2012. You are receiving this newsletter since you are, or have been a part of our  wonderful hobby – airsoft.

First of all SSMG would like to thank all the great people that have been engaged with us and helping all of us within the hobby to create a better world for ourselves.

Here are the topics for this letter:
- Events 2012
- Hunter Force Missions
       -The Shadow Force
- Who’s coming
- What’s new?
       – New pricing
       -Difficult Units application form (Level 4-5)
       -New fractions
       -Unregistered Users
- SSMG Forum
       -Buy, Sell and Trade
- The SSMG website
- New game area

EVENTS 2012
Under 2011 we managed to complete three out of four events. Two Tango and one Hunter Force Missions. Which is a 75% success ratio and totally acceptable.
Of course for your service, we always want the 100% completions.
Here are some Historical statistics over cancelled events:
Operation Tango events: Never been cancelled 100% complete.
Hunter Force Missions: One complete one cancelled 50% success.

SSMG MilSim: Operation Tango Apocalypse [Teaser/Intro] from SSMG on Vimeo.

SSMG airsoft: Hunter Force Missions from SSMG on Vimeo.

2011 to 2012 is decreased by two events. One Tango and one HFM for 2012. The reason for this is that there are more international players joining us and we wouldn’t want  them to miss any Tango series or Hunter Force Missions. Coming to Sweden once or twice a year is a reasonable amount. Here are the dates for our events during 2012:                     Operation Tango Apocalypse: May 31 – June 3                     Hunter Force Missions: August 3 – 5

(SSMG)

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Airsoft Taiwan are reporting from the 2012 HOOHA Show in Taiwan:

Hello, AST is bringing hot news from 2012 HOOHA SHOW in Taiwan . Enjoy it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/airsofttaiwan?feature=watch

(Airsoft Taiwan)

Leapers will be there at IWA this year, if you’re going look them up:

Sadly we’re not going to the IWA this year (I did head out to the Shot Show) but the date is booked of next year!

Spartan Imports have sent over a summary report of their Shot Show 2012 experience:

SHOT SHOW 2012 WRAP-UP REPORT
Thanks to all of our Authorized Dealers, airsoft enthusiasts, airsoft press, and friends for coming to visit the Spartan Imports’ booth at the 2012 SHOT Show and helping to make this our best show ever!

Some highlights of our featured products and events included the introduction of several new products such as:

The Classic Army Krebs
Licensed KC-89 Enhanced Speed Load Tactical Rifle [CA062M]

The Classic Army TangoDown Licensed Blowback AEGs:
ECR-4 [CA056M]
ECR-5 [CA057M]

Also showcased were the Knights Armament Corp Licensed AEGs, and the new Javelin Airsoft Works models including the Battle Veteran AKs and the economy line Warrior series blowbacks!  We also showcased the AMP Tactical line of affordable, high quality options and the new 2012 colors for Wrong Gear Warrior Masks!

Also present in the booth was Cetecea Tactical representing their Made in the USA nylon gear, and Carlton Chong of Airsoft Innovations was answering questions about his wonderfully effective Tornado and Impact grenades!

MORE PICTURES ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE!
We would also like to thank all the dealers and press that attended to our second annual Spartan Dealer Meet and Greet!  This meet-and-greet was a fully catered event with an open bar.  Everyone got a chance to mingle and get to know each other better.

Special Guests at this year:

Magpul PTS presents their latest products and upcoming guns.

Trey Knight of Knights Armament Corp introduces himself and his company to the Airsoft world.

Thank you all for a great start to 2012! (Spartan Imports)

Edgar Brothers are having a clear out of their warehouse:

DONT MISS THE UK’S BIGGEST TACTICAL CLEARANCE EVENT

If your looking to kit yourself out with top tactical brands then get yourself down to Edgar Brothers in Macclesfield, Cheshire on the 18th and 19th of February.

