I know it's crass, but just for fun I've found a pic of an stg44 with a Kampf pistol underslung. I brought one of these from Pimms last year so may have a go at trying to fit it on. This has to be the first assault rifle with the fore runner to a grenade launcher underneath!
i LOVE the folding stock version!!!! 
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Lets think? 
One is wartime and one is post war? 
They only look a like, mechanicals are nothing like at all the same. 
It would be a wonderful bit of propoganda and revisionism if the soviets had managed to convince the world that the nasty germans copied the Mp42 and it's later bretheren inc. Stg44 from the Ðвтомат Калашникова образца 1947 года. The design of the first of the MP/Stg line predating the AK by some 5 years. 
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Heres my re painted MP40, i like weathering and repainting guns, can't wait for an MP44 so it can get a similar treatment
Uhhhh... tell me about that beautiful G43....! Not an airsoft gun, surely?
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Don't be weathering your MP44s too much, chaps. Remember that these would be much less than twelve months old in most scenarios you would use them in. When mine arrives, I will be looking into seeing if it is possible to use aluminium black and gun blue to refinish it (testing unseen areas first). If not, I think a little wire wool to the raised surfaces will suffice. The real steel MP44s we see today, which are very grey in appearance, have had 60+ years of being handled and used to get into that state.
On another note, who's going to be the first to strip theirs completely and laquer it, like the very late war production?
Don't be weathering your MP44s too much, chaps. Remember that these would be much less than twelve months old in most scenarios you would use them in. When mine arrives, I will be looking into seeing if it is possible to use aluminium black and gun blue to refinish it (testing unseen areas first). If not, I think a little wire wool to the raised surfaces will suffice. The real steel MP44s we see today, which are very grey in appearance, have had 60+ years of being handled and used to get into that state.
On another note, who's going to be the first to strip theirs completely and laquer it, like the very late war production?
Look at this one in Africa, half a century later & it still looks good, I bet the guy it was first issued to never though it would still be in use 50 odd years later 
Interesting collection of WW2 weapons, the woman behind the one with the stg44 is holding a Beretta 38, (no mag fitted), not sure what the next one is, (although the flash-hider and mag look a bit like the ones on an svt40), but the one behind is an Italian Carcano M91carbine.
She isnt ready to rock 'n' roll either, ejection port cover is still closed.
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Nah, she's one of the lucky first to get her hands on the AGM - look, she's been at it with the wire wool already.
Nah, she's one of the lucky first to get her hands on the AGM - look, she's been at it with the wire wool already.
I know we're not meant to criticise, but that sling looks a bit farby... 
Looks like the plastic stock version too.
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Another couple of photos. Both are of very postwar Yugoslavian paratroopers:
The ones in the second photo still look remarkably black
Interesting page showing a blued one in very good condition at the top and a polished and laquered late model below:
http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/fieldstripp/strp_mp44.htm
Feckin noobs - mags out in the safezone!
Heh, I likes the look of the lacquered version!
There's an even shinier one about a quarter of the way down this page:
http://claus.espeholt.dk/mp44.htm
Notice on the unissued multicoloured 1945 made minty one just how black the black parts are, and the variation of colours on the page.
Yes its a good article. Certainly shows the range of finishes used.
Interesting collection of WW2 weapons, the woman behind the one with the stg44 is holding a Beretta 38, (no mag fitted), not sure what the next one is, (although the flash-hider and mag look a bit like the ones on an svt40), but the one behind is an Italian Carcano M91carbine.
I think it is an Eygptian Hakim. http://world.guns.ru/rifle/rfl27-e.htm
It also looks like a Mauser back left and could be an M1 garand with a bayonet fitted. Can't see much but the muzzle profile fits. Certainly an interesting collection, I wouldn't want to have sort out their ammo supply!
She isnt ready to rock 'n' roll either, ejection port cover is still closed.
God job too with that trigger discipline.
God job too with that trigger discipline.
I wouldn't worry, they've probably not been able to source any ammo for it since before she was born!
Hmmm, 390fps stock - looks like there will be some tinkering to do if chaps want to use them at Die Glocke!
I wouldn't worry, they've probably not been able to source any ammo for it since before she was born!
There are still millions of rounds stored. There are thousands in this country if you ask the right people.
You can still buy the cases if you wish to load your own.
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