Hmmm..well, still undecided. Yes, Tom, I've heard good things about the Atak Zimmerit. I'll need more research on that one when the project goes 'live'..However, the problem with the Tamiya version, I read somewhere, is that if you make a balls up of it, it's very difficult to remove.
While HL parts are relatively inexpensive to replace (relative to Tamiya, that is), Tamiya bits definitely aren't.
That makes getting the decision right all the more critical.
Thanks for the pics, Rad. You've done a fine job there, although it looks as if the tank's been attacked by zimmerit-hungry moths
Personally, I'm not in the beaten up/ war damaged camp as some here are. Several distinguished contributors here have turned the 'abandoned tank look', or ' the peppered panzer' almost into a separate art form.
I couldn't match their models, even if I wanted to.
I prefer the recently-off-the-production line appearance; maybe with a few oil leaks here and there, light weathering (blending) as well as shadowing from exhaust gases.
Artistic Hobbies made a good fist of the Tamiya zimmerit here:
http://www.artistichobbies.com/resource ... tiger9.php
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Now, If I had
that talent, i'd certainly clank down the old Zimmerit trail....
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
This Damned addiction... 
That's an interesting and instructive webpage. My only reservation is that when zimmerit was bonded to tanks, it rarely came off, and was seldom patchy unless the tank had absorbed some battle damage. Even then, until the decision was made to stop adding the coating to new tanks, in the autumn of 1944, I imagine that the the bits that had been blasted off would have been repaired along with the metal substrata. That's my understanding, but I could be wrong. 
