ZSU-23 before and after

[Fred]

I recently obtained a rather scruffy ZSU-23 round made up from a spent case and an unfired projectile and thought I would give it a quick clean up. I removed the laquer and soaked it in "shield" rust remover overnight. After that I cleaned up some of the mechanical damage caused by loading and extraction but didnt remove the marks caused by firing in a fluted chamber. The best way that I found to replicate the green laquer used on russian cases was to add a little humbrol green paint to clear spirit based varnish and spray it on with an airbrush. It took about four coats to get the desired effect. Overall, its almost as good as new.

Fred

 

[Chris 42 RQ]

And a very nice job too Bob !
Well worth the effort I reckon.

 

[Darren]

Great result Fred, looks fantastic.

Darren

 

[hicky1300]

Nice job Fred

 

[HAZORD]

Very nice!

 

[kahu1]

Great job ,its quite hard to get a decent lacquer type finish, i usually just leave it!

cheers
Bob

 

[jvollenberg]

Looks outstanding ... great job.

Joe

 

[pzjgr]

I concur, nice job! Cool round....

 

[EOD]

The projectile is a Czech TP for the 23x115. The Russians never used white tips on 23x152B service ammunition.

 

[Fred]

Thanks for the comments folks.
Im inclined to agree with EOD about the projectile. I weighed it and its too heavy to be for the ZU-23.

Fred