Uutisvirta

Thomas Wirsching
I ve made the ZLC in digital desert camo and I know this is a lot of work doing all these maskings. Curious about the final outcome!

Nik Pilgrim
I'm also very interested 🙂 There's only a little left and you can take off your masks

Christian W
Pretty 🙂 The color is nearly that, what Honda provided on the NSX-T. It was called "Imola Orange"

Martin Oostrom
Great colour! I like the gunmetal wheels too

Dominik Weitzer
beautiful

Emanuele Matteucci
Thanks you all guys!
For @Christian, my idea was to replicate the color you're talking about, but this particular tamiya orange is not so similar...
Maybe because of the black primer under, maybe because it's naturally a bit more dark, don't know.

Christian W
If you don't know the color, it is perfect like it is. Maybe it would work out to paint it silver before the orange. But without a direct comparison you don't notice the difference at all. It suits me. I even don't paint every model the exact color of the manufacturer. That would drive me crazy (and poor).

Emanuele Matteucci
Oh for sure! Life is too short to find the manufacturer color code for every single model. As you said, I do not have unlimited money

coporado
Build completed so far. Still waiting for the metal barrel. Quite challenging to attach the Zimmerit- PE parts. Was annoying when it comes to round shapes on the turret front armor. Treating those metal parts with some heat, made them much more handy to shape. First time using Friul tracks, very time consuming, but the best track result I´ve seen so far 🙂

Spanjaard
looks certainly good already🙂

coporado
Thanks bud!

coporado
Lower part of the tank was painted and received weathering. Tracks were mounted and connected. Rear fenders were the installed. Next is masking lower section and painting the upper parts.

Christoph Kunz
Nice job. I'm taking a seat.
Is it going to be some "Magdeburg-stuff" again?

coporado
Thanks, Christoph! This time its Normandy subject 🙂

Christoph Kunz
Next time I'll read the headline.
Stupid me...

coporado
The tank received several rounds of paint. Starting with red brown primer, followed by dark yellow as base color and finally the camo pattern. Next is detail painting, and weathering.

coporado
Initial weathering steps were conducted; chipping the Zimmerit and the metal surfaces.

coporado
Weathering of the exhaust section using acrylics and enamels.

Spanjaard
looks fantastic

Neuling
I agree. Very interesting dents and battle damage.

coporado
Thanks, Gentlemen! 🙂

Nick N
The exhaust looks awesome! How did you make that?

coporado
Thanks, Nick!
The exhaust was painted in a medium grey first. The parts having armor plates underneath were left in the original painting, as these area is less affected by heat and corrosion. Then a warm white followed by a reddish brown was applied using the sponge technique. Next was rust tones painted and blended with enamels. Colors of the original camo scheme where then applied with a sponge in the areas with less corrosion, to turn out the different stages of heat impact. Finally the upper parts received a slightly black shade to simulate the exhaust fume grime.

Nick N
Thanks a lot, this is very inspiring 🙂

coporado
Tank completed, time to start the dio 🙂