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Title: online research for air craft
Post by: Nr_RaVeN on December 15, 2005, 06:55:12 AM

I was thinking that we could all pich in and post some of our recommendations for
 
research web sites

profiles

books ect

sound good??
~S~ Rave


here is a start

wings PALETTE (http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f)

Luftwaffe Camouflage (http://users.hol.gr/~nowi/)

USAAF  war bird books (http://www.acepilots.com/bookstore_plane.html)

Title: RAF
Post by: Nr_RaVeN on December 15, 2005, 09:02:24 AM

RAF AirCarft (http://www.military.cz/british/air/war/default_en.htm)

Japan and others (http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-air-support/ww2-enemy/0-enemy_air_ww2-cat-index.htm)

Title: online research for air craft
Post by: Krusty on December 15, 2005, 11:34:47 AM

Decent (select) RLM colors (http://jpsmodell.de/shop/jpsrlm_e.htm#rlm70)

Urban Fredriksson's color reference charts (with FS numbers and samples) (http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/colorcharts.asp)

Google is your friend.... (http://images.google.com)

 LW unit emblems (http://chrito.users1.50megs.com/_data/divemblems/emblems2main.htm)

Rod's Warbirds - actual photos (http://www.warbirdpix.com/)

Title: online research for air craft
Post by: Treize69 on December 15, 2005, 10:52:27 PM

Good source of profiles for inspiration. (http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f)

Link is to the WWII fighters page, but if you know where to look and have patience, it has just about every aircraft ever produced.

Title: online research for air craft
Post by: Nr_RaVeN on December 16, 2005, 11:52:12 AM

only 3 volunteers??

keep it coming this is a team effort :aok

Title: online research for air craft
Post by: MotleyCH on December 16, 2005, 12:43:42 PM

Here's some Germany Profiles

http://www.beuliland.com/html/perfiles/perfiles.html

Title: online research for air craft
Post by: Guppy35 on December 17, 2005, 01:04:01 AM

Just remember profiles are someone's interpretation of a photo or two.  Always best to have the photos along with the profiles as some of those profiles can be dead wrong.

As for resources....Looks to left at shelves....looks to right at shelves....looks behind at shelves.

Best resource I have is my own WW2 aviation library built up over the last 30 years :)


And it's been available to all here.

Title: online research for air craft
Post by: Raptor on December 17, 2005, 03:11:26 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Guppy35
Just remember profiles are someone's interpretation of a photo or two.  Always best to have the photos along with the profiles as some of those profiles can be dead wrong.

As for resources....Looks to left at shelves....looks to right at shelves....looks behind at shelves.

Best resource I have is my own WW2 aviation library built up over the last 30 years :)


And it's been available to all here.

 
^  Most reliable source in the AH community
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Title: online research for air craft
Post by: Nr_RaVeN on December 17, 2005, 11:11:49 AM

:aok  thanks Guppy35
Ill be right over

Title: RLM swatch for Photoshop
Post by: Wrangled on December 23, 2005, 01:42:45 PM

Have only begun skinning some as a hobby in AH but have skinned in IL2 and CFS games. The link below has got a RLM color swatch set up for photoshop.

http://www.zoysgig.com/refer.htm

Choose the RLM color references and at the bottom of the page is the swatch download.

aka MadMedic

Title: online research for air craft
Post by: DoKGonZo on December 24, 2005, 02:40:10 PM

I'll be making this available to you guys within the next week:

http://wiki.gonzoville.com/

You will be able to either post links or content ... the latter preferable where not a copyright infringement as so many of these hard-to-find sites have a tendency to disappear due to the ravages of time.

I just need a few days to figure out the permission system on this thing.