There’s been a heap of updates in the past 24hours around at various websites around the world (look what happens when I go out the office for a day.. the world goes mad with updates). So what’s been going on? Well here’s all the latest updates from around the globe:
AirsoftMart have the HFC M92 Special Forces gas blowback pistols coming in stock shortly and they are now available to pre order. There’s two versions which are both full metal, there’s the plain ‘Special Force’ and the ‘Comp’ version which features a humungous compensator on the front end. Both of these pistols clock in at around 1J out the box and retail for around 110UKP.
As mentioned on Airsoft Innovations‘ website they have a new website coming with new graphics and videos, the coming updates should be of interest to folks as lets face it Airsoft Innovations have produced some of the most innovative products to be seen on the market for a bit.
Classic Army have posted a new MP5 lamp grip on their product pages which will make folks that have been struggling with mini 600mAh batteries in their lamp grips happy. The new grip can take a 9.6v 1700mAh battery apparently without having to resort to a rubber mallet or the use of gaffer tape.
Alex’s movie page over at Element Concepts is offline for the moment as his bandwidth allocation for the entire month was kinda eaten up in a few hours. It should be back online after a bit of a rehash his end to recompress and sort things out. I’m guessing there’ll be some form of rotated file listing on there at a later date.
First Factory have added some new shots and information to their webpage of the Marushin 8mm M1 Garand, a shot of the Tanaka M500 revolver and the new WA pistols (MEU early model, and the Wilson SDS). The S&W M500 looks the same as the one on LA GunShop’s pages, so the style and look of the piece would seem to be pretty much confirmed.
There’s no price on the M1 8mm yet, but the M500 will be out in February. The guys at First are raving about the 8mm M1 and the force of the blowback, sounds like the first few that appear in stock will disappear as staff sales methinks. Marushin still haven’t updated their own website with any shots of the M1, although there are shots of some new pistols from them on their pages (go here and click the “new” links at the top).
Oh speaking of LA Gunshop. they’ve added a shot of a “new” gas SunProject XM177E2 to their pages. The gas blowback rifle will retail for around 60,000Yen and is full metal and features a hefty recoil running off an external gas supply.
The “comedy release of the week” award really has to go to this dodgy looking offering at Noda-Ya. Best I can make out (I’m no Manga expert) it’s an “Ultra-Man” prop gun, so nothing works on it – it’s just for looks. Price is around 50,000Yen. Not my kinda thing it has to be said, but I’m sure someone will be interested in it.
Phew.. nearly done. First Factory have released the new Nine Ball scope mount for the Hi Cap 5.1 pistol. The new mount looks to fit to their previously released meat tenderizer styled muzzle accessory, so if you are after one don’t forget to factor that into your purchase.
Price for the new mount is 8,000Yen, and you should be able to find in stock at your local stockist/retailer shortly.
Oops, nearly forgot it’s not a news update unless X-Fire have posted some new products. The guys there have posted a new muzzle end for the APS2, a rail mount for the Type 96, a lower binder for the S-System and a “very short” barrel for the TM M4 S-System. I thought I’d also relay that the guys at X-Fire have dropped in a line recently to say thanks to all the readers for all the interest in their products – they’ve been run off their feet with orders and interest following the news postings on here (which is always nice to hear).
