I want to do some damaged zim and I don’t know the color of the raw zim where the paint was chipped off. What would the primer color be under the zim? Thanks for any knowledge you can provide.
Sometimes the zimm was applied in the field, so in these cases, the tank color could be showing under the zimm, or the primer, depending on how much paint got pulled with the zimm. Factory applied zimm would have primer showing under it with possibly some spots of bare metal. Natural color of the zimm…I have no idea. I’d probably make it a greyish tan, but I have absolutely no basis for that.
Good luck. Let us know what you decide to do.
Any idea of what color the factory primer was?
The raw color was probably ochre, which is a yellowish red. I got this information from this site which says that 15% of the zimmermit recipe was ochre shading.
Toward the end of the war, the primer could have been olive green, redbrown, or anything else they had, or none at all. But that was all after the time of the zimm anyway. Red oxide is what you’d want for primer under the paint that’s under the zimm.
I’ve got a picture in one of the osprey modelling manuals that shows a colour pic of a tiger up close. The colour under the damaged zim is dark grey. Looks like new steel that hasn’t been treated. The Zim that has been chipped away is white. LIke a stucco or plaster. Seems that I’ve seen this before too. Well good luck.
Thanks, the info really helped out.
This helped me out as well, because I was wondering the same questions. Thanks gjek and all who answered.