![]() If any of you ever need some flash effects, I would love to help out if I can. Here are some examples I've come up with this morning. ![]() =] Altho it can be had if the scene is quick. It's pretty tough to simulate a real gun when the prop has no moving parts. However, either a gas blow back airsoft replica is needed, or a model gun. This will allow film makers that want realistic gun effects to not have to worry about the legal issues involved with using Real fire arms on the film stage. The reason I post now is I have discovered a new burning technique that almost matches blanks with near precision, (better than flashes I've done before) Today I took my (KSC) Mac 11 submachine gun out for test run, to try and match up the flashes I see coming from blanks in movies such as TRUE LIES, DIE HARD, ALIENS etc. Proper flashes need to be extracted as single images from the film sequence and worked on in Adobe Photoshop. Not those cheesy tutorials you see all over the internet (especially ) that involve after effects, and etc. ![]() Were talking good flashes that look REAL. I think I've pretty much reached the peak of quality and realism as to how blank firing flashes can be simulated in Photoshop. The "bump" under the front of the barrel of the MP40 SMG is there so that you could "hook" it over the side of the halftrack when firing and recoil wouldn't push the muzzle back inside the vehicle with decidedly undesirable results.I'd just like to start off by saying that this is a technique I've been working on and mastering for over 6 years (don't ask me why it's just been an obsession :lol: ). There was a curved barrel device "for shooting around corners" but really made for being able to shoot out of an armored vehicle. But the Germans did do things like that, among other things. Just a wild guess, and worth what you paid for it. The intent of both is not that the enemy doesn't see the flash, but that the shooter's sees less flash (and/or a different shape) hopefully preserving more of his night vision.īecause of the length, and straight shape (and no holes) of the device pictured, it is not impossible it might have been intended as a firing port device, for a vehicle (or possibly ship?) and might not have been made for the Mauser rifle originally, but was fitted to one.because someone could? More modern guns like the M14, M16, M60 etc, have flash suppressors, not flash hiders. 50 cal machine gun, that were still in service when I was in during the 70s. We had "bolt on" flash hiders for the M3 Grease Gun and the M2HB. By the definitions the US used in WWII, a flash hider is solid (usually cone shaped) and a flash suppressor has holes or slots. Just for general information, I'd like to point out that while we use flash hider and flash suppressor about interchangeably, they are slightly different devices. The barrel is 2-3" shorter than the 989k I have, and you can see a "step" where the bayonet lug was relieved to allow the front sight band to be fitted. The rifle in the picture does not have the same kind of front sight I have on my Kar 98k. Clearly a barrel extension, but that doesn't mean it was intended to be a flash hider. I'm afraid I can't tell you anything about that device specifically, only that its not the standard grenade launcher device. Merry Christmas to All! And Happy New Year. I can only imagine at this point.Ĭonsidering how little information is on the Internet about them I am not expecting much help, so any kind of information and leads are appreciated. Or perhaps the muzzle flash is negligible on battle rifles and hiders are only useful on carbines. Maybe nobody hunts at night because of state laws so there is no interest in flash hiders outside of the wild pig shooting community. I'm not a collector so I just don't know all the variations (and there are a passel of them!) Perhaps it is not a K98 at all, but some other model or modification. ![]() The Mauser in this picture appears to be shorter than the rifle I own (the bayonet lug is closer to the muzzle and front sight is nothing like my 1942 98k which uses a simple hood. I saved the pictures but no details were provided so "I know nothing. I was researching flash hiders used on Mausers and found some pictures of a simple flash hider somewhere on the internet. ![]()
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