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Made in au
I'll Be Back





Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Hey guys,

Bit of background;

I'm making a diorama that includes a 3D printed woodfire bread oven, that has a flickering orange LED and I have hacked together e-cigarette parts, a small battery aquarium pump, fog mix from water/glycerine and even managed to find a local supplier of aromatherapy oils that smells like baked bread.

So I'm watching TV tonight and they are baking bread in a woodfire oven, the lady knocks the paddle on the oven 3 times and said something in Greek that they subtitled "god may help you make a good bread". Good some kind person please translate this back into Greek? Google translate is notoriously bad with some languages...

FYI google translate gives me "Ο θεός μπορεί να σας βοηθήσει να κάνετε ένα καλό ψωμί" which translates back to English changing the "may" to "can".

I will be etching some brass with this phrase engraved.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Ash
   
Made in gr
Imperial Recruit in Training





Greece

Hello there, we are indeed a religious country and in some areas more than the others. What you have seen probably is some documentrary of a village that still uses the old way of baking bread, rare sight but possible. For the phrase now i dont think that we use this phrase as it is translated, It is more possible to hear something like ''With the help of the god the bread will be good"
I will suggest something like "Με την βοήθεια του Θεού, θα έχουμε καλό ψωμί" or "Με την βοήθεια του Θεού, το ψωμί θα είναι καλό"
I will continue the research and come back maybe with another .quote.

Ps you will share pics of your diorama with us when it is ready?

This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at 2017/06/24 09:56:00


 
   
Made in au
I'll Be Back





Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 Odysseus wrote:
Hello there, we are indeed a religious country and in some areas more than the others. What you have seen probably is some documentrary of a village that still uses the old way of baking bread, rare sight but possible. For the phrase now i dont think that we use this phrase as it is translated, It is more possible to hear something like ''With the help of the god the bread will be good"
I will suggest something like "Με την βοήθεια του Θεού, θα έχουμε καλό ψωμί" or "Με την βοήθεια του Θεού, το ψωμί θα είναι καλό"
I will continue the research and come back maybe with another .quote.

Ps you will share pics of your diorama with us when it is ready?


Thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it! The documentary in Greece caught my eye since I was already building the diorama so I decided that was my focus.

The oven in the documentary was HUGE, mine is only small compared.

Below is a WIP pic. The oven, tables, breads, pizza and base tiles are 3D printed and freely available online. The pizza was repaired from being broken, the hole in the base was modified and I had to create a shim for the oven to space it wider at the base. I also used milliput to blend the render of the dome into the bricks. The log pile files were purchased and 3D printed. I designed the bread paddle and rolling pins and 3D printed those. The pizza, breads, wood, paddle and rolling pins are resin printed, and the other parts are printed on a standard FDM 3D printer.

I think the tables need to be scaled down.

I will also need a figurine or 2 at some point but have someone that can model them for me.

Thanks heaps I appreciate your input.



PS, the tile it is on is 4 inches by 4 inches.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/06/24 11:56:36


 
   
Made in gr
Longtime Dakkanaut




Halandri

This is going to be one hell of a TMNT diorama!

I'll ask the missus about your question in OP in case she knows another translation of the phrase.
   
Made in gr
Imperial Recruit in Training





Greece

Excellent job, and a unique project! well done!

 
   
Made in gr
Rough Rider with Boomstick




If the baker lady is of the elderly persuasion may I suggest " κανε Θεουλη μου να βγει καλο το ψωμι"
it;s a little more unofficial and more likely for an old lady to say.
translated it says: (evocative) please dear God allow this bread to be good.

You shouldn't be worried about the one bullet with your name on it, Boldric. You should be worried about the ones labelled "to whom it may concern"-from Blackadder goes Forth!
 
   
Made in au
I'll Be Back





Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Thanks heaps for the feedback guys

konst80hummel; it was indeed an elderly lady that said the "prayer"

Cheers

Ash
   
 
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