To implement this gauge theme you can paint backgroundimage without scales, needles and set it as GaugeControl.BackgroundImage.
Regading to static rangebars: there is another trick:
You need to create two same scales,
make one of them invisible and
set it to in the rangebar.Scale property.
set needle.Scale property to the visibe scale.
To set gauge value use visible scale value property only, do not handle invisible scale value property.
As a result you will get static rangebars.