Zimmerit paste

Paul Stephens · Post by **Paul Stephens** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:06 pm

I'm wanting to apply zimmerit on a gundam model and just wondering what putty to use. I saw on YouTube a Japanese guy applying it to a Tiger tank. He was using a putty I have never seen before, It looked to be pre-mixed and in a tube like toothpaste or something. Any idea who makes this putty and what it is?

Zen-Builder · Post by **Zen-Builder** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:09 pm

Hard to say, without having seen the Video.
Lots of putties that come in tubes.

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What would be the purpose of Zimmerit on an 18m Robot.
Doing the Zimmerit pattern in 1/35 is tough enough, doing one in 1/100 or 1/144. Not even sure what tool/putty you would use for those scales as in those scales the Zimmeritt would be thinner than a sheet of paper.
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Paul Stephens · Post by **Paul Stephens** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:27 pm

Thats what I'm doing. applying it very thin on the low sections of the legs and feet. If you look in some of the gundam galleries you will see quite a few with zimmerit.

Zen-Builder · Post by **Zen-Builder** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:28 pm

Got a link to one of those pics?

Zen-Builder · Post by **Zen-Builder** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:51 am

Had a look at the DVD, needed to go through my DVD collection of the TV-Series.

The Putty he uses is an Epoxy putty, it needs to be mixed/kneaded.
If you check the video a bit later you see it lying on the table(white centre, blue outer ring).

Again it is not ready to be used out of the package(no tube) dark blue out of the package, whitish blue when applied.

I don't know any Online shop that carries that particular putty.

HTH.