Quite interesting. Now, can you translate the captions for us?
Google, Bing and others have web pages to translate languages. Somewhat tedious because you have to copy the text on the webpage and paste it into the translator.
I did have an add on to IE that would automatically translate many whole pages. Unfortunately it got disabled or deleted and I have not been able to find it again. I think it came from Google.
EDIT Got the translator back, Not sure what I did, but it is on Google toolbar.
Translation
- We begin our tour of the toy from the west country. European prompt neat houses that we in Kaliningrad. 2. You guessed it, this Kaliningrad - part of a larger “Grand Layout” on a scale of 1:87. As befits the enclave, Kaliningrad is located at a single site layout. Bottom left one can see the Brandenburg Gate. We must bear in mind that this is a collective image, so here built the station and the church have no real counterparts. 3. The platform is full of men dvuhsantimetrovyh. 4. Presented and Kaliningrad seaport. 5. Bobs on the waves of the Baltic tiny buksirchik. 6. The prototype of this large station became Vitebsk. So we are in St. Petersburg. 7. Locomotive depot near the train station. “Auto” - advertising layout. 8. Peter presented widely: here arrow Vasilevsky Island, part of the fortress, the Palace Bridge … 9. Here is a small block of houses at the Bolsheokhtinsky bridge. And there are a building of the “Grand Layout.” 10. Following the steamer will sail up the Neva and Svir into Lake Onega. 11. Here are the famous Kizhi. 12. And somewhere in the
Thanks; I did recognize “St. Petersburg” with #6. Now, perhaps what I should do is print your last post, and have that in hand as I look at the pictures.
I quit trying to teach myself Russian when I came to the declension of nouns, though I did learn the alphabet.
This is very impressive!
Hope it’s OK for me to post a link to your thread in the Model Railroader thread.
The strong presence of military items on the Russian layout makes an interesting comment. We see very little military modelling in most of the North American layouts shown on the forum, not that there is anything wrong with modelling military stuff. I’m not trying to imply anything here, but the predominance of military scenes on the Russian layout makes me feel just a little unsettled. I guess it is just an example of how dominant the military still is in Russian society. Call me paranoid!
On a more positive note, the model of the wooden church with multiple domes and crosses is truly impressive, as are most of the other structures and details. In fact the whole layout is truly impressive. It would be interesting to see a video of it in operation.
Also, on a really positive note, Canada recently claimed the North Pole and surrounding territory as Canadian territory. The initial Russian response as I understand it was to first mobilize a bunch of arctic troops however that was countermanded shortly after with an official announcement that Russia would not oppose Canada’s claim to the territory. Will wonders never cease!
Apologies to the moderators if this is too political.
Dave
On the YouTube channel “Car Crash Compiliation 7” (there are other Russian Dash-Cam compiliation channels other there, like Vodka Video, but this one goes the extra km and posts new compiliation video almost every day) there are from time to time Dash-Cam videos where military equipment makes an appearance. In a number of them it’s clear the military equipment is being repurposed for (non-violent) civilian usage, such as tow-vehicles. Except, of course, since it’s Russia, instead of the post WWII US repurposing of heavy tractor trailers as tow vehicles, they use BMP transporters and the like…
I didn’t check all the model images, but did they have any 3-axle orange dump trucks sideswiping Ladas? (A fairly common scenario on the Dash-Cam compilations, along with skidding into pedestrians at marked crossings, going straight into a traffic island at a road fork, turning headlong into opposing traffic for no discernable reason, and - one of the most popular scenarios - turning left from the right lane such that someone in the left lane going straight ploughs into you…)