Please pin this you loveable tosspot. Cybergun: 2:52 Umarex: 3:50 Elite Force: 4:40 ASG: 5:17 Nuprol & Raven: 6:22 WE-Tech: 6:58 Raven: 12:10 Vorsk: 13:47 AW Customs / Armorer works: 14:34 Double Bell / D-Boys: 18:20 A&K: 22:52 Ares and S&T: 26:55 AY: 30:16 Krytac: 31:57 BOLT: 33:58 Classic Army: 36:09 CYMA: 39:21 Golden Eagle: 40:49 GHK: 42:14 G&G: 44:32 E&L: 48:55 ICS: 49:30 Jing Gong/JG Works: 52:41 King Arms: 53:52 KSC: 55:25 KWA: 57:15 Tokyo Marui: 1:00:22 Snow Wolf: 1:03:08 Specna Arms: 1:04:34 SRC: 1:06:25 VFC / Vega Force Company: 1:07:07 Double Eagle: 1:10:16 AGM: 1:11:22 BTW, you're spot on with GHK owners

The clip about the ship with the front falling off was hilarious

Us: Luke: You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth - nothing more.

Only been playing a year and a half so not exactly a long time in which I've purchased 2 rifles and about to get my third. Listening to the internet no one that I knew at the time recommend cyma. So I didn't until I want a mp5. I bought a cheap blue edition high speed. Feck me it's amazing. It was greased from the factory. It was shimmed well. Apart from the nozzle it was perfect. I just changed the hop rubber and nub and stuck it back together. It was performing the same or better than modified mp5s and out ranging m4s. It became my favourite rifle after 1 game.

Thanks for the info!

I am really a big fan of your channels and I really love every single one of them. And I especially love this one, so much details and I bet there was no youtube channel ever done explaining the airsoft brands this detail, almost one hour and a half long...it was just amazing. Thank you so much for your detail explanation and sharing experiences. Have a wonderful day.

Absolutely love your vids. Someone who is genuine and real on camera in airsoft. This is a history lesson almost. Love from the USA.

Really appreciate you uploading this video! Not only it brings much more quality insight in the current state of airsoft brands, but also gives some (tamed down :D) context regarding your other videos

That Nightmare on Elm Street mix that starts around the KWA bit was amazing!!

a 90 minute video? oh this outta be a treat Also, I think this video is much better than my tier list as you've had more experience with these brands. as always well done

This is pretty much the only recommendation I can take seriously, normal KZfaq haven't got a clue about the inner workings of these things so hearing that a techie likes a gun makes me more inclined to give them a chance, great vid

RIP my STAR M14 SOPMOD. Gone but not forgotten. Great vid, absolute trip down memory lane for vast swathes of it.

I can watch “the front fell off “ hundreds of times! It really does makes me smile 😀

8:00 I completely agree with your assessment of WE rifles. I've never had an issue finding parts for my WE MSK, you just have to know what brands to avoid when upgrading!

Perfect! 20 years history in just over an hour. Legend

I did not know I needed this video in my life. Thanks for that And I hope I understood you correctly that you'll be making a simullar video about internal parts manufacturers... can't wait!

Great insights, great music. That snake in the beginning, really beautiful. ( and the Silent Hill soundtrack just hit me in the feels) I really like the Sig 55x rifles, I bought one of those GHK's, quite sad that the quality isn't what it should be, externally it is beautiful though. Thank you and take care my good sir!

Definitely a helpful video. And the customizing you're doing has kicked off a whole lot of ideas I want to try to customize my next pistol. Thanks!

This is the podcast i needed when i started airsoft.

That Silent Hill song remix in the background at around 5 minutes... No one can improve Silent Hill OST from Akira Yamaoka, they can only make it worse. Great video, though. Good to have an update from someone who has recent experience with a lot of brands.

