Nam events Ireland

So tempted, despite not having been very active in airsoft circles for the past five or six years (and being in another country ....).

Pics or it never happened either way lads ...

Lemming wrote: »

So tempted, despite not having been very active in airsoft circles for the past five or six years (and being in another country ....).

Pics or it never happened either way lads ...

Still got that Inokatsu m60?

Lemming wrote: »

Does a bear sh1t in the woods?

Put down the bicycle so

ajeganwalsh21 wrote: »

I'm searching all over the world for either one of those or an LCT one. :P

I'm fairly sure Lemming is going to be buried with it at this rate

o1s1n wrote: »

I'm fairly sure Lemming is going to be buried with it at this rate

When I die, it'll be a on a Viking long-boat for a funeral pyre with the '60 and the Stoner, sending me off to Valhalla for eternal "Get some"

o1s1n wrote: »

Oh you've a Stoner '63 too do you? Been really tempted by the G&P one.

You can turn up to an airsoft game and legitimately rock blue levis, a tiger-stripe shirt, and facial fluff :pac:

Just don't get the railed monstrosity version (yes ... alas G&P released a railed one after * all the COD whingers who don't understand a time before rails and could not fit their PEQ boxes, lasers and red-dot sights to a Vietnam era gun)

* Disclaimer: this bit is entirely made up.

o1s1n wrote: »

The front hand guard/heat shield makes that gun looks wise IMO, completely destroyed with those monstrosities bolted on.

But ... but ... now I can look all tacticool with my PEQ box and my IR laser that nobody can see anyway since nobody owns NVGs, and my red laser that lets everyone know where I am and my red-dot sight and x250 sniparrr magnification scope. Not to forget a vertical fore-grip and an m203.

I will then complain about period accuracy or some sh1t with someone else's webbing belt stitches not being correct or them using an M4 instead of an M16.

/sarcasm

o1s1n wrote: »

People really do get particularly spicy with 'Nam era kit don't they?

I have two ridiculously expensive (!) very late war 30 round Lincloe ammo pouches with individual magazine flaps on my webbing and to an untrained eye they look like ALICE. It's already causing me anxiety :pac:

I'm on a VN re-enactors facebook group (I just lurk tbh) and whilst so much of it is as impressive as hell, there can be some serious anal pedantry at times; uncommon to be fair but it does happen. But then again most of these guys are re-enactors, not airsofters, and they are almost always portraying a specific unit at a specific time during the war.

Personally speaking from an airsoft point of view, if it was in production before the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975, it's legit as far as I'm concerned. What people fail to realise is that most "issue" kit saw prototype testing with small units before it became official anyway, and regardless of that kit was not issued uniformly to troops so you could see platoons with differences here and there, so anyone complaining about your pouches can jog right on by. From a practical stand-point I'm of the opinion "if it looks like at 30 ft" it's all good. If you are wanting to portray US/Aussie/NVA/VC, etc. does it bear a reasonable resemblance at a glance? Not everyone has the time, patience, or the money to go full-on with whatever period project it is be it WW2, VN, or whatever, and if we start excluding people who don't meet an historically inch-perfect accurate standard then the list of participants in a themed airsoft event would be miserably small indeed.

Got a modern M14, M4, or AK variant railed to hell and back? Not a problem; remove all your lego accessories and wrap the rails in scrim. etc. There's ways and means around most aesthetic issues; obviously with judgement calls to be made on modern bullpups, support guns and the like, etc. Webbing & vests are a bit more of a balancing act because - again - not everyone has or can afford multiple setups, but I'd just say remove excessively modern stuff like admin pouches or the like to try and look less modern and in general to not look like a tactical weeble (i.e. the vest hast that much sh1t hanging off it you look positively spherical).

Could group mods/admin add me to fb group if possible please. Sent join request. Cheers Seán.

Thanks very much for reply. Can fully understand and appreciate the situation. Only getting into airsoft now kids are doing their own thing and I have a bit more time to persue a few interests. Should have taken up airsoft 15 yrs ago but like you say family and life take priority. Have a particular interest in Vietnam era and will gladly take up an ak47 in VC role👍 Best of luck going forward and hopefully I'll see ye at a Nam event in the near future. Thanks again for FB add 👍

As a suggestion, I would allow VC players to use US AEGs; the VC used everything and anything they could get their hands on, including US arms. NVA would have been all using Russian/Chinese equipment by contrast. This all makes assumption that the game has differing numbers for various groups; e.g. 30 US players, 20NVA/10VC, etc. with different groups having different rules of engagement, or whatever. It all depends on how in-depth a particular scenario is.