Building the Tamiya 1/35 Sturmtiger and Do it yourself zimmerit tutorial 

They will. It's simply a matter of trying out and refining different techniques. I'm 50, and started as a pre-teen back in '80-81. Back then, there were far fewer after-market kit detailing products available, and most modelers shared their various building and personally developed detailing techniques with each other, or in modeling magazines and publications. Later in the mid-late 80's and early '90's came rather hard-to-find, low-production, and rather expensive videotapes of techniques. These were usually available only at IPMS Conventions. The Internet is a Godsend to fine scale model and diorama builders.

Stanley Jedrzejczyk no one gives.

@@legowarrior2461 hee legit helped me

Big Eye Cartoon Enthusiast nice why does he help you because you are not confident about your model kit i’m sure they look great but you need to stay strong!!!

Gotta build fast. liquid cement drying! English side ruined, must use french instructions. Le Sturmtiger!? What the hell is that!?

Thank you les

Back in the 1970s, I used body filler as the paste, together with a spreading tool made from a broken junior hacksaw blade epoxied in to a pice of wood for the handle.Not perfect and somewhat messy, but it worked quite well. Interesting to see you can now get proper spreading applicators

Soeren Feddersen *something

Good to see that Andy has his own proofreading service in this section.

Mr Wibble if he did that he would have to bend them individually

its there already. the vindicator

Stephen Bobby Yeah, but just imagine it ultramarine blue, golden details and spikes and purity seals all over it's Front. And of course those legendary and frightening Tiger wheels and tracks. I ask you, doesn't that look better than the vindicator?

a thousand times better

For the emperor

Zimmerit was only really needed at heights that a standing man on the ground could reach. There was little chance of someone hanging down from a tree branch trying to apply a magnetic mine to a passing vehicle. Look at photos of actual vehicles; many only had zimmerit partway up the side, at least for non-turreted vehicles like the Sturmtiger, Jagdtiger, Elefant etc.

3041Markov - Yea, likely applied to the hulls of the Tiger chassis' used for the conversion and then part way up the hull, as Steven says. There were a few examples with no zim'.

The unprotected casemate section of the Sturmtiger is still easily within reach, unlike the uncoated sections of the Jagdtiger and Elefant. I think this was just at the point of the war where the Germans stopped applying zimmerit, but had no reason to remove the already applied zimmerit to the old Tiger hulls.

Upon consulting references, you are absolutely correct. The 18 Sturmtigers built were converted from existing hulls, no doubt with the zimmerit already in place.

danny wang Ummmmm........he's getting these out pretty regularly - give the guy a break, he has a hobby shop to run - lol 😁

Jerry Volpini You right it is just because the videos are too great I can't wait to see it😂😂

danny wang how much time do you think he has?! He can't post every day unless you want shitty models.