Well so far this all i have done I used Yellow standard Milliput and the AFV clubs Zimm tool so far it has worked out vary well,this being my time doing zimm anyway.
Looks good. Man everyone is getting so proficient at applying homemade zimmerit anymore. Good job! That tool is the perfect width too, no doubt takes a little of the guess work out. Probably took you no time to “roll it”.
tigerman Only took about an hour from mixing the putty to applying it and then roll it. thank god my other 2 DML kits dont have it.
Damn, that looks pretty good.
Hey, that looks REALLY good. But before you get too far along you might want to check your refs. Zim wasn’t applied to the area where the fenders (sides) covered. Just trying to help out.
Yes that i know i wait for the stuff to dry and then cut it with my X-acto.
hey man – i’ll say it again, i think your zimm job looks real good-- in the future i will be doing a 1/16 late tiger conversion-- i hope my zimm looks as good as i think yours does!— treadwell[8D]-- p.s. help i’m a rock-- not the ‘frank zappa’ version(even tho he wrote it) but the ‘west coast pop art experimental band’ version— that has nothing to do with anything but your quote reminded me of it [:D]- so shoot me!
Thanks treadwell, and the saying what it actualy means is the mechanics in the army call the truck drivers rock’s with lips because they are dumb as rocks but think they know it all[:D] Thats funny it reminds you of a song.
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I’m not sure precisely what area you are referring to, but SmokingGuns is correct by covering the sides of the sponson from the upper edge down to the lower. I reviewed photos from Jonathon Forty’s Tanks in Detail 3: PzKpfw V Ausf A, D, & G and Squadron Signal’s Panther in Action. Between both publications, I found several photos of ausf D, A, and G Panthers in which the area of the sponson that would be hidden by the side skirts indeed had Zimmerit applied to it. The areas of the sponson that should have the Zim scraped off would be the area in the back where the spare track was carried, the areas underneath the tools in front, and a narrow strip along the length of the sponson so that the shelf at the to edge of the skirts can fit tight to the sponson.