PTS RELEASES at the 2013 HK Toys and Games Fair – EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS #3 !

Now, our Secret Agent come into the MOTHER LODE of goodies on the floor in Hong Kong on Monday, as he scans the PTS BOOTH!  DROOL factor on overload here, as PTS is showing off some oldies but goodies, like their cutting edge FOLDING POCKET GUN (FPG)….and….what else?….A LARGE FRAME DMR Platform, some M4′s…and MORE!

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PUBLIC ENEMY on the floor – HK Toys and Games Fair 2013 – EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS #2!

Our brothers from different mothers over at PUBLIC ENEMY Blog in Hong Kong are hitting the floor of their World-Fameous TOYS AND GAMES FAIR, and our deep undercover agent got some shots of the guys visiting one of the airsoft vendor displays on Monday!

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We can hardly WAIT to see what PUBLIC ENEMY Scoops up that we will also be passing along over at the 3-D SCOOP.IT News site!

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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS FROM THE HONG KONG TOYS AND GAMES FAIR 2013! Part 1

THUMPY’S 3-D House of Airsoft has a deep deep deep undercovers agent working the floor of the HONG KONG TOYS AND GAMES FAIR….and will be pushing out some EXCLUSIVE PHOTS of airsoft goodies!

PART ONE….a look at some of the hot stuff from the APS BOOTH, including some new bullpups and a HOT looking sniper rifle!

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Help those hurt by SANDY with Airsoft- NYC’s Airsoft C.A.R.E.S. and the Red Cross – NOVEMBER 17 & 18

 

 

C.A.R.E.S stands for CQB for Aid REcovery from SANDY…November 17-18, 2012 all around the NYC Airsoft Community!

And this effort, put together by NYC Airsoft, Moondog, Angel and the gang is going to be a multi-site event, with FIVE LOCATIONS all working together to help!  Best place for the latest info is on the NYC Airsoft forums, or at the link here to their new landing page…

We LOVE the idea of pooling the cash and trying to get MATCHING DONATIONS from businesses….if you know any corporations…inside or outside Airsoft who will help, let the guys know!

AND, Stay tuned to many of your favorite AIRSOFT YOUTUBE CHANNELS, for an upcoming Public Service Announcement campaign to support Airsoft C.A.R.E.S. and the American Red Cross effort to help the thousands devastated by Superstorm SANDY!

DATE: November 17-18, 2012

“(C)QB (A)ID (RE)COVER for (S)ANDY
NYCAirsoft along with CQB fields across the Tri-State are organizing a day of airsoft to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy. These fields will be donating a portion of their field fees to the Red Cross, the Tunnels to Towers Foundation and other local charities. Register and find out more on the forum….

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DONATE ONLINE
If you’d like to support the Airsoft CARES effort but can not attend a game, make a direct donation to the RED CROSS and let us know. Got to: https://www.redcross.org/donate/index.jsp?donateStep=2&itemId=prod10002

• Choose “In Honor Of” and fill in “Airsoft CARES”
• Choose the option to SEND an e-card
• Send to: CARES@nycairsoft.com

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Here are the locations participating in the event.  Just click on the picture to go directly to the NYC Airsoft Forum topic for that event, or CALL AHEAD before your go, to confirm the details for you and your team!

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UPDATE FOR THUMPY’S LINKS

Been awhile since we updated the links to the THUMPY’s NEWS Section of the NCAO Forums, so, please check us out in all our various forms….and subscribe here, too…scroll all the way to the bottom to find THUMPY’S NEWS

WELCOME TO THE INNOVATION REVOLUTION!

If you are a FREE member of the NCAO Forums (and ANYONE can be, its FREE, for crying out loud!), you can now join Thumpy’s News…this “Specialized Access” portion of the NCAO ‘site, which will receive DIRECT RSS feeds from each of Thumpy’s News Posts, IMMEDIATELY as I hit the POST IT button at the THUMPY’S 3-D HOUSE OF AIRSOFT NEWS link from SCOOP.IT

WHO IS “THUMPY?”

“Thumpy” is a screen nickname for ThumpMaster6, a well-known member of the US and World airsoft community; through his many writings, ramblings and musings on various airsoft forums, in his reporting and photography in 4 major airsoft publications (TAKE AIM Airsoft Magazine, Airsoft International, & Recon-Rag and USASOC Airsoft Magazines on the web), and now, on this new web-hub for airsoft innovation.

He brings a 29+ year background in print, radio, broadcast and cable TV and video to this enterprise, with emphasis in real-world military reporting, as well as a deep respect for the men and women who protect our freedoms around the world.

What is this all about?

