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Hi Guys,

I've been chomping at the bit with this one now for months so please excuse the eagerness. Opened the box to a multitude of sprues (14 all up) Including a brass fret and a piece of string which will go in the rubbish basket.

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The detail is as per Dragons usual high quality. However there is some flash and the detail isn't quite up to their modern standasrds but very good anyway.

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First view of the instruction sheet shows it to be in the wonderfull photo format that Dragon often use. This makes fitting quite easy without having to decipher a bunch of squiggley lines as sometimes happens with smaller intricate parts.

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And there are 2 versions depicted. I don't think I'll do either of these as I have a particular vehicle in mind but that will be decided tomorrow.

GOODLUCK ALL

Geoff

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Well I've thought about it and I am in fact going to option A which is Schwere Panzer abteilung 503 in the Adennes in 1944. I am going to do a reasonably well used vehicle even though we know that historically 503 as attached to the 12 SS Panzer Division at the time had recently been re-fitted. So the vehicles would be in pretty good nick - but there would still be some degree of wear. Starting with the side fenders I will be depicting some missing and some damaged, so to start with we need to seperate the fenders at certain points....

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If some fenders are missing, the edges of the remaining ones will be visible so we will need to thin them out a bit.

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I do this by cutting away excess material on the edge and then thinning down carefully.

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The result speaks for itself, till next time..... :D

Geoff

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I have completed the fenders

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and the drive sprockets

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And it is time to start with the zimmerit. I do the turret first using Tamiya putty and the Tamiya tool. The pattern is the typical late pattern which was fairly rough on the King Tiger.

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And even though they generally never put zimmerit on the fenders, I have seen them often enough so this one will have on the fenders too (some anyway)

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Sorry about the irritating shadows guys i'll try and not get them in future shots.

Geoff

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Yea and I bought the Atak resin Zim for mine, just a word of warning to you all that want to use the Atack product. the fit is terrible and you will need to make a plan, oh and BTW Atak don't reply at all to mails so dont waste your time trying to complain :P

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And this is the turret complete with the barrel support.

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And the back plate.....

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Added some basic zimmerit to the lower hull and added the swingarms, drive sprocket and idler..

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and the upper hull is complete..

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And this is just a shot of all the pieces that required zimmerit...

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I promise the next pics WILL NOT HAVE SHADOWS

Geoff

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Excuse my ignorance, but what the heck is zimmerit and what does it do?

Zimmermit is a coating that would prevent magnetic mines from being stuck to the side of the tank. It was in a paste form and was trowelled on at the factory or in the field.

You`re doing a great job on the coating, geoff. Tried doing it once or twice myself. Never tried it again. Man, that was an expensive try.

Don

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Magic work!

I cheated and purchased my Tiger's with Zimmerit on them :woot.gif:

I would hate to attempt 1:72 zimm

:rofl:

MikeJ

Me too Mike,

great work what do you think of those colour instructions I hated em myself.

Andy.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Geoff I am not sure you need the Zimmerett underneath? I don't think you do check your references. And don't leave those gaps on the back plate! Looking great though. Keep it coming.

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