In honor of this special occasion, we are offering the following discounts in our store (CHOOSE ONE):
1) Free shipping (in US) on an order of $50 or more - use coupon code SBSFREESHIP
2) 10% off on order of $25 or more - use coupon code SMALLBIZSAT10
3) 15% off on order of $50 or more - use coupon code SMALLBIZSAT15
4) 20% off on order of $100 or more - use coupon code SMALLBIZSAT20
This offer won't last long, so get it while you can! http://www.darkthreads.com/store.shtml
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Pick of the Day: New Save Phace Masks!
Save Phace just added a bunch of new designs to their Tagged Series, which features custom limited edition airbrush design, interchangeable clear and thermal lenses, RWI foam (replaceable, washable, interchangeable), stuff bag, and 30-day warranty.
They also added some new styles to the Dope Series:
Diablo-Dope, Ghost Stalker-Dope, and Lazarus-Dope. The Dope Series comes with standard foam and one clear lens. Extra lenses and stuff bag can be purchased separately.
We highly recommend these face masks. I used to hate wearing a mask until I found Save Phace. They have a very low profile, fit comfortably, and resist fogging. I especially like wearing my mask for airsoft CQB training, where you can potentially get hit in the face at close range. Save Phace has definitely saved my face many times. Please check out the full line of Save Phace tactical masks in our store! Thanks.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Pick of the Day: H2O PROOF™ Rainwear by Tru-Spec
Just in time for stormy weather - there's a parka for every budget:
Top of the line: packed with features, everything you need for duty in foul weather.
- Stand up zip through collar with stowable hood and draw cords
- 2-hidden vertical map pockets aligned at the zipper with hook & loop closure under storm flap
- Horizontal chest pockets with hidden zipper closure. Both pockets have detachable ID tabs with hook & loop attachments
- Insignia/badge loop on front of storm flap
- Upper sleeve pockets with hook & loop closure
- Reinforced elbows
- Large front patch pockets with hook & loop closure
- Non-freezing two way zipper front closure with double storm flaps and snap closure
- Cuffs have adjustable hook & loop closure tabs
- Windskirt with elastic hem, drawcord and snap closure
- Taped seams
- Side zippers in jacket and liner for access to duty belt or pockets with snap closure
- Collar and sleeves snap to hold liner in place
- Fleece liner can also be worn separately as a stand alone jacket
Mid-priced: a great value, available in many colors and patterns. This is D.I.'s winter coat!
- Rollable Hood Stores In Collar
- Sleeve Pockets Allow For Sewn-on Patches
- Drawstring Waist With Cord Lock
- Adjustable Sleeve Cuffs
- Hidden Map Pocket
- Non-freezing Two Way Zipper
- Double Storm Flap
- Insignia/Badge Loop On Front Placket
- Sleeves Have Zippered Underarm For Ventilation
A basic parka that gets the job done. Taped Seams, Heavy Duty Two Way Zipper, Underarms, Compact, Easy To Carry, Non-freezing Two Way Zipper, Oversized Hood, Complete With Matching Stuff Bag.
All are constructed of durable, windproof, waterproof, breathable 3-layer nylon material, with a Dintex(TM) inner lining.
Please check them out in our store! Thanks.
Update: TacOps
VTI Tactical and MindGame Productions Presents...
TacOps
Saturday, November 27, 2010
9am - 6pm
Orlando, Florida
$40 advance registration / $45 onsite
Event STRICTLY limited to 100 players maximum!
We STRONGLY recommend pre-registration for this event.
Event doors will be closed with 100th player.
Registration open now at www.mindgame-productions.com/
VTI Tactical with the support of MindGame Productions presents TacOps, first in a new series of events and training classes oriented primarily toward the milsim and tactical simulation player community.
The first TacOps event will be held at the CSENTRI tactical training facility in Orlando, Florida. This event will be held in the south annex, an 80,000 square foot CQB complex of rooms, halls and stairs. Future TacOps events, classes and competitions will utilize other areas and assets at the CSENTRI facility as well as other locations in Florida.
This first TacOps event is STRICTLY limited to 100 players so advance registration is STRONGLY encouraged. Event doors will be closed with the 100th player and an announcement will be made prior to the event if any walk-on slots remain.
Standard MGP/FA rules are in effect. A full face-mask, shemagh or sports mouth-guard is STRONGLY encouraged for this event due to CQB layout and potential of accidental engagements within bang-out range.
