"Lewis Guns. " Topic
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rvandusen  | 03 Nov 2012 1:06 p.m. PST |
I have 16 Lewis gunners to paint and every gun will have the cooling jacket painted drab as here:
I'm not sure if most had the jacket painted in this fashion, but it does look cool so I'll go ahead and have khaki cooling jackets. Does anyone know if most were painted in this fashion or were most Lewis Guns left overall bare metal? |
| MAD MIKE | 03 Nov 2012 2:16 p.m. PST |
Most photos I have seen show the jacket painted in a dark green colour. However coolness trumps accuracy and i have seen different schemes (perhaps from Mesopatamian Theatre) The sample you show looks very good and should really "pop out" on the table. During WW2 Britain obtained Lewis guns from USA and these had broad red bands painted on them to indicate 30:06 chambering rather than .303 YouTube link |
| rvandusen | 03 Nov 2012 3:56 p.m. PST |
Dark green also sounds good. Maybe I'll experiment with Vallejo colors like U.S. Dark Green or maybe "Brown Violet". B.V. seems more olive green than either brown or violet! |
| Phil1965 | 04 Nov 2012 6:49 a.m. PST |
The brown barrel looks identical in colour to Vallejo's British Uniform. |
| Martin Rapier | 05 Nov 2012 3:11 a.m. PST |
Lewis gun sleeves in WW1 were painted in the field from December 1915 as per regulation GRO 1339. From the factory the casings were just metal. "The issue of a special preparation of khaki paint for painting the casings of Lewis guns is approved on a scale of 1 pint per battalion in possession of these guns.
The painting should be done under regimental arrangement." The colour was 'khaki' or sometimes referred to as 'machinegun brown' and was applied by armourers in the field. A small number of guns were painted using camouflage paint (so usual mix of brown, green, light grey, black etc). It was moderately common to paint a white half moon on the magazines to aid reloading in the dark (as the mags only lined up one way). |
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