Uniform Insignia Forum

Eugen Pinak

Already read the wiki pages awhile ago. Just found the situation odd. Well, some traditions do look odd to the outsider :) Well, the Soviet Army and, after the ruining of the Soviet Union, some of former Soviet republics, had and have THREE lieutenant's grades: Junior Lt, Lieutenant and Senior Lt, ...

Eugen Pinak

Actually, bump. New insignia are well-made, but nothing was corrected so far on old pages.

Eugen Pinak

Scroll down this page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_Scissors - a bit, and you'll see some of the ranks insignia. Obviously Japanese-based, though modifications are evident.

Eugen Pinak

Here: http://www.angelfire.com/anime6/seikai/Abh-Rank.htm
This is from anime "Seikai no Monshou" and "Seikai no Senki" - you can find more here: http://www.abhnation.com/

Eugen Pinak

Today I've attempted to find some insignia on the web-site, but found out, that not a single links seem to work :( And if you'll try to open them on a new window, you'll get http://www.uniforminsignia.org main page again. I use Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 ...

Eugen Pinak

Lordziba, note, that post by J.T. Broderick refers _only_ to US and UK (who invented this term) armies - the rest of the armies used this word to describe "temporary" and "acting" ranks (if used at all) - so will I. Here is the article in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

Eugen Pinak

I don't understand the problem - why don't you use STANAG? It's probably the most detailed rank comparation chart in the world.

Eugen Pinak

In Ukraine (and, IIRC, in Russia and Byelorussia too) equals and subordinates address other as "Tovarishch" (Comrade) + rank.
Seniors can call others by rank + name. Ditto when junior names himself to senior.
Unofficially equals and seniors may address others by rank only.

Eugen Pinak

and you can never go wrong with tough enlisted chevrons. I'd rather say - bars. Bars 3-5 cm long and 1-2 cm broad would be the most universal thing. They were actively used during RCW & SCW, worn by Jugoslavian and Ukrainian (Nationalist) partisans, used by some other Left and Rignt irregular f...

Eugen Pinak

The insignia are Japanese in style (imagine their WW 2 collar patches on the shoulders), but the idea is Russian in origin.
It seems that Japanese Navy borrowed some uniform ideas not only from British, but Russian as well.

Eugen Pinak

Here's the link (at the bottom) - http://www.fullmetalalchemist.info/military.html

Eugen Pinak

valtrex: As for "blue" uniform, one reason is given by J.T. Broderick - British Royal Navy . Another is that this cloth of this color was easy to make and easy to mantain, so it was very popular in many armies and then "went" to the navies as well (for example, French blue naval ...

Eugen Pinak

JackK, the book is called: "Russian's officials' world", author - L.E. Shepelev, printed in 1999, ISBN:5-210-01518-1

Eugen Pinak

No problem with translation. I've been learning Russian for many years in the school. Remember that I live in Poland and during the People's Republic learning Russian was obligatory since the 5th class in primary school Sorry, I've forgot it - and this is after all my visits to Warsaw :( Though wit...

Eugen Pinak

Well, here am I again :) This time I browsed through Red Army pages. Some general notes at first. 1. Greatcoat patches are shown incorrectly – see here: http://armor.kiev.ua/army/forma/rkka_35_1.gif 2. Specialty badges are too large and some incorrect. For the full list before 1936 see here: http://...

Eugen Pinak

Zdzislaw, you are welcome!

BTW, here is another article about shoulder straps here - http://armor.kiev.ua/army/forma/pogon_1.shtml
Much more words, but if you like, I can help with the translation.

Eugen Pinak

IIRC, in 1880th, though even before WW I there was fashion to have kepi front slightly lower.

Eugen Pinak

Hello all, To Zdzislaw: First of all, thank you for your work - I don't even know that this is not full-time project. In any way I'm glad to help - after all, each mistake corrected makes you site better. As for your points: 1. - I understand. 2. - I don't think so. There were just 2 types of straps...

Eugen Pinak

Hello all, I've tried to post it on European AF forum, but to no result, so I post it here. Please, correct the mistakes - they spoil your great site! I am very glad to see that you started all this historical insignia pages, especially Russia, as usually there are a lot of mistakes in their insigni...

Search found 19 matches

Re: An ensign, three lieutenants, and two captains ...

Re: Red Army insignia corrections - 1935 – 1940

Pumpkin Scissors anime rank insignia

Abh Empire ranks and uniforms

Web-site technical problem

Rank insignia in the anime "Fullmetal Alchemist"

Red Army insignia corrections - 1935 – 1940

old Russian Army insignia - please, correct the mistakes