Hey all, sorry for the repost, had a bit of a photobucket mishap. here is the dml elephant with miliput zimmerit. painted with tamyia acrylics, weathered with mig and w&n oils and artist pastel chalks. trying to make a close representation of a vehicle in the italian campaign with modified loading hatch.
thanks again for looking, any comments or advice are greatly appreciated
Cheers
Jon

hi jon,
i think you did a great job on the zimmerit. i also love doing my own zimmerit, i think it just looks more realalistic. i do have a tiger and panther that have the dragon zimmerit but they will be the last. they are to i guess to uniformed and to hard to make battle- damage. once again jon great job.

respectfuly yours
nick morgan

Great looking Elefant. Think it came out very well indeed! What colors did you use for the base color & green splotches?

Looks good to me too. I like also the damage on it. My Porsche with "factory" one, don't have any!.

A Pz Iv H are waiting for my first attemp....someday

thanks guys, as for paints, i guess i kinda lied bout the paint on this one, the base is tamyia acrylic dark yellow cut with desert yellow and buff 50/25/25 and the green overspray is aqueous hobby dark green. I normaly use tamyia but had this from years and years ago. was quite happy with how it sprays and the satin finish is different but once it was matt coated it was all good. I agree with you all about the dragon zimmerit. i did the porsche KT and have the production one is in the stash to build as well, but am dissapointed that without some serious work battle damage cant easily be done to it unless anyone has some good suggestions. thought bout usin the dremmel but kinda worried bout overdoing it. I have the new pz4 ausf H and a late tiger to build coming up that will both be getting the coating. ordered a bunch of stuff from lucky model and am going to try tamyia epoxy putty with both the combs and the rollers. any suggestions on the best technique would be appriciated
cheers
Jon

cheer

Nice job on the Zim.

So I take it the Italeri Elephant?

Dragon I think put one out with it on or I could be wrong.

Nice job on the zimmerit, Jon. Looks good.

Jeff, I think Dragon made Elefants both with and without zimmerit.

Hi Jon,

I think your zimmerit looks fine, especially for the first time out. You've successfully captured the somewhat erratic look of the real thing, and home made always looks more personal and unique.

I cannot comment on the accuracy of your particular tank, but I can offer one tidbit on zimmerit in general. Around big bolts, round vision port protrusions, and similar obstructions, zimmerit was sometimes applied in a "star" pattern, as if radiating from the center of the protrusion. When applicable, this provides an opportunity to break up some of the vertical columns and add a little more character to the zimmerit.

I also like the chipping. Good job!

-Doug