I guess this is (very?) old topic but still unanswered to me. My first 1/72 set back in the late 80s was Airfix German Infantry (2nd edition - I also had the same set in 1/32) and I never understood what weapon the SMG-gunner standing up firing from his waist was using. Still don't! What SMG is it supposed to be, if any? Any explanation to why Arifx/the sculptor chose that weapon design?
Back then I wanted to have firing figures with the MP38/MP40 as in the movie "Were Eagles Dare" with Clint Eastwood, so my next German set a few years later was Airfix 1/72 Africa Korps, but it still didn't have the MP38/MP40! Still not sure what that SMG is supposed to be either; the MP41, which was the MP40 with a wooden stock? Or the Italian Beretta M38/42?
Next I bought Airfix German Paratroopers, and voila, the MP38 was in there
. What I should have bought in the first place back then was Esci's set German Soldiers! But 1/72 figures were in very short supply were I grew up in Sweden in the 80s/90s, and then we didn't have Internet either...Cheers!
here the main problem is the hand grip in front of the chamber and magazine.
the only weapon that used a small hand grip was the Erma EMP submachine guns, but on most of these the magazine is in the horizontal position and inserted from the left side, although one prototype VMP 1930 has a vertical insertion, but the hand grip is on rear of the magazine.
