No Stink Zimmerit !

[cthulhu77]

Over the years, I have tried a number of materials to try to make accurate zimmerit. Photoetch is too regular, bondo stinks and can warp this styrene, milliput just cost too much and is too grainy for me.  I think I may have stumbled across the perfect material, at least for me: DAP PrestoPatch, a latex modified water based exterior compound. Cutting a piece of an old razor saw to the correct scale width, application was simple, and dried in twenty minutes. It is easy to chip to replicate battle damage, yet holds on quite well to the primered surface.





I did file the razor saw blade down a bit until it matched the photos I have for scale, not more than two or three strokes. I also found this great link about the stuff:

http://www.afvnews.ca/zimmerit.html

[noxioux]

Excellent.  The photoetch and resin stuff never looks right, but I like how that panel turned out.

[BlackOps]

Nice tip greg, I might have to give this a try

[philp]

I used Spackle on the only Zimmerit job I ever did (the old Tamiya Stug III).  It worked well.  Used and old Xacto saw (the small one) to rake in the pattern.