Hey you! My name is Thomas “TomSka” Ridgewell and this may come as a surprise to some of you but...
I like guns. I do.
Surprise!
A lot of people ask me questions about my arsenal; what the guns are, where I got them,
how I got them, so I thought I’d introduce you to my guns. Which sounds like a threat
but it’s not. OR IS IT?! It's not... Or is it?
Some of the guns behind me are replicas, toys or decommissioned, but most of them are airsoft/BB
guns that fire little plastic pellets propelled by springs or electricity or gas and you can
acquire those with a United Kingdom Airsoft Retail Association license which you get by
playing airsoft games. Or you can not do that and instead buy brightly coloured versions of the same guns!
I actually get a lot of my guns because I have a filmmaker’s license, which says hey i'm a filmmaker i'd like to use these as props.
Cool? Cool.
Okay! Let’s go meet the gang. Oh, and to those asking about the grid-wall that’s
holding them all up, I’ll leave a link in the description to where I bought them. To the sofa!
Hellooo. So let’s kick things off with a couple of my earliest BB guns which I picked
up on holiday many, many years ago. My very plasticy, spring powered Colt 1911 and H&K USP.
These guys featured in some of my earliest videos and are just… Very broken now.
To compare those two let’s look at my nice and shiny gas blowback versions of the same
guns I bought online back in 2010 which have featured in a whole lot of my videos ever since.
I bought this one because it could take a silencer but… It was very wonky.
I picked up this decomissioned shotgun at a comic convention and promptly sawed it off
because… Cowboys. And bank robberies.
These are Glock 19s. I like them a lot. Mm…
This M249 was… Sent to my P.O. box by one of you. It’s kind of amazing that the police
weren’t waiting for me when I picked it up.
Here’s a Beretta M9. It’s full of mud and the trigger is broken. I’m a responsible gun owner.
I commissioned this handmade Mini Gun prop for a live action trailer for KatataK that
never got made. But don’t worry, we found a use for it eventually!
I bought this gun on holiday. It doesn’t do anything so we have to use VFX to make it fire.
I bought this replica repeater after playing too much Red Dead Redemption. It makes me feel things.
I also bought this mini 12-gauge pump shotgun on holiday. It’s very small.
These are electric MP5s. And here’s an MP5K. Ouch.
I got these replica Colt Single Action Army revolvers to feel even more like a cowboy.
And one day I’ll make an actual video with these guns.
Here’s some repainted Nerf guns I commissioned for a sponsored video that got cancelled midway
through shooting! Faaantastic.
MAC-11s are fun! Except when the magazines don’t fit… URGHH!!
This decommissioned AK-47 is from Russia… I try not to think about it…
Here’s a boomerang from Australia!
Here’s a solid plastic prop taser which cost way too much money!
This gun… This gun doesn’t do anything. Get a job.
THIS decommissioned AK-47 is from North Korea… I… Really try not to think about that one…
I also bought this airsoft rocket launcher for the KatataK trailer. Which, again, never got made.
I bought a bunch of G36Cs for a sponsored video! I really love my job!
I killed myself with this shotgun!
I bought these guns off a friend.
I got this baseball bat on holiday many, many years ago. It used to say arsenal and I rubbed off
the “nal” so it just said arse. Hehe. The handle broke when I smashed a TV screen!
These brightly coloured BB guns were sent to us by a Scottish person!
Ah, my M4. So sleek.
Fuck vampires.
I don’t really know why I bought this… Ouch.
These AK-47s are garbage.
Colt Python 357. I broke this trying to be cool! Oh...
Candy Cane laser gun because fuck you that's why.
Here’s a Portal Gun one of you lovely peoples kindly gave me at a convention! Jack Howard broke it.
I stole this from my granddad in preparation for the inevitable zombie apocalypse!
A cosplayer gave us her crossbow! And I don't really know why...
Ello ello ello, what’s goin’ on ‘ere then?
And finally, my Barrett 50.cal. I got this for a short film but it was just too big and
heavy to get onto the set… We found a use for it eventually though.
This video has probably ruined my hopes of ever getting a real actual job… Or flying ever again. TomSka out!