Hello,

My first attempt at burning zimmerit on. This is the Bandai (Fuman, Frog/Fuman) 1/48 King Tiger.

The zimmerit is a bit oversized for factory-applied (which I understand all 50 of the Porsche turret models were). But hey, the crew reapplied it after a Typhoon's rockets knocked it off! :-)

I think it looks very good....how exactly did you go about doing this?

Sean

You did a fine job on that Zimmerit!!

I tried the same method in 1/72....terrible, because sometimes it comes out oversized. but yours looks OK or at least better than mine :-) sometimes the knive even went through :-)

I fear zimm on 1/72 German Armor.

Yours on that King tiger looks great though prolly look even better when painted

It looks very good. Congrats. I don't have that courage to apply directly on the model with that hot knife method. So I use the putty method which goes very well. You can repeat the procedure in case of any accident. Here is the link with my putty zimmerit applied on a 1/72 Tiger.
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I was about to try that technique too. Looks exceptionally well done on your kit! After painting, the real details would show!

Everyone, thank you for the encouraging comments!

This was done with a basic soldering iron with a chisle tip. Hard to use as there is no heat control. I want to make a rheostat; look closely and you'll see where I also burned through. Careful 'plastic surgery' has hidden it.

The only reason I used this method was the Porsche turret has so much curvature. I didn't feel confident applying it with putty.

As I build this beast--it comes with a substanial interior--I'll post more.

Thanks again.

I guess close to 30 years ago I built my 48th scale stuff (yeah ---yeah it really has been that long) and I only tried zimmerit once on my Tiger 1. Used putty and back then the Testors glue caps were reeded so used the cap to make the pattern. Came out ok but your's looks fantastic. Very brave of you to use the burn method, but you do what ya gotta when you build small scale