British Forces Weaponry

[Bassline_Toad]

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I think a British weaponry thread has been tried before, although I thought I'd try again to get one going. Can be any British made weapon or weapon used by British forces from any era.

I'll start with showing off mine, although I really want to see other peoples efforts. There are some awesome L85s, Minimis, L96s, GPMGs and SLRs that people have.

I only ask that people please only post guns that are used by British Forces, and in the general setup that they are used in. E.g. No M16s or L85s with aimpoints on. Just keeps the thread focussed enough to be useful for those who like working on making their guns look like the real thing. Mine are below - pretty spot on I hope,other than the Browning being a type I don't believe has been used by British forces since the late 70s, and was only really widespread during WWII.


L85A2 by Jay 8, on Flickr


L119A1 by Jay 8, on Flickr


L128A1 by Jay 8, on Flickr


L105A2 by Jay 8, on Flickr


British Weapons by Jay 8, on Flickr

Hope you lot don't find too much wrong with them. Let's see all yours...

Quick one from me, Where could I find those RIS covers, the tan coloured ones? I've been looking but I'm really not sure where to find them.

Sorry if it's daft

[jssmitty96]

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can get them anywhere airsoft shops firearms shops the bay everywhere the real ones are ergogrips ladder rail covers but there are plenty of clones ect

[Jay8]

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Those ones in particular are these:

http://www.zerooneairsoft.com/produc...oducts_id=3500

They are a light olive colour rather than tan. My latest L85 uses Magpul Ladder Rail Covers in OD, which gives an almost perfect match to the furniture on the gun. Not accurate to the issued, as

jssmitty said, but plenty of different types have been seen in use, and I liked the look of matching the rail into the pistol grip/butt pad etc.

[ben3265]

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ics L85..

[Real_Thesman]

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Interestingly there are Police at London waterloo right now (6.30) with Diemaco C7's. I assume military Police.

[Devlin]

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Interestingly there are Police at London waterloo right now (6.30) with Diemaco C7's. I assume military Police.

Are'nt they a bit long for police? They are M16 length are'nt they?

[Real_Thesman]

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Are'nt they a bit long for police? They are M16 length are'nt they?

Right you are, I always thought the C7 was M4 length. Well whatever the M4 by Diemaco / Colt Canada is called, they had them!

[systema PTW SOPMOD]

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It's the LMT Defender that Transport police use
Not the L119A1

[martyndick1987]

i know there is a load on hear. but F*** it .
My ICS L85a2

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[Real_Thesman]

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It's the LMT Defender that Transport police use
Not the L119A1

Yep, good knowledge. Upon researching itI discovered my local armed Police units use them too.

[hapi]

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MOD plod have some C8's, they are tried to replace all the MP7 and L85's with C8 at the moment.

[systema PTW SOPMOD]

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Yep, good knowledge. Upon researching itI discovered my local armed Police units use them too.

I'm just your friendly neighbourhood gun nut

[Oslo]

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Thought I'd pop up some more pics of the Browning:



The top slide took a lot of work to get to this stage, but this is as low as it'll go without compromising the strength, so there is still a little of a humpback...but I can live with it





The mag release is RS, slightly smaller than the airsoft one, but holds the mags so much better





RS sights, again a fair amount of work to recess into the slide, bonded into place, and set before the resin went off so they're spot on and aren't going to come loose

Now for sale in the classifieds...

[Chevaliernoir]

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How long until the glocks start creeping in?

[Doombull3t]

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How long until the glocks start creeping in?

Hopefully never, I fainted when I heard from my troop staffy.