Great Idea Kix, I was having a senior moment or I would have thought of that.

Here is how it looks in the Spline Modeler. As you can see, the numbers in the middle look fine, but if you want to see the Zero, you would have to dolly the camera to the right then pan back to the left and you would see though the Zero, part of the Nine and very little of the eight and the rest would be solid.

Rendered image to follow.