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Work In Progress / Re: New Product Range - Waterslide Decals: German Panzer Division Set
« on: January 21, 2015, 11:07:10 pm »
Oooh, goodie! Lots of little lovely palm trees 
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Work In Progress / Re: StuG III Ausf G
« on: January 12, 2015, 05:13:10 pm »Who need´s Allied TanksSo no Jagdpanther or Jagdtiger in the near future?
Don't all of your hunting cats need some targets? I think a healthy balance would be great.
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General Discussions / Re: Ideas for accessories for 1/56 scale armour
« on: January 12, 2015, 05:06:28 pm »
Buckets!!! There seem to be a bucket hanging on the rear of every other german tank for some reason.
The British in North Africa had "escape packs" hanging on the outside of each vehicle. This would be a regular infantry backpack with first aid kits and water bottles which you could grab if you had to bail out. One per crewman, and the practice was continued in Europe and Italy by those units thad had fought in North Africa. So infantry backpacks and extra water bottles if you do one for brits.
The British in North Africa had "escape packs" hanging on the outside of each vehicle. This would be a regular infantry backpack with first aid kits and water bottles which you could grab if you had to bail out. One per crewman, and the practice was continued in Europe and Italy by those units thad had fought in North Africa. So infantry backpacks and extra water bottles if you do one for brits.
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Wish Lists / Re: German Tanks
« on: January 05, 2015, 07:22:25 am »
Just be aware that the SdKfz 250/9 neu had a redesigned turret. Only the alte had the same turret as the Sd.Kfz 222.
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Work In Progress / Re: Our SdKfz 251/1 Ausf. D - updated with Waterslide Decal Design
« on: January 02, 2015, 08:33:23 pm »
Found this online, it has some good examples.
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Work In Progress / Re: Our SdKfz 251/1 Ausf. D - updated with Waterslide Decal Design
« on: January 02, 2015, 06:41:54 pm »Looks ok, but I'm not sure you need tactical markings in black by this time. I thought they would be painted in white only over dunkelgelb. I might be wrong though. But on the subject you have "Rifle Company" and "Armoured engineer company", right? I think Armoured infantry company would be better?
What was the tactical marking for "Armoured Infantry Company"? We could remove the black ones and add some new white ones too!
I'm not 100% sure that the black wasn't used, I just can't recall seeing a black one.
Anyway, afaik the symbols are like small pictograms. Basically the one you have now for Infantry is a stylised truck (box with two wheels) meaning motorised infantry -- and the ones you have for armoured engineers above is a stylised halftrack with a symbol on top. The symbol means engineers (I think, it's a bit hard to make out in the picture). To have armoured infantry just remove the symbol on top so you have a stylised halftrack.
Platoon vs Company, the symbol is the same but the company have a fat black line on the "front" -- left hand side.
I'm trying to find a good online reference, but you definitely want the armoured symbol on a Sd.Kfz 251 :-)
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Work In Progress / Re: StuG III Ausf G
« on: January 02, 2015, 03:50:28 pm »I'm glad Rubicon is giving us old grognards a chance give input.
Grognards... I love the word!
Quite fitting too... http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grognard
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Work In Progress / Re: Our SdKfz 251/1 Ausf. D - updated with Waterslide Decal Design
« on: January 02, 2015, 03:40:30 pm »
Looks ok, but I'm not sure you need tactical markings in black by this time. I thought they would be painted in white only over dunkelgelb. I might be wrong though. But on the subject you have "Rifle Company" and "Armoured engineer company", right? I think Armoured infantry company would be better?
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Work In Progress / Re: StuG III Ausf G
« on: December 31, 2014, 09:10:16 pm »It's not 'complaining' to suggest ways of improving a kit before it's released - personally, I'd like to see Rubicon's kits free of any major inaccuracies by the time they're released. They've improved their accuracy with every kit they've released. That is, after all, the reason that they ask for feedback on this site.
I agree -- otherwise they might do what PSC did for example. They managed to copy the error from Airfix M3 halftrack kit onto their own design. Not that they copied the Airfix kit, but Airfix had used an M14 with folding sides as prototype for their M3 kit, and PSC also sculpted folding sides on their M3 kit. Had they asked the community beforehand that would have been ovoided. I'm glad Rubicon is giving us old grognards a chance give input.
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Work In Progress / Re: StuG III Ausf G
« on: December 27, 2014, 07:51:06 am »
We are not going to do a "just looks-like a..." vehicle, there had to be a high degree of accuracy to what we are modeling after! Being that said, we have seen a lot of resin models on the market right now which has all sort of errors and miscast on them; and yet, most people just accept it and are not complaining about those! While our quality is a lot better, our retail price is similar and sometimes even lower; yet we have lots of "nuts and bolts counter" customers whined about minor issues on our kits. Their concerns are our motivation to excel! Producing great plastic kits for wargaming use is our ultimate goal!
Actually I prefer plastic because I think most of the resin kits out there are horrible... and I do understand that you have to make a kit which is not too complex since you are not doing the volumes like Dragon (for example) are. And yes, even Dragon kits have accuracy issues.
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Work In Progress / Re: StuG III Ausf G
« on: December 26, 2014, 08:02:06 pm »Looks good, but I echo Pinky's comment about the non-slip pattern.Laffe & Pinky: Decided not going to do the non-slip pattern on the StuG. Not because we cannot, but take too much work and risk to do the pattern during the last mould making phase. One wrong step will deface the mould and had to redo it all over again!
Ok, fair enough.
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Work In Progress / Re: StuG III Ausf G
« on: December 26, 2014, 06:45:27 pm »
Looks good, but I echo Pinky's comment about the non-slip pattern.
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Wish Lists / Re: German Tanks
« on: December 24, 2014, 04:06:42 am »
I did a google search for SdKfz 222, just to see if I could find any late war pics.
Here's one in Italy, january 1944
Here's one from Carentan, belonging to 17th SS panzer.
(In case hotlinking doesn't work above, the original is also here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kruegerrossi/9985530426/in/pool-1905359@N20-58422024@N04
So they were present, and used, to the end of the war.
Here's one in Italy, january 1944
Here's one from Carentan, belonging to 17th SS panzer.
(In case hotlinking doesn't work above, the original is also here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kruegerrossi/9985530426/in/pool-1905359@N20-58422024@N04
So they were present, and used, to the end of the war.
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Wish Lists / Re: German Tanks
« on: December 24, 2014, 03:42:41 am »I like the SdKfz 222 as well, but its importance declined as the war went on because its off-road performance was poor. They were pretty rare by the middle of the war. I suspect a kit of some of the 8-wheeler variants would be more useful and more popular.
They were still quite numerous by 1944, often paired with 8-wheelers in recon units. The HJ division for instance had both SdKfz 222's and 232's in the Panzerspähkompanie of their PanzerAufklärungabteilung. However, Warlord does a 222 in resin, so maybe a 232 would be a better choice. Yet, a good 222 kit with a few different options could be used from 1939 to 1945 on all fronts.
The 6-wheelers though were strictly early war.
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Showcase & Gallery / Re: The beginnings of my Sherman platoon the "Warbirds"
« on: December 21, 2014, 10:15:07 pm »
Nice conversions. I like the names and the turret art.