zim help agian.

[streetfighterjeff]

guys, doing the zim on the KT, but cant find a good pic on how it goes round the mantlet/ front of the turret. seems to go in radial lines round the bottom of the barrel mantlet area , but how does it go on the front of the turret around the machine gun? is it the same as the on one the glacis where it has radial ines round it? also how does it go round the back and the big hatch? cant find a pic any where ongoogle that shows it clearly. might just be me being a numpty searching for stuff.
jeff

[mustclime]

look through here.......

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/s ... 270&page=2

[streetfighterjeff]

cheers mustclime. thats a great help bud.
jeff

[mustclime]

Do yourself a couple favors when doing this....
1) use green miliputty or die the puddy dark gray.....I did my turret in white and with the tank being a fighter, any scratches = paint touchup....
2) It is much easier to take the turret off and take it apart....the hardest part is the rear escape hatch. I removed mine and did it off the turret.

Other things of note....the pistel ports should be clean and hl omitted the pistel port on the loaders side( I found this out after I painted mine ). On the rear excape hatch, the pintie bolts should be clear as the zimmerit was put on the hatch assembly before it was mounted on the turret. On thinkness of the zimmerit, the zimmerit got thinner as the war went on, the kt had a very thing coat...........have fun

[streetfighterjeff]

hmmm fun. not lol. using the green putty bud, hopefully going on thin enough but as it going to be really battered and weathered should be ok. didnt know about the pistol port on the loaders side, is it in about the same position as the one on the commanders side?
jeff

[mustclime]

go part way down and you can see it in here..

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/sh ... -Museum-UK

[streetfighterjeff]

once again mustclime, cheers. from what i saw it is about half way down and in line with the loaders hatch. you are a git, got to do more work now mate. lol
jeff

[mustclime]

Happy to help....If you want to see how to open the front hatches...look at my e50 biuld in the hl section.

[streetfighterjeff]

front hatches will be cool. not sure about the rears hatch bud. might just leave it where it is and blag it bud. lol
jeff