HAN ANH DL-44 Flash Hider Baked-on Parkerized-esque Finish (pic heavy)

[H0llyw00d]

@H0llyw00d

See, that pic there, after the greeblies attached; that's where I gotta split with you, man. I don't see how it could be painted especially when you can see the mottling of the color on the left hand side as well as where it fades where it's held, even in a high contrast, b/w photo.

Blued steel doesn't chip... but the finish on the post-production hero is chipped to hell. Look at the bottom of the mag well. They even brought that into TFA. And we all must agree that the cross bar was painted...

 

[PoopaPapaPalps]

There's nothing on the mag well that implies to me that it's chipped paint. Blued steel can be scratched, scuffed all kind of ways that may even be reminiscent of what chipped paint looks like but there's, to me, nothing that will completely sell me the idea unless the prop manages to resurface again (other than the deleted scene from RotJ) with better clearer pictures.

Also...

Spoiler

TFA is donkey dicks.

 

[H0llyw00d]

There's nothing on the mag well that implies to me that it's chipped paint. Blued steel can be scratched, scuffed all kind of ways that may even be reminiscent of what chipped paint looks like but there's, to me, nothing that will completely sell me the idea unless the prop manages to resurface again (other than the deleted scene from RotJ) with better clearer pictures.

Also...

Spoiler

TFA is donkey dicks.

Oh, my God that would so be the *****...

 

[Lukesfather]

There's nothing on the mag well that implies to me that it's chipped paint. Blued steel can be scratched, scuffed all kind of ways that may even be reminiscent of what chipped paint looks like but there's, to me, nothing that will completely sell me the idea unless the prop manages to resurface again (other than the deleted scene from RotJ) with better clearer pictures.

Also...

Spoiler

TFA is donkey dicks.

I have also thought that the whole gun was painted , but i think i have been blinded with the clearly painted scope rail , now when i read your argument and look at it again with that in mind i totally agree with you , if it was painted i should actually have been much more chipped in that post pic imho, getting black paint to stick to the gun during the whole production without chipping it ( specially when you look at the left side) would be in my oppinion impossible.

 

[H0llyw00d]

Hence "hotly debated" my brothers. May we never know for certain...

 

[Egon]

Isn't there some questions as to whether the upper receiver and lower receiver are different finishes though?

 

[WyoWilliam]

Thought I would add another photo to the library of MG81 flash hiders. I found this one in a museum in Helena, MT. As for the finish... it looks lightly blued/ not really parkerized? (I can't figure why you wouldn't actually blue it, since even a quick bluing isn't difficult) Really shows the color difference, though, between the FH and the blued part of the barrel. Also, note this one doesn't have the removal rod holes, instead it has two flattened spots to accommodate a wrench.

 

[H0llyw00d]

Thought I would add another photo to the library of MG81 flash hiders...

Thanks for sharing WyoWilliam, I've grown to think that the light bluing such as on your example may have led to the corrosion on the pre-production piece that inspired the prop masters to paint the Hero to make it more uniform. Black paint on that corrosion would give the FH a parkerization-like black finish as seen in the post production photos.

The wrench-notches are sick. So there was a whole variation that didn't survive...

 

[WyoWilliam]

I know, right? It's interesting to me how many variations there were in some of these pieces, although I suppose it could also show how they evolved over time. It would be nice to know which version came first.