I had one of the G&G raiders a few years back. Before first skirmish my mates wired it to deans and swapped the hop rubber out for a 'better' one, and I believe took this little spring off the inner barrel by the hop cos one of my mates had one and found with his, it stopped misfeeds almost completely. that gun stood up to a wee bit of backyard fudd teching (though my skirmish mates were all sparkies/engineers, so I think they had atleast a bit of sense behind their work) to try and 'improve it' and not once did it kick up a complaint, it always fired consistently at the short to medium ranges of the site we used to play at on monday nights, and it stood up to some pretty intense semi auto cqb. (If you can call about 20-30 people ramming themselves into a 30-40mX10m killhouse in a warmup/warmdown game they always did once an evening at some point) Not sure how good the newer iteration of their combat machine line are, but for me, if someone wants recommending a cheapish M4, It will always be the older combat machines (CM16, raider 1.0, R8-L and that Mk18 knockoff one)

I guessed what neg was gonna say right off the bat. haha love this guy. Figured a big 1 was coming out since we didn't see you yesterday. Thanks for the content! Still have my BE XM8, just upgraded the internals. Good old sleeper.

Really loving the long format style mate!

With my recent interest in Airsoft my first purchase is the M92 Berretta full metal by Double Bell. Great plinker out of the box, I did a little research into the hobby/sport and went down the modding/upgrading rabbit hole. My plinker's first modded shot went straight through a 2mm pain of glass at 10 meters with .25 plastic BB.

In an age of sicophant reviews its amazing to get a pretty much full picture of where the lines between brand name and product actually are, and their strengths/weaknesses.

More videos like this please! Or more tech tips! Great work as always man!

I have rewatched this video and sent it to many people. Fantastic

I'm missing my one fav. cheap manufacturer: KJWork. But alright, can't catch em all, I get that. Thanks for the effort, putting this together.

Thank you for great video. Can't wait for breakdown of airsoft parts manufacturers!

Funny I just emailed you the otherday about this, shouldve just waited for the video! Super informative, and a tech commision to book end it to bravo!

Good advice regarding WE gas guns. They work fine and like you pointed out, spare parts are rather easy to find. I have a few VFC gas guns (they are very hit and miss, mostly miss unfortunately), and have actually found that you can order pretty much any spare part directly from VFC without problems.

Very well done! Definitely learned a few things. My wife Bought me a ICS Par MK3 probably 6 years ago now. I did a DMR build on it because it’s to dam heavy to run around as an assaulter with LOL. Anyway it was my first serious build from the inside out and I liked the split gearbox for being able to work on the two parts of the gearbox separate. Work on the shimming and drivetrain on one end then work on your compression stuff on the other. Just made it easier to learn then worry about it all popping up and what not putting it together. But I did break a couple tappets along the way ended up putting a blue Lonex tappet in and knock on wood it’s been fine. Sorry Long one keep up the great tech videos

Cyma put a smile on my face, i love my AK variant and it shoots really hard albeit very heavy in the front but sturdy enough that i could break a door / tree with it. It looks dope and people i know that have fled from war torn countries have held it and thought for a second that it was a real gun, only to be proven it is a toy once they see the magazine and the BB's. (anyone with gun experience will probably easily tell it's a BB gun) Nice video, there are so many brands here that i have never heard of before ! But as always i like your attitude and videos ! Keep it up :D

This is the first good airsoft brand review I have seen.

thanks for this videos, make me update popular/regular brands thesedays.

Have three Cyma AEGs, two of them are AKs and an M16A1. Aside from some parts like the charging handle, or with my CM040D, the receive cracks at a specific area but it doesn't affect function. They're just dandy base guns that get you into airsoft for a good price (sometimes great deals if getting abroad) and while they're not E&L or LCT, they're still quite good. Their AKs tend to be the bread and butter for me at least.

Been waiting so long for another video! Good job!

I like the way you host your show, it's refreshing keep it reel.

I waited two weeks for the right time to watch this.

Buying my first few guns in the next weeks and thats been an immense help and saved me a mistake with VFC..I'd already shortlisted a Specna Core/Edge series MK18 against a few of theirs so thats pretty much a definite for Specna and the Edge with a milfet after this.I was drawn just on looks before to the CYMA AK-74SU thing as well as the fact its cheap as a back up if main gun fails as I have no knowledge to fix on the day/cqb gun but was concerned about quality/ performance the only downside is I cant find one in stock anywhere.I was also drawn to the AGM MP40 just for a classic looking SMG but to hear its actually good and useable is nice..Big thanks as you aren't just helping mid experienced players but near noobs are avoiding pitfalls with help like this

Literally a podcast but in a monologue, great!

