I have been playing airsoft since I was introduced to it in my teens. I have often described it as a game of Cowboys and Indians for grown ups that is similar to paintball - but it is much more than this. I have tried many sports and hobbies over the years and I have yet to find a better and more social game than airsoft. I have made life long friends, worked out, released stress and engaged my mind as well as my body, all things not offered by more prosaic sports. As a close friend of mine put it: “It is the ultimate catharsis”.
I am a committee member of the well known London Team Delta Alpha (the DAs). From 2004-2008 I was head safety marshal at the London urban airsoft site known as Electrowerkz. Since then I have become a professional airsoft filmmaker and regularly post my films to Youtube and Vimeo. In 2011 I have been helping a Military Simulations company (Tier 1) in setting up operations and filming their games.
This film is a compilation of clips and unseen footage from the games I attended run by Tier 1 Military Simulation. Before 2011 I had not played much milsim, now… well I recently laid in a puddle from 1am, freezing cold and surrounded by poisonous mushrooms, for 8 hours to spring an ambush! I fell [...]
Here is a quick cut, colour and render of the Helicopter Assault during Tier One’s Rolling Thunder Milsim event. I have put this together at the request of a friend, this isn’t the official film — I am doing an “end of year special” — this is just to wet your appetites! Rolling Thunder was [...]
My first ever commissioned film was released today and stands as a landmark for Basho films. I have learned more about Sony Vegas, filmmaking and special effects from this project than I could have ever imagined. The background to the film is what is known as “milsim” or “Military Simulation”. Here is the YouTube description [...]
I have often remarked that the challenge of making an airsoft film – when you are also playing in the game – is that you can only edit what you film. In other words: all the events and action is “live” and you cannot simply stop filming, back everyone up, and take a different angle! [...]
I stood alone in the pre-dawn of the morning and the silence of the surrounding forest was punctuated only by the hooting of owls and the snoring of AQT players as they serenaded the coming sun. I was taking my turn on watch and the firebase was so dark that I couldn’t really see my [...]
Criticism isn’t as easy as people like to think. This is because that, while everyone knows when things have not gone optimally, as the old adage goes, “opinions are like assholes; everyone has got one”. However opinions are not often the result of well thought-out analysis, but rather the result of frustration and the need [...]
It is often said that Airsoft is a game of extreme variety. At one end of the spectrum there are the speedball players who only play in small arenas. For they the game is about CQC accuracy, high rates of fire and aggression. Tactics tend to be personal and if they play as a team [...]
Note: The film is at the end of this article. If you want to just watch that then please scroll down. It was when I was sitting in the steam room at Virgin Active with 20 sweaty men all dressed in the same set of bright beach shorts, and making jokes about their penises, that [...]
A few weekends ago my airsoft brothers and I were players at the TA Event’s, “The Chernarus Conflict”. This was a 24 hour Milsim game using the, freshly revised, BattleSim rules developed by Iain of TA Events. To those of you who play computer games, the country of Chernarus may ring a few bells. As [...]
Welcome back to OC, Cesca and I have been away for two weeks as she has been creating a prize winning show garden at the prestigious RHS Malvern Show and I have been camping alongside her revising for my diploma in Combating Financial Crime. Now we are back and on schedule for the summer. Here [...]
The DA’s have played some unusual games over the years, but this was a first for us: this was the first time that we were asked to be a scripted opposition. The idea has a lot of merit if you think about it. Firstly, games often ebb and flow randomly. One side may gain the [...]
I have recently become embroiled in a very heated community debate regarding headshots in airsoft. I am going here present the full force of my argument and sound a call for what I believe is the most important change needed to the sport; the mandatory wearing of full face protection.
The state of the badd'ass art! On the september bank holiday weekend, the DA's went to the National Airsoft Event hosted at Ground Zero. I made a movie of the event that shows how much great fun we all had!
The boys from Snatch review the Classic Army SCAR. - Why are we reviewing the SCAR Turkish? What’s wrong with your current AEG? - Oh nothing Tommy, its tip top…I’m just not sure about the colour… Oh, how the worm has turned. Classic Army were once the pariah of airsoft. Their guns were plagued with [...]
What was this? After the massive success of last years event, Mac and Detty at Electrowerkz …very kindly given us thier site free of charge for another 8 hour Pistol and Shotgun only Charity extraveganza from 1200-2000 on SUNDAY 3rd JUNE 2007 being held at:ELECTROWERKZ….This years charity is CLIC Sargent which is a charity which [...]
The M3 Super 90 from TM is one of the best non AEGs on the market. It uses the now ubiquitous 10 shot red shells and fires each pump with three BB’s from a triple inner barrel hidden inside the outer. Accuracy is best described as excellent. The BBs spread a little over range meaning [...]
From this (“Airsoft knife kills?, yes or no?”) discussion, The word humiliate makes me wonder… One the subject of humiliation, it is an unfortunate side effect of airsoft that someone is going to get hit and someone isn’t. There are two types of humiliation and two different reactions: Caught unawares. E.G. Shot in the back [...]
Amazing news! The forums are a’buzz with the news that the ABA led by minimiman have had their request for an exemption form the VCR bill granted! Oh day of days! I feel like Admiral Ackbar at the end of ROTJ, when he breaths out a big sigh and signals the fleet to start the [...]
On Sunday, my airsofting brothers and I held an airsoft event on behalf of the little kids at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. Many people gave up their time and gave across their money for the event, including the Electrowerkz site owner’s, marshals, medics and players. The net result was a combined donation of £1816.68 [...]
Cheat. The soldier carefully moves a few steps out onto the deck of the burning oilrig scanning right to left, his heart beats like a drum in his ears and his hands bring his weapon to bear on the myriad hiding places between the doorway and the plane. The sound of gun fire comes from [...]
At long last the task is finished. The Soul Edge is mine. A weapon of such awesome power that gravity itself appears affected when the mighty energies contained within this weapon are unleashed.
A few months ago now I had an email read out on a BBC Radio Oxford call in show that was talking about Airsoft. Here is a link to the thread and my email: Hi Bill, I am an IT manager from London and a player of airsoft at the Electrowerkz ground in Angel Islington. [...]
Office of Hazel Blears MP Minister of State Home Office 50 Queen Anne’s Gate London SW1H 9AT Dear Mrs Blears, I am writing to you today in response to the announced plans outlined in the Violent Crime Reduction Bill and specifically the sections concerning the availability of replica firearms. Violent gun crime is now an [...]
