Introductions

[azsarge]

Hey Big Wave, welcome.

What are you gonna be doing in the AF?  Good to have another servicemember (albeit a "future" one) around here.

Now, sell those chunks of plastic and buy a real AEG.

[Big Wave Dave]

Flight Engineer, and I head for basic on the 10th of January

[grant13]

The names grant and i live in ahwatukee, im actually trying to get OUT of airsoft and BACK into paintball at the moment.  But im sure sometime in the future i will be coming back to Airsoft.  Just right now i want to go do something that in my case gives me a better rush

[Gantaliano Hoff]

Flight Engineer, and I head for basic on the 10th of January

Good to have a fellow Air Force guy around here. I was beginning to think I was by myself.

Never got to officially welcome you, so...WELCOME!

[Tigerman]

I'm Matt, live in Ahwatukee, and frequent the Tempe JungleToy often with a couple of friends.  I've been in airsoft since 2003, but am just now starting to get really into it.  Bought my first AEG in late October, it was an SRC SR4, and as a result, it's been sent back to Chino 2 weeks ago.  I'm going to be buying and upgrading a BE XM-8 from LPEG to AEG in the near future.  I think milsim is great, and can't wait to start playing with AA!

[Vince]

I'm going to be buying and upgrading a BE XM8 from LPEG to AEG in the near future.

Welcome, Matt.

Just forget about the XM-8 idea. It's a bad one. Seems cool, but man, if you are dead set on getting an XM8, just buy a TM G36 and get the GunsWorkshop kit and convert it over. Pricey, but, the only way to do it. BEs are pieces of shit, with piece of shit gearboxes. You could buy a Matrix XM8 and then swap a V3 gearbox with G36 selector plate also.

My advice is to buy a stock Tokyo Marui gun, or a Classic Army one, and then work from there. AFTER you figure out what you like/what works, start doing the cool stuff.

[Tigerman]

Those are options, but what I have in mind is throwing away all the LPEG innards and replacing them with AEG parts.  We're talking TM G36C gearbox, tight bore barrel, M100 spring, and possibly other parts as I get the gun and start to work on it.  The BE XM-8 is the "Matrix" one that you see on evike.  As far as I'm told, "Matrix" is just a name that gets slapped onto certain LPEGS, and is not an actual company.  DDG and mig1 from AS-R have done pretty sweet things to their XM-8s and their posts make me want one really badly.

[Vince]

I'm not sure if the V3 gearbox will drop into a BE XM8. I know it will drop into the Matrix XM8, but not the BE one. The BE's build quality is shit, also.

And if you're going to do that, just get the Guns Workshop kit. It would cost you like $150 more dollars but the body quality is 100% better and you get full trades.

[Tigerman]

The V3 box will fit into the BE if I cut/break a cheap plastic tab.  I'll also have to widen the brass ring on the stock hop-up for the barrel to fit and file down the inner parts of the flash hider, but these are not major modifications.  I'm not buying the GWS kit, because it's way too expensive for me to get that on top of a TM G36C.  I'm out for the night.  Peace.

[Vince]

Well, that's cool, sounds like you have a clear picture of what you wanna do. I just thought you might have like, heard somewhere on some shitty airsoft site that you could do that, and then got it into your head to do it, without thinking about it. Unfortunately this kind of thing happens a lot and when it doesn't work out, it's usually the end of airsoft for that unlucky dude.

Glad to hear you are getting a decent quality AEG and hope to see you and the fruit of your labors on the field soon.

[[epic]]

hey everyone.  I'm from san diego, but I'm in arizona quite often... friends in tempe, dad's in the verde valley.....
 I've been airsofting for about 3 years, have a TM g36c and am looking for a new sidearm...
my old m9 just.... stopped wanting to take the [abuse] I guess:-({|= javascript:emoticon(':-({|=')
hope to see you guys next time I'm out there, which should be in a month or two.
Boo hoo!