I finally got a chance to work on some new ordnance I've had sitting around, plus picked up a new 40mm APC-T with an interesting driving band...
The 37mm is just a real nice M51 APC that I finally got a chance to restore...
The one 40mm is another that needed re=painting, I painted it up as a British example, as I already have a couple of various US HE's...
Finally is a new 40mm APC-T I picked up, again sans paint, so I painted it as a Navy APC-T...but the driving band is interesting...it is stamped (an only stamped) VJ 8-14-1945, which is VJ Day...there are no other markings, and the DB doesn't appear to have been scrubbed and re-stamped...maybe it was made up as a souvenir in the factory on, or soon after VJ Day? The case is a Navy case, 7-45 dated...
Anyway, been so busy at work doing a lot of traveling, so haven't had much time to play with (or find more) ordnance, glad I finally got these done...
The 37mm is just a real nice M51 APC that I finally got a chance to restore...
The one 40mm is another that needed re=painting, I painted it up as a British example, as I already have a couple of various US HE's...
Finally is a new 40mm APC-T I picked up, again sans paint, so I painted it as a Navy APC-T...but the driving band is interesting...it is stamped (an only stamped) VJ 8-14-1945, which is VJ Day...there are no other markings, and the DB doesn't appear to have been scrubbed and re-stamped...maybe it was made up as a souvenir in the factory on, or soon after VJ Day? The case is a Navy case, 7-45 dated...
Anyway, been so busy at work doing a lot of traveling, so haven't had much time to play with (or find more) ordnance, glad I finally got these done...