Force dynamics will be shifted with every mission based on the type of scenario. We just ask that you wear a "complete" uniform in one of the following patterns to be clearly recognized and sign up during registration with your intended uniform so we can anticipate the basic team structures.
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Please Note: CSENTRI is a professional training facility for military, law enforcement, security personnel and defense contractors. This is our first event with CSENTRI, we want it to be the first of many, so we expect our Florida airsoft community members to behave with the maturity and professionalism that befits this venue. All weapons must be transported into the facility within bags or cases, no exposed weapons will be taken outside of the designated training area. No horseplay and listen to your admin staff! You're going to love this venue, but we want to make sure to maintain our welcome! Simply put... act like a monkey... and you're out.
For more information on the facility, click on the following video link:http://www.cubic.com/CSENTRI.
This event will be held in the south annex, discussed near the end of the video. Future events and training classes will be held in other sections of the facility and using other facility assets for smaller groups of milsim/tacsim enthusiasts.
Basics
- 18+ game
- CSENTRI Facility Orlando - Addressed to be published later
- 9am start. Onsite registration opens 8am
- $40 online pre-reg / $45 onsite (if slots still available)
- 400fps maximum. 350fps preferred. NO SNIPER WEAPONS.
- Mid/Low-Cap Magazines
- Bio BBs not required, but no clear Biovals
- Uniform options: Black, Olive Drab, MultiCam, ACU, Woodland, Tigerstripe, MARPAT, Coyote/Khaki, Civilian attire
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
VTI Tactical and MindGame Productions Present...
VTI Tactical and MindGame Productions Present...
TacOps
Saturday, November 27, 2010
9am - 6pm
Orlando, Florida
$40 advance registration / $45 onsite
Event STRICTLY limited to 100 players maximum!
We STRONGLY recommend pre-registration for this event.
Event doors will be closed with 100th player.
VTI Tactical with the support of MindGame Productions presents TacOps, first in a new series of events and training classes oriented primarily toward the milsim and tactical simulation player community.
The first TacOps event will be held at the CSENTRI tactical training facility in Orlando, Florida. This event will be held in the south annex, an 80,000 square foot CQB complex of rooms, halls and stairs. Future TacOps events, classes and competitions will utilize other areas and assets at the CSENTRI facility as well as other locations in Florida.
This first TacOps event is STRICTLY limited to 100 players so advance registration is STRONGLY encouraged. Event doors will be closed with the 100th player and an announcement will be made prior to the event if any walk-on slots remain.
Standard MGP/FA rules are in effect.
Visit www.mindgame-productions.com for more event details.
Trivia is on!
Sorry for the long hiatus, but we were busy with the Wasteland 2 event in Florida, and more recently sponsored Red Dawn 2 in Ohio...but we still have plenty of trivia questions, and prizes to give away, so here we go again.
Please DO NOT post your answer here. Send email to sales@darkthreads.com.
Good luck!
The rules are simple. Just be the first person to send the correct answer in an email to sales@darkthreads.com, along with your shipping address (so we can send you your prize if you are the winner). If you won the last time, please sit back and give someone else a chance this week, thanks!*
This weeks prize is a pair of the most awesome socks in the universe:
I'm not kidding. These socks are really awesome. They have everything you could possibly want in a sock: anti-microbial, anti-static, anti-odor, thermodynamic, cushioned, and machine washable!
This weeks question is another one from the Cold War era. Here goes:
Who did Jonathan Pollard spy for?Please DO NOT post your answer here. Send email to sales@darkthreads.com.
Good luck!
*Associates of Dark Threads and MGP are welcome to respond, but are not eligible to win the prize. Sorry guyz :-/
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Coming soon: A-TACS
You might have seen some buzz about this lately. It's a new camo pattern coming in 2011, and you can bet that we'll have it once it's available. It's actually a complex pattern made up of many different pixels sampled from different environments, designed to break up your silhouette against the terrain. The photos shown above are preview of some of the products that will be available in this new pattern. Please stay tuned for further details to come in 2011!
For more information about A-TACS, visit the official website at www.A-TACS.com.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
OP: Red Dawn II at Synergy in OH
Sorry for the short notice, but Dark Threads will be at this event tomorrow, and is actually on site right now. More info in this thread - http://www.airsoftohio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30111
11/14/2010
Tan Side
Cuban Forces - DCU, ACU and other tan based BDU's only. NO MULTI CAM
Spetznaz - Stand by for further info
Green Side
Wolverines - Any green based BDU, civilian attire or a combination thereof.
