"Plaing with Zimmerit on 15 mm" Topic
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| AWuuuu | 16 Jan 2013 5:35 a.m. PST |
I recently bought great Plastic Soldier Company Tiger tanks model set. Tanks are very nice and built easily and comfortably (I look at you Zvezda !).Thanks to good plastic its easy to convert and worn up! Overall great models.
They have few problems thou. First and most prominent is lack of Zimmerit paste on the vehicles.
While there were Tigers without it (Early and rebuild) but most iconic look and photos depict them with Zimmerit coating. Zimmerit was anti-magnetic paste that was meant to stop magnetic anti tank mines from sticking to a tank. When germany was single country using them in large numbers, coating German tanks was quite silly waste that stopped in late 1944 but hey it look cool on the models :)
I made it with Liquid green stuff (but i will try normal – solid green stuff on another one and compare) Two more photos on my blog
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 John the OFM   | 16 Jan 2013 7:23 a.m. PST |
Looks nice, but what is "Liquid Green Stuff"? |
| AWuuuu | 16 Jan 2013 8:21 a.m. PST |
Its some new "stuff" GW released to mask holes in their Finecast line without messing with standard green stuff. Its semi liquid (gel ?) material that dry to hard finish. Its easy to use but not that good.
Well it has its uses, but it work mostly as coating with very delicate grainy surface or hole filler (its best as hole filler really).
Grainy surface is perfect for Zimmerit but you have to use some depth to achieve nice zimmerit like effect and there its becoming messy..
Sold in their paint range. |
| bracken | 16 Jan 2013 9:49 a.m. PST |
I like it, I've always liked the look of zimmerit I might be tempted to try it myself! Thanks for posting! Just out of interest what scale is it!
Cheers Russ |
| AWuuuu | 16 Jan 2013 9:58 a.m. PST |
Its 15mm/1:100 (i think they produce identical set in 1:72 too) I will try with normal GS, i heard results are better. |
| bracken | 16 Jan 2013 10:14 a.m. PST |
Nice job, even more so for 15mm. I've tried 15mm before, I just couldn't. Seem to get it right! Far enough it was ACW, and I toyed with Romans but I never felt that I got good results! I maybe should of given WW2 ago! |
| Only Warlock | 16 Jan 2013 12:44 p.m. PST |
Great stuff! (and leave it to GW To sell product that is needed to patch the substandard product they sell. Sigh.) |
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