G18C(TM COPY) - ArniesAirsoft

Author

allizard

Product Manager

Registered: November 2005
Location: KWA Performance Industries, City of Industry, CA USA
Posts: 1,456

Review Date: 26/10/06

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: �60.00 | Rating: 8

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Inexpensive, Good ROF, Good battery life, TM upgrade parts compatiable
Cons:	Not accurate.

Stolen from Mario114

The box is simple enough with a polystyrene insert. It contains the pistol, a 30rnd magazine, a 500mAh battery, a speed loader, a cleaning rod, an Alan key, a 220v 2 prong charger, and a complementary packet of BB�s.

Open taking the pistol out, I was quite surprised by the weight, it feel quite heavy and nice and solid. The out side of the pistol is completely plastic apart from the selector switch, which is metal. The magazine can hold 30 BB�s and though is very thin it�s a fair weight being as it�s all metal. The top rail comes off easily; by pressing in the box shaped bit on the back of the glock, this pushes the slide up. The slide is plastic with a small amount of metal at the back, which is the selector arm. The gearbox is metal, along with the inner barrel. The hop-up is controlled by a dial, which is easy to get to, once the slide is taken off.

The cyma can fit the tm magazines and batteries. And as a nice touch the cyma battery is 500mAH compared to TM�s 200.

I adapter can be used to charge the battery, but I just rewired a regular connector so I can charge it with a normal AEG charger.

I have lead to believe that it can take TM 18c AEP parts, which means the is a huge amount of upgrades from new springs to inner barrels, metal slides, ris slides, and lanyard plates.

Performance

I don�t have a chrono, but it is claimed to do about 220 FPS, which seems about right. The ROF is very high, much better than that of a M190, and more like that of a good AEG. The hop is easy to adjust, the range doesn�t seem that good, but my garden is only about 25m long so and it was still hit the fence without dropping. The difference in FPS in noticeable compared to a GBB. But it still is skirmishable. I�m guessing it would be best in CQB, but with a 100 round magazines it probably could hold it�s self in a pistol game.

I will have to skirmish with it, and report back how it performed for the day.

Conclusion
It�s a very good buy indeed. At only �45 (shipped) and �20 for a 100round magazine I think it was well worth it. It will be useful in cold weather when GBB tend to suffer. It might not be as fun to fire as a GBB but the high ROF and large magazines make up for it. In fact I like it so much I am going to buy another one.

Cost: $60 ($22 to ship UK, so total cost is about �45)
Weight: about .6kg (unloaded and without the battery).
FPS: Claimed to do just above 200 FPS with .2g BB�s.
Value for money: 10/10
Performance: 6/10
ROF: 9/10
Overall ratting: 8/10

-I got mine from m4airsoft.com A good site which I highly reccomend.

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zapman

Registered: July 2006
Posts: 65

Review Date: 7/1/07

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: �55.00 | Rating: 7

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Looks good, 500MAH NMHD Battery, can use Marui mags.
Cons:	Low FPS, Hop up requires attention.

I have used this weapon as a side arm instead of a GBB, due to unreliability of gas in cold weather also GBB mags are a bit on the heavy side.

When I first got this model I immeditely bought two 100 round Marui mags and they worked fine. My chrono showed an average of 185 fps over a 10 shot string with 0.20bbs. The lowest being 175fps the highest 190fps. These velocity figures have not changed with use, I have fired about 500 rounds through it and I normally find an 5% increase in velocity with a new AEG.

The battery seems to return a slightly higher ROF than the Marui standard. However having seen the Marui large battery/light combo in operation this would raise ROF to AEG standards.

In time I will return and give my findings after upgrading this AEP. The barrel and hop units are prime candidates for renewal and would probably raise FPS to about 200FPS. I fired my CYMA alongside a Marui and we found the range to be identical, so I would not rely on retailers FPS claims for either weapon