I am going to try my first chavalier zimmerit set on Tamiyas King Tiger. Anyone have slow setting expoxy sugestions? Brand name, etc. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance...

actually, I didnt use epoxy I used slow setting CA and the results were fine (see gallery of in process work for the jagdtiger w/ interior and photoetch set :-)

I used 5 or 15 minute epoxy. It is the stuff RC aircraft builders use. You can find it in the RC section of the hobby shop. The only problem I find is, it can be quite messy. The end product is very good. Good luck
Recon

I did not particularly like the slow setting epoxy when I used it for zimmerit. I would use slow setting CA. The epoxy was not as adhesive as I would have liked and made a lot of bubbles that were difficult to correct. One more point, make sure to thoroughly sand the surface of the area that you are applying the zimmerit to.
Regards,
Andrew

Sounds like slow setting CA is the ticket. Thanks for the help. I'll send an update when I've tried it.

Thanks again...

keenan--Definately stay away from the 5 minute epoxy. It is messy, it leaves air bubbles as Oberst stated, and it stinks like a monkey's a**hole. Slow setting CA is the way to go. Another possibility is Elmer's white glue. A guy in my modeling club swears by it and I found that it works pretty well for large sections though CA would be better for smaller sections.

I did the Cavalier Zimmerit on the Tamiya King Tiger kit a couple of years ago. I used 5 minute epoxy and had no trouble with it. Yea, it does stink . As for being messy, I had no real trouble with it. I did lightly sand the model surface first to give it some tooth. I used alcohol to clean up the expoy that would squeeze out of the edges. Worked like a champ.
Just my experience.

Now I can't decide whether to use the white glue or the slow setting CA. Crap. I guess I'll try 'em both and see what happens. Thanks again for all the help.

My advice would be to try the white glue first because if you don't like the results it will be 100 times easier to remove and reglue using the CA than vice versa.