Edgar Brothers is opening its warehouse doors for the first time in it’s history direct to the general public. There’s polo’s, pants, jackets, boots, combat equipment, carriers, tactical lights, eye-wear, cutting and rescue tools, pouches, holsters, T-shits, fleeces, gloves and belts – all with up to 50% off the recommended retail price.

Carl Miller, Sales Manager explained some of our biggest brands often discontinue and supersede products, plus we have literally 100’s of samples from shows and exhibitions and Bianchi, a brand we don’t wholesale any longer and which we are clearing at an unbelievable £1 per item.

There’s 1000’s of genuine clearance bargains and visitors will get an extra 10% off if they produce the leaflet recently featured in consumer press which is also downloadable, simply visit www.edgarbrothers.com/shop. The event opens at 9.00am on Saturday 18th and Sunday the 19th of February 2012 and closes at 3.00pm, free parking and refreshments available. There’s also a FREE prize draw for a new SureFire Fury worth £156 open to all customers that visit the Tactical Clearance Event. Terms and conditions apply.

http://shop.edgarbrothers.com/pages/Tactical-Open-Day2.aspx?PreviewMode=true

Customers can follow this link

(Edgar Brothers)

If you only watch one video from this year’s SHOT Show make it this one Tim Ellwood of No Airsoft for Old Men has sent over from the guys at Beat Down Boogie:

Seee the SHOT show thru the eyes of snake and ghost

WOW, The Beat Down Boogie guys did a great job on this one.

(No Airsoft for Old Men)

Thumpy has sent over a Shot Show video and details of his latest Scoop.it channel:

Hey Arnie! We’ve been having a BUSY BUSY time since we "crossed vectors" at SHOT Show 2012 in Vegas…as y’all know, I had quite a nasty bug, and between all the walking, swag-hauling and the infection, I lost 18 pounds in 9 days!  Hence, the delay in getting out videos…but we are now making headway.  Check the latest here!  A "State of Airsoft" 2012 overview with some of the top names at SHOT Show….

ALSO:  We’ve had amazing success with more than 5-Thousand visitors and 6 Thousand views of the new Thumpy’s 3D Scoop.it Channel….Thumpy’s 3D House of Airsoft @ SCOOP/IT

…so big, in fact, we’re branching out into our SECOND CHANNEL at Scoop.it, designed to let players find a site, game or big event near them in one easy-to-search location:  Thumpy’s BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW 3D Airsoft & MilSIm EVENTS NEWS CHANNEL on SCOOP.IT

We hope everyone will send us ideas via Scoop.it or e-mail at Thumpy3D@gmail.com and let us know what you like, what you DON’T LIKE, and what you guys want to see as we build more airsoft goodness on the web!

THUMPY….OVER (Thumpy’s 3-D House of Airsoft)

Bruce has tipped us off about a new skirmish site opening soon in Hertfordshire:

Hi there is a new site starting on the 18th February at Royston the new skirmish site is run by Anglian assault airsoft and please feel free to look them up on there website at http://www.anglianassaultairsoft.co.uk/ for dates and prices.

Thanks, Bruce wicks

Airsoft Megastore have sent in their latest update which wraps up the Shot Show experience in a rather novel music video:

As Shot Show 2012 came to an end we decided to do a wrap up video on the show but in Airsoft Megastore fashion. We present to you our very first exclusive music video recap featuring Shot Show 2012 and our adventures in Las Vegas with our very own Masked Man aka ‘MIME’. Special guests include Dr. Airsoft, Milspec Junkie, Umarex, Magpul, KWA, and plenty of other Airsoft Megastore friends! Watch it to see what went down during Shot Show 2012. We’ll be back for sure next year! Whatever happened in Vegas did not stay in Vegas.

Airsoft Megastore Shot Show 2012 Music Video Recap:

Don’t forget to subscribe to our Youtube channel for a chance to win a FREE AGM P90 AEG airsoft gun.

