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It's done. The idea has been lurking for years, and the job took one. The "Evolution of the Lafette 34" is finally in place as my next contribution. I hope you like it!
http://www.bergflak.com/lafette/evo34.html

Hope to meet some of you at Knob Creek next week!

Ex Norwegian army for sure. Box is repainted. These sets are getting scarcer and far between....

The "postwar use" article has been updated with a study of the front weapon mount of the Lafette 42. The next chapter is now online. This time it is "Construction & details". http://www.bergflak.com/lafette/Construction.html A walkthrough describing the individual parts. At a later stage I will take...

Or actually; The Postwar use of the Lafette". Took me some time, but it is now up and running.

Go to my homepage to watch the result. http://www.bergflak.com/lafette/Lafetteindex.html

Any comments and feedback will be appreciated!

Pure BS I'm afraid. I have got that covered in the new article. Watch for black alu sight blocks, those are 100% postwar and a tell tale sign of a Yugo M53 for sure. It now seems to be 50/50 with and without being sold. Years ago you didn't see any Yugo M53 without the sight block at all. I guess th...

I vaguely remember the storehouse/crates of parts pictures on this forum. I suspect the parts came from the ex-Yugo hoard as well then. Anyway, if they were all "pieced" together from parts it is not a hithertho undescribed import from a former user-nation, missing from the big picture.... I hope to...

Hmm. Still in the dark here. The Yugo Lafettes are easy enough. Both the refurbs and the M53 has the tell tale signs, so I have them covered. Has anyone ever seen a ex-Yugo Lafette 34? (I haven't, so I do not think they exist). The joker in the dark here are the AA/OOW Lafette 34s . I haven't seen a...

I'm finally at it again, writing a new article about the Lafettes. Need some help though! AA /MG34.com reportedly sold some MG34 Lafettes some years ago. Do anyone know where they originated from (country)? Any pictures of these? I also need a good photo of a Lafette 53 optic block. The one in coalb...

So the Lafette 34 neuerer Fertigung that you have "complies to the rule". Please email me th pictures when you find the time, so I can include a section on it for my Lafette-articles. No need to check the transport box and barrel carriers. Those are well documented as-is, and they all confirm to the...

Well, it is just a theory, but so far it has proven right (including yours I presume). The metal items from the Portuguese contract has all been painted in a special deep green color. The barrel carriers and ammunition boxes being the most often encountered item. I have never heard of a Lafette 34 n...

Also just picked up my mg34 1944 lafette with the mountain legs and still need to take pics and share. Later I know. MG34 Lafettes Neuer Art (with the adjustable legs) are very rare. It is pictured in the Lafette manual dated 1943, but so far it appears to have been solely manufactured for the Port...

Willing to forward the info that I have on my lafettes for a data base. I have read that there was a type two lafette style that the Germans changed to. Any info on this?? The German Lafette production was gradually simplified during the production run from 1936 to 1945. But a 1936 dated Lafette is...

As far as I know there is not a single country in Europe that has any restrictions towards "metal stands". I myself have never - ever heard about anyone in the US having a actual problem getting one into the country. So if you actually have a valid rule against them, it is not enforced! The data ava...

...must have been SWITZ (Siemens Elektrowärmer G.m.b.H., Werk Sörnewitz). I have now stumbled upon the first ever complete SWITZ Lafette known to exist so far. Up until now I have only owned a rebuilt top cradle with the same marking. The production run from this factory seems limited to the year 19...

This modification was applied to the BH (Bundes Heer / Austria) Lafettes. When the spread fire system was engaged, each recoil return of the sleigh will trigger the small arm 1 step. This arm makes the search fire move up -up-up etc until it goes down-down-down etc again. This way the rounds fired w...

The original caption read "AK SMG", but from the vegetation it might as well have been in Italy. The periscope appears to have entered the stage 1943'ish, so it can't have been many of them in the AK. I agree that the colors are very good. Reenactors...? Don't know, but I have seen original color ph...

Yes, you found the very same picture I was refering to (Mind you, that is the only one I have seen of the periscope in use, apart from the illustrations in the manual). Fair chance there is a picture out there of a MGz with the light cord attached as well!

Not entirely correct. As the Germans never made a cover for the Mg42 (and this one is screaming YUGO craftmansship) we can safely assume that the cover at the best would have been made for a MG53. But the MG53 never used the slab handle as far as I know........

Absolutely no reason to doubt that cover. I must admit that I have never seen any pictures of a fake cover. That is the reason there are no pictures of one in my article

The battery box takes 3 (connected in a serie) of the flat 4,5 volt batteries, same as used in the flat German flashlights. All German WW2 optics had some kind of illumination set up. The set you have shown Richard is the complete set up for a SF14z (Rabbit Ear scope). There is a special leather pou...