Those cam shots with the gears when shimming!! Holy hell

Nice 1911 build at the start, and that sig looks so nice

holy shit this is the most informative video I've ever seen to be this dense packed with info while also covering almost every brand I've ever heard of. Most people release shit that's 20 minutes long that has like 3 minutes worth of information. This shit is 90 for 90 minutes 100% pure info. Cheers.

subbed within 20 seconds best honest intro iv ever heard

i had a King Arms M&P15 back in the day, came with real magpul furniture and it ran brillliantly for a few years untill i fell and snapped it :(

Many thanks for the information and it's nice to be able to tune the guns for better performance and shoot ability. 😊

Enjoyed this. It was a history lesson on airsoft.

I’m been thinking on getting into the hobby but I have no idea what companies I should look for, and ones I better not waste money on. So thanks for this extensive video so I can make up my mind

I've only been in airsoft for six months still yet to play a skirmish but I went shit crazy on by guns n accessories or after market performance parts. Each gun I've bought has broke on me just through practice firing. Everything from 3 krytacs 3 kwa 4 aps two rifles two gearboxes 1ics dmr 3 gg 1 lancer.... I've literally spent a grip of cash on m4 platforms if I had all the guns I bought I'd have near twenty m4s instead I have six I've spent hours on hours working on them. Now thanks to negative airsoft ( who I wished I had discovered in the begining) I have a small bit of know how when it comes to the v2gear box. It's been a fun journey I've got loads of spare parts but I love my six rifles cause I built them to my liking and they sound excellent and fire decent nothing to write home to. Thanks to you Luke love the channel you keep shit 100 n that's what separates you from the rest of these you tube tit suckers. Keep it up!!!!

Thanks for the different music I don't normally listen to. I quite like it and it would not be something I normally would have listened to.

Very useful and unique. No one didn't had the balls to do it before you. Respect.

I have bought 4 airsoft guns so far. First off was a G&G CM16 Raider-L. Horrible spring slap/shimming. While it didn't bug me at first, the whining noisy gearbox started to annoy me. These are supposed to be accurate, but accuracy on mine was lacking. Second was a KWA 1911A1. NS2 gas system. Doesn't have the issue where it loses the firing pin. (That is only the PTP.) The gun itself works great. The mag that came with it was fine, but the second mag I bought was leaky out of the box. Third gun I bought was a CYMA M14 SOCOM. By FAR the best AEG in my collection. Incredibly accurate out of the box, responsive trigger, and a smooth gearbox. I love it, and would recommend it without hesitation. Fourth gun I bought was an E&C 835. Bought it because it was an LVOA that didn't have a $200 Krytac Tax, but it had the same issues as the Raider. After sending it to be teched, I ended up spending the same amount I would have on a Krytac LVOA on it.

I have shared the shit out of this to all my people. Hell of a great video luke!!!! For sure a hard one to top at the start of 2021!!!!!! Its like a movie....I laughed.....I got scared.....and I cried alittle.....then eventually ended up naked in the corner. Good shit

Ok, that clip about the front falling off.... that was the most entertaining and random clip I've ever seen hahahaha

E&C definitely needs to be on this list. They are the OEM gun for specna arms and provide a great cheap base.

I had a KA Sig 556 Holo RAS (the one with quad rail). A nice gun indeed.

I just realized that the classic army logo looks like a trigger :o

as a marui owner, right on spot, as long you don't upgrade it, (leave as it is) no broken, no gas leak, it leave as it is

I was surprised Double Eagle got as good of a rating as you gave them; I heard a lot of negative things about them but honestly my first AEG was a Double Eagle AK, and although I have some issues with the externals quality, it performed great when I used it on the field, and although now I recently upgraded to a Tokyo Marui AK, the Double Eagle still would be good as a backup if my TM ever took a shit, or if a friend wanted to get started I wouldn't feel guilty lending him my DE gun because I know it performs good.

“Future the next!” -Tokyo Marui

I love the intro, so nice and polite lol

From an Irish perspective - a Marui running at 1 Joule is perfect. Runs good on low-pressure gas. It just slips in under the legal limits here and you know if you don't put Green Gas in it, you don't have to worry about it ever going over the magic number because it's basically designed to hit the same limit we've got. They seem to be able to tolerate green gas - especially because it's colder here but they're perfectly happy on their native low-pressure stuff. I've bought some random crap for a group of friends that like to drink and plink at our BBQ's - and the Marui GBBR I have is the one that has gobsmacked anyone that's held it. The quality and feel is just an order of magnitude beyond the few pistols and AEG's we've experienced. The only drawback is the price.

