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General is working fine - settings are all okay. Gear and picture sections do not count. Gear has been this way for a while. Pictures was done recently for the same reason (which Anteater suggested). I'm afraid this time I didn't Marlowe anything. Keep looking though, Dale. I'm sure you'll find something I did.

As it seemed a popular idea, there is now a section dedicate to Valuations here. As it falls under the commercial branch of the site, only those with 100 posts or higher can access it. Please note - valuations threads should only be for that. Please post sales threads in the relevant areas.

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Nice one Ed. Couldn't put it better myself.

You obviously forgot what happened to my steel AK74S at its first ever game.

I never found the room - I agree the support weapons ruled the day though - the ammo limits worked exceptionally well. Suffice to say I'll be finished building the RPK for the next game!

What Darklite said is spot on. I had to dump the gearbox out of my dboys aks74 at its first game. Replaced it with a cyma gearbox. Never looked back. The new Cymas are truly amazing. I was very snobbish about them (after the older Cymas) until I tried one. Consistent, accurate and a high rate of fire out of the box.

Cheers Josh. Felix Jaeger has kindly agreed to allow me to add images and videos that he took to the review, so I've embedded these now - click to play the videos (forum software sadly doesn't allow them to be embedded!). Most of the pics / vids are from the Communist side - sorry about that - but that how we saw things!

A quick update: The rifle had a stress-test at a 12 hour event yesterday (see the event section for a review of Red Mist 2), and performed faultlessly throughout. With the NPAS bolt now installed, the rifle was adjusted to fire at 305.1fps with .25 rounds (1.08J) and when chronoed on site did so consistently without any variation at all. Cooldown on a summer's day was minimal - it seems to kick in at any point after 5 seconds continuous automatic fire, which only occurred when I was trying to intentionally empty the magazines - there's not typically any real need for such a heavy sus

Right, I'm finally awake after a long drive home overnight, and feeling reasonably awake so I thought I'd get my thoughts up. No pictures yet (as Fullauto won't be home until today and will need to get the 35mm film developed), but hopefully we can add something when we get those up. A quick pre-emptive apology - I'm writing this from the perspective of Red 1 CO. If I got anything wrong please don't take it personally and feel free to correct - I only know what I saw and was told by others. All colour pictures and videos contained were taken by Felix Jaeger of First & Only. All

It should be noted that while Oleg's shop is great for some things, you can source scopes for over half the price elsewhere - I bought my Kobra new from Ebay for £90.

Thirteen: Helpful hint. Demon B. is a fully fledged paramedic. It's probably advisable for a trainee not to presume to lecture those who have been saving lives for a long time. I'm quite tired of the one-upmanship being demonstrated in many of these threads, oddly which seems to correlate with how many of the younger American posters are present. Please remember Arnies was set up as a friendly and supportive forum. If you want to snipe at each other and generally overcompensate for whatever hang ups you each as individuals have, please go elsewhere before the staff are obliged to g

Removing rubber block on this model causes the bolt to lock back - it catches on the hammer, and I suspect would cause unecessary wear to bolt / back of receiver. Still having issues sadly - many thanks to Snorkelman and Boy Swift for their help - my 'easy adjustment' NPAS valve was bent on arrival, meaning I have to take down to adjust. Hopefully with some fine tuning, I'll be sorted.

Update - takes down exactly as a Dboys as expected. GHK bolt is reasily replaced by removing rear rubber buffer (pics to follow). The RA-TECH Aluminium hop unit does fit but there is an issue - no method of fixing it into the receiver. At present that means the hop chamber and barrel will slide back and forth when the bolt is not forcing them forward - not good. If anyone has a fix, all input welcome.

Sorry Prev, really yours was more of a 'first impressions' thread also, and I want to make these threads as useful as possible. Spreading info all over the forum unfortuanately is a bit counter intuitive if the aim is to produce a reliable source of information on replicas. That said, I noticed you have a news thread now about the flash hider - that's absolutely fine.

I've got to dissasemble now the parts are here. I'll try and take pictures as I do it (going to be a learning curve, however, as I've no idea how the GHK elements strips down). For most of the externals the Dboys take down guides out there should suffice.

That's two merged. Please also read the sub descriptions for categories before deciding where to post a review. A MP7 is a SMG not a rifle, and so goes here. Thanks.

It'd be appreciated if all of the first impressions could be kept in the same thread and in the correct section however; I appreciate you don't get quite as much attention in a threat started by another, but it'll either end up there or in the trash can and cause the staff more hassle to move it for the same end result. Merging now.

Retail sections only are set up for companies that request them. There's no point setting one up if people don't bother updating. For that reason I intend to start closing down obsolete / non-maintained sections soon.

Great pics. Also my older review (from last year when LCT released) can also be found on the database at: http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/reviewpost/.../cat/all/page/1

The links section is pretty outdated, but I can't do anything about it I'm afraid - only Arnie has access to these sections and he's extremely busy at the moment. If you wish, you can always post a links thread with a list of news links. That way when I can get access we can update it.

Sorry - just woke up (rough night as I injured my neck) and found Snorkel had answered just about everything for me! Thanks for that Snorkel - much appreciated - especially for answering questions I would have no idea about, like the ROF compared to the WE M4s. Cheers also for the heads up regarding the possible incompatability of hop parts. I'll update in relation to that when the parts arrive. Also apologies for the lack of clarity in the affordability section - I've clarified the costs now, as most of what I wrote was 'off the top of my head'. As I said before, it really is

Hope that the pics etc are what folks wanted. Feel free to ask queries / request other pics, etc.

Comparison pics of the internals: