Oh yeah, I love H&K - for starters the USP frame is the best shaped pistol there is for man sized hands and the trigger guard size allows for ease of use even in heavy winter gloves. I've just recently finally managed to afford a KWA Umarex USP .45 Match and I love it! It's a bit of a lump for sure, but the balance is perfect - the centre of gravity is exactly where the grip meets the chamber frame, so it naturally sits horizontal on your middle finger under the trigger guard.
The trades are excellent too, which is why the "Match" logo is such a shame. I mean it has to be said... it looks like it belongs on an Argos special beard trimmer, ffs! I'm planning to take it off with acetone and a mildly abrasive Dremmel polishing pad, but I dunno what will be left / I may have to take the compensator off and completely repaint it, which begs the question, what colour? Flat black seems an obvious choice, so if it wears on the edges the original dark grey will not show except very close up, but then again, even though the real steel is a precision pistol, it looks workmanlike... so how about black and yellow chevrons?
I also love G3's, especially the old style ones with wooden furniture, although I've never liked those blobs on the mags. Not such a fan of MP7's - the styling doesn't seem to fit with the rest of their design philosophy. I mean it's just utilitarian. For sure there is a strong streak of Bauhaus to their designs so yeah "form follows function", but that is not to say that styling ought not to be beautiful (and by that I don't mean the kind of beauty that you have to search for; the kind which you can only appreciate on an intellectual level by understanding an object in its wider context), merely that pointless ornamentation, frippery, not only may impede function but also obscures the potential for truly stunning expressions of things' purposes merely in their silhouette.
The "cooling fins" under the P.45 Match compensator are a classic example - there is no need for them; the compensator does not touch the barrel, so it will never get so hot that being able to more quickly radiate heat should be a functional consideration, but of course weight is, nonetheless cutouts could be any shape, or H&K could have gone with something similar to those protruding barrels with funky looking muzzle brakes, or just extended slides around the barrel alone, that have become popular in race guns recently, but let's be fair now, they look silly. That 1/2 chevron shape which the H&K compensator evokes points forward - it looks like what it does: projects force forward... My next best fav of theirs is another classic example of this philosophy: the MP5 SD6. It looks like frogman's gear: compact, tubular, easily gripped, and that is precisely its function - if it wasn't for the fact they use V2 gearboxes I would already have one...
However the MP7 lacks a 'vision'. It's like the rear 1/2 was intended to be tidy and robust, but the front 1/2 was intended to be used very carefully, or perhaps used once and thrown away - I mean wtf is that poxy flash hider all about? It looks like a few mags on full auto might actually burn it away! And the 2 halves are just butted together - they don't even share the same horizontal line underneath and it's only the top rail which seems to unite them, a generic feature which comes from a different design house; then the grips just poke out perpendicular to the receiver, like afterthoughts...
I love the look of that HK51B, but let's have it right - a belt fed gun with such low mass would be very difficult to control, even firing 5.56mm rounds - it's just an exercise in "we can" like that story that does the rounds on every engineering campus the world over: "X" country with whom "we" share a long standing rivalry has a group of top engineers who develop a drill bit as thin as [insert something cutting edge sounding (when i heard it back in the early 80's it was a human hair, but these days it would probably be something like a sperm tail)] and they send it to "our" good but not best engineers for evaluation, who promptly drill down the centre of its length and send it back. Naturally they don't write "fuck you" on the accompanying documentation, but the intention is clear regardless...
Oh yeah, and let us not forget the MG 3, which is a modern version of the MG 42 (and yes it's not an H&K original design, but apparently they took over the manufacture). Perforated fuck, gentlemen, that must be hilarious to shoot as well as looking TDB!
Anyway, here's my P.45 Match, who has yet to be named:
[shit i can't get my pics to upload to postimg.org / imageshack / or facebook grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!]
i'll add them later - had to use the simple editor on fb (t'internet's fucking broken)
& now i can't get them to insert b/c the pic url doesn't end in .jpg when did that change? wtf is going on? has the world been hit by a meteor or summat? :angry:
)but I think I'd have to say the HK53 because of the MP5 styling and size but the extra oomph of 5.56, I'll post my crappy MP5 tomorrow but in the meantime have at it 
I agree on liking most H&K's, I'm struggling to think of one I don't like in some way
