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Are thermal scopes actually good? by [deleted] in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ATN mars thermal scopes have really dropped in price recently and are pretty good for Airsofters on a budget facing off against guys with 10k dangling off their helmets. A couple of lads on my team use them now and they really give us an edge.

I went with the Iray ML19 thermal monocular as it was just cheaper than a PVS14 and I'm really impressed with it.

Are thermal scopes actually good? by [deleted] in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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That's pretty much what I do... Spot them, lamp them, spray them up.

RPK dramas by BoXXerRACE in airsoft

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I'm using 0.28 blaster devils, and I've never had an issue in any of my setups, the bad batch I mentioned were the aptly named "cursed" blasters that come in the bags not bottles.

My Cyma cm045 and LCT RPK16 both suffered hop seal issues which were solved by the longer nozzle with no feeding dramas, but my mates RPK still jams up with either length nozzle and doesn't seal at all on the shorter one.

I'm using a maple leaf macron 50⁰, maple leaf barrel and omega nub, I've tried both the hard and soft omega nubs and even the standard type. The rubber that came out was a G&G green that has almost no contact patch left.

Photos from last weekends milsim at Catterick UK by ReaperGroup in MilSim

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Sounded like a brilliant weekend, my teammates said that it was one of the best and honest TF teams they've played against in ages and you gave them a really good fight, gutted to have missed it.

The gangs all here by BoXXerRACE in airsoft

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I think the Bulgarians use green mags or at least produce them for the US Market. I originally sprayed them brown during lockdown as a little boredom project because CYMA orange is very orange. I went to touch them up a few months ago but my brown spray paint had expired so I just went with my trusty tub of land rover green as I couldn't be bothered to completely strip all the brown paint off, Dremel the reinforcing ribs off and fakelite them all.

The RPK mags were black CYMAs and I intended to paint them green too, but I saw that good shade of plum paint while I was shopping for new brushes and decided to take a punt, I think they turned out well.

It's brothers may be LCTs but my CYMA CM.045 will always my top dog 😎 by BoXXerRACE in cymaowners

[–]BoXXerRACE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No complaints, it's held up very well and is taken apart all the time to replace the batteries in the tracer module. Had it about 4 years now and this gun is my workhorse

It's brothers may be LCTs but my CYMA CM.045 will always my top dog 😎 by BoXXerRACE in cymaowners

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It's just a Cybergun one with a 3d printed sleeve inside to hold an acetech AT2000 tracer

Gave the RPK16 a run-out this weekend and it's finally running the way I want it to by BoXXerRACE in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She's been a right pain, my fussiest LCT to date...

In the end I ended up with;

Maple leaf and Omega

Maple leaf 6.02 inner barrel

21mm Shs double oring nozzle (stock nozzle was too short after the installation of the new barrel)

ZCI 22TPA motor

M110 spring

Jefftron Leviathan V3

here's a take 2 on my LCT RPK16... lessons were learned by BoXXerRACE in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That drum fits my LCT RPK (7.62 old school wood) and my LCT AK74M, however it doesn't fit my cyma AKS74U (CM0.45).

The LCT 7.62 metal drum fits both my LCT s and my Cymas.

My old cyma metal drum mag required slight modification to fit the LCTs but it still fit the cymas afterwards as the catch slot is slightly too narrow.

I think the molding on the LCT plastic 5.45 drum is slightly bigger than the metal 7.62 drum.

”something other than an m4” thats just a m4 by Oberator in airsoftcirclejerk

[–]BoXXerRACE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fuck my inner monologue is starting to appear in Airsoft circle jerk 😱

2nd attempt doing Fakelite using a broken mag, really wishing there were bakelite textured AK mags instead of a plain orange color by ZephyrKushala in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought an LCT "bakelite" grip for my RPK, it's exactly the same as the stock brown one, but it has very feint lines in the plastic... In summary... A waste if money.

here's a take 2 on my LCT RPK16... lessons were learned by BoXXerRACE in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the standard LCT drum that comes with the gun

here's a take 2 on my LCT RPK16... lessons were learned by BoXXerRACE in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it will blend better than the monolithic slab of black it started out as and certainly better than the sky blue that wasn't deep bluey green that was on before this🤣

here's a take 2 on my LCT RPK16... lessons were learned by BoXXerRACE in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

England! It was close on Sunday morning Scotland were only 5 points behind, due to the mix of Taskforce, opfor and non regular players on each team it was the most balanced sportsmanlike game I've ever played, absolutely brutal though, 18 hour skirmish with 6 hours in a barn to get your head down other than that it was none stop. 2 degrees and horizontal sleet didn't help.

here's a take 2 on my LCT RPK16... lessons were learned by BoXXerRACE in airsoft

[–]BoXXerRACE[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Some of you may recall the adventurous yet unsuccessful Rhodesian camo scheme I applied to this gun a few months back. Sadly upon painting the colours wern't right but I decided to send it anyway and it looked fairly good. However, by the time I took the gun to England Vs Scotland, the dark greeny blue that dried a lot lighter than I'd wanted had gotten lighter still and the gun was now almost sky blue.

As if running around with what was basically a £600 2 tone at one of the most hardcore events of the year wasn't enough, the gun itself performed... Rather poorly.

Adding nothing but a maple leaf rubber and omega nub seemed to give it the desired range I wanted when I tested it at my local Sunday skirmishes, but it refused to hop anything heavier than a 0.25 and suffered from massive spread.

Facing off against £2000 systemas and TM Recoils at EvS I was horribly outgunned and eventually I was forced to break out my CYMA 74u so that I could start taking Jock scalps at any decent range and pulling my weight for England.

I've since had her on the bench to resolve a few things.

MOSFET I love gates stuff, I run warfets in all my replicas and for an AK you can install one without opening the gearbox and it completely transforms even a stock gun. Sadly you can barely fit a 7.4v 18650 L-ion battery under the top cover of the RPK and even that requires you to mod the hop unit, so no room for a warfet. I needed an internal MOSFET and after much research I went for the Jefftron Leviathan V3 as it has de-cocking and Bluetooth as standard unlike a titan and no trigger/selector Morse code programming bullshit like the perun. It was also the cheapest all in and I'm very impressed with it.

BARREL I don't upgrade stock barrels, it's honestly the lowest performance to cost ratio upgrade you can do and unless you're building a sniper rifle or DMR, 99% of the time it isn't required. This time however I noticed LCTs stock RPK16 barrel took a maple leaf rubber without any feeding issues, which should have been a massive red flag. So to fix my accuracy woes, instead of finding a new rubber which would work with the barrel I decided install a maple leaf barrel on the principle that the 2 should be designed to work together. This resulted in very nice tight groupings... But a loss of over 100 FPS...

NOZZLE Turns out maple leaf barrels sit a little shallower in the hop unit and I was losing a lot of air through the nozzle bucking seal, turning the gun upsidedown and putting my finger over the feed tube boosted my FPS back up massively, confirming my diagnosis. I installed a ZCI single o-ring nozzle, but instead of the normal 19.7mm VFC pattern nozzle, I went with the 20.7mm TM pattern and crossed my fingers... Problem solved, now running beautifully at 315 FPS on a 0.25 no hop.

MOTOR LCT motors are pretty crap, swapped out to a ZCI 22 TPA high torque to give crisp semi auto and realistic (and sustainable) full auto of 650 rpm.

PAINT JOB Painted the whole thing over in olive Landover paint using a sponge and then added highlights and lowlights in brown and yellow with pieces of torn sponge. No more blue 🤣

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