February 2005

Sergio (Classic Army Itailia) has sent over some shots of the final prototype of the Classic Army M249 (CA249). The CA249 prototypes are currently passing through QC testing at the moment so no doubt will be in the local shops very soon.

Warning some of the shots are around 1Mb in size (roughly 2569×2048 pixels) so may well take some time to download for slower connections. Emory Sung at Spartan Imports also sent over the same shots 20 minutes later (cheers Emory).

Tomo (PDI, X-Fire staff) has dropped over an email to let everyone know that they have launched a new piston head for the TM SPAS today. The piston head is made of delrin which is a highly durable material that will also help increase the initial velocity of the piston and thus increase overall energy (presumably as it’s more efficient). The new part is priced at 1,890 Yen.

StarAirsoft
have added a new product to their lineup, this time it’s a UMP AEG (listed as UMP-02). There’s no price listed as of yet, but the AEG takes 110 round mags (made by StarAirsoft), has a 195mm inner barrel and uses an 8.4V 1700mAh battery – the gearbox is compatible with Marui’s gears and pistons. I don’t quite know how much caffiene these guys at StarAirsoft have been drinking (that’s a heck of a lot of R&D to get done all of a sudden) but they are certain to become one of the favourite custom AEG manufacturers at this rate of kicking out wanted products.

Kevin Chau (SupremeCo) has sent me a link to SA80.org, who are a custom house building L85A1 replicas (photos inset are by Kevin Chau, SupremeCo). The new custom AEG will be available through SupremeCo, also available will be a full metal carry handle and front sight as the SUSAT that’s supplied is ABS and really only intended for looks not function.

L85 Product: There were lots of obstacles before improving SA80 series in the Academy years ago. The reason is that standard elements were produced manually or regenerate the original components.

Fortunately I have investigated a brand new SA80 which allied the modernized technology from factory. It’s not surprised to announced that the body of SA80 relates to the initial product. While the hand guard and barrel are made in factory as well, the main part of SA80 is a Marui gearbox.

Even though it requires many accessorizes Gearbox. Hop-up mechanism and M16 magazine from Tokyo Marui, Japan. The battery station inside the hand-guard can store a large 8.4 V 3300mAh or middle 9.6V 1700mAh battery. Repairing and regenerating SA80 is more convenient at present. Since Marui gearbox contain many parts, power-up to 400 fps or more will produce this gun, it will just cost you a few bucks. The price will stay at USD2000.00 (include Freight Charges)please prepare a week for amendment after you have ordered the gun. The fire power can be custom-made for your own preferences.

Standard model includes: 1. Steel Metal with Strongly-built Structure 2. On New Marui Gear Box 3. Marui Motor 4. Hop Up (M4 used) 5. Original Power 280fps 6. SA80 Long Outside Barrell 7. Original m16 6mm Barrell 8. Standard M16 Magazine Detachable 300 round 9. 8.4V Battery 10. ABS SUSSAT (SA80.org)

Here’s a few updates that weren’t really large enough for their own news story but weren’t worth missing either. Marushin have added a page for the long silver version of their COP357 8mm model. This model is identical to the previous long barrelled black version, it’s just finished in a silver/chrome colour.

Over at Poseidon Shop the guys there have been rushing to box up their new Seburo M-5 kits (see inset photo). They’ve only boxed up half of them so far, but all pre-ordered models are going to be sent out in the mail this week.

X-Fire have added to their site details of their new "SR-25 Slit Model style up" conversion kits. Consisting of a new front section the kit includes a new outer barrel, handguard, handguard ring, front gas block, 14mm muzzle and sundry fitting parts and will fit any of the the Tokyo Marui M4/16 AEG lineup. The rest is pretty hard to read/translate as the page is formatted as a jpeg not plain text.

StarAirsoft have added a shot of the M14 SOPMOD that’s been doing the rounds to their site. There’s no details yet, only a photo of the product. It’s listed as "AEG-01" which would tend to hint towards it being a complete AEG rather than a kit. There’s also details of a new six hole G36 bipod foregrip on their pages. Weighing in at 520g and made from nylon fibre the handguard is injection moulded, no price is give yet.