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Offline Raith

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« on: February 19, 2004, 09:40:36 PM »
There is an M1928A1 conversion kit for the Thompson, but I don't think there is any drum mag to go along with it.

This link may be of interest:

http://infernogmbh.iwarp.com/photo4.html
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2004, 10:09:18 PM »
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Mr. Joseph</i>
<br />Is there a drum mag for the marui thompson?
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Going for that Gangster/WWII/film noir/subgun look?
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2004, 05:10:45 PM »
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by azsarge</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Mr. Joseph</i>
<br />Is there a drum mag for the marui thompson?
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Going for that Gangster/WWII/film noir/subgun look?
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What is film noir. I have never understood what that was!
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2004, 08:27:40 PM »
Well, I am sicilian, and my grandfather carried one in WWII, plus it probably holds 800 rounds.  Never heard of one huh?
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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2004, 08:30:23 PM »
THanks for the link raith, I was wondering about those cheap ass springer drum mags...
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« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2004, 12:05:55 AM »
Film noir is a genre/style/series of american films made during WWII. They are very grim stories about the underworld usually taken from pulp fiction. The germans banned the showing of US films in france during the war so right after ve-day, most of the films that had been made for the past few years opened in Paris. The french noticed a drastic change in the american style/content of films. So film noir ("black film" in french) is a phrase coined by french film critics to describe these specific films.

Many film noirs involve gangsters or private investigators and thus involve "tommy guns."

Joseph- if you are going for a WWII look, then I think that stick mags would be more appropriate. I don't think the military used drums as much as gangsters back home did.
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« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2004, 09:55:32 AM »
I didnt think they used them at all, however, I did see Nicholas Cage with one in the beginning of Windtalker.  I will stick to the stick mags, but if I could get a drum that holds 800 rounds or so, I would buy one.
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« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2004, 12:01:24 PM »
They probally did use them in the War, but They were using the older 1928 model that had the drum mags and Ive read that the drums were prone to jamming due to getting dirt in them.  The newer model the 1938 model I believe used the stick mags and had less occurances of jamming.  At the very least the 1938 model was more widely used than the 1928 model in WWII.  But I could be wrong, I have no facts to back that up at the moment.
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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2004, 08:05:20 PM »
Is there a drum mag for the marui thompson?
« Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 05:00:00 PM by Mr. Joseph »