Scott, you may be able to A.B there, just don’t let it dry out there. Are you using acrylics? If not, I suggest doing it in the house. 1000th post!
Collective sigh of relief, all zim is on and almost finished with basic assembly. I’m going to let it dry, trim and patch up later. Might be able to paint Tuesday. I’m going to attempt the funky jigsaw pattern. I just hope the A.B. can do it, otherwise I will do the green clouds or whatever it is called.
You might do better getting adapters at Home Depot or Lowes. They’re pretty standard items. You should be able to find them either in the plumbing section or near the air powered tools.
Good news, it was warm, sunny and no breeze outside so I did a quick 2nd coat of the dark yellow on the Elefant with my old airbrush and can of air, which dried nicely in the dining room.
Bad news, the hose at the hobby store is the same as the one that came with the airbrush. I couldn’t find the correct compression adapter at Home Depot either… sigh… Time to contact the people I got the compressor and airbrush from.
Zimmerite done!
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The fenders are only taped on at the moment. I know there was alot of discussion on to zim or not to zim the tool box. I did. I also saw pic of some with zimmerited front fenders, so I did also. So for so good.
The only thing I can think of is to try a hydaulic supply co. or maybe a place they sell paint guns and such. Both these type of places might have what you are lookig for.[2c]
What color(s) do you use on the tracks?
I usually base coat the entire track with rust (either on or off the sprue, depending on your preference), then after assembly, on the outside of the tracks, I do a heavy dry brush with gunmetal then a lighter drybrush with silver, just catching the very high spots. I also put a strip of gunmetal on the inside, on either side of the guide horns, where the wheels would rub against it. You just need to do things a little differently when the track has rubber pads (they get dark grey) or if your depicting a vehicle operating in a dry climate or in sand, then rust would not be appropriate. Hope this rambling explanation helps, Pete
Great job on the zim Matt.
hmmmmmmmm… i think it is salvageable… the tracks are not, so i will take up aikinutNY on his offer of sending me his unused set… matthew, that zimm looks great…
Thanks for the coments. The zimmerite turned out a little chunky, but paint does amazing things.[;)]. Geoff, I glad it’s salvageble, I’ve been there before!
Eric, glad to hear the zimmerite went ok. I can’t wait to see it.
Mine is nothing to write home about Matt, it’s just Cavalier with some touch up spots.
It’s good to hear that your salvage efforts are beginning to bear fruit Geoffrey! You’ll probably come out of it with a better build in the end? Sure hope you were able to save the great paint job you did. Matt your zimmerit looks just super, can’t wait till you show us some pics with paint on it. It sure takes on a whole new look with paint. I’m still hymn hawwing around on starting the wash on my Elefant, maybe some progress today? Looks like everyone is making pretty good progress so far, I think most of us will finish on time. LOL. Semper Fi, mike
For those of us that have the Cavalier set, we know it comes with a cheesy plastic zim tool. I will tell it works rather well for spot touchups for the zim and has encouraged me to get the Tamiya tools and do my own for my next zim build.
Did anyone using Cavalier have a tough go with the long strips? Mine tended to be a bit rounded near the front of the hull, where they wrap around to the back. I tried to fix it, but it doesn’t seem to want to sharply bend around. Confused? Me too.
I forsee some fun trying to get the superstructure with the gun attached to the upper hull. Anyone have any problems here? I heard Jason had some. I tried dry fitting and it was having problems going over the zim.
I hope to be attaching my superstructure today so I’ll let you know. I had to trim just a bit to get everything to fit flush… I gently shaved any tidbit of the zim strip that was up a bit too high by running the blade along the edge slicing inwards to prevent tearing any off that I didn’t mean to.
I used that cheesy little tool with some success when I had to repair the front, lower plate. It had a hollow spot that broke off. I little putty and a swipe or two fixed it right up. Just a dash or two with sandpaper got rid of the rough edges. I think I’m going to try to zim the next kit myself as well. Let me know how you like the Tamiya tools if you get them.
Those long strips were a bit of a pisser to get on the front side, they want to curve instead of crease add the bend in the hull. I had to put a lot of pressure for several minutes to get them to sorta stay flat, and had to touch up a bit with superglue afterwards… it’s not perfect, but close enough [;)]
I had the same trouble on those front corners. Just held them down until the epoxy cured, tyrying not to glue myself permanently to the model.
Mine didn’t sharply crease, so I’ll live with it this time. Not happy with myself. I should have perhaps let the first part dry completely, then the next day wrapped it around with super glue or something quicker and stronger.
BTW This was the original start day of the G.B. Also Happy Birthday to my Mrs. Tigerman from her Tiger. [;)] Love ya. [:I]
Happy Birthday Mrs. T[party]
Hey, that’s a good idea, do the one part first, let it harden up and then do the front flap… wish I would have thought of that. And Happy Birthday to Mrs. T!