Dark Side of the Dark Side? Or, more kings...

Primer's on, Krylon, my favorite. Anybody see anything I'm missing before I go shoping for a Krylon dark yellow?

Tracks are in acrylic raw umber wash over the acid etch I do, ready for the brightening of the contact areas and final pigments.

Great pic! That's what I'm looking for, not obviously destroyed, intact but abandoned. I want to display it with a Sherman, if for nothing else than the contrast in size.

Mike, thanks.

Now I have to find some dark yellow in a rattle can.......

Yes she is Zimmed.  Have a few other pictures from different views and it shows a little better.  These pics is how I did my KT a few months ago.

Very nice detail on the Zimm.....( shame its not OD )

As I said, love the Zimm

Rounds Complete!!

Great picture.  I can't tell if it has zimm or not... can you?

From my reading the first 5 were issued to the Pz.Kp.(FKL) 316/Pz. Lehr Div. in Mar 1944 and first used in combat in Jun 44 in France near / in the town of Chateaudun in defense of the town for the Normandy breakout.  They were painted in Dunkelgelb with Olivgrun camo.  The vehicles had large double digit numbers painted on the side of the front section of the turret.

Hope that helps

Bill, just what I needed to know, thanks.

Kenny, oops! I'll ck my dates, thanks.

PW, WN, thanks, it's more fun than I had thought. I have always had some measure of reluctance to do zimm. Now to do the camo w/o an airbrush.......

Thats looking to be a great build.

To my knowledge the King Tigers did not appear until the "Battle of the Bulge", therefore they would not have been available for the Normandy breakout

However there are people here who know a lot more than me...cheers....Kenny

Great looking zim.    Really nice so far. 

Rob

Nice looking KT! I would suggest looking to the bundesarchive on-line for cammo ideas. Also, the Panzer Wrecks series is full of photos that will inspire an authentic paint scheme.

Chipped zim would most likely show primer red underneath if the chips were fresh. Otherwise the crew would have the opportunity to paint over the chipped area in the field and blend it back in with the rest of the vehicle. The zim coat was applied to the primered hull before it was painted in the base color (for obvious reasons) and recovered vehicles with zim that has chipped or worn also show a light grayish or tan color (the natural zim color pre-paint) around the edges of the chip where some of the zim was left behind vs. chipping all the way down to the primer. HTH!

Nice work on this one so far, coming along nicely.

ME likey.

Thank you,sir. I have now popped my zimm-cherry.

Very cool! That's some real initiative taken with the zimm, and the hit knife work!

Thanks!

Assemebly is done, unless someone can point me to something I've missed. This was an well-engineered kit, no fit issues at all. I only wish they were all like that......maybe. Anyway, I thinkI spent more time on the tracks and zimm than the kit itself. Primer is actually on, but I don't have any pics of that yet. I did rotate the idler mount back about 10 degrees to tighten the tracks very slightly, since they looked a bit loose previously. All the pics I have of actual functional KTs show the tracks off the first two road wheels and I tried to get that tension.

One question for those in the know: Would the areas that have zimm chipped off show the dark yellow underneath, or primer red?

As always, thanks for checking in.

Two thumbs up!

In a word nice .Ron

Thanks, all. Not sure about what scheme, but since Normandy to Falaise was summer, probably no white-wash. I would imagine that most of however few of these things that were in western Europe were out of action by winter.

I used a pocket screwdriver for the zimm. Slow, but just the right size. I had to keep it a little wet, or else the putty started sticking a little. For the zimm I did with heat, I filed the soldering iron/hot knife tip to the same size and shape as the screwdriver blade. Getting the putty on and spread in an even thickness was the hardest part.

This is my first real attempt at zimm, primarily because I was a bit scared of ruining a good kit. What I did was pretty much a compilation of different methods I've seen here, mainly.

Edit: As far as references, I used a couple of build articles on Dragons KT Porsche with Zimm, and a couple of old Tiger books. I hope Dragon's zimm is pretty accurate.....

I will use these images when I try my hand at the Zimmerit. Nice job.

Bob

I like it!  Ready for more.

-Stephen

Looks good so far. The zimmerit looks great.

Zimmerit does look welll applied. Did you use the AFV Club roller on the KT?

Looking good so far! Seems like December is shaping up to be KT month here on the forums.

No two ways about it.That zim looks awesome.

looking good so far. Great work on the Zimm. Nice to see someone else who does there own. I take it you are doing the winter white scheme.