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cobra6
04-28-2006, 02:41 PM
This is more of a fun project I started on in between classes in school.
I wanted to model an MG42 piece by piece.
So far I have the pistol grip, the bolt and Im working on the heat-shield of the barrel as you can see in some renders.
Good refference photos are hard to come by so its still not hugely detailed ;)

http://www.guuspeters.demon.nl/MG1.jpg
http://www.guuspeters.demon.nl/MG2.jpg
http://www.guuspeters.demon.nl/MG3.jpg

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Jelmer
04-28-2006, 03:14 PM
hey, this looks nice so far :), i've modeled a mg 42 game model a while ago, but this is different.. i like the details so far, keep working on it.
tilomit
04-28-2006, 04:24 PM
First of all, very nice work.
But I was wondering what you mean by Heatshield. Maybe my English is just that bad.
I like that weapon and I already had the opportunity to fire his grandchild the MG3.
Your detail is really beautiful.
Keep up the work.

P.S: Could you post some wires ?
Flakk
04-28-2006, 05:03 PM
It's like my dream to model a really, really detailed MG-42 but I've never dared start it cause it's too damn difficult ;/. And here you are modelling INTERNALS ;). Damn good job so far. I have a pretty big supply of pics of the MG42 by the way...
cobra6
04-28-2006, 06:20 PM
I need more info on the feed tray, barrel (internal and connections) barrel housing and trigger mechanism


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Flakk
04-29-2006, 12:06 AM
writings on the pics are not by me.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6561/mg197ec.jpg
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2466/mg42ard5mi.jpg
http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/6996/explo8bp.jpg
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8380/hatch6wr.jpg
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9958/mg146dm.jpg

Those are some from my collections :).
cobra6
04-29-2006, 06:32 AM
They are usefull indeed. Only the second one is a modern day MG3 (modern German Army)

Thanks!

Cobra 6
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