Cyrillic font

[Butelczynski]

I'm looking for Cyrillic font set for PS6.I can't find any simple fonts just artsy ones and in packages of multiple numbers.Any help?

Plain Jane block letters,noting fancy.I'd like to make this recolor.One on engine covers:

[SCEtoAUX]

See if this will help out. It is a Russian keyboard where you can type out what you want in Cyrillic then copy and paste into a text box in PS.
https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/russian.htm

[Butelczynski]

That seems to be working pretty good-thank you.

[airdave]

I laugh when I see discussions like this on "plastic modellers" forums,
and the suggestion of using specific modern fonts for vintage handpainted lettering effects.
Amarillo springs to mind...the go to US Military "font" that is almost always incorrect, but every plastic modeller swears by. lol

If you don't care about accuracy, then a store bought font is fine.

While there are many similar fonts out there that can sometimes be used, none recreate the hand painted and hand-stencilled original lettering styles.
Many were cut and created on the spot, following some basic instructions.
Many were different from vehicle to vehicle.
In the decal sheet you've posted, the RR-DAV are a stock font and totally incorrect.

What I am saying is, there are so few letters to recreate,
why not recreate them as they appear on the vehicle...as artwork?
Its often as easy as connecting a few rectangles.
Or drawing lines to appear like letters.
This way you can match the shapes, thickness, position, and uniqueness of the markings.

This is also why I don't follow military modellers instructions, aircraft profiles, and decal sets.
They've usually repeated the same misinformation over and over and over like a game of Telephone.
I look for actual photographs of the actual markings, to get them right.

Do you have any more photos of this aircraft? showing the markings?
Or do you know the entire text?
It wouldn't be hard to recreate them as a vector drawing.

You can see in the attached screengrab, I didn't get all the text...
but you can see how the letters are very blocked, handpainted with a square-ended brush.
Very easy to manually recreate if you know the text.

[jagolden01]

There are about 33 Free Cyrillic Russian fonts here. Think a couple may fit your need.

https://www.designyourway.net/drb/33...-for-download/

[Butelczynski]

That's very true Airdave.Nothing beats the photographs of actual subject and game of telephone is really good metaphor here.

There are few reasons why this works for me.Model is in 1:100 scale so letters will be hardly visible.There are very few pictures of Aerolet Junkers and even less of them are clear enough to make out.Of those I can see lettering clearly each photograph shows different font even on the same machine suggesting those have been repaired and repainted repeatedly.Flying in those days in SU was hazardous endeavour and that's still the case today.

I'm doing this for fun,it will likely not be for sale.I can watch movies only for so long

[airdave]

Scale size is an important point.
There are limits to how much time and effort is to be spent on something that small.
I completely understand.

I often work for hours on markings and details that end up being so tiny, that the printer cannot print them!
Sometimes I don't realize the scale and futility.

But surprisingly, the more accurate it looks, the more realistic it looks printed tiny!
So, sometimes its really worth it.

I admit, I do it for my own peace of mind.
And to say to myself, I did my best to research it and make it as accurate as possible.
Its like building a cockpit in a Tank model that is completely hidden and will never be seen by anyone.
At least I know its in there! lol

[Kevin WS]

Agree with your thoughts here Dave. Spot on...

[Burning Beard]

Dave is totally correct on his assumptions. Most of the non squadron specific stuff was hand lettered in the field by artists or if lucky sign painters that found themselves assigned to a given unit. The paint they used varied in quality as did their brushes (if you have ever painted a sign you know that a brush can make you or break you). You will also have to add weather, temperature, time available and the position on the plane. It is damn near impossible to paint something low on a fuselage that is centered over a wing, your body just doesn't bend that way. If no patterns are available, things that are supposed to be on both sides of the plane are going to be different and I'm not to sure about the availability of roll paper and pounce wheels was in given theatres (what was available in England may be pretty hard to get on Tinian).

Stencils were probably used in most units for things like aircraft numbers, and most of the little fiddly things were put on at the factory. When things were done in the field it was anybody's guess as to the quality of the work.

Beard