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Looks good, just one suggestion: the 2nd and 3rd slides of the second line could have their lines horizontal below the pips to avoid confusion with the 7th slide. --Marc Pasquin 08:22, 24 March 2006 (PST)

I took your suggestion but placed the lines above the pips in keeping with the overall look. Those boards, btw, are for the highest ranks of non-commissioned officers. Zahir 08:39, 24 March 2006 (PST)

I see. If you want to distinguish them further from the officers, you could give them "blind" pips (no enamel content) with the branch being shown by either the bars or the small edges for the others (like on the 1st one of the 1st line) --Marc Pasquin 09:09, 24 March 2006 (PST)

Not a bad idea, but in this case I'm trying to deliberately replicate the look of SNOR-insignia. It gets a little tricky because the Oltenian military has more enlisted and noncoms that did/do the Russian. Zahir 09:14, 24 March 2006 (PST)

Fair enough. One option is to make the Praporshchik' pips silver (Like SNOR). Incidently, if you want the ranks to correspond with the relative *level* of their SNOR counterpart, instead of adding the lot between sergent and Praporshchik you might want to "pepper" them around. By comparing their relative ranks *here* (which would probably be similar *there*) during the soviet era, you could get for the army of romania:

Soldat: plain red slide

Soldat-Fruntas: black slide with red edges (like your 1st one)

Caporal: black slide with 1 red small stripe

Sergent: black slide with 2 red small stripes

Sergent Major: black slide with 3 red small stripes

Plutonier: black slide with 1 red large horizontal band

Plutonier Major: black slide with 1 red large horizontal band + 1 red vertical stripe

Plutonier Adjutant: black slide with 1 red large horizontal band + 2 red vertical stripes

Maistru Militar class IVA: plain silver slide

Maistru Militar class IIIA: plain silver slide + 1 red pip

Maistru Militar class IIA: plain silver slide + 2 red pips

Maistru Militar class IA: plain silver slide + 3 red pips

Maistru Militar Principal: plain silver slide + 4 red pips

It also occur to me that the "regent" of oltenia might have is own rank insignia, if only for ceremonial purposes. Something like a plain gold epaulette with the party's symbol over cross marshall's batons. --Marc Pasquin 10:20, 24 March 2006 (PST)

I agree that the regent/lord protector would have his own rank insignia. Zahir 14:00, 24 March 2006 (PST)