Choosing a set up or going with the flow.

Okay, I'm just wondering if you guys choose you load out and set up first, or do you go to the store and think there? I just go to the store and brain storm there for the fact if they don't have something ill get something else in it's place.

well i usually make a goal. for example. do i just want to be a run of the mill airsofter/soldier. or do i wanna be for example want to look like the GSG-9 or SAS or do i want do a PMC outfit? things like that

i also make a goal first, like i am going to do only OD gear and MARPAT BDUs. instead of just going and hoping you find some thing okay to use. planing ahead also helps for not waste time

Ditto here too, I plan my loadouts out. Exception would have to be me sporting a M4 while rocking a Heer loadout, I had the gun from another loadout and can't afford/don't want a new gun right now.

I kinda take it as it comes.
Adding little things here, little things there...until I come out with a suitable balance in gear.

I tend to not "plan" and then buy all at once, because if you just kinda relax and keep your options open you can find really amazing deals. Not to mention that some OA's restrict certain loadouts

On the other hand, I do encourage going into it with a general idea of what you want in the finished product.
You don't want to end up with an ACU blouse, BDU slacks, and a dinosaur trucker hat!
...because that would be weird (But slightly awesome)

I kinda based my loadout on something for example my current loadouts are based on a PMC (not used much now) and US military loadout however it kinda went away from that
when i bought my MEU, german flag patch and amount of mags I carry lol

I'm all about planning things out. I like to plan exactly what I want my finished loadout to be months in advance. If it turns out I'll need something else, I'll re-plan it in. I also like to order 90% of my gear from the same site to make effective use of their sales and discounts and to save on shipping. The other 10% consists of things they don't have, or things I can buy locally for a comparable price. Generally speaking, walk-in airsoft and/or paintball stores are overpriced.

Ehh sorry i didnt word it all that great, i mean like you have an idea but your also open to other ideas such as me they didnt have marpat so i went woodland bdu

Well if one thing is out of stock, then yeah I'll go to the next best thing instead of waiting until it's available. e.g. today they only had 1 tan pouch in stock and I WOULD have gone to an OD one but that was out of stock too

drummer look just wait, your having such bad luck cuz it's the end of the holiday season, people are still buying guns and stuff with holiday money, plus think of how much was bought before, it's all supply and demand. companies usully can only get what the got before the demand out weighs that blah blah blah point is they don't have the money to buy more before so they have to get regullar amounts

Yeah I guess you're right but it's just a little thing that gets me sometimes. Oh well my stuff should be here by the end of the week..

Anybody who is going to order wait till the end of this mounth threw the week in feburuary, starting in march it will have another bombbardment of orders( spring time people order a lot because there bouts to play)