I enjoy reading the German language "Der Skirmisher" articles when the appear in English. But it is not always the case. I've tried Google Translate
but I keep getting a "FILE TOO BIG to translate message.

Anyone know a better way?

I'm afraid I don't know of a better way, no.

There is, however, an English section on the blog:
https://hdrskirmisher.wordpress.com/cat ... anslation/
I've contributed a few articles for the Magazine myself, and these were translated into German for it. They were initially written in English though, so I should upload the English versions sometime..

You could also try to contact someone from the team (try Alex) and maybe he can be convinced to change the magazine to English if enough people say they want to read it in English. I've talked to him about this multiple times and he was always interested, but never convinced.