German 77mm Shrapnel

[Andysarmoury]

Hi Thought i would show this as i have just finished it as you can see before and after and thought i would stencil this one ST as the standard one has nothing on it.
Andy

 

[DICKAREN]

Nice restoration Andy.
Richard

 

[Andysarmoury]

Thanks Richard i have had this one for a while and was playing around with some colours i think its good enough.
Cheers
Andy

 

[18pounder]

Hi Thought i would show this as i have just finished it as you can see before and after and thought i would stencil this one ST as the standard one has nothing on it.
Andy

ooooo i like i like
youve done very well there mate!
did you have to use filler mate?
what technique do you use for painting and filling?
regards

 

[Andysarmoury]

Hi 18pdr, i did not use much filler at all i normally use P38 car body filler and Humbrol hobby paint, i used No 109 matt its called WW1 blue and just darkened it a shade and when dry gave it a matt varnish and for the stencils i used the clear plastic you use to cover books with and cut it with a craft knife, the fuse is a relic that came with it the threads have gone and just sits there so will be after one later on but they seem to be hard to get
Cheers
Andy

 

[Dave83]

realy nice work my friend !

i think the color is good the blue looks like correct for it !!

wbr David

 

[Andysarmoury]

Thanks David, i am very pleased with it.
Best
Andy

 

[Der_Feldgraue]

Very nice restoration work!

 

[Andysarmoury]

Thanks Der Feldgraue, i am know doing another one its the one to the left of the 77mm in the photo but need a fuze adaptor for it can anybody help.
Cheers
Andy

 

[Dave83]

Fuze adapter drawings

For me it would be also intersting there are some drwings for the fuze adaptors outsiude there i have a good acces to some machine shops maybe i can make some new ones because the original ones are realy rare i have aprox 10 7,7 cm shells laying at home without this adaptor !

May anyone can help here


Wbr David

 

[Andysarmoury]

Hi David, That would solve allot of problems as they are hard to get if you could do that all you need is a good drawing or an original one to copy.
Andy

 

[Dave83]

yes right andy

yes right the only problem is i am not at home i forgott to take an original one ore made a drawing !
Maybe anyone can help with it

Maybe jens he got a lot of good restoring work ha should have some disasembled !



wbr David

 

[Andysarmoury]

Yes that could be a problem perhaps someone can help, i don't know how much one would cost to make, any body got any suggestions!!
Andy

 

[Der_Feldgraue]

Ha, I need them too :tongue: :frown: I also got one of them made by a friend, but if I had more of them, I could fill some baskets with shrapnel shells as I found a lot of them but didn't took them because I missed the adapters. I have only the old type adapter in original. What we need for WW1 77 shrapnels are the "umgendert" types which are larger than the peacetime adapters.

 

[Der_Feldgraue]

Thats all I could find so far:

 

[Andysarmoury]

Hi Der feldgraue, that's all i have,
Andy