My collection of aircraft and AA ammunition.

[DannyH88]

Oficially I've only been collecting for about 1,5 years, but I was fortunate enough to meet a lot of awesome people in our association (NVBMB) that held on to my stuff until I got the paperwork done (in NL you need a permit and an exemption to be allowed to collect ordinance, even if it's inert. Only dummy's are free to have). This way I had a headstart at building up my collection, and once I got my papers I already got myself a nice little collection. And ofcourse it steadily kept growing since then.
So let's show some pictures.
Let's start with the big stuff!

From the back, left to right; 12,8cm Flak40 (restored); 8,8cm Flak41; 10,5cm SK C/32 (strictly a DP gun), a 10,5cm APCBC projectile sits in front; 8,8cm Flak18/36/37 (restored); 9cm Cannone da 90/53; 75mm M3/M4/T13.

The smaller stuff in the front rows:

From the left to the right: 5cm Flak41 with a partly restored TP round; 5cm Pak39/BK5 w/ APC, 5cm BK5 Minengranate.
In the foreground you see a restored 5cm Flak41 HE-T projectile, a cutaway 5cm TP-T round for the same weapon, and a Pak39/BK5 HE projectile.

So far the big stuff. Now comes the smaller calibers.
An overview:

(Yes, that is a customized BILLY, and as you can see, I'm going to need a second one...)

I'll post more soon!


Danny

 

[DannyH88]

Top shelf, top row; 10 different 7,92x57mm cartridges; 2x 7,5x54mm French; 2x 6,5x55mm Arisaka Type 38; 7,7x58mm Arisaka Type 99; 2x 7,63x25mm Mauser; 8mm Breda (got 20 of those, which I plan to put in the Breda clip you see in the top right of the picture); 7,92x107mm Maroszek; several different Italian 12,7mm Breda cartridges and their corresponding cutaways; Japanese 12,7x81mmSR with Ma102 Fuseless Explosive/Incendiary projectile; Belt of 6 13x64mmB MG131 rounds.

Bottom row; several different 7,92x57mm Mauser cartridges with corresponding cutaways (except for the S.m.K. Üb. Zerl. those are more rare than chickenneck leather boots), and I still need a Platzpatrone to put there aswell (don't wat to pull one out of a complete box). Next is a 7,7x56mmR Italian API round; 6x 7,7x56mmR Japanese cartridges; 4x 7,7x58mmSR Japanese (I'll talk about these in more detail in a bit); 7,92x57mm Japanese; 13x64mmB HE-night tracer (at least, I think it's a night tracer since the red band above the driving band is quite dark); 13x64mmB Incendiary.

Top row; MG-FF; 15mm APCR/Hartkern; several different 20mm AP projectiles, among wich an APCR/Hartkern and aluminium projectile; Hispano cutaway; MG-FF with beltlinks; MG151/20 Belt; 2x 15mm MG151
Bottom row; several kinds of 20x82mm MG151/20 cartridges, with corresponding cutaways (I'm still working on an API and APHE cutaway); 7,92x94mm
Far right; 30x184mmB Hartkern cutaway, Hartkern Üb (APCR-TP) and Hartkern Üb Cutaway

On the next shelf I got some mic. stuff:

The Hotchkiss clip in the left front misses 2 cartridges. I 'borrowed' them to complete my 7,7mmSR set from the top shelf. There are some experimental 'Leuchtgranaten' in there as well.
But the best part is the cartridge on the front right. That is an unfired 30x115mm experimental TP cartridge of the Japanese Airmy Airforce. For me this was a one in an million opportunity, and I can honestly say it was one of my Holy Grails! You can also see the 20mm API and APHE cutaways I was talking about earlier.
Close-up of the boxes on the left:

Apart from one 9x19mm box all of them are full, and I'm still missing a couple (I'm purely collecting on technical differences), but I'm happy with my stash so far.

To be continued..

 

[DannyH88]

The next shelf:

30x184mmB casing, awaiting a suitable projectile; German 37x94mmR HE cartridge wich corresponding cutaway; Japanese Navy 25mm Type 96 shell and a complete cartridge next to it; 2x 20x142mm Type 98 rounds with transport tube; an assortment of 20x138mmB cartridges with a nice set of cutaways next to them.

Next shelf:

No, it's not what you think, it's a 3,7cm Flak18 dummy! The loos projectile is a Minengranate 18 and I'm still looking for a shellcasing (single crimp) for it. Next to it you can see an assortment of MK108 cartridges, and again I tried to get my hands on corresponding cutaways.

To be continued...

 

[DannyH88]

Next up, magazines and drums and such.
MG13 box with magazines with a MG34 anti-air ammo box behind it and underneath a box with 20mm Flak30/38 magazines:

60 and 30 round MG-FF drums:

60-round Madsen drum:

An then there's this

What you see here is a EU deactivated M.53 (because they are cheaper than a MG42), and some aircraft bits 'n pieces, all German (except for the 12,7mm Breda belt ofcourse).

 

[DannyH88]

And speaking about bits...

Chunk of crankshaft and pinion gear from a DB605 engine.

Chunk of cylinder bank of a DB605 engine.roud:

In the next post I'll get back to the Japanese 7,7mm cartridges.


Danny

 

[DannyH88]

Now, back to the Japanese 7,7mm rounds, lets start with a close-up.

#75 has a guilding metal jacket were all the others have a CN jacket. Now for the types of bullet. The color of the laquer ring around the primer indicates the type of bullet. So...
#75/Black - Ball
#76/Black - Ball
#77/Red - Tracer
#78/White - AP
#85/Green -Incendiary pattern 1
#86/Purple - Explosive Incendiary pattern 2
According Ken Elks book my set of 7,7mm Rimmed is now complete, except for the dummy that is.

Now the 7,7mmSR:

I hadn't catalogued them yet when I took this picture, but on the top of the picture you can see the different loadings that were used, so that set should also be complete (even though I had to pull 2 cartridges from a clip).

Well, that's my collection so far. When I get new stuff I'll make sure to post it here.


Danny

 

[apfsds]

OFFFFFFFF THE CHARTS AMAZING! All of it!

Jason

 

[HAZORD]

Unbelievable! A magnificent collection, arrangement, and display!

What is the blue gas bottle by the M.53?

 

[DannyH88]

@ Jason and HAZORD, thank you guys very much voor the replies!

@ HAZORD, that is a Luftwaffe compressed air bottle. Usually each fixed gun in an aircraft had a bottle for charging the weapon.
I've attached 2 technical drawings of the nose gun compartment of a Bf110 that shows the location of the bottles.


Danny

 

[Haenosaki]

Great collection. Nicely displayed.
Groeten uit Leiderdorp.

 

[bacarnal]

Very extraordinary collection. Thank you for sharing with us.

 

[MGARENA]

Very nice collection and great pictures with the nescesarry explanation!

 

[mach1bang]

Some beautiful cutaways in their,great to see.
Tim.

 

[BEAR64]

Fantastic collection! Many thanks for posting pics & information, especially the pics!
BEAR.

 

[baronerosso84]

what is the gray cylinder?