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grip panel colors
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:35 pm
by TOM R
just curious any one know the correct grip panel and buttstock colors to use?
mg42 buttstock; wood, black Bakelite, all ww2 grips I have got black panels, although there is also red,and brown
m53 same as above
mg1
mg74 buttstock and grips green plastic
mg3 buttstock and grips green plastic
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:47 pm
by Daskraut
MG3 and MG74 GREEN PLASTIC on the butts, grips........?
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:25 pm
by Karbinator
did the early 42's have wood grips?
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:22 pm
by boss429
What's the availability of the green furnature?
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:25 pm
by TOM R
think green is hard to find as it is current issue
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:11 pm
by Daskraut
a shot of a MG74, note green grips.
notice the AA site location is different from a MG3.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:43 pm
by drooling idiot
note.
metal drum
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:23 am
by Reichpapers
Original GErman MG42 grips will be black or redish brown or brown bakelite. I have seen all three maker marked. POst war also used the reddish brown.
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:02 pm
by Ralf Rude
Daskraut wrote:a shot of an MG3 or possibly an MG74, note green grips.
The soldier in the background wears an Austrian uniform. So I think it's a MG74. I've never seen green furniture on any MG3 I've seen or used.
RalfR
Re: grip panel colors
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:19 am
by TactAdv
MG74 are the ONLY guns with "green" furniture as originally manufactured. Steyr was one of the original co-operative builders in the post-war MG42/59 program, and supplied many parts for all other users. After 1973, Austria stopped buying MG42/59's and adopted their own slightly modified version, the MG74. Due to continuing commitments with the other original users of the MG42/59 program, Steyr still supplied as spare parts certain items, among them plastic furniture sections. The green butt stocks were supplied to many, almost no green grip panels were supplied. Finding a German/Italian/Iranian, etc. MG42/59(MG3) with a replacement green buttstock is not hard.
Here are some photos of my factory original Steyr MG74 machine gun, showing the very light green coloring of the stock and grip panels.
-TomH