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    Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. H Nibelungenwerk. Miniart 35337

    in Work in Progress - Armour

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    11 hours ago, Model Mate said:

    Very nice looking Zimm… looks like you nailed it. It’s not something I’ve tried myself, but I sympathise with your milliput and green stuff woes. One of them is too sticky and the other not sticky enough, but I’ve found that if you mix them together (50/50) they hit the Goldilocks zone very well. 

     

    never thought of trying that, good to know, thanks for commenting...

     

    Ed

    Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. H Nibelungenwerk. Miniart 35337

    in Work in Progress - Armour

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    42 minutes ago, Bullbasket said:

    I'll fifth it. Oops! Sorry Ed. That sounds as though I'm relieving myself.

    Never had to tackle any of that stuff, but it's certainly looking the business. Nice work mate.

     

    John.

     

    Thanks John, I'm not sure I would want to do this again in a hurry, I did this one as a trial run in case I needed to do it on a Stug that I have planned to do later on, which is an interior build. I didn't want to try it on that without having tried it before hand.

     

    thanks for commenting

     

    Ed 

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    Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. H Nibelungenwerk. Miniart 35337

    in Work in Progress - Armour

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    2 hours ago, Jasper dog said:

     

    And I'll make that a third!

     

    Very nicely done Ed.

    Glad to hear the set up with Tamiya putty and the Trumpy zimm tool works.

     

    Atb

    Darryl 

     

    2 hours ago, Crayons said:

    I'll fourth it.

     

    Thank you chaps, I don't know why I found it very difficult to get the putty from a UK supplier, last time I looked you could get it on ebay from a company called "Jolly Japan" , the mind boggles.....

     

    all the best

     

    Ed

    Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. H Nibelungenwerk. Miniart 35337

    in Work in Progress - Armour

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    Hello all, It's been a while since my last update, I've been unable to do anything for a couple of weeks as I had a flu type virus which really knocked me out and couldn't do much. So now that I'm better I started to look at doing some zimmerit to the model. I've never done this before, I bought some Trumpeter zimmerit tools which looked nice and thought that using fine milliput would be ok to use. It seemed to work ok on a test piece and I started to work on the bottom part of the tank. The problem I had was that I couldn't get it thin enough, I used a blade to try to spread it on and it kept lifting off onto the blade. I tried to wet the blade to avoid that and all I ended up was a sorry mess as the water just diluted the putty. So I scraped it all off and washed the tank in water ready to start again and try something else.
     

    I had some green stuff putty which seemed to work ok but was very hard to work. So looking at some videos I managed to get some Tamiya epoxy putty from China. This worked great, I could use a wetted cocktail stick to roll the putty around into all the nooks and crannies and then use a wetted blade to smooth everything over before using the zimmerit roller. I did the undersides first which I found quite difficult as I had a lot of things in the way like the return roller arms and mounts for the running gear at the bottom, this made it difficult for the zimmerit roller but the kit comes with a stamp tool which helped in tight spots. 
     

    I also found doing the zimmerit on the glacis plate tricky due to the mounts for the spare tracks being in the way, but most of the zimmerit will be hidden away once the tracks are on. On the front plate I left some zimmerit off to indicate damage. Here are a few pictures, there are areas where I have left off the zimmerit, namely on the upper sides and the rear so that parts can be fitted into the gaps like the exhaust etc...
     

     

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    Still more zimmerit to do on the front of the turret, the schurzen and possibly the side plates, but that's later on, quite a lot to do before then.


    That's it for now, I'll be back when I have more to show

     

    all the best

     

    Ed

     

     

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