Registration numbers for WW2 Soviet soft-skin vehicles: trucks, cars, jeeps, Lend-Lease vehicles, Katyusha rocket launchers, AA gun carriers and tractors. From 1942 the Red Army painted a registration number in white on each vehicle's cab doors and on the rear or tailgate. The number was one Cyrillic letter followed by digits; the letters were assigned at random, so any letter suits any vehicle. The letters З, О, Ч, Щ and Ц were not used in wartime, so they do not appear on these sheets.
Formats:
Early War (1942-43): letter, then 1-15-25 style digits, e.g. Ж-2-15-25. Letter the same height as the digits.
Late War (1944-45): letter, then 21-525 style digits, e.g. Ж-21-525, with the taller letter seen from 1944.
Tractor, Early War / Late War: the shorter tractor format, e.g. Л-84-23, with the standard or the taller letter.
Two kinds of sheet:
Letter sheets (А to Я): every registration on the sheet starts with the letter you choose, handy for giving a unit one letter or matching a reference photo.
Variety 1-5: a mix of letters on each sheet.
Every registration on a sheet comes as a set of 6: three tailgate-size copies, each with a door-size copy directly beneath it. Within a format, no registration repeats on any other sheet, so you can combine sheets to mark a whole column of vehicles.
Registrations per sheet at 20mm: Early War 10, Late War 8, Tractor Early War 15, Tractor Late War 12.
Sizes (character height, millimeters):
Door size: digits 1.3; large letter 1.9
Tailgate size: digits 2.0; large letter 2.7
White decals; the blue in the photos is only the preview background.
