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Have you guys tried this site? http://www.rustran.com/ It works pretty good.

Jim

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As a translator by profession (albeit for German & English, not Russian) I'd advise caution there as translation isn't simply a matter of "word substitution"!! There's a lot more to it than that.

Some of these online translation engines produce sheer, unadulterated garbage.

- Steve

well,i was born in russia,now im living in germany.
the most decals are " for motherland", "for stalin".they are too stereotype for me. the slogans you geht on this decals are maybe seen on a few tanks of a same bataillon.
russian tankmen painted a lot of personal things on their tanks during a long service time,well i believe that the not many forefront tanks weren´t painted on. slogans could be found on tanks of the 2nd,3rd line behind the forefront.
russian solders were like brothers in war,so you could find names of fallen comrades,names of russian myth and romance heroes and names of factories and cities ( to thank russian women,older people etc working hard to keep defending weapons producing).
but,as i said,slogans weren´t on the forefront-they were a bad camouflage and there were no time for this

...and names of factories and cities ( to thank russian women,older people etc working hard to keep defending weapons producing)...

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Names of factories, cities, colleges and so on were on tanks and planes because workers of those factories/residents of cities collected money to build those tanks (or by individuals too).
Besides individually named tanks there were also complete tank regiments with the same slogans because of the reason I named above.
If anyone interested I have a big list of these slogans and their origins, saved in MS Word. But it is in Russian, and I really don't feel like translating all of that...

If someone would translate as many as possible of these Archer decals, then I'd be most grateful

If someone would translate as many as possible of these Archer decals, then I'd be most grateful

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But you really need to watch on what model of tank you place the slogan (if you are going for a historical accuracy). For example, slogan "СУВОРОВ" (Suvorov) was on the tank built on personal savings of Marshal of the Soviet Union Boris Shaposhnikov (1882-1945). Tank was received by 54-th Guard Tank Brigade in October of 1944. So don't put it on KV or T-35 What kind of tank - have no idea... You can kill me now ...

Hello, I've been waiting for help on this subject for a while (new to the group).
If someone would translate as many as possible of these Archer decals, then I'd be most grateful

Thank You,
Greg

I might be safer with numbers or staying blank though (I have them meeting at a crossroads)?Greg

WOW! Thanks for the work on those slogans - you probably saved me from ruining at least a dozen models. Anyone seen slogans on a SU-152? I've only seen for the motherland on the gun mantlet from an artist's sketch. I'm also doing a KV-85. I might be safer with numbers or staying blank though (I have them meeting at a crossroads)?
Greg

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I might be safer with numbers or staying blank though (I have them meeting at a crossroads)?Greg

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I wonder how PEC (plain, everyday, common) these slogans were on tanks. Does anyone know whether the majority of vehicles had them?.

KV-85 and SU-152 together



David