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David,

Outstanding! Your Tiger is looking really nice. Super zimmerit job.

Thanks for posting the pictures of your progress as it's great inspiration for my Tiger when I get it.

Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more.

Kind regards

Tim

Hello David . I didnt even know you had a late tiger . After seeing your photos you have been very busy . She looks great . It's Interesting to see all the studs on the wheel hubs. There must be one more set of wheel to go on ?? . One thing you need to do David is to change around the bolts on the exhaust armored guards the nuts go on the out side . It looks like the late tiger has more detailed parts e.g , bump stops and track pin deflectors on the lower hull plus lots more . Dale.

Dale / Tim

Thank you for the comments.

Dale - My nuts will soon be on the outside.

Tim - The Zimmerite is one of those builders adhiesive / gap fillers in a tube called Grip Fix. It is a solvent based one, so it starts to set fairly quickly and so you have to do a small area at a time. It also works out cheap, one tube should do the whole tank.

David

Hi David
Good looking Tiger. I have used Grip fill as the welds on my Panther and
the results are very good too.
A freind of mine is a welder and asked who had done the
welding of my hull ! So it must be ok.

Derek

Dave,

Interesting choice of material to do the zimmerite. I've used it as a jointing glue to support the hull joints on the Sherman and it certainly sticks well and adds a lot of strength, probably better than milliput, and its a lot cheaper. Did you sperad and work it with wet tools?

Allan

First I applied it all over the area with the squirty gun thing. Than immediatly spread it by thumb (messy). After a couple of minuets when the surface is starting to dry I rolled it with a bit of 1 inch brass tube - keeping it clean, (just a bit I had available, any thing metalic and round of a suitable size would do) just to even it out and than applied the pattern with a chisel, and yes did wet the chisel and roller as it does help to stop it sticking. The whole hull didnt take more than 3-4 hours once the technique was perfected, and all for less than a fiver. I found doing about 4 inches at a time was about right before it starts to set to much.

David