The other nice little model Santa brought. I got more into working on this while waiting for decals to dry on my T-34.
Prepping for zimmerit. I like to get this out of the way while I can still handle all of the parts separately. Like with my Brumbaer, I like to start the zim on one model while I'm still building another - that way I have another project to work on while all the epoxy is drying.
Roughed-in zimmerit. I discovered at some point during this process that I work much better troweling completely across the workpiece first and then going back for the vertical cuts. Also, I don't do well following my measurments - I guess I'm more of an eyeballer. The more even zimmerit application was where I just went for it without the masking tape-tick marks applied. Good I'm learning about this, 'cause I owe my son a zimmerit job on his 1:35 King Tiger. . .
Zimmerit cleaned up and a small amount of initial assembly and painting.
Overall, this is going together pretty well. I did have some fit issues with the upper and lower hull at the forward end. The plastic and die-cast parts didn't want to properly mate-up - there was a very un-Tamiya-like gap. I checked for excess epoxy and even after cleaning every possible extra bit, the fit was still bad. I ended up fitting a filler piece made from sheet styrene, glued to the lower hull.
Threaded Mode
