I bought some aftermarket ammo to go with my Marder III M, and I’m not sure how to identify it. The shells are brass, and the “warheads” screw into them, do you can have complete rounds or just the expended brass.
My problem is that I don’t know how to paint the explosive parts of the round. Did the Germans identify the type of round by different colors, the same way the Americans did? Or did they use a different system?
I believe the Germans used colors as well. I’m not sure, but I think they used black for armor defeating and yellow for high explosive. I have to dig around a little more to be sure.
I think yellow and black is right. Although there was a third type of high velocity AT/AP round.
The Ammo was fixed, so it would generate “brass” after firing and the breach is opened.
I have the Tamiya “Brass 7.5cm Projectiles”, item #35258. These are some full rounds, some spent rounds, and some half-rounds to be placed in the fighting compartment and ready-racks of their Marder III M kit. The painting instructions indicate that both the ‘armor-piercing’ shell and the high-explosive shell have the ‘head’ of the shell painted semi-gloss black, X-18. The tips are not painted any other color. This is what the instructions say.
Glenn
Was checking my limited resources and it says projectiles were black and armor piercing would have black tips and high explosive would have white tips/fuses. No mention of yellow so that may have been a slip back to my own US armor past.
Thanks for the info. I kinda thought it might be like that, but not having a experience with big bore ammo all I could rely on was 7.62 and 5.56 from my Airborne days.
Thanks again.
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Looking in Encyclopedia of German Armor (which has been proved wrong) there was AP, capped, AP,capped with a ballistic cap (used at medium ranges), AP40 which was for shorter ranges. But, alas, no info on colors, so all that is probably useless.
These colors seem to be correct , they also had “tracer rounds”, that had red rings on them .