My guess is that the 0.7 is for tanks with a larger pattern, like the Tiger I, while the 0.5 would be for tanks with a smaller pattern like a Panzer IV, both in 1/35 scale. But that's just a guess.
I’ve just received my sets from Laing, today! First impressions are good but it’ll need some fine tuning, as the wheel widths in 1/72 scale are too wide for realistic patterning. In 1/72 scale, the King Tiger has approximately 25 rows of vertical patterning, across the length of the turret side. That means that you require a row width of 1.8mm, for each vertical pattern row. The supplied Pattern Wheels from Liang, are substantially wider than that (4-5mm) and will require sanding, or cutting to size, in order for you to satisfactorily “zimmerit” the “Beast”! The only draw back with this kit (apart from having to finagle the required width of the roller to scale), is that it can look a bit too “clean”, Machine Clean, as opposed to applied by the human hand...but I can live with this! ATB and thanks for your video! 👍🏻👍🏻
Yeah I had to narrow the wheels myself but I think I pulled it off ok. Just make sure you stop often to make sure the material comes off evenly. I used a fine grade sanding stick
@@Ricksarmoredmodels8539 Thanks for the advice! When I give this a bash, I’ll probably use Miliput and that way I’ll only need water to assist in cleaning the tools? Re 1/35 scale, the Pattern Wheels appear to be “good to go” for Tiger Tanks...in 1/35 scale the Pattern Wheels need to be around 4.8mm in width....which they are roughly....😜👍🏻👍🏻 Thanks again!
Its a great looking tool but I'm surprised it didn't come with a waffle pattern stamp for the Stugs IIIs. If it hsd that I would buy it in a heart beat but as I already have a zimmerit tool that eorks great I'll stick with what I got. Good video with great info.
I'm so sorry but it does. I didn't include that in my video . It has 2 for 1/35th , one for 1/48 and one for 1/72nd. I will do another video maybe tomorrow to demonstrate. Thank you for pointing that out to me.
Their is also a wheel waffle pattern in 1/35th that I just noticed in the Liang B package. Sorry, just noticed it. Sorry, I'm mostly into 1/48 armor and I sometimes get tunnel vision lol.
just found this thanks for the review - I am exclusively 1/72 and see only one attachment for that scale - are you saying you were able to convert some others to work for 1/72? if so, how did you do it again, just sand the wheel to be less wide? is the space between the raised lines on the larger scale attachments proper for 1/72? thanks!
It looks like that the stamped waffle design is the only exclusive 1/72nd part. The wheel I did sand it evenly down with a sheet of 220 sand paper,laying flat on my bench. to my best guess of 1/48 armor. I think it would work for 1/72 as well. 1/72nd That was my scale when I was much younger.
They're all kinds of things you can use. Check out one of my other videos where I make a zimmerit tool out of a fabric cutter tension nut (round). Imagination is a great thing. Liang tool is very good and cheap. 8.00 when they first came out.
@@Ricksarmoredmodels8539 I'll check it out, last night I bought 2 small bags of of wheels and sprockets in the jewelry craft department . There is a few in there I can see that could be used for Zimmerit . I'm going to practice and see what results I get from them . The problem is finding proper scale, I would think .
@zachbowman9396 just use what you think looks good. In the end, we only need to be happy with the results of our work. It's great when we get outside appreciation, but we're our own worst critics right 😁.
