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Published: 2018-11-02 11:50:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 13391; Favourites: 234; Downloads: 136
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Lovely girl commission byA Gefreiter of Grenadier Ersatz und Ausbildungs (Replacement and Training) Battailon 53, part of Ersatz u. Ausb. Division 464. A sign of the times, she carries an Austrian made Steyr M95/30, a shortened, rechambered version of Austria’s WWI service rifle. This unit was composed of veterans serving as instructors, soldiers recovering from wounds, and many new recruits. The division was broken up before the Battle of Bautzen and served with various units of Panzerkorps Großdeutschland. While the battle was a tactical victory, it did nothing to prevent the fall of Berlin.
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I like the baginess, that leg pose is really something you'd see in reference books. I was already wondering about the bolt of the gun until I read the text, makes me think of the dutch Hembrug carbine which is basically a dutch Steyr m95
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Looks same to me hehehe
For Her pose, i use US paratrooper photo for reference 😁
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Ah very nice very nice. I was thinking of a project making an instruction manual of the german kit in this style, but I don't know if it would be worth making since I probably can't make it for my portfolio
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The Austrian Steyr-Mannlicher rifles had a faster bolt-stroke than the Mauser rifles, if only because they did the camming automatically when the bolt was pulled and pushed back into battery. The downside was the manufacturing cost of the bolt. I can clearly see that this girl will probably load up a little faster than her Russian opponents (German clips and ammunition were easier to load than Russian Mosin clips, and did not have the issue of rim-lock).
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I don't know about the rifle, mosin nagant have a simple bolt design, but the ammo clip look so difficult to load
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There are two main clips for rifles. By clip I mean disposable holders, not entire magazines. The first is the en-bloc clip, the type used by the M1 Garand, the Carcano family, and the Mannlicher family (amongst a few others). The other clip type is the stripper clip, used by the Mauser family, the Lee-Enfield, the Mosin-Nagant, and several others. The en-bloc clip is easy: just shove the entire thing into the magazine until it latches. The stripper clip is a little more complicated. Insert stripper clip into guide and shove all the cartridges out of the clip and into the magazine, then remove the clip.
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