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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Review 200511
« Reply #150 on: May 11, 2020, 02:12:15 am »
Wow! That is quite an extensive decal sheet! I have one suggestion, could you make the 21st Panzer division insignia in white instead of yellow? White seems to be more common, and it would be easier to see against a desert yellow or gray color.
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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Review 200511
« Reply #151 on: May 11, 2020, 02:47:43 am »
could you make the 21st Panzer division insignia in white instead of yellow? White seems to be more common, and it would be easier to see against a desert yellow or gray color.

Will check on colour before making any changes...  Yellow seems to be the "official" colour designation, but it is hard to distinguish between white (soiled) and yellow in B&W photos.

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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Review 200511
« Reply #152 on: May 11, 2020, 03:33:52 am »
Thanks

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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Review 200511
« Reply #153 on: May 11, 2020, 03:47:05 am »
Cool.

The outline numbers will be useful for a Schützenpanzer Puma I have in my build queue.

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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Review 200511
« Reply #154 on: May 11, 2020, 03:56:40 am »
Wow , that's an awesome decal sheet . I really like the black and red numbers with the white edging . A separate set of those in a couple of sizes would be handy for various German kits  . And that's a lot of Panzer Division signs , although I don't know how you can cover them all as "most " were seen in both yellow and white depending on the tine period , not to mention they changed design a couple of times for those units on the Eastern front ,and later in the war , those in the West . Since your separate Panzer Division  decal sheets have mostly yellow division  decals , maybe print this sheet in white
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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Review 200511
« Reply #155 on: May 11, 2020, 09:53:44 am »
Very nice decal sheet. There is a lot there for any almost everyone.  :)
Someone just might say "There are too many choices... I can't decide!"  :o
It's almost like buying the decal sheet and getting a Panzer III as a bonus.  :D
Okay, if the latter were true, the cost for the special decals would be lower. Disregard that.  ::)
Instead, its more like buying a model kit and getting a "There are too many choices" as a bonus.  8)


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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Revised 200518
« Reply #156 on: May 18, 2020, 09:26:07 pm »
After our studio meeting, we have decided to remove all the numbers off the decal sheet and reduce the size to 1.5x and not 2x as originally planned.

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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Revised 200518
« Reply #157 on: May 18, 2020, 11:08:01 pm »
I would like to see numbers for the 3rd company but other than that it’s still a great sheet.

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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Revised 200518
« Reply #158 on: May 18, 2020, 11:25:33 pm »
The revised sheet  , as shown ,gives you number sets for 18 tanks including command types ( ROII ) , which is IMO good enough for your average gamer / builder /. Those who would want to go beyond an out of the box build and make   a specific tank , should probably have decals and bits left over from previous kits . Or with a little bit of cutting , mix and match to get the vehicle number you want . I must confess 95 % of most decal sheets I get are of no use to me as my vehicles are only marked for a couple of Panzer & SS Divisions .  But Rubicon do have the single  unit and number decal sheets  available so I was able to find or "make " the numbers I needed . Hopefully some of these never decal sets  ( Panzer III , M4A1 Sherman ) will also be sold separately

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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Decal Sheet Revised 200518
« Reply #159 on: May 19, 2020, 09:52:30 am »
I completely agree with what ripley said above. As it stands, with a bit of careful cutting here and there, a gamer/modeller can re-arrange the 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s already on the sheet into something different. However, it might be a nice addition to have just two 5s. 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s or at least 2x5s and 2x6s that perfectly match the three different number sets currently on the new sheet. However, that would require a slight increase in size of the sheet, so there is no real good way to do this. But just tossing that out there just in case.


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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Mid-War Panzer 200521
« Reply #160 on: May 21, 2020, 12:09:56 am »
Another crazy thing we did... the mid-war Panzer III has a TWENTY-EIGHT-page assembly instruction booklet, yes 28 pages for 11 possible variants in all!!





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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Mid-War Panzer 200521
« Reply #161 on: May 21, 2020, 02:06:49 am »
WOWZERS!!!

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Re: The Panzer III Digital Library - Mid-War Panzer 200521
« Reply #162 on: May 21, 2020, 02:11:45 am »
Epic.