Hi Again.
This is ATAK's resin, you can see the cutouts for exhaust and heat shield.

This is Dragons tower, apparenly the tower basket goes on top of the factory zimmered surface.

Johan

Yes, you're correct there. As I understand the tank would be assembled and then the zimmerit which was a cement like paste would be applied around everything on the tank. 

Chipped areas might show some primer under the zimmerit but the paint all went down over it. 

Nice work so far. 

Sorry, I was going to comment on your initial post but somehow missed doing it. 

Hello Gamera,

Thank you!

I guess my issue is that it is not clear to me where the welded on square nuts would provide enough clearance for the Zimmerit layer and where not.

I guess the heat shields are OK but the cast armor arround the exhaust is not.

And I serioesly doubt Zimmerit under the turret bin, that would have been a wasted effort.

After a visit to Mr. Byrdens place http://tiger1.info/EN/Welded-hull-plates.html I am OK with the bolted metal plates protecting the final drive cover in the front.

Once again thank you for taking interest and your encouraging words :)

Very Best Regards
Johan

The bin would of been put on before the zimmerit and I'm guessing that it would of just came up to the exhaust covers and they would of been unzimmerited (sp?) and looked sunk in a bit.