Newb Looking for a Gun

[Davegolf]

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[RonLancs]

I got a pair just like @RonLancs posted up last year and being a spectacle wearer who being *cough* over 21 *cough* use vari-vocal for close work/scope work contacts never worked great but I steamed up like a bad-un - so I dropped in two 25mm 5V Hydraulic Bearing Brushless Fans from that there Amazon connected to my rechargeable  9v battery from my bass guitar and soon as the fog’o’doom starts up and within seconds they clear up nicely.

i Sugru’ed them on and admittedly I can hear it just but no one else usually can unless your standing directly next to someone and then the first thing they think it is is a gas leak from a mag

I’m personally too tight to justify blowing 90 buttons on EX-Fog when I can knock summat up for less than taking the wife out for a 2-4-1 meal, I think I paid £12 for the Goggles last year and the fans where like a £5 for 3, and £2-3 on the battery box the rest I had already so add another £5 for those if you had to buy.

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Absolute belters them mate! I should’ve messaged you hahaha! 
 

I was considering building them myself and I was like 2 week wait from China finding the tiny fans ? I gave up and went for Ex-Fog. Being honest I paid for it from my pistol budget cos I was like... When do I actually use my pistol... (I hardly ever do) I’m not justifying the purchase of Ex-Fog as it’s an obscene amount to pay for such a thing but at the end of the day if you can make it at home then obvs you’re gonna. Who doesn’t like a little project xD. 

Thermal lenses work great too - I use some Revision Desert Locusts with thermal lenses & it's difficult to get them to even start fogging up.

These get issued nowadays along with the sawflys If I’m not mistaken. And boy, when I was in ME they fogged up like a mofo. You’d only wear them if platoon commander / brass was knocking about. 
 

Again it might just be me who runs hot. 

 

[Ad_]

These get issued nowadays along with the sawflys If I’m not mistaken. And boy, when I was in ME they fogged up like a mofo. You’d only wear them if platoon commander / brass was knocking about. 

Again it might just be me who runs hot. 

With regular lenses or thermal lenses? Because I've tried both and while the regular lenses did fog up, the thermal lens barely even starts to (and the top vent is usually covered as I normally wear a boonie hat, so the airflow through them isn't ideal)

 

[MiK]

When I say I’m too tight I actually mean I’ll have a hard time explaining it away to the “boss of who should be obeyed”

£200 on a gun I can get away with “there’s a lot of it for your money sweetie” but £90 hiding away under ya helmet she just can’t understand the bane that fog-up is with the usual comment well can’t you take it off and wipe it

I love to tinker when it comes to crafty-type things so the goggles were fun and I’m in the middle of two projects a slightly larger mesh tooth guard and a custom bandolier - waiting on vinyl to turn up for some intricate masking off and for toolstation to text me saying my blades are ready for pick up.

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[RonLancs]

With regular lenses or thermal lenses? Because I've tried both and while the regular lenses did fog up, the thermal lens barely even starts to (and the top vent is usually covered as I normally wear a boonie hat, so the airflow through them isn't ideal)

In complete honesty I’m really not sure mate. They come in the carry case and you get clear, smoked and yellow lenses with a couple of packs of those revision wipes. 
 

Knowing the army they’ll be cheap knockoffs from TaiwanGun. 

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[Davegolf]

Haha! I'm a speccy too, fog really pisses me off mid game.

Ive run Smith optics, bastardised Bolles yada yada, being an active player, if I come to a halt fog is inevitable.

I find the problem is my specs fog rather than the goggs.

Mesh sorts this, plus it's not reflective so super stealthy.

 

[RonLancs]

Haha! I'm a speccy too, fog really pisses me off mid game.

Ive run Smith optics, bastardised Bolles yada yada, being an active player, if I come to a halt fog is inevitable.

I find the problem is my specs fog rather than the goggs.

Mesh sorts this, plus it's not reflective so super stealthy.

Preach! Yea definitely the specs that go. 

 

[Noobmaster69]

Hi mate, 

Be under no illusion those goggles do steam up. Especially in CQB indoors. Not too bad outdoors as you’re running around a lot more. 
 

I bit the BB and went for an Ex-Fog system and not regretted it. 
 

If you’re wondering what Ex-Fog is then: 

https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/exfog-antifog-system-t-band

They’re about 90 big ones but if you run hot like me then they’re a must.
 

You never know you might be one of those guys who “don’t fog up” but I’ve yet to meet one. (Yes even you Bolle wearers ) 

I’d say fogging in my personal opinion WAS Airsoft’s biggest problem from the average players point of view but it’s easily avoided.
 

You just need to decide if that £90 burning a hole in your pocket is worth never fogging. And I mean, I’ve not fogged once with the aforementioned system and would / could not play without it. 
 

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So only had the account for 3 days and somehow won’t log me back in so had to make another account contacted people but with no luck and never get a email to reset! 

 

[Jedi_Master]

So only had the account for 3 days and somehow won’t log me back in so had to make another account contacted people but with no luck and never get a email to reset! 

email directly to [email protected] and provide details so the Adminstrator can check and your reset your password if required, and then delete the second account.  And no, it will not be an immediate response.

 

[MiK]

if I come to a halt fog is inevitable.

I find the problem is my specs fog rather than the goggs.

My exact problem - if I’m moving about then no issue but any time I’ve set up my tent and camping a objective then the fog starts up on specs but the twin fans soon sort that out

 

[Davegolf]

Hah, yeh I don't think I'd get on with the fan noise.

What setup you running @MiK?

 

[MiK]

@Davegolf as I said in a earlier post (first pages with a piccie) it was some goggle’s off amazon “Military Alpha Ballistic Goggles” and a couple of “WINSINN 25mm Fan 5V Hydraulic Bearing Brushless” again from amazon held down by a couple of sachets of sugru mouldable glue either side as one wasn’t enough to stop slight vibrations which I could hear but after thickening up the sugru to two sachets a side it’s only a whisper and with a switchable battery box I turn on and off as needed

 

[Sharpe_95]

Hi there,

While I agree with a lot of the advice above, to answer your OP; I use A2 Airsoft Supplies as they are my local supplier, but SOCOM Tactical and Dave's Custom Airsoft are also reliable (Daves for more advanced stuff I would suggest?).

For what it's worth, as a suggestion I would go for either an Ares M4 dirivitive or a Nuprol M4 derivative. 

I am not 100% sure why others seem so down on Nuprol AEGs, but I assume this is because they had a bad reputation about 5-10 years back? A friend of mine bought one of the 'new' Nuprol M4 dirivitives when I started about two years ago. It's really nice, snappy, shoots well and is a relatively inexpensive unit that works well with lots of different mags. My mates Nuprol has not skipped a beat in 2 years. 

By comparison, I did the opposite of what a lot of people suggested when I asked a similar question when I started out and jumped straight in by getting a Tokyo Marui HK416. While its is a good AEG and has worked perfectly since I got it, its also nearly three times the cost of a Nuprol equivalent (once you have bought a few mags). My 416 does not shoot noticeably better in terms of range or accuracy. Their new range (that my mate got) seems very good from what I have seen heard in my mates one and I think if I had my time again I would go for the Nuprol my mate got.

In terms of Ares, I dont have one myself (yet - waiting for lockdown to end), but I have heard nothing but good things about them. Also relatively inexpensive. I am quite looking forward to getting my little compact AM007 (although I would suggest you get a full length AEG not a compact).

Hope this helps?

-S