Ugh, ARrrrrgh, errrr Oink.. oh well finally done.. not before I took a good tumble while doing pastels that knocked the periscope in to the Interior God.. is that like the Rug or Concrete Floor God that eats parts also.. oh well anyways.. this kit was a good learning experience.. I loook forward to trying more putty Zim kits in the future!!!

Verie Nicesly done.Good use of the DSB # .
Too bad about the periscope,maybe you can invert the tank and shake shake shake.
Makes me want to ziimerit my T-34....

LOL believe me.. I already tried the shake shake shake method... Works so much easier for getting picks out of the Acoustic Guitar.. but didn't seem to be working for this Jagd.. and I didn't want to hurt it anymore than I already did.. (++)

Lord Blue Fin

A real keeper here. The overall look and feel of this model is solid, with effective paint/weathering, and the zim job. This is good stuff.

Congrats on completing the Pig in a Pile Build.

STeve

Lord Blue Fin
Verie proofesional job on the zimmerit Nice sag on the tracks as well Are they the rubber band type,or indy links?

I raise my glass for a pig toast ! Well done Tuna !
What a great looking model you have built, many oinks to you lord blue fin !

Garry

Thanks guys!

Zod, those are the DML Indi tracks that come with the kit... Pain in the butt all those Injection Pin marks.. but I think worth it as they look better than vinyl.. .lol would rather Fruils.. but that's too expensive for me right now!

charlie

Lord Fish-Man,

Sorry for late response, this one hell of a sweet looking Pz IV L/48. and yes! this is the correct name, dude.

The zimmer looked muchie expertily made, and them decal AWESOMEly done.

The periscope thingy, verie sad state of affairs, it seems that DSB members tend to FUBAR their models, either FUBAR the lens, or drop the cockpit into the fuselage and cannot retrieve

All in all, this is awesome. I love them L/48 and madonna bra shaped MG covers.

Nice job Charlie!

BTW...I solved the problem of those sink holes with my grinding tool on super slow and was able to remove the marks from the DML kit I am working on with very little pain. Give it a try it sure made that process simple for me.

I used to hate individual links from DML now I am starting to really like working with them.

Rob

ow god charlie.. that looks suberpB. great model what firm makes that one?


one small remark/observation, shoudn't you made the muffler more rustier?

other then that.. *drewl*

Excellent overall look. Very nice job. Welldone !
What putty did you use for the zimm ?

Awsome Charlie...
looks like it'll drive straight off the cutting mat at any moment. Very nice zimmerite too.

There's been many a question re doing Zimmerite in various posts. Maybe you could give the low down on how you went about it....it would be a great help.

Way to go Charlie.

Cheers
Peter

Hi Carlos and Peter,

Thanks for the nice comments.. this was my first time doing a 'putty type' Zim.. and though I'm not entirely happy with they way it came out, I considered it a good learning experience.. I was way more happy with the latter applications than the beginning of the model.

I used R&J Zim It Rite for the putty... It was old stuff.. I bought it 7 years ago when I just got back in the hobby (lol what a chicken, didn't use it till now).. it was kind of hard in the early applications.. and that really bummed me out.. tough to get it very thin.. then I saw in the instructions that you can heat it in the oven.. so in later applications, I waited till the Wife was out, and fired up the oven!

This softened it up nicely!!! For tools I used some R&J stamps that I bought a long time go with the Zim.. I think they're oop now though .. and I also used the Tamiya tools.

I think the big thing is.. don't try to work on too much at a time... try to get the putty as thin as possible (I worked mine on some wax paper, I dont' know if this helped really)... The one thing that was great about the R&J putty, was that if you kept your tools wet with water, they stayed clean.. I looked at that as being a big plus.

Anyways.. I'm glad I tried, and now hopefully I have the confidence to try on my Panther G or Stug G in the future!!!

Good luck..

charlie

Hi Charlie:

Thanks for telling us about the zimm work.
One more question, is the Tamiya Polyester Putty similar to the one you used ?
I bought the Tamiya Putty and zimm tools last month and I want to try them in a King Tiger (Dragon). Hope I´ll not wait seven years to use them :-)
Thanks again and I think you´ve done a very nice job with that zimm.

Hi Carlos..

I don't know about the Tamiya Polyester Putty.. It looked awsome on that MMIR Tiger book... if it also works the same way with regards to the tools staying clean by just keeping them wet.. I would definately like to give that medium a try.

I mean that guy has a real thin coat going on with his Tiger and it looks great!