Sten altered from standard to airborne
 

My work be kind its my 1st try.....

From standard issue i altered it to look ww2 airborne style /or french resistance look.
Thanks

looks pretty sweet!

Nice work!

Now get that pistol grip on and a Lee Enfield foresight on the outer barrel and it'll be much better.

Good work !

But I personally like the orginal bone stock, which stands well for the production concept behind the gun - a simple, lower cost and easy to produce submachine gun, which is also very effective in providing good fire-power.

I admire the work you put into that project, but I do like the original version too.

Was there some actual weapon that served as your inspiration for this project? I would've figured a paratrooper would want the lighter weight of tube stock, rather than a heavier wooden stock.

Looks sweet! But I do agree with Wedge, wood is heavier, why would you want a heavier gun, especially as a paratrooper!

Many stens were fitted with wooden stocks and grips.. some from the factory..

makes the weapon much more controllable.

A lot of Stens were provided to partisans and resistance fighters .. they were not jumping with them. and they retrofitted them to improve them as weapons


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May have found a pic of the actual sten you are building.http://www.wwii.ca/photos/22/belgium/. If you open this link it is the third photo down on the right side."Paras of the 1St Canadian Para Battlion ". I think the fellow in the far left of the pic is holding a sten with the add ons you are doing, it is hard to really tell but take a look. I am sure it isn't a Thompson but I not sure what other SMG's would have been used by the airborne besides a Thompson or a Sten, or maybe a Sterling I think it was called.

Pretty sure the op is trying to make a sten mk 5. Issued to commonwealth airborne on day and market garden. It is a sten mk 2 with some changes ( wood butt stock, wook pistol grip, rounded trigger guard and a lee enfield foresight )

Original stens ( first one hundred thousand or so) were made with wood stocks and conical flash hiders. One of the reasons the sten went into mass production was that they could be made quicker and cheapet than rifles and even quicker and cheaper with no wood or flash hiders. The mk 5 is the 1944 model; made when england was not as desperate as they were in 1940.

Edit: you have to remember this is airborne in its infancy. The wood sten was probably a pound and a half heavier than earlier models such as the mk 2. The us airborne went in with thompsons and garands which are both heavier. 3 years earlier axis airborne riflemen were dropping with pistols. Their rifles came down in cargo containers.

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French Sten
 

French Sten:

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