Schwere Granatwerfer 34 restoration project

[António Fragoeiro]

Looks fantastic, great work.
That is an awesome display piece.
Cheers.
Nuno

[Bjørn]

Wow. Thanks for the nice replys guys
Im glad you liked it. I dont think there are too many of these in private collections.
I have read somewhere, that German mortars are the weapon that caused the most allied casualties, in ground to ground co mbat during the war. I do not remember the source to this statement, so it must be regarded as a unconfirmed rumor as of now.
Anyway, its a very nice display object, and I really appreciate your comments

Cheers
Björn

[Adrian Stevenson]

Once again, nice work.

Cheers, Ade.

[Bjørn]

Thanks Ade.
Very kind of you to comment

Cheers
Björn

[Bill Grist]

Very Nice....BILL

[Glenn66]

fantastic! congratulations!

[Bjørn]

Thanks for your kind comments guys

I have a small update here now. I have just completed the grenade box, with three early/prewar zink boxes for the additional lift-charges, or Zusatzladungen.





These boxes contained the donut-shaped extra charges, that was designed to be mounted around the tail, just before the tail fins for additional range of the mortar grenades. Each box contained three extra charges, and when all three charges was placed on the grenade, it gave the mortar a effective range up to 2100-2200 meters. Quite impressive range, really.

[Bjørn]

Later in the war, these zink boxes was replaced by bakelite boxes.
These boxes are quite rare, with the paper-labels still intact.
As you can see, the boxes and labels are a little bit dirty. These three boxes are ground dug from a bunker position around the Demjansk pocket, and are incredibly well preserved and highly collectible. They fit very well into the original holders in the grenade box.

[Bjørn]

Here are the last two pictures of the complete "suitcase" with deactivated Würfgranaten and Zusatzladungen/Teilkartuschen.











Hope you like the pictures

Cheers
Björn

[Glenn66]

Very cool, now what are you going to do with it?