Russian Infantryman 1904

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89. Day, March 10, 2016

I decided to give my soldier still a rifle fragment on his way. I imagine that it is about as ...



... but has drawn more in the shoulder in the "Halt"...:



The Russians moved to the "Mosin-Nagant" -Gewehr Model 1891 in the war, such a gun, it is therefore represent.

Here is the "Mosin-Nagant" -Gewehr compared to the carbine "Mauser 98K" ...:



The differences are not so great, but I have to rebuild the shaft some ...:



So I bought from Steve Ready ("Reedees") a scale matching "98 K"



The true now rebuild - and I started to grind everything I want to do again ...:



Then I started to rebuild the stock in a "Moisin-Nagant" -Gewehres with "Milliput" ...:



So much for today...
 
90th Day, March 11, 2016

Today I have the tremendous bayonet M 1891 carved out a toothpick and handle sanded.



A look again at the proportions that things were really long ...:







Those bayonets were at the time fixed to the guns, the reason for this lies in the Russian military doctrine of that time:

Man despised machine guns as "unsoldierly" and put the other hand on the "russischrussian weapon": The bayonet!

The fact that such a long rifle in trench warfare was almost unusable, was - consciously - dismissed, because the construction of fest positions made the soldiers allegedly "prone to escape" - at this time of the Russo-Japanese War.

How much easier it had since the Japanese. They used a bayonet, which was the German "bayonet" almost identical - could it quickly off and replace and carry in a sheath around with ...
 
Martin,

Great use of the wood ..but I reckon you are mad my friend ..amazing attention to detail .......

Looking forward to this appearing with the bust ..especially how you do the wood

Nap
 
93. Day, March 16, 2016

Today I just fixed the bayonet to check the proportions...:



And like this you have to imagine the overall result ...:





The part of the rifle, which protrudes downward will cut off.

What remains to be done:
The seat of the shaft rings revise a lashing eye on the strap make (there were different variants) and the bayonet-shoe mount (a kind of clamp).

Tomorrow.
 
Martin,

That is Modellng ......bit of a shame the bolt mechanism couldn't have been included as well

All credit to you , adding the rifle has given the bust more interest again

Thanks for sharing

Nap
 
Thanks Huw!!!(y)

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96. Day, March 21, 2016

Actually, I had planned to paint the wooden parts of the rifle to the usual "Unity Brown" ...:



But then I got from a good friend photos of a Mosin-Nagant in an unusually bright color ...:



I like it very much! And then I have these colors taken ...:



And now it looks like this...:



 

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