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Releases, Revelations, Revolvers.


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Having bought the Tanaka AICS very recently and also having a fondness for anything in the hue of Tan (mmmmm, Tan wub.gif ) I am a little p***ed off that Tanaka have now released a bloody Tan coloured bloody AICS just 2 weeks after I bought mine.

So whaddya gonna do? I'm tempted to get that one too (I was almost considering getting another OD AICS - they're that good - so maybe it'll actually prove to be an extremely fortuitous release!) but before I get too slap-happy with the cash-caddy a couple of other things that have happened recently in the realm of airsoft editions & releases are starting to p*** me off, too.

 

I am a wee bit miffed also that G&G are releasing an L85/SA80 as well, only finding out since (the day after) I had confirmed with GunsNGuys that I would buy the AFV sub-carbine if they bought one in especially for me - I guess that's just unfortunate timing, and perhaps more importanly a case of me being unobservant, but even more unfortunate is the fact I totally missed the announcement of an ICS L85 as well!! Hmm. I guess I'll just have to hope that the STAR isn't gonna snap in half at the first skirmish laugh.gif

 

 

But thats just an aside from the real meat 'n' potatoes of the day: I have fitted a silencer onto the M700 AICS. Oh yeah. Its sooooooooo preposterously cool I can't hardly get over it (I really can't get over it, in fact) because it not only looks the Pooch's Particulars, it now also sounds like a constipated gnat farting through a cushion in a highly exclusive gnat restaurant where its doing it's very best to hide it.

Probably.

I'm kinda surmising that gnats have anything in the way of table manners besides sicking up on your lunch and reingesting it, or indeed restaurants, for that matter, but you catch my drift. It whispers. Like a bloody mime artist.

 

And they said it couldn't be done.... ? Actually I said it couldn't be done, repeatedly, for some reason - mostly because I hadn't actually looked properly at the parts in question, but mostly because I hadn't had the gumption to remove the barrel and properly try it out rolleyes.gif Again I am confounded by my own laziness and again I get to embarass myself before my peers blush.gif but hey: at the end of the day I now have a suppressed AICS and to be honest, if they think any less of me because of it then my peers can swivel tongue.gif Tee hee hee

 

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I also have the rather wonderful M3 Shorty with the Smokeys rear pistol grip installed, and goddamn it is nice, but in itself the gun is rather more wonderful than a] my fitting skills and b] the material quality of the Smokeys grip as I, Upon discovering that the grip lacks 2 grooves in the interior required to fit onto the stock tube on the Shorty, took first a drill and secondly a chisel to the inside of the pistol grip with rather more enthusiasm than actual skill or care, and I've put a bloody great hole right through the side of it blush.gif Oops...

 

The quality of plastic isn't great though, and the grip is specifially designed for the Marui M3 series (it doesn't fit on either the shorty of the full-size without modification) so I'm wondering what exactly goes through the heads of manufacturers when they consider the design of aftermarket parts that actually don't work with the product they are sold to work with: is it some worldwide conspiracy to drive up the international skill level of hobbyist? Is it a ploy in conjunction with Black & Decker to sell more drills, chisels and hammers?

Hmmm. Investigations continue, but I think its got to be one or the other *dons tinfoil helmet*

 

 

 

On top of that I have to pen a quick note about that Tanaka M629 Performance Centre Target Hunter; its really rather great, it really is. The quality of action is; dare I utter such an accolade; on a par with their SAA series - it feels exceptionally crisp and clean, no sign of anything apart from pure mechanical perfection, shame about a couple of scuffs on the frame but I can blame the Hong Kong export policy (`Send 'em the scrappy ones 'coz they most likely ain't gonna bother returning it all the way back to us`) for that I guess dry.gif

 

Fantastic gun though, real Hogue grips as well and they are the best I've ever held, definitely better than anything else I've tried in fact, really, really excellent to feel, totally intuitive to aim, and the gun itself is very accurate. Capped a spider in my room last night after only idly aiming at it; aside from the miniscule (and debatably appropriate) guilt at destroying any kind of life it felt pretty damned cool to hit something so small with such ease laugh.gif

 

So I am very chuffed, despite the be-chiselling I have inflicted upon my new M3 Grip ($64 for another one so I think I'll just be filling it with araldite and giving it a spray!) and most of that is because of the simply awesome performance, aesthetics, customisability* and ergonomics of the M700 AICS.

 

 

I really might have to get another one, that Tan edition is looking pretty damned sweet right now wink.gif

 

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*I demand that we have a better word than this!! I couldn't find anything out there and the synonyms provided by dictionary.com seem unable to provide a suitable answer or appropriate form. Surely there must be a better word than this (which doesn't actually feature in the dictionary, and in any case is far too clunky for a proper English word tongue.gif )

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