Took better pix this time, amazing how bad lighting can ruin your pix[B)]
Hope you like 'em![:D]
Bill
That looks amazing! Very good job! Your zim is great! What did you use?? I’d say that this is your best work so far! What type of AB did you use? All of it is realistic, you did a great job on your weathering!
Congrats!
You did an awesome job! the zim looks great and the paint chipping on the top,Nice!
Good Job!
again Bill, looks great… hope my new pics turn out better!
Very well done. Zimm looks sweet. You did a good job on the numbers too. A fine kitty indeed.
that is a very nicely done Tiger Bill ! Shows why German WW 2 armor is so popular . You gotta let us know what you used for/on the zim.[tup]
CFR
Great looking…
Truly a “king” tiger.
The tracks on the right side [2c] in the last picture appear to be angled up.
Wow amazing !!! great work and weathering is excellent
THx Dragan!
Great overall job!
I love the paint and the weathering, and the tracks look brilliant. Great job on the details and markings, too.
I guess I’ll be the only one to say that the zimmerit could have been done more realistically, though. I don’t know what technique you used, but it appears that some sort of putty was applied and the pattern was jabbed into it with some sort of tool. Like the hot-knife technique, I do not believe this technique yields realistic results.
If you look at pix of real zimmerit (particularly on Tiger IIs), you will see that, rather than a series of slits gouged into the surface, it’s more like a series of ridges. The knife/screwdriver technique cannot truly capture the look of these ridges, as you are actually only creating slits, not ridges. Your application here shows areas where the slits themselves are spaced quite far apart, further decreasing the look of real zimmerit. I’m not talking about the areas where the zim has come off; what you have done there looks great. I’m talking about the areas where you may have gotten a bit tired, and spaced your jabs out a bit more than usual.
All just my opinion, of course! [:)]
I believe the most realistic (and easiest, actually!) way to achieve the look and feel of real zimmerit is with the putty of your choice and a zimmerit “rake,” or a razor saw. Putty and a zim rake will recreate the perfect thickness and ridges apparent in real zimmerit.
Other than that, I’d say you have a very realistic Tiger II there! [:D]
Great looking work Bill [tup][tup] the paint job and the weathering on your tiger look fantastic. What paint/color did you use for the primer under the zim, it looks very realistic?
Also, sorry to be a whiner but could I ask you to maybe reduce the size of the pic of the King Kitty in your sig. At the moment it’s nudging 740k which takes a fair old time to load [:)]
Thanks
Nice looking tank Bill. Makes me want to build a piece of armor. It will have to be a “what if” though so I can add a pusher prop on the back… I don’t think I know how to build something without a prop[:D]
Hi all,
J-hulk; You are absolutely right, My LHS finally got a set of zimm tools and I got it b4 anybody else did[}:)]! I did get tired dong the zimm, thousands of little “jabs”[:p].
Darson; Not a problem[;)], dial-up is a drag[:(]
Wing-nut; Great! I love what-ifs.
Well, if you pulled the zim off this well with the “jabbing” technique, I’m sure your next zim job with the tools will be spectacular!
Looking forward to your next one! (And still enjoying this one!) [:)]