You can stay up-to-date on the latest happenings, leave comments at the NCAO site in one of the most INNOVATIVE Airsoft Communities in the USA and the WORLD, or share your thoughts right here in our COMMENTS section at the bottom of each Page and Post,

Or perhaps YOU can post up a HOT NEWS TIP that will scramble the “Rovin’ Thumpy” to find that NEXT INNOVATION in the Airsoft World!

Welcome Into the HOUSE…and you can always read more HERE:

Thumpy’s 3-D House of Airsoft NEWS on SCOOP.IT

Thumpy’s 3-D EVENTS and SITES NEWS on SCOOP.IT

Thumpy’s 3-D House of Airsoft on FACEBOOK - Like Us to get the news!

Thumpy Covey PERSONAL AIRSOFT PAGE on FACEBOOK - Friend us to see what we like!

Thumpy’s YOUTUBE Video Channel

Thumpy’s 3-D House of Airsoft at WORDPRESS.COM!

Thumpy’s 3D on TWITTER….link to our news on your Mobile!

Thumpy’s News on TUMBLR! Yea, we Tumbl, too!

The THUMPMASTER6 Daily on Paper.ly – AIRSOFT# News Links!

AND, if you need to contact us via e-mail…back channel news tips are ALWAYS WELCOME…then hit USE THIS ADDRESS for our G-MAIL InBox: Thumpy3D@gmail.com

COMING SOON: Thumpy Reviews THE AIRSOFT BIBLE Books of Tactics and COMMS!

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THUMPY is very excited to be doing a THOROUGH REVIEW of the first two books of The Airsoft Bible, by US Marine, former Paintballer and current Airsofter/Author/Carolinian William S. Frisbee, Jr.   These are two HEFTY little field guides, the first two parts of what Frisbee hopes will be a series of “books” that are also available in e-book form…helping players from beginners to seasoned ‘vets understand and enjoy AIRSOFT!

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We’ll be diving into these two books…especially as they are THUMPY’s TWO FAVORITE TOPICS…and are looking forward to the “BOOK OF COMMS” most of all!  We love COMMS…and we’ll let you know what’s what with some serious discussion via the SCOOP.IT and 3-D House of Airsoft on WordPress.com!

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http://www.scoop.it/t/thumpy-s-3d-house-of-airsoft-scoop-it/p/2722852824/coming-soon-thumpy-reviews-the-airsoft-bible-books-of-tactics-and-comms

Relationship between wargame scale and unit size – ConsimWorld

See on Scoop.it – Thumpy’s 3D House of Airsoft @ Scoop.it

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This should also be useful for MILSIM GAME PROMOTERS/ORGANIZERS, at least as far as the two lower parts of the graph are concerned:  we HATE going to an event where each side is named for a unit that is GROSSLY out-of-scale for the number of participants.

200 TOTAL players should have units sized to COMPANY sizes MAX…say, “A Company, 1/22 Infantry versus 3rd Company, 130 Guards Rifle Battalion.”  We have often gone to an event where the organizers simply take a historic LARGE SCALE BATTLE…and call either side US ARMY vs. NVA/USSR/IRAQ, where it would be so much more refreshing, and shape tactics better, if you use this graph to set up some REALISTIC scale to the events you put on.

Oh, and try to learn the proper pronounciations for the battles, too.  Makes you look like you actually DO care about the veterans who fought the real thing, rather than just a gross proffiteer.  Just sayin.’

“A graphic I whipped up showing the approximate scale of selected WW2 ETO warames in relation to typical unit sizes (data for U.S./Commonwealth units).”

See on social.consimworld.com

A BIG Thumpy SCOOP.IT “Double-Double” 60K + 30K !!!

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That’s right, another landmark morning for the THUMPY AIRSOFT/MILSIM SCOOP/IT’s…

We have hit 60 THOUSAND COMBINED VIEWS, and topped 30 THOUSAND VIEWERS in just the first 150 days of the site!  WHOOHOO….We are here for you…but we need your help.  TELL YOUR FRIENDS to come over to the SCOOP.IT for the MOST NEWS in one place, updated throughout the day EVERY STINKIN DAY!

AND, check out the whole Thumpy Interlocking Fields of Media Fire….search THUMPY and AIRSOFT, to get hooked up with our TWO Facebook sites, the YouTube video channel, Tweets of all the news on TWITTER, Tumblog love at TUMBLER, of course the WORDPRESS.COM site that started it all….and BOTH of our SCOOP.IT Channels….News AND Games/Events!

THUMPY….OVER!

Thumpy is TAKING OFF and wants YOU ALONG FOR THE RIDE!

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YUP, it’s official! We have taken flight, thanks to you guys & girls…and thanks to SCOOP.IT! We should hit the 50-thousand views mark sometime in the next week or so, based on the rate folks are checking us out.

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This is in line with what we were hoping for when we started the “quest” to become the USA’s source for Airsoft and MilSim news…each and every day!

