[WWI] Machine gun color question.

[Andy Bannister]

> >
>  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.
> 

As I said, I'm no gun aficionado. However the Spandaus I've seen in Le
Bourget & the IWM definitely had a blue tinge to them and if you look at
Knut's pictures they look to have a slight bluish hue as well. Doesn't look
like black enamel to me, though of course lighting or age could be factors
as well.

Andy 
 
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