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Post by cairo1 on Sept 8, 2011 14:27:24 GMT -5
my fancy weathered STG44  |
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Post by Sgt_Tom on Sept 8, 2011 14:47:38 GMT -5
Looks pretty nice. Good job stripping that all down to the bare metal or did you paint it silver? If you did strip it that must have been a ton of work. My only suggestion would be to change the color of the black metal parts. Maybe try for a blued or parkerized look. Actually maybe it just needs a bit of steel wool. The black parts just looks too new compared to the rest of the gun.
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Post by cairo1 on Sept 8, 2011 14:58:11 GMT -5
actualy i stripet the whole thing then repainted those parts, i went for a two tone look. this color is much more gray in person.
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Post by Sgt_Tom on Sept 8, 2011 15:05:54 GMT -5
Ah ok. What did you strip it with by the way.
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Post by cairo1 on Sept 8, 2011 15:08:59 GMT -5
Ye olde Zip Strip.
it burns like Heck if it gets any where on you at all. it was aful. my brother got a chemical burn from it. i tried to tell him, but he was like it dosent burn at all. then about 20 seconds later he was screaming.
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Post by Sgt_Tom on Sept 8, 2011 15:14:12 GMT -5
It never burns me ;D. It doesn't always work very well for me, though maybe I don't put enough on.
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Post by cairo1 on Sept 8, 2011 15:33:08 GMT -5
my stuff is from like the 60s we found it in the basement of my grandpas work place.
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Post by mccallion on Sept 8, 2011 17:24:06 GMT -5
stg44s were never pakerized or had a phosphate finish i recomend that you blue the receiver then reweather it also the two tone thing was VERY late war like feb of 45 till the end of the war
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Post by cairo1 on Sept 8, 2011 18:07:43 GMT -5
while the handguard is steel, the reciver is cheap pot metal. and while it can be blued with liquid blue, it causes metal instabilliteis and rusts VERY FAST. at least this is what i have heard from other people who have blued pot metal.
i would like to note that some parts would not strip. those parts being the barrel,small stock parts, magizines and sight hoods.
I like the look of the two tone finnish, i wouldent take this gun to a living history thing but i think for airsoft its fine. in a fiels where large sums of russians are useing "lend lease" thompsons, i think my 2 tone rifle will cause no major farb pings.
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Post by Sgt_Tom on Sept 9, 2011 12:24:43 GMT -5
stg44s were never pakerized or had a phosphate finish i recomend that you blue the receiver then reweather it also the two tone thing was VERY late war like feb of 45 till the end of the war McCallion I am not sure what finish it is but I've seen Stg44s in a gray looking color. It looks like parkerizing to me but I guess it must be something else, sure wasn't bluing. files.uzitalk.com/reference/shoots/princeton2004/STG44-2.JPG |
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Post by BigBoy on Sept 14, 2011 8:16:06 GMT -5
Some of the grey metal was just the natural color of the steel used. I have several original MP44 very late war magazines which were never finished. There were left is the natural steel finish. Today they have a freckle finish where spots of rust have formed but have been removed. I keep the mags covered with a good oil coat to prevent any additional rusting.
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