Tales from the airsoft simulator
Articles
Discoveries, experiments and the occasional busted myth – things that surfaced while I was building the simulator and poking around replicas.
24 July 2026
Auto-Tune – the simulator does the sizing for you
The old volume-ratio formula knows nothing about piston mass or spring power. Auto-Tune lets the simulator find the cylinder on its own – and hands you a quieter or a punchier working point.
23 July 2026
The Super-BB That Never Took Off
However hard we pimp the replica – air drag is the one factor that will cap the BB’s range. But what if we pimp the BB too???
21 July 2026
When Physics Won't Physicise
I'd always fantasized about a mighty physics simulator for an airsoft replica – that popular formula for the optimal barrel-to-cylinder volume ratio would miss by a fair bit in practice, and this way you could actually see what's really going on in there!
16 July 2026
The Quiet zone for an even quieter replica
Experimenting with the simulator, I found a cylinder-volume zone where the piston lands softly and the slam gets noticeably quieter – at the price of a crumb of energy.
