The Zimmerit looks very realistic, you wouldn't say it's molded in situ.

Only thing is, where is the gun sight opening in the turret front?

I think this is superb idea, and I'll be buying one of these kits... but they've missed a trick - the application on a vertical 'edge' (like the edge of the turret shown) would be applied parallel with the edge... a 'column' of zimmerit would not be cut through by that edge line.

The Zimmerit looks very realistic, you wouldn't say it's molded in situ.

Only thing is, where is the gun sight opening in the turret front?

Don't rely on the Zimmerit featured on the Saumur vehicles, as that is a museum addition, .........

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Don't rely on the Zimmerit featured on the Saumur vehicles, as that is a museum addition, .........

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The picture I showed is from the Bovington example - are you saying that this zimmerit is post-war?

Don't rely on the Zimmerit featured on the Saumur vehicles, as that is a museum addition, and the patterns are not necessarily accurate (their Jagdpanther 's pattern was particularly fanciful).
As for exact patterns, that appears to have been largely up to the factory crew assigned that day. Judging from photos (and the interview with Henshel's chief engineer published in "Tiger and Strumtiger in Detail"), the patterns on the side of Tiger II turrets was usually applied with a sheet metal comb, so the pattern might well be parallel to the bottom edge of the turret rather than the top. The turret front on the other hand, was usually patterned freehand using the trowel, as is evident in the 503rd Battalion's 233 photographed in Budapest shown in the thread above.

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Don't rely on the Zimmerit featured on the Saumur vehicles, as that is a museum addition, and the patterns are not necessarily accurate (their Jagdpanther 's pattern was particularly fanciful).
As for exact patterns, that appears to have been largely up to the factory crew assigned that day. Judging from photos (and the interview with Henshel's chief engineer published in "Tiger and Strumtiger in Detail"), the patterns on the side of Tiger II turrets was usually applied with a sheet metal comb, so the pattern might well be parallel to the bottom edge of the turret rather than the top. The turret front on the other hand, was usually patterned freehand using the trowel, as is evident in the 503rd Battalion's 233 photographed in Budapest shown in the thread above.

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I've only found 2 pics on my HD that show the rear of the turret, and both show Zimmerit to follow the outer "vertical" side of the turret, as Catch22 indicated.

I've got my books still packed away so I can't check those for further pics.

2 pics isn't much, but it at least says, it was done that way in those instances.

BTW, the Bovington one is turret 104 right?