Thanks for the quick and thoughtful replies, my dudes. Plan on picking up a mosfet now, but I'll be having someone else do the fitting, as my last ven...

It's a 7.4, mate, avoided the higher voltage for reasons of wear and tear. Been using them for years though, so may well have taken its toll, finally....

Sounds like battery can't cope, is it a good one? Could be weak motor. It's a good quality set of lipos that I've used for years. Never gave me a prob...

I'm a Brit living in Japan-- Oh, well, you'll want to put together a Chindit inpression, surely! Welcome to the forum! What is it you do out ther...

Best of luck with the build, boss.

Always good to get more players into the WW2 side of the hobby. What age is the wee man?

That's a great shot, wouldn't have noticed the wonky front sight if you hadn't said! Have you got the deets of the guy who took it? He's got a page on...

I drilled a small recessed hole for the spring to sit into in The baseplate. Prob about 0.5mm deep, then Superglue them in. This stops them wanting to...

If you have lost the spring, then apparently the small springs from retractable biros are usable alternatives This was reported to me by my brother,...

A nice pic taken at Nomad in Fenwick by the resident photographer (excuse the wonky front sight and lack of sling). He also did a wee photoshoot with ...

You press the top of the bar at the back. You can see the valve if you look in the top of the back assembly where the hammer hits. The metal block at ...

Was that the one with the broken lower part? Naw, that was mine! Ghost replaced the lower receiver for me. The area around the foresight locking p...

Ordered some proper Fallschirmjager Y-straps a lufty side cap and some insignia to badge up my fliegerbluse. Also got the parts I needed to make a sta...

Excellent, mate. It'll be getting chopped off before long, then. As already said - don't cut it off! [...] Thirdly, it'll not be a perfect convers...

Alternatively tying a bit of string tight around the base of the loops seems to have done the trick for me, dcheetham89 did it for me at the Crete gam...

If you put a drawing pin through the loop under the retaining strap into the wood of the handle it holds it in place nicely. Cheers Martin Yeah, exac...