King tiger Porshe turret .

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It amazes me what modelers come up with to create things. Zimmerit must have more ways of using household items as opposed to any other scratching. Looks mighty superb. Keep us posted.

Its simmiler to gripfill or evogrip gap filling adhesive but without the smell found in builders merchants. Its quite cheap at about 3 to 4 pounds and one tube would do about twenty plus 1/35 kits ,maybe more? The zimmeritt efect is realistic because it is basicly the same texture as real zimm.Iwas next to a King Tiger the other day with Zimmeritt and it looks like it was coated in no more nails,Maybe the germans got zimm from wickes builders merchants (joke).

You did a great job on the zim. I wondered about using a hacksaw blade once I saw the Tamiya tools. I was curious about Wicks so I did a Google search on Wicks solvent free no more nails and came up with this.  www.wickes.co.uk/content/ebiz/wickes/resources/images/gil/21.pdf   I am sure we have something similar on this side of the pond.

Thanks for sharing.

Ed

 

Thanks for your coments Jthurston.

Looks finer than frog hair, to me. Outstanding work - really, I'm sitting here beside myself...(what movie was that from?)

That Zimm is fantastic!! I've been threatening to build a Porsche turret KT recently myself, though not in 1/16th. I'll look into whether this "No More Nails" is available on this side. Also, I think you might wanna check yer references before eliminating that seam line on the exhaust pipes altogether. I don't know, but it does look like something that could belong there. You guys who know these things can correct me.

Anyway, beautiful build, looking forward to seeing her in paint!

 

                          zimm was done with teeth of blade, i did have exhausts on my list of things to do. i will have to check out seam lines thanks.

Looks good! Before you paint it, though, I noticed a couple seam lines on the rear clevises and the exhaust pipes. By the way, was the zimm dome with the end of the blade or the teeth?

the doog wrote:

"Wick's Solvent-Free No More Nails"??? What is that--a spackling compound? It kinda looks like plaster...? Anyway, it looks fabulous! The zimm is perfect! MAn, a dio in 1/16? That's gonna be huge! Where ya gonna keep that? You MUST be single! LOL!

Cheers Doog , the compound is a paste that comes in a tube that you use with a gun , the sort of thing you would use to fix skirting boards to walls. its a strong adhesive. By the way  im not single i am just fortunate enough to have my own modelling room although i dont actually do any modelling in there,i feel to isolated. I take over the dinning table in the lounge,got to have people around me be it the wife or the kids,dont know why, the light is pretty poor compared to my hobby room, Still thats me.

Cheers for remarks on mg mount,  i intend to scrathbuild new mount and will also do away with screws on side skirts. thanks .,Andy.

Looks very nice.  Excellent Zimmerit application!  Bravo!

 

I have that one started too.  May I offer this observation?  I'd omit the MG42 on the cupola.  The MG mount was designed to hold the coaxial MG, which was an armored barrel MG34, not an MG42.  Plus, the Tamiya design of the AA mount is very specious.

I also too pains to omit and correct the large screwheads that Tamiya requires (such as on the skirt armor).  It gives the tank a less toy-like appearance.  Hope this helps.

RC 

"Wick's Solvent-Free No More Nails"???

What is that--a spackling compound? It kinda looks like plaster...?

Anyway, it looks fabulous! The zimm is perfect!

MAn, a dio in 1/16? That's gonna be huge! Where ya gonna keep that? You MUST be single! LOL!