Early model FG42 resin custom.

Had an email confirmation that my FG42 from Indonesia is being mailed this morning.
These are unpainted of course.
But the workmanship looks awesome and the price is excellent.
As anyone who knows me will tell you I am fascinated with the Grand Sasso raid, and plan to make a movie on it, or around it, at some point.
The Early FG42 was one of the weapons carried.
There are FG42's of this model on the NFA registry here in the US, but owning one would set you back about $180K - so as well as the Shoei, which is nice, but expensive for a prop - we may now have this alternative.
I will update when this arrives.

The seller, custom builds and then photographs the package before he mails it.





Pit.

Looks very good on that picture, crisp and enough details to be usable.
Raid would be interesting to see, mainly thanks to those FG42s ;-D

Read about the raid, Smootik - the guns are the least interesting part, lol.
I have to find a context, that holds water.
Period films of any type scare the Hell out of financiers.
That and anything that involves your protagonist wearing runes.
You have to find a way to validate it as subject matter without appearing to advocate the politics.
It's not so easy.
They had planned a version with Burt Lancaster playing Skorzeny and Albert R. Broccoli (James Bond) producing in the 1960's - there is an auction taking place this month, where they are selling Skorzeny's papers, amongst them are the details of this movie deal.
FYI - The reserve for the papers was $30 - $40K

Pit.

Looks great! Would love to see that movie be made, make it into a comedy? Perhaps something with Mussolini having stockholm syndrome or etc?

How much did it cost by the way?

From the seller's site:





Pit.

I'd love to know what his site is!

Hi Guys,

The FG42 arrived - it is a very nice plastic model, the only moving parts are the bipod, the fold up sights and the magazine, but it is a very sweet display model for less than $200 - sort of slightly tougher than a ready made model kit.
It is silver so I now have to decide how to paint it, but that is quite fun.

I highly recommend him, and am very impressed, at the moment it is the gun in the top pic, that was his shot before he mailed it to me.

I will post as I have a chance to paint.


Here is his facebook handle - https://www.facebook.com/andhikae


Pit.

As was said before - very sharp casting. Looking forward to seeing it finished.

Best of luck in getting the film made. I have an armourer colleague in your area (I'm on the east coast, Washington DC metro) that would probably jump at the chance to participate.