0.30cal Browning 1919A4
Machine Gun Barrel
armorscale Set #B35-064
A bit of cleanup was needed on the jacket as there was a fair bit of residue left inside from drilling out the jacket cooling holes which required you to virtually drill out the jacket with an appropriate sized drill bit to remove the inner metal burs, not a big deal really. The two parts then fit snugly together but if you really wanted to get picky you could say the jacket is slightly too thick as can see more daylight either side of the barrel on the real thing, also the jacket is slightly wider in diameter and a little longer (1mm) than it should be but this is not really noticable unless you are comparing the different barrels directly together.
Fitting the barrel to any available .30Cal MG is very easy and I have used the gun from the Dragon M2A1 Half-Track kit (#6329) for this example and you simply cut off the kit barrel, drill a small hole and insert the end of the brass barrel, nothing could be easier.
Conclusion:
Another nice barrel from armorscale but with a little cleanup needed
to add that bit extra detail to your .30 Cal MGs from any period from WWII
through to current times and the minor work needed to fit the barrel makes
it easy to fit.
Recommended 7/10.
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