Amazingly informative video Luke. I wish you would have talked about Kwa Aeg's a little bit but still great information

My first RIF, My G&G R8-L front end left off. thank you for that skit 🤣😅

"The barrel is literally the length of my foreskin" 🤣🤣🤣 you are now responsible for me having to clean tea from my desk hahahaha

When I started airsoft had a rental (3-4 years old by that time) ICS Sig551 and was impressed with it. Then bought the exact same model completely new and it was a disaster!!! Could be just unlucky me getting faulty one, or their overall quality went to sheet. Now I own a pre-owned (!) Tokyo Marui and can't believe it's amazing quality!

Great to hear accurate feedback on BOLT, there is a lot of false information about them that normally comes from people that have never owned one. I have 6 BOLT AEGs and not one has let me down. The compression parts are fantastic, the best I've seen out the box, 100% airseal in every one. The barrels are 6.00 like Luke said and the quality of them is on par with ZCI, they are like glass inside and always clean from the factory. They perform great Out The Box, however, I gave them all a spring change and dropped a Jefftron Leviathan in them. In summary, BOLT make great guns with high quality internals as well as great external build quality and they kick very hard (twice as hard as my TM recoils, especially the AKS74U). Highly recommended.

Why haven't nobody told me bout this channel sooner? Seems like good tuff, thanks mate.

Very interesting video, knew there was a lot of rebranding going on but didn't expect this much. Fun to hear which was which. But I have a question to people, which will come after a short intro.... (Please bear with me) Agree with most of it too, as someone who likes the odd and different (for my region,) so I have a ICS L85 I quite like but sadly stuff broke so had to open it. Gone through Cyma's and overall they are just decent as he said. Not bad and you can do amazing things with them. Specna has been nothing but good, the two M4's and the HK I have had are all amazing to work on and play with. Not to mention the Ares Tar21 which I adore. The few G&G things I have had my hands on are AK5's and a F2000 and.. Not that impressed. The people I know that properly put time and money on them are happy so... Good for them. I had a CA G3 that I do miss but had to get rid of as I actually got the Cold war rifle I wanted, a King arms FAL. But have been teching my ass of trying to get it to work... Actual question: How the hell do you fix the fire select on a KA fal and make it stay in place proper? it works from time to time and if I tilt it to one side... Can't get it to stick at all. P.S. Love your vids, keep up the good work! Also cute pets you have.

One of the great Fred Dagg skits I grew up with taking the piss out of Australia again. Haaha took me back.

I enjoy your bluntness, subbed

"I'm on my bed with a beer" me and you would gett along very well 😂

This video is amazing. Honestly makes brits proud

Hilarious and incredibly informative history lesson from a very experienced tech. It’s a shame such a good looking gun proved to be such a hassle to fix, though I’m glad you got it up and running. You and cards ought to be buds lol

The G&G comments are about what I've experienced. Feed issues in my ARP 556 fixed with Prommy bucking and barrel. Drilled out the hopup unit to fit the bucking so that'll get replaced next. Waiting on the mosfet to go before I replace with Perun. Otherwise, great gun, happy I paid more for a midrange gun as a new player so I'm dealing with less upkeep now.

Great video as always, your comments on TM NGRS about what weight ammo to use, I have a SCAR which hasn’t been modified and run .28-.30g bb’s and it hops them fine yes the FPS is a little lower but I get good accuracy and I would argue very good range.

Amazing list, I didn't know many of these brands. The only "big names" I missed were Well, Modify, KJ Works, Action Army and Amoeba (yes, I know they are Ares), but one hour and half is too much to even ask for more.

Gonna be honest CYMA is my favorite all around company I have multiple aegs that have been through hell and they still perform amazingly. My first aeg was a ak74n and it still has the stock motor and gearbox just a bit of grease and a hop up change now and then. It's almost 18 years old.

Very interesting, I suspected some of the things you said while working on replicas but wasn't sure. A video about upgrade parts manufacturers would be great, a lot of wormhole stuff there as well :D

I forgot to mention, UTG had made some aegs and shotguns back in the day. I still have my UTG mp5 I recently rebuilt as well. Great gun back in the day, besides the plastic bushings in a metal gearbox. Their shotguns were great too, I still have the full stock UTG m87LA, My friends werent pleased when I would slam fire it with .2s

Loved this vid. Did watch it on two parts. First gun was a Dboys M4A1. Ended up with a JG gearbox in it. Still got it, but the gun is very different now. I have a G&P M16A3, brilliant gun. I have two JG mp5's, the A4 and sd6. Ics M4SIR, hop unit fell apart, but the replacement, which is an ics one working fine. I have a cyma AK47, which to be honest is a cheap gun. I was surprised by the quality and operation of this gun. No mention of Well. I have one of their L96's which I am currently upgrading. Like the gun, but still some eY to go to be great.

