grip panel colors

[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

[Daskraut]

MG3 and MG74 GREEN PLASTIC on the butts, grips........?

[Karbinator]

did the early 42's have wood grips?

[boss429]

What's the availability of the green furnature?

[TOM R]

think green is hard to find as it is current issue

[Daskraut]

a shot of a MG74, note green grips.

notice the AA site location is different from a MG3.

[drooling idiot]

note.
metal drum

[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.

[Ralf Rude]

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

[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