Rado Miniatures, producer of high quality World War II figures, lately released a series of photoetched insignia sets for German Army.
First PE set RDM-35PE01 includes 1/35 scale insignia for W-SS German soldiers.
Set comes inside a clear plastic clamshell container and PE fret is secured with a black sponge.
There is a very useful how-to-use paper sheet showing German SS units officer and soldier insignia and ranks.
PE fret includes;
Rank collar patches
Shoulder tabs
Collar runes
Camouflage blouse sleeve rank tabs
Cap insignia
Officer and soldier type belt buckles
National sleeve shields for foreign volunteers
It includes a wide range of ranks from SS-Schütze to SS-Obersturmbannführer.
For maximum detail separate shoulder tab buttons are provided.
Collar runes for 3.SS-Pz.Div., 7.SS-Gebrigs.Div, 11.SS-Pz.Gren.Div., 19.SS-Pz.Gren.Div. and 20.SS-Pz.Gren.Div. are included.
SUMMARY
Highs: High quality PE, good how to use guide and a high variety of ranks and insignia.Lows: No lows on this product. Verdict: Useful product to give WW II German SS figures a more realistic look.
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About Engin Kayral (Graywolf) FROM: IZMIR, TURKEY / TüRKçE
Born in 1962,married and having 2 sons. I started modelling about 8 years old building USS Fletcher with mom. It was a model dad brought from USA., I think in those days only a few people in Turkey had info on scale model kits. Grown as an AF officer son , I built many aircraft models in years. Som...
They'd be even nicer if they were self coloured. There is still some rather finicky painting to be done (e.g. silver cord around officers collar badges; waffenfarbe on shoulder straps).
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