New Product Range - Waterslide Decals: German Panzer Division Set - CLOSED!

[Rubicon Models]

While the factory is putting final touches on our Q1/15 plastic moulds, and our studio staff working on our Q2/15 projects; the not-so-talented is working on a new range of waterslide decals.  Beginning with the German Panzer Division sets.

The basic divisions are now all done:


All markings and symbols are redrawn from scratch for clarity and accuracy purposes.  Because the actual size of these symbols will be very small (about 3 mm in size), some fine lines are exaggerated otherwise will not even shown up on the decal.  Here are some of the more colorful and more detailed markings:


The next step will be trying to arrange them into groups to create a decal sets for various Panzer Divisions (PD).  Initial idea is something like these:


Was considering by war years or by theater or by branch of services... but don't seem to work out easily.  Still experimenting with different arrangements...  Any suggestions?

[Pinky]

These look good! I like the fact that you've redesigned them to work better in small scale.

It's hard to group them sensibly.  I'd say that most people will want the markings for one or two divisions, so you'd be looking at a separate decal sheet for each formation.  That seems a bit crazy in terms of packaging etc.  There will also be formations that are more popular than others, so perhaps you shouldn't try to cover all of them.

A wargamer is going to want several sets of markings for one formation.  Perhaps you could package them for specific campaigns.  You could provide (say) 5 decal sheets, each one with several signs for a particular formation.  So, Normandy would have decal sheets for Panzer Lehr, 21st Panzer, 116th Panzer, 12th SS Panzer and 504 Heavy Tank Battalion.  You could also have a set of decal sheets for units that fielded a particular tank (like Tiger battalions and StuG brigades).  I'd assume you'd want to focus on vehicles that Rubicon produces...

 

[pmbk]

The idea that Pinky presented is genius! I second that as much as I can!

Having decal sets for (example) Normandy, Kursk, Sicily or something like that would be awesome. And I don't think anybody does sets like that already, so there's a niche for it.

[Rubicon Models]

Had been playing with different arrangements, don't seems to fit all the symbols onto each decal evenly.  Finally decided to go back to our original design... lay them out by Division or Battalion numbers!

Here are the results... SIX waterslide decals (105mm x 74mm) in total, with over 100 symbols per sheet!








Some symbols still needed to do some touch up work as they had become barely readable as the line width are being scaled down too thin!  Still not happy with the need to put the "Hermann Goring" division under the "Heavy Panzer Battalion" decal sheet, but there is no room in the other sheets...  There need to be at least 3mm space between symbols for the "transparent" film to be printed onto the symbol during the manufacturing process.

C&C welcome!

[robbie039]

When will these be availible.

are the Dak palm emblems also included?

[Rubicon Models]

When will these be availible.
are the Dak palm emblems also included?

These are still work in progress, probably in March.  We have no room left for the DAK palm emblems.  However, we are working on a new sheet especially for the Africa campaign (40-43).  Keep checking back for an update post!

[ColinB]

Looking very cool chaps keep it up

[Rubicon Models]

are the Dak palm emblems also included?

As promised, here is the preview of the African Campaign decal set.  Due to decal layout production issues, we might not be able to fit this set into our current run...

[Laffe]

Oooh, goodie! Lots of little lovely palm trees 

[Preda]

What i can tell you so far is that you will for sure cant ship both sets to Germany. The "Hakenkreuz" is a banned Symbol in Germany. Other companys who sell scalemodelkits in Germany have to cut out the banned Symbols from the decalsheets in Order to ship the kits to Germany .......

[Garga]

Beautyful in the Africa you should add the 90th lt division...

[Rubicon Models]

Beautyful in the Africa you should add the 90th lt division...

When we have our Italian vehicles out  , there will be a special decal sheet for them!

[Rubicon Models]

What i can tell you so far is that you will for sure cant ship both sets to Germany. The "Hakenkreuz" is a banned Symbol in Germany. Other companys who sell scalemodelkits in Germany have to cut out the banned Symbols from the decalsheets in Order to ship the kits to Germany .......

We are aware of that, but we simply cannot penalized customers from other countries for not having them! 

In fact, we have seen German decal manufacturers making all sorts of banned WW2 symbols in Germany, and these decal sheets are sold on their online store too!  This might not be totally legal, but...

[nazadsam]

Great work on decals any idea what will be price? Also  do you plan make some online guides what type of decals is going where on tank or other type of vehicle   ?  Also do you plan also to include some general decals in boxed sets? With some sets of numbers , vehicle kill markings and Balkenkreuz ?

[airborne]

Decals are coming on grand, your attention to detail in both the kits and the support items is refreshing in this age. Quality will always pay.
Cheers.