While I was staring at photos to figure out the crap tied to the sides of the tank, I noticed that there was no Zimmerit in the area covered by the tube for the gun cleaning rods and spare antennas (which was missing on Cuckoo), so I tackled that in the time-honoured manner: open the photo of Cuckoo in Tilburg in Photoshop, cut out the side, correct its perspective and resize to the correct dimensions for the model, then switch to Illustrator to trace over the missing section of Zimmerit and print it out. Then I just had to cut it out and use it as a paint stencil:

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This is not the full length, because in the photo from Tilburg there's something tied to the side of the tank (my working theory is that it's a camouflage net) that obscures the rear part.

All that was left was to cut it out on the model:

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Trickier than expected, partly because the Zimmerit turned out to be glued down quite well and partly because I had to take extra care because of all the other details already attached to the hull. My advice: do this before you stick the Zimmerit to your model  The part at the back is speculative, and simply cut to match the rest. I then glued plastic strip into the recesses for the brackets that held the tube, as the remains of those.

I also added the hangers for the spare track links at the back, twelve nice little fiddly bits to clean up, fold and glue down … Now to add pins through some of them, but I don't think I will add those to all of them. So here's some appropriate reference material:

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This is the Panther in Overloon, whose details are very similar to Cuckoo's (which is not at all surprising, as they were lost around the same time in the same area). However, those little bolts on the sides will not be on my model