1:35 Typesetting USSR license plates ~1980-1994 (State Standart 3207-77) (All kits)

Soviet plates of the late period in 1:35 scale

The set relates to the plates used from 1980 to the middle of the 1990s and is conceived so that the builder composes the number himself. The 1:35 scale predestines it for hardware and dioramas, where a vehicle tends to be part of a larger scene.

Placing it in time

The span given takes in the end of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, when older and newer hardware met on the roads. For a modeling scene that is a rewarding period: it allows both a strictly official subject and an ordinary street with a truck at the curb. A plate of the right pattern supports the whole impression, because it is a detail a viewer notices almost every time.

Recommendations for the work

• let the surface under the plate mature completely
• before you start, line the characters up dry side by side
• separate the elements one at a time so that they do not get mixed up
• respect the manufacturer's instructions enclosed with the set
• at the end cover the edges and unify them with varnish

Who the set suits

Readability deserves particular attention: at this scale the individual characters already merge together, so it helps to lay the plate over a lighter shade and to keep the edges sharp. It suits builders of trucks and utility vehicles, creators of street scenes from the end of the Cold War and modelers who want a plate on the vehicle matching the year they have chosen rather than a generic substitute.