Hello
I'm building an old AEF 1/35th scale M3 75mm Pack Howitzer for the Airborne campaign.
I need to know does any company make the ammo for this gun.
If not does any one know what the scale size & colours would be so that I could scratch build some.

Best bet for ammo is Tiger Model Designs U.S. 75mm Howitzer Ammo (#353155). You get 6 sprues that have one each of four different ammo types and two empty casings. Their U.S. 75mm Ammo Packing Tubes (#353151) gives you five sprues of five empty tubes each. There are no boxes however.

Resicast also includes ammo with its 75mm howitzer along with cloverleaf bundles.

Both are very good reproductions that are in scale.

There also is an old Verlinden set that is out of production that includes boxes, but I can't say how accurate the boxes are (I'm researching that info for an article for my website).

Hope that helps.

Tim

Hi Tim
Thanks for the reply.
I have a value box of Verlinden 75mm Sherman ammo & I was wondering if that was the same ammo as the Pack Howitzers. It comes with an assortment of rounds & 2 different sized crates. Verlinden #1111 .

Afraid not. The 75mm howitzer ammo was approximately 23.5" long.

75mm rounds for the M2 and M3 tank guns was 26.29" long (APC), 26.6" (HE), 26.63 (white phosphorus), and 20.26" (smoke).

Tim

Here's a reference on the site
walk around

Wikipedia has a bunch of information too
pack h

And you can check out the second gallery here:
Pack 75

And for that matter I have photos of three howitzers and some info on the ammo on my site at http://www.usarmymodels.com/AFV%20PHOTOS/75mm%20PACK%20HOWITZER/75mm%20Howitzer.html

Tim

Hi
Thanks for the help Guy's. Yeh I've managed to find these sites have used some of the pic's to help me build the kit as it came with No instructions or a pic to work from. Great Pic's nice & clear showing plenty of detail..
Have just about finished the build will take some more pic's & add them to the Airborne campaign later this week.

And here's an S-Model one I started a while back.... a year or two ago!

Hi dave
Nice looking kit . it looks a lot better than the old AEF kit I'm making, I've got to do a few repairs to some of the kit pieces as a few are broken or missing.
You'll have to get it finished.