Special Forces Team is NWOA, no spots are open. BDU pattern yet to be determined.
Police Department is TF 150, no spots are open. Black/Blue based BDU's
Calumet City Residents: Civilian attire only, No military clothing or hats, (except boots) no vests, LBE or drop leg holsters. All pouches and holsters must be on a belt. All long guns must be on a sling. Shoulder holsters are allowed. Basically your chest and back (camelbacks and civilian back packs are okay) must be visible and you should be able to use both hands freely. If you think it might get you mistaken for a green or tan member, DON'T WEAR IT! Put civilian next to your name when signing up on the green side.
RED DAWN II
....At Synergy Woods paintball...
http://synergypaintballchallenge.com/....At Synergy Woods paintball...
26 years ago during the height of The Cold War, MGM released a film set on an alternate time line that depicted the invasion of the United States by communist forces...........
May 1984: An unusually cold and long winter has caused widespread famine in Russia.......... The Green Party gains control of the West German
government, and demands that the U.S. pull all nukes and troops out of the country - NATO dissolves............ Emboldened and encouraged by the U.S.S.R, Cuba and Nicaragua plunge Central America in to revolution, which spreads to Mexico.
September 1984: Soviet Forces cross the Bering Strait in to Alaska and storm through Canada, right to America's farming heartland. Cuban and Nicaraguan forces invade from the south across the Rio Grande in to Texas. America is cut in two, with Communist forces occupying from The Rockies to The Mississippi. Europe, still weary from the first two World Wars, remains neutral. The United Kingdom is committed to the liberation of Canada before assisting the U.S. America stands alone.............
October 1984: Calumet City, Colorado sits on the eastern edge of the Rockies and is a Communist outpost (Sector 8). The town is under martial law and is home to a "re-education" camp that houses political prisoners. A
local resistance, mostly made up of teenagers, calls itself the "Wolverines," after the high school sports mascot. The Wolverines conduct a guerrilla war against the occupiers with hit and run attacks. Their success and increasing numbers have demoralized the Cuban forces. Soviet Spetsnaz are called in to eliminate the Wolverine threat. The U.S. Army sends a Special Forces Team to train and equip the Wolverines, and also engage the Spetznaz. The Wolverines liberate the Re-Education Camp, and gain control of the town. The SF Team then withdraws with the liberated prisoners for medical attention and debriefing. Wolverine Guerrillas are left in control of Calumet City. There ends Red Dawn I.
Red Dawn II
November 1985: Canada has been liberated and allied forces are now in the U.S. pushing the Central American Forces southeast from the west coast. Calumet City is secured by the Wolverines but kept peaceful by it's Police Department which answers to the new, warlord like commander of the
Wolverines - whose camp is outside but close to town. These Wolverines are not the same partisans who liberated the town. Some members have gone back to civilian life in Calumet and others have been KIA securing the town. It's ranks have been filled with Cuban defectors, Allied deserters and survivors of other guerrilla factions. Very few have ties to Calumet City. Residents are noticing a stronger Wolverine presence in the city. Grateful for their protection, but resentful of their "us first" attitude when it comes to resources, residents begin complaining to Police of trading one occupier for another. With their hands tied, the police attempt to act as a buffer between the residents and the Wolverines, hoping for the war to end soon enough to end the unrest. Events spiral out of control. A resident is executed by the Wolverines for "treason" (denying access to his food stores). Residents frustrated by police inaction in turn beat a Wolverine caught alone half to death. The Wolverine commander then orders the Police Dept to arrest the residents responsible and turn them over. The Police Chief refuses and asks for U.S. Army assistance. The unrest does
not go unnoticed by Cuban Forces who have good intelligence on Calumet City. Retaking it would give them a valuable defensive position against U.K. and Canadian forces pushing across the Rockies. The U.S. Army knows this also and sends back the same SF Team that trained and assisted the Wolverines one year ago, hoping they can defuse the situation and keep things calm until the arrival of allied forces.
May 1984: An unusually cold and long winter has caused widespread famine in Russia.......... The Green Party gains control of the West German
government, and demands that the U.S. pull all nukes and troops out of the country - NATO dissolves............ Emboldened and encouraged by the U.S.S.R, Cuba and Nicaragua plunge Central America in to revolution, which spreads to Mexico.
