Hi All,

Hope you can help me with clarifying a detail of a figure I'm working on.
It's about this one, a British WW2 para at Arnhem from Mitches:



Made after this picture:



An attractive figure, but despite the large scale the stengun unfortunately is a bit sketchy and lacks a sling.

To upgrade these areas a bit I'm looking for info on these things:

- how the sling attaches to the weapon

- and what is happening at his left hand, the one holding the magazine....is the hand holding part of the sling, a glove, ....or something else?

Here's a zoom of the area:



Hope some of you more knowledgeable on this matter can help with this....thanks!

Cheers
Adrian

Google Mk5 Sten, there's lots of pics of the attachment points for the sling - Not sure about his hand, but looks like a leather glove to me.....

Thanks Steve. Sten Mk5 helps....was confused about all the version I encountered while googling.

Looks like he wrapped the sling around the magazine.

Cheers
Adrian

For sling mountings I’d use google as previously suggested.

Look at all those equipped with sten guns - all have slings around their left hands or magazines in different ways. I’d say the centre paratrooper has his sling wrapped around his magazine.

Cheers

Huw

Hi Adrian,
Hope these help.
cheers
Richie

The muzle of a firing machine gun has the tendancy to go up looking for the sky.
Wrapping the sling give a better control to keep it down

The same when firing an antitank grenade with a gun, you have to wrapp the sling around your fore arm and behind the elbow to insure a good and stable leveling . Here you don't fire straight but in curve (like a mortar )

Thanks guys. Really helpful stuff.
The picture clears it all Richie, thanks.
Good to know about the rationale of wrapping the sling as well.

Case closed I suppose!
On with the figure....

Cheers,
Adrian