Heng Long Jagdpanther - first tank

[hotte8487]

Hi nochin98,

I must say your tank model looks very great, excellent made zimmerit coating.
My zimmerit I've also made with apoxie sculpt, but the pattern with a screw driver. You've wrote that you are using backside of an Exacto knife blade to made the squares. I don't know such a knife, can you show me a little picture?

[buckeye36]

Here's one:

[hotte8487]

Thanks, now I know that this kind of coating zimmerit is not easier as my method. Hats off.

[nochin98]

Hey Hotte,

Sorry for the delayed reply. I misspoke, it is not an exacto knife I'm using it's the back edge of the blade from a box-cutter (utility knife). Example photo below. I removed the blade from the casing and used the back edge (circled in red in the photo below) to create the straight lines. It was just the right width.

It was actually not that hard to do, just went slowly. The Apoxie Sculpt is easy to work with, as long as it's kept wet.

Hoping to put some time in tomorrow night on the tank. Finishing up the back end with zimmerit and attaching the Ausf G1 exhausts.

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[hotte8487]

Hi nochin98,

thanks for your reply, for that it's never to late. A modeller must anyway take a lot of time to create perfect looking models.
I've also used apoxie sculpt to coating zimmerit on my tanks, but I've made another pattern of zimmerit, so that I had used a screw driver for that. It's always a lenghty fumbling.
You can see my finished tanks in this forum, a Tiger I in section "show off" and my Kingtiger in section "other builds".
For the moment I build a Tamiya Panther type G, a very good base for a top model, but also a lot to do to achieve that. A building report about this will come soon...