[WWI] Machine gun color question.

[Shane Weier]

Paul says

 

> Guns are not painted, the metal is 
> "blued" <
> 
> Too sweeping a statement - true for 
> Vickers and maybe Lewis guns, but IIRC 
> Maxims and Parabellums were japanned, 
> i.e. black enamel baked on.

 

Also true in relatively modern times. My first 18 months as a soldier was spent carrying an M-60 which was partly made of sheet metal painted black (and which wore or chipped off leaving the aluminium? visible in places.

 

Shane

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