Hey fellow dirty dudes,
I have almost finished my Tunisian DLT.
As there are already quite a few build threads, I´ll cut it short, I got the templates from my friend bigwam/Thomas, the barrel is a resin cast from a real sterling which I purchased from a 501st member in Spain. The grips are from Latvia, probably the same as Jcalus/Jon has used for his build.
Just as bigwam and Heroma I have glued three pieces of wood together
and after a lot of sanding it looked like this:
I had to cut the front part apart and added an aluminum dowel
the dowel, triggerguard and some greeblies that you normally find on the barrel of the original MG34
before spraypainting the wood, I used this to avoid wood shining through as soon as the part gets its first battledammage
soaks into the wood and looks like this afterwards, you can also see in the picture that I´ve added a thread which was screwed into the wood for the wooden cocking lever.
After painting the barrel gunmetal, I gave it a wash with a thick mixture of water and acrylic brown and black to emulate the bluing: most of it is dabbed of almost immediately after applying it.
T-tracks spraypainted black
and finally used Rub´n Buff silver leaf to finish it off and give it that used look:
added the wire
and here´s the (almost) finished product
next pic was taken with the flash on, colour looks different and the bluing effect is more noticeable:
I´m thinking about adding some rust and finally giving it a wash with some earth colour... or better leave it the way it is? What do you think?