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Look on the ends of the numbered-traverse-plate....near the serial-number and see if it is stamped "MG34/41"....or "MG34S" ....or "34/41".....or "34S". It will also be stamped like this at the rear of the gun-mounting-plateform near the serial-number.

The other indication of use for the shorter MG34/41 or MG34S would be the trigger (at the point where it would go into the trigger-guard on the gun when it is mounted) that is only for a full-auto gun similar to the trigger-lever on the MG42 Lafette-Tripod. The trigger-lever is different than the converted/modified MG34 Trigger-Lever.

I'd be interested, but would need to see photos of what you have.
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Regards, RichardS.
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OK thanks Richard. I'll look in the daylight tomorrow and possibly take some pics to post. Cheers Terry

Here are a few pics before I start onto this with the scrubbing brush and stripper. There's a nice low number and a couple of WaA 200 stamps on the top but that's different from the one on the piston housing. Anyway..see what you think.

Here's how it looks so far. I've got the Dunkelgelb paint coming tomorrow and then I'll marry this to my MINT unissued 1943 dated MG34!!!!!!!
Perhaps this is in the wrong forum now? Can it be moved to accessories?

wow looks RED lol lookin good

Well... Here'e the Lafette in what I was told was 'Dunkelgelb' paint which I thought would be a nice field grey/green colour. This looks awful!! I think I'll get a can of British Racing Green and give it another go!!

Have you thought of going with the early war 'dunkelgrau'? Found a source in Germany that has original RAL numbered paints. I will see if I can find the link if anyone is interested.

Regards,
Eric

When it comes to Dunkelgelb, or any other color for that fact, I would never use what someone perceives as the right color...in most cases it is not. The book "Wehrmacht Camofaluge Colors 1939-1945" is an excellent reference that includes color swatches. Here is a good example of Dunkelgelb that has not faded to a sandy hue:

Right... Here it is with some old Land Rover paint that I had lying around slapped on to it. I feel that it looks much better, but that's only my preference. I've roughed it up a bit where the bullet belt hangs just for the look of it. Any comments?

What look are you trying to achieve? Original color...or just a nice looking color?

It's what I think of whenever I hear of German WWII soldiers and their equipment. Sort of greeny gray colour. I know it's not perfect but I couldn't stand that Ice cream colour that I had before. Plus I'm probably influenced by thinking 'KHAKI' whenever the Army is mentioned.

What look are you trying to achieve?

My thoughts also, it now looks like a yugo rebuild with the slime green paint.

The grey green color you are talking about is called Feldgrau...I don't believe this color was found on Lafette tripods...

OK..OK.. I'll scrub the green off. Jeez!! You guys don't half nag!! I thought that the white colour was used in the desert. There is no call for Mountain troops in the desert so the Lafette would probably not have been used there. Or .. What about Crete? The Gebirgsjagers were there, weren't they?

Actually the dunkelgelb has nothing really to do with the desert a lot of people always associate the two. Dunklegelb was used later on in the war this neutral color was applied to: vehicles, guns accessories optics can mostly everything. It allowed the troops in the field to apply their environment specific camo pattern over top of it. As a Gebirgsjägers reenactor I can tell you that when they were Italy a lot of their gear was a mix between standard continental and tropical (what people misdiagnosis as “desert”)

Your mount since it’s early would have originally been painted .dunkelgrau

TOM R wrote:wow looks RED lol lookin good

Tom the primer color looks pretty good, the original WW2 red oxide primer is very reddish looking. Kind of though to find the correct shade most American red oxide primers are too much on the brown side.

I really should pay more attention to where I find things on the web. Just spent ages trying to find this link again. I hope

its of some use http://www.rrservices.co.uk/index2.html they do war paint apparently. I have never used them

just a site I ended up at on my travels.

This is the last bit I'm doing to it!! I'm knackered!!