990620 Soft Team 6 has made a skirmish grenade
990617 Good initiatve for swedens airsofters, readmore
990524 AWSOME!! the new Marui Thompson M1A1
990514 new retailer in Hong Kong Redwolf
990315 Found a Review on the TM UZI
990313 Got some action pics from Miki at Impactstore!
990311 Found some awesome picīs of the M4A1 at Airsoftzone
990124 you can download the whole TM catalog
981211 Skyfire has made gearbox disassembly instructions
981207 Found a funny little RM file of the new TM UZI
Why soft air guns?
A soft air gun is a weapon that lies somewhere between a replica gun and a paintball weapon. Itīs got the looks of the real thing but can act as a paintball gun or as a simple recreational airgun that you can play with shooting old tin cans or whatever. If there is some specific type of gun you want usually there is airsoft replicamodel for you. Almost every gun you can think of is available as an soft air gun.
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This particular gun is made by the japanese company TOP. The price at Tokyo model company is 360 000 yen. I have managed to lay my hands on a wav file how it sounds when firing. |
The main difference between an airgun/painball is that an soft
air gun uses a electric motor to work up the
airpressure in the chamber so a round can be released. Doing so you can get almost any
firing rates you want, in most cases about 14-17 round/second fully automatic or semi
automatic. The muzzle velocity is about 250-350fps, but this can be trimmed up if you
change springs,valves and bores you increase muzzle velocity and power, of course this can
effect the gun negative.
You load the gun just as the real thing, with magazines, in these you can get up to 600
rounds/magazine because of the small BB caliber which is 6mm.
The only setback with these guns are that they are constructed in
ABS-resin plastic, durable but its still plastic which makes them a bit fragile. Moving
parts wear down easy to. But they are definitely durable enough to play skirmish
games with.There are some manfacturers producing guns in zinc alloy metal but they are
expensive (Shoei produces a MP44 in metal).
What is HopUp? (by Blake)
Simply put, a Hop-Up system increases
the range of an Airsoft gun. It does so by imparting a backspin on the pellet as it leaves
the chamber area and starts down the barrel. Since Airsoft guns use solid plastic pellets
of a small caliber (6mm), the backspin has a much greater effect than on them that it
would on a paintball (which has a liquid which would resist spinning). The result is that
the airflow around the pellet is such that it generates a small amount of lift. If the
rate of spin is adjusted for the weight and velocity of the pellet, the result is that the
lift works against gravity to keep the pellet in the air longer. The result is a
straighter trajectory and longer range. In fact, some systems can keep a pellet flying in
an almost straight line for 50 yards (the pellet will tend to rise slightly and then drop
sharply to the ground).
Most new Airsoft guns have some kind of Hop-Up system. On the battery powered full-autos made by Tokyo Marui, the Hop-Up system is adjustable for different pellet weights, the pellet weight kan make big difference to range and accuracy.
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