I have several walnut and several red glue MO Kriegsmodells in my collection but the white glue has always eluded me. They aren't that rare, maybe 1 in 4 or so but I either didn't have the money or was too late when one came up. With time potentially running out I wanted to grab this one and I was forced to sell one of my red glues to fund this but it was worth it. My old red glue friend went to a good home so I'm ok with it.
This one came out of Hugh Brock's personal collection and sadly Mr Brock passed away just a few days after I purchased it. I know how important the preservation of these pieces of history were to him and I will do my best to continue to do so while it is in my custody.
It's a pretty standard no letter block byf45. Nice mix of phosphate and blue for that dual tone pop. It does have an oddity that I've never seen before in the form of an extra e/135 acceptance on the barrel. After taking it down for pictures I discovered the need for the extra acceptance was most likely due to some machining errors in the barrel's profile. The barrel has about 16 steps to it. I didn't take too many pictures of the barrel as most of the steps/waves in the contouring aren't all that noticeable but in the one pic you'll see one of the more defined areas where the operator or machine messed up but since this is just cosmetic and almost all below the woodline it was given the go ahead to be put to use.
It has an e/37 safety, e/214 trigger, and an e/26 rear sight sleeve. The rest is all MO.
Here is one of the machining errors on the barrel as well as a pic of the extra e/135.
This one came out of Hugh Brock's personal collection and sadly Mr Brock passed away just a few days after I purchased it. I know how important the preservation of these pieces of history were to him and I will do my best to continue to do so while it is in my custody.
It's a pretty standard no letter block byf45. Nice mix of phosphate and blue for that dual tone pop. It does have an oddity that I've never seen before in the form of an extra e/135 acceptance on the barrel. After taking it down for pictures I discovered the need for the extra acceptance was most likely due to some machining errors in the barrel's profile. The barrel has about 16 steps to it. I didn't take too many pictures of the barrel as most of the steps/waves in the contouring aren't all that noticeable but in the one pic you'll see one of the more defined areas where the operator or machine messed up but since this is just cosmetic and almost all below the woodline it was given the go ahead to be put to use.
It has an e/37 safety, e/214 trigger, and an e/26 rear sight sleeve. The rest is all MO.
Here is one of the machining errors on the barrel as well as a pic of the extra e/135.
