I have eventually completed the uniform side of my Kampfgruppe SS load-out. I have got a K98 carbine (D-Boys)on the way and also a AGM MP40, I was going to get the brown Bakerlite finish but will need to wait until new stocks arrive or go for a black fore grip/receiver, can any member that owns one of these let me know if the brown finish marks or comes off easy. Secondly was the black grip more common issue during WWII than the Bakerlite. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks- Paul.
Yes, the manufacturer's brown paint will wear off with use/wear. Regardless, you can paint your own 'Balelite' finish on the black version (do a search and you will find a descripive method on this forum).
AFAIK the brown/purple (& shades around) Bakelite phenol plastic was the early furniture and the more modern black plastic later.
yep airbrushed mine about 18 months ago, the brown has worn through to black nicely 
Actually, just realised the MP38 had black Bakelite so the Bakelite on the MP40 must just be a manufacturing variation of Bakelite colour from black through brown to reddy/purple, in which case it's nothing to with age, just the factory and manufacturing process. (I don't think they chose the colours to go with their uniforms 
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Dave likes Bakelite 
I do! My Grandma has a lovely cruet set in green/white Bakelite - very 1930's
* Hopes rest of family loathes them when the time comes to divi up 
*
must confess, my gran's got some nice Rennie-Mackintosh art-deco pieces, I've got my eye on 
Pity she hasn't got one of his buildings 
Thanks for all the replies, I think I'll go for black then and the plus side is they are in stock, and also I now have a useful insight into 1930's cruet sets ans Art Deco!.
Thanks again for the advise - Paul.
I got one of each.
Mind you, i've not actually used the black one in anger yet, i just like the bakelite one too much! Even though it's starting to flake off in places, it just adds to the finish on it.
Smooth job on the fire selector, very nice.
Tempted to do mine but i find with 50 round mags single shot to be too useful until I get some 100 rnd ones.
(unfortunate case of game effectiveness overriding realism i'm afraid, my bad i know)
Nice bayonet, I have a 1942 with matching serial numbers that an identical shade.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Smooth job on the fire selector, very nice.
Tempted to do mine but i find with 50 round mags single shot to be too useful until I get some 100 rnd ones.
(unfortunate case of game effectiveness overriding realism i'm afraid, my bad i know)
I did mine yesterday... not as neat a job as yours though panzerleid!
I did mine primarily cos I was fed up with it switching over to single shot by accident all the time!
I did mine primarily cos I was fed up with it switching over to single shot by accident all the time!
Absolutely! I'm doing it all the time (I can never remember which way the switch goes anyway! 
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Still, on it's very first outing I got my first kill with the first shot I fired that day. I was stalking my prey who was heading towards me but obscured by rubble when up he pops 20ft in front of me, so by reflex I let rip a burst. I don't know who was more surprised - him by me catching him unawares or me by the single shot that came out of my gun when I was expecting a burst! Lucky shot? Nah, skill! 
A dab of superglue locked the fire selector plate in place for me...
Wasn't there something about firing off on single shot before packing away to release the spring? Does it matter? (I never do, come to that I don't even empty mags - never, ever have done!)
There was yes... I have the same problem with my sten... no semi there either.
The result the spring lasted about a year or so... which is not much less than it did on my tommy gun which I did do that on.
Anyway if you're concerned when you take your battery out when packing away first cycle the gun till you can see the piston through the hole in the cylinder. When that happens the spring will be in a more relaxed position. It may take a couple of attempts to stop the mech in that position.
(Bet I won't remember to do that either )
Me neither! lol
In eight years of airsofting I've *never* worried about unbombing mags or releasing spring tension.
My AK47 still works as well as it did in 2003 when i bought it, I'm sure my G36 would still too if i had it.
I tend to release it on my sa80 when its used as its got that dead handy release switch option on the change lever.
But my thompson has been hammered over the last three years and i've had no problems with the spring and that never been looked after either.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Bit of a late reply to this thread, but just a quick one. My AK was puttin out 350fps and had no selector (constantly full auto). After about 18 months I chrono'd it again and it was only doin about 250fps. I do have the worst luck in the world though, and if summet can go wrong it usually will. I reckon its cos the spring was never 'relaxed' properly. I've have had quite a few mags 'die' on me as well through not unloading them. Springs just gave up. Actually, every single one of my shotgun shells went tits up through being left loaded while I was enjoying some hospital time instead of a game 
Not a nice memory that
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