Nestor's Texture Bank

[Nestor Makhno]

These are some textures I have developed in the course of my map-making. The titles are all links to TGA's - some quite big and in need of shrinking.

Some, especially posters I made earlier (for Makhnovo), are distorted and need to be scaled when applied to a surface. It should be clear which images have alpha channels but, just in case, I have noted which, so remember to tick the 'alpha' box when importing them.

Posters:

5 Year Plan - This shows the evil capiltalist scoffing at the 5 year plan and getting a mass of industry in his face as punishment. (alpha)

Agriculture This is a school poster from the mid-30's showing various agricultural facts and figures, prolly grossly inflated. (alpha)

Alphabetprimer This is a typical poster found on the walls of all Russian elementary schools throughout the 20th century (alpha)

Antidrink 'Every river starts with a drop' *sigh, how true* - anti-alcohol poster from the 30's. (alpha)

Antisemite As far as I can work out, this 30's poster says that just because they had a revolution doesn't mean that anti-semitism had been stamped out and so people had better stop jew-baiting. (alpha)

Babytute A series of pictures from the Soviet operating manual for babies (alpha)

Budyonniy poster extolling the virtues of Stalin's mate, the cavalry enthusiast and mustachioed buffoon, Semyon Budyonniy - "Forward, Budyonnists!" (alpha)

Capital "Capital facing (against) the USSR!" from the late 30's just dbefore Hitler and Stalin got all buddy-buddy. (alpha)

 

[Nestor Makhno]

dont_give_your_baby_booze Well, you'd have thought it was obvious but, apparently not... the Sovs still saw a need to post this in health centres and so on in the pre-war days (alpha)

Exploiters'Comrade Lenin cleans the world of dirt' - late 20's poster (alpha)

Fieldwork Big old file this, from the late 30's. "Work in the fields does not wait" Nor, apparently, do creepy little girls in headscarves (alpha)

Handwritingprimer This is another standard feature of Russian classrooms - an orthography poster (alpha)

Kickkulaksout Kulaks made a handy scapegoat for the blunders of enforced collectivisation of farms under Stalin. (alpha)

Kolkhoznik As well as working on collective farms, these guys had time to go on guard duty, grow beards, look gruff and pose for Sovprop painters... Molodtsiy!(alpha)

Komsomol Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Committee for Socialist Youth. (alpha)

Kulaksout Another poster attacking the landowning peasants. This one, as usual, decries them as fat, greedy and, here, seemingly possessing rather poor taste in shirts. (alpha)

No_beating_for_kids This one may actually be postwar. The message is pretty clear anyways. (alpha)

Partylenin Fairly routine poster stressing the basic indivisibility of Vlad Ilyich and the party. (alpha)

 

[Nestor Makhno]

Sniper This will doubtless be the most popular poster and will prolly appear on maps where it is the only thing even remotely related to the actuality of battles on the Eastern front 41-45. "The sniper shoots from afar but always on target." (alpha)

Teething Another health centre-style poster. Possibly designed to scare people out of having kids. (alpha)

Tomatoes A school poster about tomato-growing. Who says it was all dull and grim in the Soviet union then? (alpha)

Toys Poster telling people not to give their kids toys with sharp bits, fur or any possible fun value at all. (alpha)

Womenlit Poster from the 20's promoting literacy amongst women (alpha)

More to follow - please don't post any replies till I'm done.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

Chutistposter This is a Ukrainian poster recruiting parachutists. It needs resizing.

 

[Divinehammer]

What is your source for these. Is there a print source or something.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

A variety of places really - http://www.brama.com/art/poster.html for the Ukrainian stuff.

Having googled for the rest of the stuff, I have to say that I honestly can't remember where I got it from.

 

[Rex]

Wow Nestor, these are great! If I ever want to make a Russian clinic area in a map, I'll be using these for sure!

 

[Nestor Makhno]

LOL - they were actually designed for the Sel'Sovyet (village council/meeting hall) of a small village and the school nearby.

Just because there was a war on did not mean that all posters in Russia were about driving back the fascist beast etc etc.

Incidentally, some of the war posters in use, even in TW maps, are totally inappropriate. For example:

Recruiting posters in bunkers - well, duh! you already got them guys, why are you trying to recruit them?

'Defend Moscow' Posters in Stalingrad - Well, we have our hands full down here in Stalingrad right now, maybe after we've sorted this out. Oh? The danger passed? 6 months ago? Thanks for the heads up guys.

In fact, just randomly putting war posters all over everything is, in my opinion, about as realistic as having crashed JU-52's all over the place.