doing a King Tiger for one of the Can-Am Brothers
adding Zimmerit to it using Milliput works good took a bit to get this far i have a fractured hand and arthritis in my hands so a few breaks were necessary
i hope he likes it when i'm done going to do an extra special job on the details and weathering
man this stuff is heat resisting 130 degrees C that's 266 degree Fahrenheit.... hope it don't get that hot.....lol

Looks great so far. Try some alcohol for the hands.....taken internally of course.

that's most of my problem Bob i don't drink ...lol

great job airbrushler,  what are you using to get the lines? I use old dental picks my dentist but my zim is quite as consistent as yours.

Thanks Freaky Dude
i'm using a piece of styrene taped to a popsicle stick

High-tech! <div>
</div><div>What thickness and width? It's spot on.</div>

Hi<div>
</div><div>Nice work as usual from you Airbrusher.</div><div>
</div><div>You have my sympathies re the Arthritis! Snap! The Scottish weather here doesn't help either! Lol!</div><div>
</div><div>Stu</div>

not sure on the thickness on this styrene it's about 1/32 thick and 1/4 wide

Ah Scotland there's one place i want to go to one day
Thanks Stu, ya my hands aren't what they use to be use to built model cars when i was a kid some of those parts were pretty small and they were 1/24 scale most of the tank mosels are 1/35 i don't think i can handle those parts i'll stick with fooling around with these 1/16 .....lol

started paint

milliput i think is the best way to do zimmerit. it just looks more realistic to me. attached is the milliput zimm i did on my Tiger I.

Nice Tiger Manchu9inf can't wait to see it with some paint on it

Who makes the steel wheels you used on your Tiger I?

Great looking Zimmerit Airbrushler!!!!! I used a gear on a wire handle I made to do this with Milliput.....

Very nice Airbrusher. Love it. Great job.
Greg

A #16 exacto blade works well too but the popsicle stick costs a whole lot less. Nice work airbrushler.


Mike EOT

I thought you cleaned off the stove. Zimmerit looks good anyway.

Herman

this is my late (June '44) Tiger with zimm. it came out pretty decent, i think. The late wheels i bought from ETO, i don't know if they have them in stock anymore, i bought them in like '08. maybe Wecohe might have them, but not sure.

Nice Tiger manchu9inf zimmerit looks great ya i like the late wheels just makes it a bit different i have a WSN tiger still stock no zim with the early wheels not sure what i will do with it yet just fooled around with the paint so far

thanks, i agree, i like the late style road wheels myself too. I still have a set that I will use on my next late Tiger I project. I am thinking of a late Tiger with 3rd SS markings in Poland in '44/45.
I am deploying again soon, so no new tank projects for a while. And when i get back, i might PCS again, so I am not sure when the next tank will get started.
Also on the zimm, i roll out the milli put like a pie crust to get it thin, then i apply it to the side of the tank and use a flathead screwdriver to indent the milliput. i do usually lay out like a 3 inch long section and do a little bit at a time. I think it looks more realistic than appling the milliput straight to the tank and then scribing it.

here is the link to my late Tiger:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_89...tm.htm#8939693