(Airsoft Megastore)

Tom Harris has sent over another couple of videos from Show Show:

Real Blackwater Operator Chooses Not to Snap My Neck at Shot Show 2012

Part of the fun of Shot Show is that many of us have the opportunity to pretend to be professional journalists, when in fact, most of us are just amateurs looking for sweet new content to put on our little blogs.  So when the time comes to interview a real Blackwater operator who’s helping Cybergun to promote their new Blackwater video game, naturally, in true amateur fashion, I blow it and mention the wrong game while on camera.  Of COURSE I had to screw up the ONE time I interview a guy with a tree stump for a neck.  I’m 6 foot 6 inches (198cm for my metric friends) but look how this dude makes me look like an average citizen.  Watch the fail unfold here in high definition:

Steve, from Airsoftology, ruins part of my Jag Precision Booth Interview at Shot Show 2012

I had an appointment with Brian Holt of Echo1 at 11 A.M. on Tuesday morning, the first day of Shot Show 2012, to go over all the new guns at the Jag Precision booth. However, Steve, from the Airsoftology podcast (http://www.Airsoftology.com) couldn’t stand the attention I was getting from Brian Holt and ruined the video in his own passive aggressive way. Way to go, Steve. Nevermind all the cool new guns Brian and I discuss, everyone just look at Steve! @*#(!!!!!

Thanks, Tom Harris (Pyramyd Airsoft Blog)

Airsoft Megastore have sent over some of their Shot Show vidoes:

Airsoft Megastore would like to share it’s Shot Show 2012 exclusive overviews of Magpul PTS PDR, KWA, ASG, and Spartan Imports. We take an in-depth look at these 4 companies and their latest products. Stay tuned because we have a couple more Shot Shot 2012 exclusives coming soon on our youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/airsoftmegastoreCOM).

Also, don’t forget to subscribe to our channel for our FREE AGM P90 giveaway and Battlefield fan-made live action video

Magpul PTS PDR:

KWA:

ASG:

Spartan Imports:

(Airsoft Megastore)

Dan has sent over his final video of from Autumn Justice 4

This is the conclusion to the AJ4 series of videos.

I hope you all enjoy watching them as much as I enjoy making them!

More to come. Dan (dandman3039)

In from Thumpy we have two updates, the first concerning the on-going ECHO1 issues from the Shot Show, and the second is a video interview with Cliff from Umarex about the Elite Force brand.

In relation to the first post you can see our photos of the JAG booth (and what was on show) here.

The second video would have been put up sooner but Thumpy contracted man-flu at Vegas and was hibernating in his room for some of the show sadly:

[Article Link] THUMPY’s 3D House of Airsoft received several "tips" from airsoft retailers that JAG Precision had e-mailed a letter to customers regarding the "dramatic" SHOT Show shutdown of their display by CYBERGUN and FN Herstal…the details of that letter are posted on JAG’s corporate homepage…LINK HERE

And, the text from that letter is also below in a screen-grab from the site on Wednesday night at 11:00 PM Eastern Time:

(Thumpy’s 3-D House of Airsoft)

Also in from Thumpy is a new video at the Umarex booth:

Hi Arnie…Thumpy is healing well from his bad, bad SHOT Show bug that limited his videos from Vegas, and has his first in-depth video from the show floor with Cliff Eisenbarger from Elite Force Airsoft.  This is the premium player and collector line from UMAREX USA, and features new VFC-built guns with fully-licensed trades from HK and others…and Cliff also talks about the philosophy of serving the particular needs of the USA Airsoft market.  One company that is listening and "gets it" and one to watch in 2012.

[Video link is here]

More on the way from KWA, with the only side-by-side comparison of the KRISS GBB to its real-steel cousin, an EXCLUSIVE as Knight’s Armament goes ALL IN for AIRSOFT with Serial Number # 000001 of their LMG presented to Company Founder C Reed Knight and his family by Z-Shot and ARES, and a TON of other videos "behind the scenes" in Vegas you won’t see anywhere else!

Thumpy…OVER, (Thumpy’s 3-D House of Airsoft)