Bling bling
Funny it came like that from factory
It got thrown in for free when I bought two blasters from this guy
At Caboolture who was getting rid of blaster cheap.
Xforce Tactical bought up the rest of his stock
He now sells ebikes
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Was testing the collection today to see what I would take to a game on Saturday. Was using the 30m clothesline test.
The old A1/Gen 8 still runs best of the lot, once it has had a few gels down the barrel to get it lubed. (The first few gels always get stuck and then it comes good once they are cleared) Second best is bog standard JM AK74U, followed by one of the CYMAs. Was interesting that the CYMAs all drop gels at about the same place, even though they have very different barrel lengths. The ACR had the best range but accuracy sucked with gels flying all over the place - time to drop spring rate
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Ya gotta love the Gen 8 gearboxes.
I’ve actually done a deal to get my Gen 8 Scorpion EVO 3 back… a bit of horse trading with the guy I gave it too.
His GBB pistol shat itself so I’m trading him my Well 1911 for the Evo, all my stick mags and a custom drum mag I knocked out back in the day.
Good deal… 
that EVO’s a beast. Was a regular 290fps hitter when I gave it away.
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@Wombat my old mate…… you just perfectly summed up my top 3 blasters of all time! 
The Gen8’s are as everyone knows my all time favourite old warhorses.
My second in line was a complete surprise to me being the JM AK 74U……. as I was probably the last person in Australia to actually purchase ANY model of AK’s, yet ended up buying pretty much every single model available from all the different manufacturers! 
Yet the little JM AK was always my favourite stand out performer from all the others that I had in my collection
My final most highly rated/enjoyed blaster was the ACR.
Both my stock, slightly & highly modified versions…. as well as the Bushmaster MSR replica that I bought off of an old Forum member 
I honestly found all of the many different CYMA M4’s/AK to be great in build quality as cheap blasters…… but their performance and accuracy OOTB was woeful.
Same experience with many expensive modern metal electronic controlled high end blasters, somehow never being able to stand up to the same performance as the simple old basic nylon blasters 
I pretty much just enjoyed and respected how any blaster performed standard OOTB with performance, accuracy, reliability and simplicity…… something that seemed to have been lost as time and technology went on 
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Best performing OOTB blasters have been
- STD SLR
- JM AK74U
- BF MP7
as measured by the 30M clothes line accuracy test
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Yeah totally agree eith your CYMA M4 comments… I’ve got four variants and the build quality for the price is amazing.
Those orange V2 gearboxes in them aren’t too shabby either. All of my stock CYMAs don’t seem to be lacking any power, every one of mine’s been a solid 260FPS on the chrono OOTB. Except for the full metal M16… bog stock and unmodified hits 330FPS all day long.
This fucker, on the other hand…
Spent all day servicing, shimming, lubing, new t piece, nozzle and IB, fucked around for hours reshaping the aftermarket grip to fit the receiver and line up the motor shaft holes, new high torque motor, M90 spring…
Sub 200FPS on the chrono 
It’s gotta be an issue with the tappet plate and spring… 
OMG… STD/SKD
Those were my other very first blasters back in 2016/2017.
Still Gen8 style gearboxes, but I had both the SKD/STD HK 416 & M4SS Blasters.
To be honest, they were WAAAAAYYYY ahead of their time when everyone was getting excited about the race for release between the JM Gen9 and the WELL M401 models.
The STD/SKD M4SS & HK416 had these features as standard before either of those “iconic” models were released.
MOSFET
FCU with safe/semi/3 round burst/full auto
Mag prime
Alloy barrels
Threaded buffer tubes
Threaded handguards
Laser optics/sights/torches
Upgraded motors
Front pistol grips
My memory is vague, but these simple features from a blaster that was produced before the WELLS or Gen9 is pretty damn awesome and has always been overlooked and unrecognised in the Gelblaster industry 
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Yep, the M4SS was a pearler… ended up with a bit of a bad rep because everyone fried the MOSFET with 11.1v, like the KVs. I always liked them, and you’re right, compared to what else was on offer, ahead of the game.
There’s a certain charm about the older blasters. Simple and a bit of a nostalgic reminder of what it was like to be into it from the getgo.
They’re getting hard to find now.
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Burn it, usually fixes things 
I’ve still got one of my first, Well CQB. Majority say it’s shit but it just keeps on going at 300fps with a 1.18mm Ausgel spring seals and some cosmetics to make it more look like a Colt Commando. For $99 it’s been a solid blaster.
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Would feel strange picking up that old plastic/nylon feeling stuff again!
I just finished up my full metal CYMA M16 today, been handling it all day so I’m figuring this thing’s going to be a bit of a shock
Yeah definitely!
I always used to buy at least two of every model blaster.
I would always keep one in its original box, untouched original and only fired once to make sure that they were operational.
The other would be the test mules to apply all of the usual upgrades to see how they reacted between the same upgrades compared to other models.
It was quite interesting how some stock cheap blasters were pretty decent in performance OOTB and took really well to upgrades, whereas there were quite a few big dollar hyped up brands that performed woefully OOTB and took much more work to get them to perform
I still believe that much of the magic in all of those Gen8 era blasters was purely from their larger nozzles, compared with all the newer “V” style gearboxes with tiny Airsoft sized nozzles.
Simple physics stands that a shitonne more air volume can be released much faster through a large orifice compared to a smaller one!
Not quite old school but needed a backup for possible game tomorrow, so I unpacked my last Jund. Stuffed in a battery and added a iHobby hop-up and straight out of the box - 280 fps and passed the clothes line 30m test
Looks like the JM 74U back-up has done a tappet spring - firing like it has a prostate problem
Mate……that’s a pretty awesome result from the CYMA
Can’t remember how many I ended up with, as all the old information was lost on the old Forum and pics are in my old phone
Pretty sure it was 9 of them in the end, before I gave a few away as gifts to family/friends/forum members before the bans were even on the drawing board.
I do recall that they were a mixed bag of basic plastic barrel models, alloy barrel models etc……but their OOTB accuracy was pretty hit and miss!
Performance wise, I Chrono’d them all and was getting anywhere from 210-270 stock.
Obviously simply just variable factory assembly quality and air sealing.
Specifically remember pulling one apart that had all the piston and cylinder head o-rings squashed/split/damaged during factory assembly and was an easy fix to get them to 270-280 standard
The awesome little CYMA hop ups were obviously included standard on a few of them, as I found accuracy without a few tweaks was pretty dismal
Does anyone remember this one? Novice Driver reviewed one years ago, but I’ve never seen one for sale anywhere… Tavor Tar21 with a Gen 8 clone box. All ABS… No idea who the manufacturer was… 
I’d lurve to get my mitts on one o’ dese… definitely a cheapo shitter but pretty unique and up there with the Tactical Tuna F2000 for cheese appeal…
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I think Armoured Heaven had them waaaaaaaaaaaay back when? It was either the Tavor or the F2000. Maybe both?
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Yes, remember that well as I used to follow his channel along with every other blaster related channels here in Aus and Asia
I didn’t take much notice about that particular model as was a bit of a “modern” style replica that I’ve never really appreciated…… same as the Styer, Kriss Vector etc.
Still a rare and quirky blaster that would be fun for any collection though……… same as the HKI MP5K that I only added to the collection because it was a quite rare early model to own
It was the one with the carry handle and metal inner barrel. Not sure if I put a 1.18 spring in it before putting it back into the box. Wish I had kept the tan one