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Next up:  we are seeking companies, gun and gear distributors, fields and CQB sites, heck…ANYONE who might want to help sponsor or advertise with us to get on board.  We have a lot to offer our friends and partners!  Especially those who want to get in on the ground floor and  help us START and BUILD!

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You can see the growth for yourself…you guys know you visit not only the SCOOP.IT, but also Thumpy’s other channels:

-HERE on WordPress.com (shortly to become a WordPress.org hosted blog)

-Our 3-D House of VIDEO on YouTube–with some quality production and presentation efforts, including major airsoft “events” like SHOT Show 2011 AND 2012

-The SOCIAL Media Hubs on FACEBOOK  :  HERE and HERE

-Thumpy’s 3-D @ Tumblr RIGHT HERE

-Our COMPLETE re-TWEET section on TWITTER

-Our Flickr site with STILLS GALORE

-And, more being added, updated and INFLUENCED DAILY, all over the ‘web!

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For those new to the 3-D House of Airsoft….check Thumpy’s ABOUT US page here at WordPress…AND HERE you can see a “virtual portfolio” of our work and quotes from our partners and friends in the airsoft, MilSim and Real Gun & Gear industry!

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SO Update and “Sales Pitch” over….I hate “selling,” so consider this a “Personal Invitation” to get with the T3D Battle Plan.  We aim high…we want you and your business to tap into our passion for “the game.”

AND, we want to have a lot of FUN getting us ALL to the TOP!

CONTACT THUMPY at Thumpy3D@gmail.com to start our personal conversation on what we can do for each other!

THUMPY….OVER!

Soldier of Fortune Magazine goes HIGH TECH with OPSGEAR, for NOOK & KINDLE, the WEB, FACEBOOK and…THUMPY..???

Just got this in over at the SCOOP.IT site’s SUPER-SCOOPER…and thought we needed to add a lot more to the back story, for all of you to enjoy!

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http://blog.predatorbdu.com/2012/03/soldier-of-fortune-mag-now-on-kindle.html

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OK, so for the record, I have not always been a blogger…heck, we didn’t even have “A/Uh” computer at my school…even for the front office folks…until the year AFTER I graduated; when my now-computer-savvy Army Civilian support little brother and his friends started to learn BASIC programming on a TRS-80.  Yea, I am THAT old.  Not as old as dirt, but old enough to know that “exciting electrons” only happened once-upon-a-time in an analog world, and “blogging” was done with a pencil and paper, or a typewriter you could not plug into a wall socket.

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This was EXACTLY like my first typewriter at the radio station where I learned my trade. I still type with 2 fingers and my thumb on my right hand…so I can throw the carriage!

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But, one thing that fueled my teenage imagination…along with my monthly copy of “DIRT BIKE” magazine…and that was riding my bicycle down to the local bookstore to pick up an ANALOG copy of SOLDIER OF FORTUNE Magazine!  Ah yes, the fuel of many-a backyard war with plastic army men and home-made guns….long before there was AIRSOFT or even the “P-WORD” in the USA…SOF and hard-chargin’ editor/publisher Robert K. Brown were “spanning the globe, bringing us the constant variety of war.”

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I gravitated to the Radioman…and it is NOT the WORST ARMYMAN of ALL TIME! (Click PICTURE for LINK)

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It didn’t hurt my desire to gobble up “all things SOF Magazine”, that Brown was a “prior acquaintance” of a good friend of mine who ran our best local hobby shop, fueling another love…building plastic armor and figure models and wargaming…and the stories of a “mercenary” lifestyle were the stuff of pirate legends to seaport boys of the 18th and 19th centuries.  In every issue of SOF, you were there, with RKB and “his boys” ADVENTURE JOURNALISTS, on ambush in Rhodesia, re-fighting the fights over Vietnam and “our” POW/MIA’s…and long before the right-wing mainstream “Conservative Movement, ” there was Bob Brown, schooling a lot of willing ears…and some tender, teen ears, too…to the looming threat of communism, cronyism, capitulation, corruption and criminal acts that needed someone to step into their path and ‘call a spade a spade.’

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I am sure reading those pages (and I still have MOST of my original copies in storage) somehow fueled my passion to become a journalist.  And, through a round-about way and tons of luck, I became a Radio and TV reporter who tended to gravitate to stories on the military.  ’Hard to toot my own horn…and I won’t right now…but apparently I was good enough to make a living doing that for over 20 years.  And, in my travels, I’d occasionally meet and interview folks who’d crossed paths with the mythical “RKB;”  another great friend and “source” who was, like Brown, a Vietnam vet Green Beret and passionate activist about the POW/MIA issue; others who might have a colorful tale from times gone by, even a state-side leader of the “Contra” effort in Nicaragua…which also was on RKB’s “radar”…but I never met “the man.“

Until January, 2012.  Dateline: Las Vegas

Sitting in the working media room at the SHOT Show 2012 with one of the worst colds/viruses of my entire life, imagine THUMPY’s surprise to look up from my lap-top and see ROBERT K. BROWN in the chair RIGHT NEXT TO ME!  It’s probably divine intervention…’has to be…at least as far as me not squealing like a high-school cheerleader, but I managed to gather myself in a split-second and said, “How ya’ doin, Colonel?”

