Here's One Way To Go....90mm M71...

[pzjgr]

Just finished this one up today...believe it or not, this is turned from a built up block of hard maple!

I saw a guy selling it on eBay, he apparently made a few. I have a 90mm case that needs filling, and figured I'd give it a shot. It looked good in his pics. It arrived unpainted, I have been painting it in stages for a week or so, and finally finished it...

I think it cam out pretty decent, I'll post a pic once its in the case...if the guy could branch out, they'd make good place fillers....

 

[HAZORD]

The paint job looks nice, although the windscreen on your fuze section should be a metallic color, not shiny silver but a bit duller.

The replica isn't too bad, but without a defined bourrelet it resembles a rocket warhead till you get to the rotating band.

But I also know what its like to have an empty case sitting around naked. How much was he asking for them?

 

[pzjgr]

It actually does have a defined bourrelet it just didn't get picked up in the pic...

What type fuze would it use? I assumed like an M564 or 563...which I have a couple of, so I just painted it like that...mine have a grayish tip with black body....

The price was decent, I paid like $43 shipped....

 

[pzjgr]

Crap...I answered my own question I should have painted the fuze to represent an M48 or M51 type PD fuze, shouldn't I have....

 

[HAZORD]

For WWII, the AAA projectiles used a time fuze M43 and variants or late war proximity, and the ground guns and tanks used either a concrete piercing or M48 or M51 series PD fuze, or proximity.

More modern rounds used through Nam for ground/tank use would use M51A5 PD, M557, M520, M513 Prox, and M564. So your dark fuze could be a 564.