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Forum Announcement / About Our Website - Feedback PLEASE!

« on: October 13, 2014, 01:44:26 pm »

Now that our website is live, would appreciate if you can give us some feedback on the overall design.
Within the framework, we will continue to refine it and making it better!

Thanks!

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General Discussions / Re: Panzer III Blog Review by WSS Magazine

« on: October 11, 2014, 06:41:24 pm »

It looks good but does it really have smooth front turret armour?  There we're many prominent rivets/bolts on the real thing!

It was on the original design, but somehow they were dropped (for some reasons) during the mold production.  We did look at the drawings again, should not be too difficult to add them back... before the next batch are produced.

The release of 6 kits at the same time really spin us around...  Thanks for the reminder!

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Wish Lists / Re: motorbike ... it's possible or not ?

« on: October 11, 2014, 06:35:58 pm »

in the early stages of the war, France, Italy, Germany, make use of a lot of motorbike units ...
i don't know if it's easy to produce 1/56 plastic kits ...

Motorbikes are easy, we had tried out some prototypes.  Seems like they are quite fragile to handle as a wargaming piece in plastic; unless we enforced them with "out-of-scale" support pieces.  Being that said, it can be done!

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Wish Lists / Re: US Half-Tracks and Variants

« on: October 11, 2014, 06:32:39 pm »

i have some idea of the cost of plactic kits production ...
have you ever planned something quite different : a basic model kit ( with "current" 2 variants ) and some kind of "white metal-resin" transkits ?

We are very short-handed for the moment - doing normal jobs for other clients and also doing our own!  We are looking into the possibilities to work with other studios to create a range of "enhanced" or "add-on" kit for our plastic range; that will benefit all parties!
 

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Official Assembly Instructions / 280015 Panther Ausf G - REVISED-

« on: October 11, 2014, 11:17:57 am »

Assembly Instruction for the Panther Ausf G (280015) with new additional sprue













Last Update: 200820

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Official Assembly Instructions / 280014 Panther Ausf D/A

« on: October 11, 2014, 11:16:27 am »

Assembly Instruction for the Panther Ausf D/A

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Wish Lists / Re: German Tanks

« on: October 11, 2014, 10:42:13 am »

What about the Tiger II? I hope it's already on the to-do list 

The Tiger II would be a challenge!  The size of the tank with two turret variant to fit into 3 or even 4 (like the Tiger I) sprues is something that we need to look into!  The Tiger II is something that we will do much later... after we had gain more experience with plastic production first!

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Wish Lists / Re: Trucks

« on: October 10, 2014, 11:02:45 pm »

I want to second the jeeps.  So many variants - US 30/50 cal, SAS, tow, lend lease.  Lots of options to build from one base sprue.

The Jeep is high on the list... but need to get other projects completed before we can start working on it!

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Wish Lists / Re: British Tanks? What British Tanks?

« on: October 10, 2014, 03:32:15 pm »

A multikit that can do Sherman V and Sherman VC would be amazing

The Firefly is on our LIST, just need to wait for her turn...

The initial release of our first 6 kits and then the Tiger I is really taking its toll... doing 7 plastic kit projects in less than a year with minimal staff make us look like pandas, lol!  We are taking a brief break while the factory is preparing the kits for commercial shipping.  Meanwhile, we are following up on several open-ended projects, and hope to get them completed before our next two projects started.

Stay tuned!

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General Discussions / Another Blog Review from BoltAction.net on our M4A3 Sherman

« on: October 10, 2014, 03:12:13 pm »

Another Blog Review... this time from BoltAction.net on our M4A3 Sherman!

http://www.boltaction.net/2014/10/rubicon-models-m4a3-sherman-review.html

Hope everyone will like it!
 

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Wish Lists / Re: Russian tanks

« on: October 10, 2014, 01:58:32 pm »

Another Russian tank is coming... early next year!

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Wish Lists / Re: Trucks

« on: October 10, 2014, 01:57:16 pm »

We could see some light and medium trucks coming out in 2015, not sure the exact release schedule, but is definitely coming!

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Wish Lists / Re: German Tanks

« on: October 10, 2014, 01:55:25 pm »

A Jagdpanther... had been bumped up on the LIST.  Will keep you all posted on progress!

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General Discussions / Panzer III Blog Review by WSS Magazine

« on: October 08, 2014, 11:13:54 am »

Our very first Blog Review:
by Guy Bowers, editor of Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy magazine

Here is the link: http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/first-look-rubicon-panzer-iii/

Enjoy!

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Work In Progress / Re: WW2 Military Series Cover Art...

« on: October 04, 2014, 01:08:45 am »

Porkmann: Both the Panzer IV and III are our first two kits (done almost a year ago), even though we have done a lot of research, we still find a lot of inconsistencies afterward.  For the latter kits, a cross reference system was setup to ensure more historical accuracy.

This is also one of the reasons why we setup this forum.  The forum is a good tool for us to show our WIP projects and to enable people who are interest in our projects to give advice and to point out the obvious...  We want to create something we are proud of!

Unfortunately the Panzer III do not have the twin mufflers included.  A simple conversion should do the job.  But we are working on a StuG III Ausf. G, which had the normal mufflers... (oops! secret is out!)