An inspirational and very-wide ranging conversation of some-animation took place over the next half hour, in which we swapped stories about:

-being in Saudi Arabia for “DESERT STORM” at the same time, in mostly the same places (short of Kuwait City, for a little local-TV reporter hangin’ with Camp Lejeune’s finest, that didn’t happen…while “Lion-of-Arabia Brown” was ‘flipping the bird’ to the enforced media pools and flat-hatting across the desert wasteland into enemy-occupied Kuwait with Arab troops…what a story!!)

- to talking about some of those guys I knew that Brown recalled from earlier exploits…

-to talking AIRSOFT and MilSim, which the Colonel was well-versed in and supportive of as a Real-Steel training and tactics tool…(SWEET!)…

-to meeting his very nice”lady friend,” and showing off the technological wonder that is a MacBook equipped one-man-SHOT Show covering machine…

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“So, what kind of gear is THIS?” Apparently RKB’s “lady” gave his MacBook away…he kept breaking it! Steve Job’s finest apparently met its match in a hard-typing journo-’merc and conservative SHOOTER!

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After our “photo op,” I got an offer to contact RKB after the SHOT Show for a possible real shot at doing a story or two for SOF..still workin’ on that, so no details yet, but STAY TUNED…and, got his contact info on an NRA Board of Director’s Business Card (‘gonna be bronzed some day, to go in the THUMPY Museum of Military History) and we shook hands and parted company.

SO, it came as a shock a couple of weeks later, as we built the SCOOP.IT Channels, that SOF High Tech news started to fly in over the transom here at the 3-D House of Scoopage…

First, we got a FB scoop from 2011 Heroes of Thumpy @ SHOT Show 2011, “Jager” and Brandy from OPSGEAR.COM, that they were long-time associates and getting RKB’s online sites into a higher-state of tech awareness…

http://www.scoop.it/t/thumpy-s-3d-house-of-airsoft-scoop-it/p/1054261678/opsgear-on-soldier-of-fortune-magazine

https://www.facebook.com/OPSGEAR/posts/282470131807293

Now comes word that Soldier of Fortune will be DOWNLOADABLE on NOOK and KINDLE, Visible on their own SOF website and FB pages, AND…in all likelihood, spreading the death-defying and dealing stories of RKB’s memoires…now being written, we are told…onto that most-leftwing of tech devices…the iPAD!

As they say on TV….”STAY TUNED.”  We’ll be hearing a lot more from Soldier of Fortune Magazine and the intrepid and gracious (he’ll hate me for that one; I’ve probably just blown the ‘gig!) Robert K. Brown!

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SOF’s Website link HERE: http://www.sofmag.com/

“SOLDIER OF FORTUNE focuses on news and adventure based on firsthand reports from all over the world. Our commitment to presenting the facts in their entirety sets us apart from mainstream news sources. Our editorial policy is pro-military, pro-strong U.S. defense, pro-police, and pro-veteran. We strongly support the right of the individual to keep and bear arms. By opposing tyranny of all kinds, we support the basic freedom of mankind.”

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Amazon.com Kindle Link HERE : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006BDWP58

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NOOK Link RIGHT HERE: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/soldier-of-fortune%2c-inc

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And, ‘hell…”LIKE”  RKB and the SOF gang on FACEBOOK, RIGHT HERE….https://www.facebook.com/SOFMAG

Restraining Order and first COURT DATE for Cybergun Vs. JAG Precision

We have the latest paperwork, courtesy JUSTIA.COM ‘s excellent on-line legal filings capture service:

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FULL LINK TO ORIGINAL TRO HERE: CyberGV.JAG_TRO_120129

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Thumpy’s 3D House is also receiving information that ANOTHER SEPARATE ACTION may be underway involving certain retailers, receiving Cease and Desist letters over totally separate merchandise….INFORMATION COMING SOON!

BREAKING NEWS: JAG Precision and ECHO 1 Respond to SHOT Show Shutdown

THUMPY’s 3D House of Airsoft received several “tips” from airsoft retailers that JAG Precision had e-mailed a letter to customers regarding the “dramatic” SHOT Show shutdown of their display by CYBERGUN and FN Herstal…the details of that letter are posted on JAG’s corporate homepage…LINK HERE…

And, the text from that letter is also below in a screen-grab from the site on Wednesday night at 11:00 PM Eastern Time:

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