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Wehrmacht Insignia
Wehrmacht Soldiers Insignia set
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by: Engin Kayral [ GRAYWOLF ]

After W-SS Insignia and Luftwaffe Insignia; Rado Miniatures released the third set of photoetched insignia sets for German Army.

Third PE set RDM-35PE03 depicts 1/35 scale insignia for Wehrmacht Soldiers.

Inside a clear plastic clamshell container; kit includes a 0,1 mm thickness, 60x40 mm PE fret secured with a black sponge and a folded small paper sheet as rank and insignia guide.

It covers all Wehrmacht rank insignia from Soldat (private) to Oberst (Colonel).

  • Shoulder tabs
  • Collar tabs for soldiers and officers
  • Officers cap insignia
  • Heer eagles insignia
  • Camouflage blouse arm rank insignia
  • Belt buckles for soldiers and officers
  • Panzerwaffe collar tabs
  • Feldgendarmerie gorgets
  • Spanish Blue Division (Division Azul) nationality flags worn on the sleeve of the uniform with Espana written
  • Gebirgsjager Edelweiss
  • Polizei-Division insignia
  • Shoulder tab buttons

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  • 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 Army Wehrmacht, Feldgendarmerie, Foreign Division,Gebirsjager and Polizei figures a more realistic look.
      Scale: 1:35
      Mfg. ID: RDM-35PE03
      PUBLISHED: Jul 10, 2019
      NATIONALITY: Germany
    NETWORK-WIDE AVERAGE RATINGS
      THIS REVIEWER: 92.20%
      MAKER/PUBLISHER: 94.67%

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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...

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    Comments

    IMHO, some of these items are practical in PE such as shoulder straps, gorgets, and belt buckles; but rank patches, collar tabs, and most uniform insignia are much easier to apply as decals, or rub-on transfers. and you're still going to have to use decals on the shoulder straps (unless you can do as good a job by brush)!
    JUL 10, 2019 - 03:28 AM
    While these are really a great way to up the detail on your figurines they must be an absolute fumbly beast to use.
    JUL 11, 2019 - 04:39 AM
    Looks like a nice little kit. Presumably they meant Heer, not Wehrmacht.
    JUL 11, 2019 - 03:09 PM
       
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