Airsoft

heuhen wrote:

Tempus Fugit wrote:

heuhen have you ever been cupcaked?

hahahaha

not yet... but I gladly deliver!

Here's some of the field equipment I had assembled for the Marine setup:

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That's pretty cool

, what was you're favourite rig and your favourite gun? Do you reckon you'll get back into Airsoft?

From a usability perspective, my favorite setup was definitely the low-profile Rhodesian chest rig (for 7.62mm FN magazines) and a pistol belt with canteen. A lot of guys used the modern plate carrier rigs but I never saw the point. My favorite gun was the JG G3A3... lightweight (though long) and very accurate after some internal upgrades.

Here's another setup I did for a few games, based on the British XIVth Army in Burma, with 37 pattern webbing, khaki drill shirt, jungle green BD trousers, ammo boots and gaiters (though I did not have the ammo boots properly laced due to being a noob):

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The 37 pattern webbing was great and held everything you could need for a game. The AGM Sten Mk.II uses mid-capacity magazines as you can see in the second photo. The other basic pouch carried a bag of BBs for reload on the field. The attached binocular pouch carried a set of No.2 Mk.II 6x30 binoculars made by A. Kershaw & Sons in 1942. The holster secured a gas-operated "WE" Browning Hi-Power, with an additional magazine stored in the basic pouches. I later attached the associated water bottle but it's not pictured unfortunately.

I (sensibly) deleted all the photos that had my face included - this is not an activity I'd like anyone I know in real life to know about - so unfortunately don't have any more photos of my USMC or Rhodesian collection.

As for getting back into it... probably not. I'm kind of ashamed that I ever participated in it to the extent that I did, frankly.

It was fun and enjoyable but a lot of the people playing it here in the USA were (honestly) just weird nerds who I didn't (and still don't) want to associate with...

That truck is not period-correct.

From what little paintballing I've done (which mostly consists of a thorough test of my pain threshold) paintballers in general have the same opinion of airsoft guys, I'd assumed it was some weird tribal thing, to be honest...

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Paintballing is just a more expensive variation of the same game...

From what I could tell, yeah, which is why I'd thought it was a "my gang's better than your gang" thing. Still, my boss likes paintball (or "team building sessions", as I should call them for the purposes of expenses) so I can't complain too much - I didn't even get hit that much last time...

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Colosseum wrote:

Paintballing is just a more expensive variation of the same game...

It also hurts more.

Debatable at best... I've played a lot of both and been hurt just as much by airsoft pellets traveling at 400FPS as paintballs...

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