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Since this is a Armalite thread, I won't post a picture, but HERE is a link to a picture EDIT: Oh and HERE is a picture of it without the UGL...It's long since been sold unfortunately I'll try and get some pictures of my Armalite in its short configuration after my day out tomorrow!

Matter of opinion there matey! I'm saving up for uni $100 is too much for me right now, maybe in September, but even so, I like it how it is, the front sight might be coming off in future anyway, if I can source an ACM RIS front sight (when I actually have money and feel a bit less lazy). Besides, you think that thing looks fugly, you shoulda seen my AK Spetz with the M249 outer barrel...

Basically, the above To keep it cheap and to be able to switch between a CQB and a full length relatively painlessly

I can see why you would worry, to be honest I hadn't thought about it; it's fairly solid as it is, as well as being an outdoor only gun at that length, I've thought about a gas block though, the front ironsight seems too far forward and I fancy something I can flip out of the way if needs be We'll have to see, but it's mostly there by now

Well, what I've got going on is a "keep it cheap" regime. The setup pictured has a full length inner barrel, but thanks to the beauty that is ICS' split gearbox, I have also got a lower fps gearbox, and a smaller barrel with it's own hop so I can unscrew the top half of the outer barrel and simply place on a flashider, slot in the other parts and then I've got myself a CQB rifle. Really it's because I don't fancy buying two seperate guns when one will suffice. Other than that, I'm finished, I certainly don't intend on extending the RIS, I kind of like it how it is; makes the fun look

It's been a long time since I've posted anything in the way of pictures of my own guns, and the offering I'm about to present you with is nothing in comparison to some of the guns you've all built yourselves, but I'm still proud of it!

Ah, good times, good times!

What exactly is "we", I can't tell? This is my offering for today: "The Beauty Of A Killing Machine", what started out as a couple of photos to show some mates my gun turned into a fully fledged photo shoot! This one turned out best IMHO.

There's no such thing as too much duck! And Plankton, I like it, it's come out nice but the foreground and background blur seems a little too intense to be real, photoshop??

Unlucky, might not have been better than them taking more money if you'd had your camera nicked! Can guarantee, knowing my luck, that's exactly what'd happen to me Time for me to toddle off I think, college in the morning. One more photo to finish the night!

Hmmm, I think a hi-vis may just be a bettery simpler idea! I use a UV filter (for general protection, nothing annoys me more than grubby fingerprints on my lenses!) and use a company called e&l to insure my kit, but I'm still very paranoid, my camera goes everywhere with me, and I can guarantee, if it did get shot-out, the one week I'd be waiting for the replacement, is the one week I'd need it most! I may well just simply make a polycarb "filter" if you will, to sit in a cokin adapter, that way I could use my camera in-game if needs be and feel a bit happier about it.

Touche, touche, I've never really used the slideshow function all that much, I really ought to get more acquainted with Flickr. Just a general question to throw out there, does anyone take their camera to games and actually use it mid-match? I'd love to take mine, but fear it being destroyed by rampant BBs, so I thought I'd custom-fit a pocket in my SAAV with a clear plate in front, rubber lenshood and then a cheapy CPL filter with the glass removed to allow focussing, so that my camera could essentially be "fired from the hip" using a remote...Just an idea, probably the most impractical

Thanks! I had a flick through yours, I approve, but you pro users have far too many photos for my clicking finger to handle!

Really, the only difference it makes, from what I gather, is when you have a lens worth about £2000 with VR on, then it's pretty decent, otherwise it's a bit pap. Just a little educational tip I picked up from a local pro photographer, if your shutter speed is equal to your 35mm equiv focal length, you will get no vibration, and on D-SLR's if it is equivalent to the focal length on the lens, you will see very little. So for example, on my Sigma 70-300mm, I get a focal length equivalent to 450 on a film camera. So, when shooting 300mm at 1/300th of a second, I wouldn't get much m

If you're asking about my pics, yeah I tend to use the kit lens, though the one of the Hercules taking off was on a Nikon 55-200mm DX VR and the one below it was the same, the latter two are all kit lens though. I get along with it, but the rotating front element can be a pain for using cokin type filters, I was thinking of replacing it with a 18-108mm VR, like the one that comes with the D80 & D90 etc, but couldn't really justify the cost, I've found VR to be quite useless really, so don't bother with it now.

There's some awesome shots in this thread! Time for my contribution I guess: All of those were taken on my D40, but that has since been traded in for a D80, the 11th of April will mark one year since I started taking photos I've got a couple more I'd like to show off, but I'll leave them till later! I post most of my stuff on flickr: HERE

I said considered, by which, I mean that I might have sold it, but decided not to. I see no funny there. But it's okay, we're all amused by different things. I did used to keep black grips on it, but I don't really like the tactical grip look; the rail with the red dot is a temp - till I get some Russian Optics on there, so really it wont be that tactical in the end. When I started out building this thing about a year ago, I decided I wanted something unique, scary and relatively close to GALIL/AK47 crossbreed (as if they weren't already like that), I managed to get the real wood

Only if you come here and force me into said corner...I'll be waiting... A while back I considered selling it; here's the pic I used to advertise it: It's the only pic I've got from before the GP-30; though I could always take it off later and get some more. I don't find her that front heavy to be honest; that supressor is another grenade; it slides on and off as needed; it only goes on there when SHTF x moar GP-30 shells than I have.

Barrel has always been like that...It's what you get when an AK meets an M249 in a genetics lab...The grips are a bit out of proportion with each other too, so it isn't quite right. Looks worse in the pictures mind you, I don't notice it under normal circumstances. I really hope you all think it's f'ugly - that's the effect I'm going for

That's the effect I'm looking for

Updated picture of my baby. Featuring two gas 'nades, one RG XM108 Barrel Mounting, and of course, anything that will go in the GP-30. Silver tag on the side reads "Sow Death Reap Victory" in Russian. Grips are real wood and all the usual Jibba Jabba. EDIT: Pardon the mess...Long weekends = rave at my house = cba to tidy up.

That's the look I was aiming for wanted something with a little GALIL, but as most AK-lovers want GALIL's, rather than blow my money on an inokatsu kit, I thought I'd do something a bit unique, although at first I just wanted a full metal Spetz with one of those cool foldy stocks...(Originally this never had the M249 outer barrel or the wood grips - they're so hard to find IMO) Your collection is quite something! I like the way the battered TM convert is the work horse, with the brand new Kalash (I assume I'm right) in full metal glory being the loaner! The TM does look pretty good tho

Don't really know what to say to go with this...It's all metal...The wood grips are real wood and they're AK Beita length...Long outer barrel is from a M249

Warn points unfortunately are not redeemable in real life, and so anyone who wants to run off with your money won't be too bothered about them...Also, I see no issue if you are told about the Vacation, and as for a tracking number, say I sell you an AEG for £120 shipped, you want a tracking number, and shipping ASAP, so I ask for another £10 to cover the inconvinience of boxing up late at night and going to town in the morning, and getting better shipping, you then whinge at me for not telling you about the extra cost and don't buy the gun. Neither of us are happy, except for me when I sell my