Top lad for making this video, alot to talk about. Couldnt stop laughing either. Earned a sub!

I gotta say I love your attitude

Love the remix ff background music

I was surprised not to see LCT in this, but i've seen quite enough of your video's what your opinion on them is. Happy with your opinion on E&L planning on buying one soon.

Negative Airsoft: The Movie!

Cheers for this, really interesting and informative.

I cant wait to get back onto my local field when things re-open. Although after binging a bunch of Negative Airsofts video's I feel like I want to get my 14yo TM F1 Famas serviced and give it a run out.

Still got my KWA G19 that I bought in 2005 and an AABB Hera GCC kit, it's a shame you can't still get hold of them because as a starter GBB it still beats the pants off any of this WE/Nuprol Raven/etc stuff, only thing I've found in a similar price range that I personally think is as solid as a starter GBB is the KJW P-09. I'd be amazed if Bolt actually have 6.00mm barrels, over the years the thing I've observed pretty consistantly is people using digital verniers to measure the ID of inner barrels, they are just not accurate enough for something in the 6.00mm - 6.08mm range and will normally measure undersize. That barrel you think is a 6.04mm is probably actually 6.08mm, a 6.00mm barrel measured with them is probably a 6.04mm. Bore isn't the be all and end all anyway, can have the tightest bore possible but if the drawing isn't good, crowning poor and the milling at the hopup end done badly it'll suck.

Good job with this video; it was really interesting and had some good information.

VFC is the greatest manufacturer off all time Would love to see Luke's face reading it

Funny thing with double bell aks, if you look at Pheas Airsoft recent double bell AK unboxing, the manual literally has kalash written on it XDXD

Glad you mentioned the WE luger i was about to buy the gold one saved me $150!

I'm currently working on a Golden Eagle GBBR AR overview/review/"look I bought a thing look at it!" Video where I basically, buy it and change all the parts that make the thing work and tell you not to change all the parts out. (You can tell how its going 😅)

I have a ASG AUG and the damn thing is fun and hell to use, my only complaints are that the hopup is plastic and for me, the adjustment dial fell off (luckily I already had my hopup set to how I want it) and the trigger is pretty heavy and also made out of plastic which does bring in some finger pains from prolonged use. I bought it from Evike and was pretty surprised on how off the fps numbers were on their site. My shoots about 430 with .20 and a little over 390 with .28 and the accuracy is absolutely stunning. I got it for 140 (couldn't afford to get it with the integrated scope) and its amazing to see that it's going for almost $170 on Evike. I would recommend it to people that want something fun to use. A 7.4v Lipo battery works well, if you do have some extra money laying around, I would get the hopup replaced by a metal one. Parts are pretty difficult to find (at least for me) though the essentials like barrels and hopups are available. I do plan on buying the upper receiver with the integrated scope and replacing the orange tip. Overall, it's a great beginner weapon. I did struggle to use it for awhile since I didnt read that a Lipo was recommended, but with the recommended battery, it works well.

My first GBBp was a KWA Glock 19, then got a KSC Taiwan USP, then a KWA/Umarex USP System7 (or is it NS2)...noticed a few external 'simplifications' that made me slap a shooters design kit on it. My dad has a KSC USP 9mm fully plastic, think if you liked the look of the USP, the 9mm was the superior option. System 7 KWA/KSC MP9s and the piston cups was a bit of a weird one at the time. Not sure if they came out with short mags for it like the TMP had.

Love your choice of background music ff7 mako reactor

Great video as always!

The STAR FNC was a hoot. The polycarbonate gearbox was awesome and quiet with its mechanical 3-round burst. The handguard wasn't ABS even, it was some sort of awesome polymer. Shouldn't had sold it, but the wires got stripped and I didn't know then how to solder. The S&T also made the Sterling SMG/Star Wars E-11. Unique gearbox and externals 99% made of steel. Mine still works and I kinda put it through hell lol, the hopup is absolute shit though.