New Honour Bound Numbering System (1 Viewer)

[Peter Reuss]

As the HB line has grown the numbering system has grown increasingly complex and hard to follow. To simply things - all HB items now have new numbers.

HB08c German Field Kitchen and Food Line - Field Gray
HB08b German Field Kitchen and Food Line - Summer
HB07b Wehrmacht Infantry Food Line
HB06a German Horse Drawn Field Kitchen in Winter Camo
HB06b German Horse Drawn Field Kitchen in Summer Camo
HB06c German Horse Drawn Field Kitchen in Field Gray
HB05a Winter Bergepanther
HB05b Summer Bergepanther
HB05c Autumn Bergepanther
HB04 Soviet Panther
HB03b German Infantry - Wehrmacht troops
HB03a German Infantry - SS Troops
HB02 Winter Panther
HB01c Resupplying Panther #421
HB01b Panther Ausf A #422 at Rest
HB01a Barkmann's Panther Ausf A #424

In general the 'a' items are winter and the 'b' are summer.

 

[Chuck Harris]

As the HB line has grown the numbering system has grown increasingly complex and hard to follow. To simply things - all HB items now have new numbers.

HB08c German Field Kitchen and Food Line - Field Gray
HB08b German Field Kitchen and Food Line - Summer
HB07b Wehrmacht Infantry Food Line
HB06a German Horse Drawn Field Kitchen in Winter Camo
HB06b German Horse Drawn Field Kitchen in Summer Camo
HB06c German Horse Drawn Field Kitchen in Field Gray
HB05a Winter Bergepanther
HB05b Summer Bergepanther
HB05c Autumn Bergepanther
HB04 Soviet Panther
HB03b German Infantry - Wehrmacht troops
HB03a German Infantry - SS Troops
HB02 Winter Panther
HB01c Resupplying Panther #421
HB01b Panther Ausf A #422 at Rest
HB01a Barkmann's Panther Ausf A #424

In general the 'a' items are winter and the 'b' are summer.

What does the c stand for? I don't think you came up with this system Pete, but W = winter and S = summer seems simpler to me.

 

[wadepat]

Peter,

Am I correct in assuming that "c" represents Autumn?

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[OzDigger]

Peter,

Am I correct in assuming that "c" represents Autumn?

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

Hey that's not fair, that leaves out one season

I demand equal Rites of Spring. Oh that's right we already have that

 

[Shannon Reuss]

What does the c stand for? I don't think you came up with this system Pete, but W = winter and S = summer seems simpler to me.

Autumn and Field Gray share C most of the time. Field gray could have been "D" but it could have gotten awkward if at times there was a "D" but no "C" etc. The W and S were bandied about as a definite option but in the end it was decided to model the system off the Donzino's Beau Geste line numbering system with each product getting a number and each permutation assigned a letter. I guess Britains numbers their's like that too come to think of it.
Regards,

 

[Shannon Reuss]

Hey that's not fair, that leaves out one season

I demand equal Rites of Spring. Oh that's right we already have that

Hmmmm...spring camo....haven't come across too many pictures of that in the old military books

If some is suddenly discovered I shall certainly lobby Honour Bound for equal playing time.

Cheers,

 

[sceic2]

Hmmmm...spring camo....haven't come across too many pictures of that in the old military books If some is suddenly discovered I shall certainly lobby Honour Bound for equal playing time. Cheers,

Yeah, just think of it. A Panther in a combination of primary camo paint being a sort-of washed out white (representing the semi-melted snow pattern) and brown (representing the Earth sans any snow pattern). Here in Minnesota we call that wonderful color combination “snert” (a snow/dirt derivation). Then to accompany the snert look, splotches of red, yellow, and green to represent spring flowers like tulips

In the US Navy, ships can be painted a large variety of color schemes to attempt to deceive the enemy. An example of the numbering system used to identify the specific pattern used is a term “Measure” followed by a number, example Measure 32/A. That way any shipyard performing a paint application follows a specific pattern no matter the ship type. Now we could name our spring camo pattern Measure Snert/A

Of course as the weather conditions change in the spring so rapidly and can differ dramatically, the paint team should be ready to repaint as total white or total brown or total green. So, the numbering system would go something like this - HB02D1 to HB02D9 or however many different spring environmental changes are needed.

Gets pretty crazy when you think of it. The US Navy has over 100 different camo patterns that are available. I don’t think HB wants to go that far. But just think of the size of a collection if they did…..