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Has anyone identified the heavy hardware used in this movie ?

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Sure. The biggest guns are supposed to 42cm 'Big Bertha' M-Geraet howitzers.

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Gorgeous Maxim gun being fired down the railway carriage, a Gatling before Big Bertha (or Little Hansel) kick off, as well as minenwerfers

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And if anyone's interested, that scene, with the railway engines too in the shed, is filmed at Didcot Railway Centre in the Uk which has a WW1 1917 built steam locomotive which served in France and is in WW1 khaki Railway Operating Division colours

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what surprised me the most was the kind of "sten gun" used by the heroes in this sequence. there was no clear view of it but i could not identify it ...

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Might be a reference to the Bergman MP 18 submachine gun used by German Army stormtroopers in 1918. 

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Looked to me like it was based on a Madsen - especially with the vertical curved magazine http://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Madsen_machine_gun&mobileaction=view_normal_site

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Picture enclosed. Suggestions include Villar-Perosa OVP M1918 or Beretta M1918, but they're pretty wide of the mark. There is, though, more than a hint of the M1895 .303 Maxim. I suspect the likeliest explanation is that it was dreamed up by the Props Dept., perhaps with a little advice from a Steampunk consultant.

 

 

 



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