Military AI Works

Well I'm going to make a start on this forum as well to keep the moderators happy. Here is a great website I found while researching that has a great collection of Military aircraft 3 views for modelling.

Link no longer valid. - moderators

Check it out!

If people want to add their own resources here it'd make a great little collection.

Nick

In fact here's another one that may actually be better.

http://www.the-blueprints.com/

Don't forget this site:

http://www.freeflightdesign.com/tutorials.html

I found these threads over at the jbAI forums :

http://jbai-aircraft.com/forum/index.php?topic=590.0

http://jbai-aircraft.com/forum/index.php?topic=591.0

No idea if these are of any help to the modellers among us - it's all magic to me - but just thought to let you know...

Cheers,

Marco

Here are some aircraft profile plans sites that I have been using over the past several years:

(I'm not certain as to why the Url designations are not working; any suggestions?)

Freeware listings

-Sky Corner Virtual Aviation Reference (VAR) Aviation Drawings site . Russian language based site with a well organized and wide range of coverage. I consider this site to be a real goldmine. Organized by time period and country of origin. Many are scans from books or magazines. Some of the individual links to drawings are broken (i.e UH-60 drawing).

-Werewolf’s Aircraft Drawings, Page 1

-Werewolf’s Aircraft Drawings, Page 2
Another Russian language site with a much smaller number of drawings.

- Vought Aircraft Line Drawings
Limited to Vought and LTV aircraft, but covers nearly the entire range.

Pay sites

-Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum resources

-Aviation News Magazine Aircraft Plans Service

- Assorted magazine indexes (only thru 1997/1998)

-Aeroflight Distributors’ listing of book and magazine sources
Many of the individual book/magazine sub-sites include detailed index listings.

-Michael A. Morrow’s Aero Aces site
Mostly flying scale model plans, some pay, some free, many not so much “scale.” There are some gems if you take the time to look around.

I hope that this helps others.

Tom Long

A few more below that I found when searching for repainting stuff for creating my own textures. Good tutorials and a great colour swatch here:

http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/

Nick

A site dedicated to Federal Standard colours:

http://www.colorserver.net/

John

For Russian stuff, try http://www.airwar.ru/main.html
Not terribly easy to navigate, but it has enormous amounts of info and lots of huge detailed diagrams.
It'd probably help navigation if I could read Russian

Just found this site, looks really good, lots of info on US tailcodes.

http://www.globemaster.de/index.html

Here's a great overall site for research:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pil ... ation.html

Site with Russian Air to air and air to ground to air weapons, pics and line drawings.

http://www.wonderland.org.nz/

How do you get the Top,Left and Front Blueprints in the same scale?

So, you have to do it when right, top and back pics are not in scale already.
Then you have a function Scale in FSDS.
You synchronize right and top pics using aircraft length.
You synchronize back and top pics using aircraft wing span.

I use GMAX, so when i was changing the vertex's yu had to move the whole box over thendo it and them move it back.

Bell 209 wrote:Don't forget this site:

http://www.freeflightdesign.com/tutorials.html

Gents,

Quite a number of links on the FSDS modeling no longer work.
Does anyone know where I can find an easy to follow tutorial "FSDS for dummies" as I am a total rookie and would like to learn from scratch..

I got real excited when I found this one, but it turns out its mostly for "real" models but there are still some interesting walk-arounds and painting resources. I have not run across any 3-views in there yet, though.

http://www.cybermodeler.com/index.shtml

aerogator wrote:I got real excited when I found this one, but it turns out its mostly for "real" models but there are still some interesting walk-arounds and painting resources. I have not run across any 3-views in there yet, though.

http://www.cybermodeler.com/index.shtml

Any specific 3-views you're after Jake ??

does for me Mike.

Jake, Here is a great site for 3-views if you need some:

http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/3vues.html

Nick

Adam over at Abacus has started a FSDS design blog for all you aspiring FSDS modelers out there.

http://www.abacuspub.com/adam/blog/

Thanks to user "planejunky" for this link of aircraft fonts:

http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/ ... -fonts-19/

Found this one today: http://uscockpits.com/

Has quite a few good shots of instrument panels that can be "pasted" to the panel part.