Microscale Decals
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email: info(at)microscale(dot)com

Brothers Ted and Greg Krasel created the Microscale line of decals covering subjects mainly for trains and aircraft. Around the mid 1990s the brothers had a disagreement regarding the business and the company was split into two lines. Greg kept the railroad line retaining the Microscale name, while brother Ted kept the military ones under a new name - Superscale. Greg Krasel passed away a few years later and the Microscale line was sold. Circa 1999, Superscale ceased production, but it seems that Ted Krasel tried to revive the company, though this appears to have been brief before Superscale died completely. Though Superscale now appears to be defunct there are a lot of the old sheets still around.

Microscale still exists today, primarily as a railroad and general purpose line of decals, but they do offer a limited line of 1/76 scale armour decals which appear to be the original sheets issued under the Superscale line.

Some of the pictures found below are of the old sheets, printed on an off-white background, which makes them quite hard to see. Pictures of the re-releases on a darker background can be found on the Microscale website.


Decals
Decal Number Kit Name Comments Previews Reviews Articles
13-1
72-13
German Armor Unit 1/48th & 1/76th Scales.

Ex 72-13 "German armor unit insignia WW2".
The sheet contains the following:
- Unit markings for 1-21, 23-25 Pz.Div., some with multiple insignia, depending on the time-frame. (25 Pz.Div is only provided in 1/48)
- Steel helmet insignia for Grossdeutschland Div, in solid and outline form.
- 24 Balkenkreuze in 1/76 and 18 in 1/48
- 2 aerial recognition flags
- 'G' and 'K', i.e. Guderian, resp. von Kleist (only in 1/76)
- 3 'WH' and two sets of individual numbers for licence plates (only in 1/76)
- Tactical signs for the type of unit (e.g. Kradschützen, Infanterie, ..)
- Kill bands (only in 1/48, but might work in 1/72)
- an unidentified red 'Hornet' insgnia - R. Haelterman

Picture
(of old sheet)
   
13-2
72-14
German SS Panzer Unit Insignia 1/48th & 1/76th Scales. Ex 72-14 "SS Panzer Unit Insignia"
The sheet contains the following:
- Tactical numbers, in black and black with pale blue outline
- Divisional insignia for 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12 SS Pz.Div, 8 SS Kav.Div, 22 SS Freiw. Kav. Div. and 1 SS Pz.Korps. Each unit gets four insignia. - R. Haelterman
Picture
(of old sheet)
   
13-3
72-17
British and Australian Armor Division Insignia 1/48th & 1/76th Scales.

Ex 72-17 "British & Australian Armored Division Insignia WW2"
The sheet contains the following:
- 2 unit insignia each for
-- 3, 18, 23 Div
-- 2, 4, 50 Inf. Div
-- 9, 15 Scottish
-- 6 Australian Div.
-- 1, 2 (2 variations), 6, 7 (2 variations), 9, 10, 11, Guards (2 variations) Arm. Div.
-- 8 Army
-- 1, 5, 8 Corps
- 4 Kangaroo insignia
- 5 'crooked' red lozenges
- 4 'names' (2 each): Mother, Tommy II, Nan, Peg
- white numerals and letters ('F' & 'T') - R. Haelterman

Picture
(of old sheet)
   
13-4
U.S. Armor Codes & Insignia 1/48th & 1/76th Scales.  
 
   
13-5
72-20
German WWII Panzer & Infantry Divisions 1/48th & 1/76th .

Ex 72-20 "German WWII Panzer & Infantry Divisions"
The sheet contains the following:
- solid white (Poland) and white outline Balkenkreuze
- 3, 10, 16, 18, 20, 25, 29, 60 Pz.Gren. Div.
- 11, 26, 116 Pz. Div.
- 28, 38 SS Pz.Gren.Div.
- 11, 13, 21, 23, 24, 32, 46, 65, 76, 79, 96, 98, 110, 121, 122, 134, 207, 225, 260, 262, 278, 282, 296, 384 Inf. Div.
Unfortunately on the sheet I have the yellow markings were printed outside the carrier film and are thus completely unusable. - R. Haelterman

Picture
(of old sheet)
   
13-6
72-19
Sturm. Luftfeld Panzer Grenadiers SS & Dak Divisions .

Decals in 1/72 and 1/48. Ex 72-19 "Sturmgeschütz, Panzergrenadier, Luftwaffenfeld, SS & DAK Divisions"
The sheet contains the following:
- numerals: yellow adn white outline and red with white border
- white outline Balkenkreuze
- white numerals and SS runen (claimed to be for licence plates, but I have never seen those in white)
- Unit insignia in white for
-- 10, 15, 21 Pz. Div. + DAK Palm tree
-- 164, 334 Inf. Div.
- Unit insignia in red and white for
-- 1 SS. Pz. Div.
-- 16, 17 18, SS Pz. Gren. Div.
-- 7 SS Freiw. Gren. Div.
-- 13, 21 Luftw. Feld. Div.
-- 189, 190, 197, 237, 259, 666 "Sturm. Div." [sic]. I should check in detail, but as far as I am aware, there were no Sturmgeschütz Divisions, only Abteilungen, Batterien and Brigaden.
It is strange to see these insignia also provided in red, as I am not aware other colors besides white and yellow were used. - R. Haelterman

Picture
(of old sheet)
   
13-12 German Division Markings & Numbers 1/76th & 1/72nd Scale.  
 
   
13-13 Russian & Polish Markings & Insignias 1/76th & 1/72nd Scale.  
 
   
13-14 United States Armor Insignia (early World War II)      
13-18
72-18
US armour codes and insignia in yellow and black. 1/76th & 1/72nd Scale
 
   
72-43  Russian Armor Markings OOP
The sheet contains the following:
- Patriotic slogans: 'Down the German pigs', 'From the Stalingrad tractor works', 'Long live the mother country', 'To the heroes of the USSR', 'For Mother Russia'.
- Hand-painted formation signs
- 4 red stars - R. Haelterman
   
MC-4279US Army Armor, Jeeps, etc. (1940s+)HO (1/87) scale that should be usable for smaller vehicles

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