September 1984: Soviet Forces cross the Bering Strait in to Alaska and storm through Canada, right to America's farming heartland. Cuban and Nicaraguan forces invade from the south across the Rio Grande in to Texas. America is cut in two, with Communist forces occupying from The Rockies to The Mississippi. Europe, still weary from the first two World Wars, remains neutral. The United Kingdom is committed to the liberation of Canada before assisting the U.S. America stands alone.............
October 1984: Calumet City, Colorado sits on the eastern edge of the Rockies and is a Communist outpost (Sector 8). The town is under martial law and is home to a "re-education" camp that houses political prisoners. A
local resistance, mostly made up of teenagers, calls itself the "Wolverines," after the high school sports mascot. The Wolverines conduct a guerrilla war against the occupiers with hit and run attacks. Their success and increasing numbers have demoralized the Cuban forces. Soviet Spetsnaz are called in to eliminate the Wolverine threat. The U.S. Army sends a Special Forces Team to train and equip the Wolverines, and also engage the Spetznaz. The Wolverines liberate the Re-Education Camp, and gain control of the town. The SF Team then withdraws with the liberated prisoners for medical attention and debriefing. Wolverine Guerrillas are left in control of Calumet City. There ends Red Dawn I.
Red Dawn II
November 1985: Canada has been liberated and allied forces are now in the U.S. pushing the Central American Forces southeast from the west coast. Calumet City is secured by the Wolverines but kept peaceful by it's Police Department which answers to the new, warlord like commander of the
Wolverines - whose camp is outside but close to town. These Wolverines are not the same partisans who liberated the town. Some members have gone back to civilian life in Calumet and others have been KIA securing the town. It's ranks have been filled with Cuban defectors, Allied deserters and survivors of other guerrilla factions. Very few have ties to Calumet City. Residents are noticing a stronger Wolverine presence in the city. Grateful for their protection, but resentful of their "us first" attitude when it comes to resources, residents begin complaining to Police of trading one occupier for another. With their hands tied, the police attempt to act as a buffer between the residents and the Wolverines, hoping for the war to end soon enough to end the unrest. Events spiral out of control. A resident is executed by the Wolverines for "treason" (denying access to his food stores). Residents frustrated by police inaction in turn beat a Wolverine caught alone half to death. The Wolverine commander then orders the Police Dept to arrest the residents responsible and turn them over. The Police Chief refuses and asks for U.S. Army assistance. The unrest does
not go unnoticed by Cuban Forces who have good intelligence on Calumet City. Retaking it would give them a valuable defensive position against U.K. and Canadian forces pushing across the Rockies. The U.S. Army knows this also and sends back the same SF Team that trained and assisted the Wolverines one year ago, hoping they can defuse the situation and keep things calm until the arrival of allied forces.
Tan Side
Cuban Forces - DCU, ACU and other tan based BDU's only. NO MULTI CAM
Spetznaz - Stand by for further info
Green Side
Wolverines - Any green based BDU, civilian attire or a combination thereof.
Special Forces Team is NWOA, no spots are open. BDU pattern yet to be determined.
Police Department is TF 150, no spots are open. Black/Blue based BDU's
Calumet City Residents: Civilian attire only, No military clothing or hats, (except boots) no vests, LBE or drop leg holsters. All pouches and holsters must be on a belt. All long guns must be on a sling. Shoulder holsters are allowed. Basically your chest and back (camelbacks and civilian back packs are okay) must be visible and you should be able to use both hands freely. If you think it might get you mistaken for a green or tan member, DON'T WEAR IT! Put civilian next to your name when signing up on the green side.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
We're back!
The Wasteland 2 event was fun. The weather was beautiful (even if it was a little chilly) and perfect for airsoft. The Wayne's World field is awesome and presents a wide variety of different terrain to play on, and once again, Fallout 3 proved to be a very interesting theme to play with. I heard lots of good things from players, and I see us doing this again, so there is probably a Wasteland 3 in our future.
In other news, tomorrow is Veterans Day, so please take some time to show appreciation for those who have given service to our country. You can send your own message of thanks and support to the troops here, on the USO "Thanks from Everyone" page. Also, if you would like to make a donation to the USO, Dark Threads has it's own sponsored team page here. Please help us reach our fundraising goal! Thanks.
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