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| Subject: | Re: schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 Decals? |  |
| Date: | Jul 6, 2004 |
| From: | Christopher C. Tew | |
Avoid the Trakz TX-0080 "Tigers in Normandy." The 101 decals are generic, mass-produced (vector graphics produced) numbers that are each identically "hand-painted" except for a couple of 1s which look more like the artist got careless than tried to make distinctive shapes. The red and white 1s, 2s, & 4s are too thin. Since they're all the same shapes, they don't even vaguely look hand painted, so the other shape errors are irrelevant. The red was printed too low on the sheet I have. The all-white earlier numbers have the same graphics base as the red/whites and contain wrong shapes, most noticeably 4s & 2s. The black/white numbers for 503 are better, pretty good used as generic numbers, except #301 is too broadly spaced.
You pay premium price for a crap sheet that has NO instructions (doesn't even say which numbers belong to which unit), leaving you to round up a hundred dollars or so of reference materials.
TX-0079 "Tigers in Italy" also stinks - all the 3s and both letters, most of the 1s, and some of the 2s are wrong - and has NO instructions, just in case you're planning a Western Front building program.
CTew |
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