[kalnaren]

I have both a G36 and a FA-MAS. The FA-MAS is old anc creaky, but that's easy to fix with a bit of tape (eleminated 95% of the creak on mine). People saying the gun sucks for performance is bullshit. It has an insane rate of fire and is insainly accurate for a platform of it's size. The V1 mechbox, through old, is a tank and can be midly upgraded. My MAS is shooting at 330 FPS no problems. It isn't customizable though -you can pretty much just put a rail on the top and one on the bottom and that's about it.

The Classic Army G36 is a great gun. As Kos said, it has a few little annoying problems. Mine has mostly been electrical -I've had it fail on me at 2 games. One of them I actually had to take the mechbox apart to fix (trigger contact problem), the second I just had to fiddle with the connectors. Personally I think people over exaggurate the mag problem. You need G36 mag pouches (which a lot of people bitch about -but you also need MP5 and P90 mag pouches... funny, I never hear people complain about them). And you only need G36 mag pouches if you want duel mags. I use 4 pouches -2 G36 mag pouches with 2 mags each, and 2 duel M16 mag pouches with 1 mag each, and I can change the mags out fast enough.
As for performance, the gun is pretty sweet. I stuck a tightbore in mine and it's great. Drains the mini battery quickly though if you use full auto a lot. Definetly get a CA one though, the build quality is better than TM.