(BB) War and Peace

Above is a pic of yours truly taken by sonykun.com at this past week’s Operation Overlord sim at Panther Paintball. Not the most challenging sim I’ve been to, but good times were had flinging BBs downrange with my buds – and these days, that’s all that matters. It was nice to see the majority of the team out there rocking team colors and playing as a unit.

I also won a new AEG (secret for now – look for an initial impressions/review in a couple of months after I’ve gamed it), so that certainly made it worthwhile. 🙂 Many thanks to Paul from the Suicide Kings for generously donating that AEG to the raffle!

The airsoft bug is back…

In Soviet Russia, friend is RPK bipod!

Also: Gorkas! I have officially started my Russian kit.

Russian kit… so hot right now.

Pencott + SPR = Fun

Pictured: Multicam Boonie, Mk12 Mod1 SPR PTW, Hyde Definition Pencott Greenzone, Pantac 1961A, Oakley SI Assault Gloves, Arc’Teryx Military Kneecaps

I’ve fallen in love with two things lately: Pencott Greenzone (which works tremendously well at our current field) and my Mk12 Mod1 SPR (thanks mainly to repeated viewings of Lone Survivor). These two elements combined this past Saturday for a very effective loadout that resulted in many a kill and some good times overall playing as a full unit with most of the team. 🙂

(full credit to Dirt for snapping this pic in the middle of a firefight!)

Airsoft Shopping in Japan – Days 3 & 4

I am currently visiting Kyoto – Airsoft specific stores are much harder to find here than the previous Airsoft-specific shopping days I spent in Tokyo.

Airsoft Shopping in Japan – Day 2

A couple less stores visited as I was short on time yesterday evening before the shops close up – though I did spend more time in each, perusing their selections of parts.

First, I attempted to find Mil-Freaks, only to discover that the address was not in fact a walk-in retail store (I later re-read the contact info on their website to discover that they are online business only). Mil-Freaks was of interest due to the producr line being mostly ACM, Flyye, Hong Kong brands and some US-made tactical gear; just the kind of stuff I’m usually shopping for when on my own free time. As with many of the locations I found with Google maps for the keywords “airsoft tokyo” for First Japan, this was a residential address as well from the looks of it.

Airsoft Shopping in Japan – Day 1

These stores are nearby Akihabara Station in Tokyo. Unless stated otherwise, the staff spoke little to no English – and certainly not enough vocabulary to talk about Airsoft. I have the links to these shops and Japanese names on my person right now, but entering them on WordPress mobile app is way too hard to figure out at the moment. I can edit those in when I’m back home later.

Radio and other small elecfrical components in bazaar like shops in multilevel buildings – I was looking for connectors for my radios and antennas, but apparently the adaptors I’m looking for must not be that common.

Read on after the break for the actual airsoft stores.

Operation Iceback: FOB 3

Above: the stuff airsoft dreams are made of.

This is the first of what will likely be a ton of Operation: Iceback related posts from Juicy and I – I still have a ton more pics to sort out and I’m sure Juicy has gigs of footage from his Contour that he’s likely editing as we speak. For now, this post will contain the pics I took while stationed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) 3 – our initial starting point and what would become FTB’s “home” for a majority of the sim. To quote Jester, those first couple of hours felt a little bit like Starcraft, as I redeployed squads around wherever they were needed around the AO.

And yes, I felt like a boss.

More pics of FOB 3 after the break.

Photo Dump

Turns out I had a whole bunch of photos saved on my phone that have probably had on there way too long and forgot about. There is pretty much no point to this post other than me wanting to post these photos that I’ve been saving for no reason at all. Bear with me, if you want (I won’t be offended if you don’t).

Magpul PDR-C AEG (by PTS). This was the day they arrived at work – that was a while ago, now. 18-picture photo slideshow:

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I overspent… again – but let’s just write this one off as a fairly large gift bundle to myself, yeah? … Please just smile and nod.

My Element repro Manta Strobe, post-night game weekend. Broke in the same spot that someone else mentioned (locally) – pretty sure it was “Driftinsti.” I’ve since glued mine back together and will be dummy cording the two halves together and onto my helmet. Lasted 2 days worth of gaming – not the best quality.

Its happening… Contour ROAM 2 – thanks Mom!

Little bit of coercing to/from Eddie at DS Tactical, and I ended up taking home a few more goodies – including this Contour Vented Helmet Mount. Some arm twisting later, and I do foresee some video footage coming to Overhoppers very soon.

I told my bosses that I’d definitely buy this for $0. They laughed and thought that I was joking. No joke, I was completely serious.

-juicy

AOR2 Day!

(L to R: DXN, me (dizzy), Jester)

Last week was our first time running our AOR2 /AOR1 kit. A little hesitant to call it a full SEALs impression just yet as it’s obviously WIP, but I’d say we’re well on our way. 🙂

-dizzy

Epic Picture of Epicness.

 

Full credit to Kevin, aka Dirt, for taking what is possibly the most epic airsoft-related picture of me ever taken.

If only I didn’t have my barrel condom on my SPR… 😦

-dizzy