It is a material that consumers have been craving for, direct measurement towards a product value. Yet, it is not friendly to manufacturers because turning the ZAMAK from its raw material shape (very much like a chocolate bar shape) into something specific requires very high level of casting and die design. the melting point of ZAMAK is over 400 degrees, it requires specific casting machine to carry out the work. As you can imagine, operators do not enjoy working with these machines because its surrounding environment incurs high temperatures.

When ZAMAK parts are formed straight out from the die-casting machine, the edges of the parts always connect with some residual materials. These materials were only useful during the process, called filtering bags to improve purity on the parts surface. However, removal of these residual materials, technically speaking, the polish process is tedious and requires a lot of attention from polishing workers, if anything goes wrong the parts would be total lost.

The casemate and the mantlet of the Jagdpanther is made completely out of diecast metal, one of the most attractive features of the Forces of Valor Jagdpanther is the square Zimmerit patterns, it had been beautifully re-created on the surface, FOV is one of the very few manufacturers in the world manage to create such spectacular details.  The gun barrel in the new FOV-Waltersons Jagdpanther is carved by precise CNC lathe machine, the biggest advantage of using lathe machine compare to casting method is to eliminate the parting line along the barrel surface.