Oct 29, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 12 segments
Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast - Small Arms Small Talk. If you haven't already heard about it, then it will cover a variety of topics about the Vickers MG, related small arms and…
yeah another one from discord this is again from delta juliet who asked um what early bread accessories were binned off towards the end of the second world war and why
It probably looked like the British Army of the 1930s and looked like you can do it.
100 round drum magazines for anti-aircraft use, things like that, that we will cover in another book as well.
One that jumped out to me when I was reading the equipment section of the book was I mentioned that the magazine was the only part of the gun that could be painted, which I found really interesting because I'm assuming it's to do with minimizing the elevated profile of the gun, you know, say to compare to like a rifle.
It's one of those where you, you paint the end of a tank barrel, a different color.
So a barrel, if you paint the top of the magazine, it doesn't look like a, it might not look like a light machine gun with a magazine on top.
Um, and also from a ease of cleaning and, and which bits get hot perspective as well.
So if you start to paint things with normal paint, uh, they, They will start to wear a lot more quickly when they get hot and come off on everything and then just need repainting all the time.
yeah another one from discord this is again from delta juliet who asked um what early bread accessories were binned off towards the end of the second world war and why
It probably looked like the British Army of the 1930s and looked like you can do it.
100 round drum magazines for anti-aircraft use, things like that, that we will cover in another book as well.
One that jumped out to me when I was reading the equipment section of the book was I mentioned that the magazine was the only part of the gun that could be painted, which I found really interesting because I'm assuming it's to do with minimizing the elevated profile of the gun, you know, say to compare to like a rifle.
It's one of those where you, you paint the end of a tank barrel, a different color.
So a barrel, if you paint the top of the magazine, it doesn't look like a, it might not look like a light machine gun with a magazine on top.
Um, and also from a ease of cleaning and, and which bits get hot perspective as well.
So if you start to paint things with normal paint, uh, they, They will start to wear a lot more quickly when they get hot and come off on everything and then just need repainting all the time.
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