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Italian 20x138B
- Thread starter smle2009
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Grenademan2005
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That is a good question and very difficult to answer, try here:
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Grenademan2005
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If you find something post it here if you want, please, it is not easy to find info about the Italian made 2cm Flak rounds.
hicky1300
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Tony
To add to your thread & answer your email!! If you are refering to the 20mm Italian you got from me I am fairly sure the projectile should be a drab green background, with an off yellow band between the driveband and bourolet with a thin red band at the fuze joint?
Projectile is HET(SD).
To add to your thread & answer your email!! If you are refering to the 20mm Italian you got from me I am fairly sure the projectile should be a drab green background, with an off yellow band between the driveband and bourolet with a thin red band at the fuze joint?
Projectile is HET(SD).
smle2009
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Hi H,
many thanks mate,do you mean something like this?
Phew! that was a good guess:wink:! H do you know if the German AP is tropical as the info I have (notes on enemy ammunition) states that a thin red line above the drive band is for tropical use,tracer being much thicker 6mm band either yellow or red depending on the colour of the tracer
Cheers
Tony
ps. it looks grey in photo but is due to the light when I took the photo
many thanks mate,do you mean something like this?
Phew! that was a good guess:wink:! H do you know if the German AP is tropical as the info I have (notes on enemy ammunition) states that a thin red line above the drive band is for tropical use,tracer being much thicker 6mm band either yellow or red depending on the colour of the tracer
Cheers
Tony
ps. it looks grey in photo but is due to the light when I took the photo
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Grenademan2005
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Yeah, Great! First time I see them in manual.
smle2009
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I'm sure you are right H,I managed to find the colours on this projectile by making it wet which actually made them stand out very well,no blue or white at all,the off yellow may have been a bright yellow originally and time may have dulled it down but what ever was used for this colour was very corrosive as I had a neat band of fairly deep pitting on the projectile when cleaned off,my main reason for the re-paint.
Have left the German 20mm as it is except a spray of clear lacquer which really brings the colours and stencils back to life.
Cheers
Tony
thehairbarebunch
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Hello,
Hope this is of some use to you. 20x138 APHE. 1941 by SMI.
Regards
hicky1300
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Nice pic & example thehairbarebunch.
The colours on mine & Tonys` could have changed with age but the fact your example is AP would make a difference to the colour coding.
The spacing though of the bands from the drive band to the bourolet looks fairly consistent/similar though with my HET (SD).
The case & projectile are also clearly stamped BPD. (although colours would be standard).
The colours on mine & Tonys` could have changed with age but the fact your example is AP would make a difference to the colour coding.
The spacing though of the bands from the drive band to the bourolet looks fairly consistent/similar though with my HET (SD).
The case & projectile are also clearly stamped BPD. (although colours would be standard).
