Sten Gun

[magyareagle]

A low poly STEN gun Mk1, made in Cinema 4d.

Made for a mod,

5300 polys approx, without optimization.

It's not my first attempt at making a custom texture for an object, but it is my first succesful attempt (In that it turned out how I wanted it to).

Cheers,
B.Szoke

MagyarEagle

[krazycolin]

nicely done.... very nicely done....

[LegalAssassin]

Looks pretty good, what did you use for reference?

[magyareagle]

Here are the references I used. I got these via google images.

[Meshfan]

Cool. How much does the gun weight? She looks quite light.

[magyareagle]

A lesson most of us guys learn early in life: Don't ask a woman her weight. lol :)

That said, she weighs 3.18 kg, or 7.01 lb, for those of us not on a metric system. (Including me)

[Spinner]

Good sten refs and other guns, found looking for .50 cal stuff.
http://www.aa-ok.com/Gun%20Gallery.htm
Both the sten baynet designs shown there.
Model looks great. Maybe the mag looks a bit light in colour on its broad faces?

[Spinner]

You often see that stock with a slight curve in the end plate.
Heres a pic showing it.
http://www.aa-ok.com/20209m.jpg

[magyareagle]

Just one question, is the spring really exposed like that in the gun? Or is that a post war cutout, so that a person could see the mechanism? Because it really doesn't seem practical to exposed the spring like that, it would allow dirt and debri inside, making the gun prone to jamming. Or is this the reason the gun was so revilled by the allied forces?

[LegalAssassin]

I think you got the rear sight wrong, at least (perhaps the front one too). Look at your reference photo, it's actually a bit sticking up with a hole through it.
The bolt seems too thin and doesn't quite have shape it should.
Also, it seems the buttrest is a bit thin.

You've done a good job considering how little reference you have!

[Spinner]

Just one question, is the spring really exposed like that in the gun? Or is that a post war cutout, so that a person could see the mechanism? Because it really doesn't seem practical to exposed the spring like that, it would allow dirt and debri inside, making the gun prone to jamming. Or is this the reason the gun was so revilled by the allied forces?

Thats how they were.
Theres a great cutaway in the link I posted, showing how simple she is.

[Sphynx]

There were quite a few versions of the Sten, so you will find some significant variations in the design. They were designed to be cheaply produced and used by both Allied forces and dropped into occupied territory for use by resistance fighters. As a result, they were designed with the very minimal of parts, labour required, and were reputed to be able to be buried in mud, have a quick run over with water, then fired without any problems.

The underlying structure is probably one of the longest running designs, with some modern versions still in use by UK military administration staff (I actually trained with one during my basic RAF training about 15 years ago before moving on to the SLR and SA80 in my specialist course).

[neilh8888]

I got to shoot one of these once. An ex-girlfriend's father was a gun collector. Beware the girlfriend's father who greets you with "Nice to meet you. Wanna see my gun collection?" However, it was damn cool! GREAT gun! Such a simple construction, hardly any moving parts.

[WonderWheeler]

Good job considering the reference material. Looks like the reference was done in microsoft paint. This is the Sten Mk II of course, the most popular one. Called "Sten, Mark two" verbally.

Both sights are a little off, and you could imagine the ones shown, could cut a person's skin or clothing easily. Soldiers don't handle their gear carefully for some reason. The rear sight was a small rounded peep site, the hole made into the cast fitting of the rear and the outside of that nub forming a rounded inverted vee. The front sight is basically a slightly rounded inverted vee, a little shorter than that shown. The author in the book "SOE in Europe" claimed that from personal experience, you had to fire a whole magazine at anyone more than a few yards away with a Sten to actually knock them down, so the sights were only crude and sturdy.

Yes, the reciever was open and the spring and bolt visible. The slot also had a characteristic tee slot running vertical for maybe an inch and slight reverse slot that holds the handle acts as a safety. All kinds of small junk could fall inside the slots, and sticking a loose finger into the big ejection hole on the front right, might be like hitting that finger with a hammer if you did it at the wrong time. The bottom of the tube was open on the inside, to the area over the trigger, so various pieces of dirt, straw or whatever, would tend to fall down and out through the trigger area. Which was open above the trigger! Primitive and simple, but Britian was supposidly down to 50 sub machine guns after Dunkirk. If I remember correctly, it might have included all machine guns.

Later models, also had a trick, where the bolt handle could be pushed down into a hole in the lowerleft side of the tube and imobilize the bolt that way.

This extra safety is my theory of how Polish assassins were unable to shoot Reinhard Heidrich (intended future fhurer) when he drove to work alone in his car one day durring the war. A Mills bomb they then threw into the open car, eventually caused his painful death due to infection some days later. A little trivia. After that, the Nazi's started confiscating any Pennicillin or sulfa drugs they found on Allied prisoners.

Any comments are ment to be constructive and for the benefit of you and your model.