Boyes AT Rifle and Ammunition

[vexillia]

Can anyone point me to a decent colour reference for the above in the Western desert?

[has.been]

As it happens I have just finished watching a WW2  movie & the 8th Army in it had a Boyes A-Tank rifle.
Although the film was black & white,  I would say the gun was black with a dry-brush of gun-metal. The stock seemed to be a light coloured wood. When the gunner loaded his last two shots they appeared to be just bigger versions of a normal rifle bullet,
i.e. brass casing with a silver point.

[Dr DeAth]

Lots of useful information and pictures here:

http://www.rifleman.org.uk/Enfield_Boys_Anti-Tank_Rifle.htm

[carlos marighela]

Whatever you use for gun metal, be that dark grey, black with a metalllic dry brush etc, etc. Only the pistol grip and the grip on the but were wood. The butt had a rubber buffer which could be a variety of colours but if you want just paint as per the rest of it.

By the by it was the Boys AT rifle not Boyes.

[Plynkes]

What was the film, if you don't mind me asking, has.been?

[Cubs]

[Cubs]

When the gunner loaded his last two shots they appeared to be just bigger versions of a normal rifle bullet,
i.e. brass casing with a silver point.

Yeah, it looks like the actual bullet was steel (as opposed to lead, or copper-covered lead) which makes sense if it's going to punch through armour instead of splatting on the surface.

[has.been]

The film was 'Nine Men' (1943) It includes a young Gordon Jackson, and was directed by Harry Watt.
I hope this helps.

[Plynkes]

Thanks, has.been.

I love those old British war films actually made during the war, like The Way To The Stars, Went The Day Well? and The Way Ahead, and I have never seen this one, so that's something for me to look out for.

[Volleyfire!]

Someone brought one of these to a gun club I belonged to back in the 1980s. It looked just like the one in the photo IIRC. The recoil was something else. It took the guy's wife clean off her feet when she fired it and blew her back into the fence panelling 6 ft behind her, and that was with a 'spotting' round that wasn't a full load. You must have had to fire the thing with gritted teeth, and I suppose being in the prone position would help too.

[has.been]

Plynkes, also look out for 'The Foreman went to France' The Foreman meets up with two lost privates, Tommy Trinder & (again)
Gordon Jackson along with their army lorry.

[vexillia]

Thanks everyone.  Sorted.