Sitek SMG & Strapoc blow forward pistol, Polish ww2 resistance guns.

Some simple 3d models based on museum examples of Polish ww2 era resistance/partisan guns.
While visiting the polish army museum in Warsaw I happened to stumble upon a small exhibit with some really unusual Polish resistance/partisan-made improvised firearms one of which was a submachine gun or a "SMG" which in design was like if you were to combine the main body of the Sten gun and that of the Polish Mors smg plus the fire selector out of the PPSH 41 (no idea if that part in particular, is a safety or a fire selector or even both in this particular smg) this wild combination would give you the Sitek smg. The Sitek submachine gun was made by Edward Sitek while he was under the Nazi occupation of Poland, this smg of his was most likely chambered in the ever popular 9x19 parabellum or just "9mm" as its general shape and that of its magazine made me think that it probably was chambered in it as also was the British Sten gun as well as the German MP40 and so on.

Then comes the little dinky yet very interesting little pistol which just might be a blow forward operated one from the looks of it made by Henryk Strąpoć, a man who is somewhat famously also the designer of the Polish Bechowiec or simply "Beha" smg, another more famous Polish resistance gun. I am not exactly certain if the Pistol is indeed a blow forward operated one which is a very rare type of self-loading firearms operation where unlike with almost every other self-loading firearm the action which in this case is the barrel assembly moves forwards instead of back to extract a spent case and then to come back and load a new cartridge into the chamber. I came to the conclusion that the Strapoc is such as in the pistol the rear end is completely solid so there is no space or opening for a slide or a bolt to move back which would mean that it could only move forwards hence the term "blow forwards" also the general shape and dimensions plus trough picture composition of the pistol appear to be very similar to another blowforwards pistol the Schwarzlose 1908 pistol which is one of the few blow forwards operated guns ever to be made and marketed to civilians, hence why I came to this conclusion. the magazine was also very similar in shape and dimensions but just a bit shorter so could really only hold 5 cartridges of 32acp (7.65×17 Browning) unlike the 6 of the Schwarzlose, not exactly certain if the Strąpoć, is chambered in the 32acp but its size, dimensions and picture compositing with the Schwarzlose 1908 made me fairly certain the pistol must be chambered in 32acp. Still, the fact that that pistol would be a blow forwards operated is very weird as why would a Polish resistance member under the Nazi occupation make such? Did Strąpoć own a Schwarzlose 1908 which he could copy and tinker with to develop his own design for a blow forwards operated pistol? I guess we will never know.

Then there is the simple ww1 trench dagger-like fighting knife/dagger which is based on examples reportedly made in Mogilska Street in the city of Krakow by the Polish resistance/partisan group the home army or AK (Armia Krajowa). Both guns and the knife were hand-made from available resources such as scrap metal while Poland was under Nazi occupation during the second world war.

There is sadly not much info out there on the two guns, the museum plaques didn't say much outside of who made the guns and that is it. There even was not anything online that I could find on the two guns so I had to base a lot of the modeling on a few pictures that managed to take with my cellphone which was hard to do as the two guns were far back inside their museum exhibit glass box so I had to stand in weird angles to take pictures. At least for the knife, I did find plenty of info online.

Sorry if it has been forever since my last upload, been learning to use Substance painter while making this project, it took some time and my PC would constantly crash as the GPU is too weak on it to run Substance properly lol