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Resources for Modelling
- nickblack423
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Resources for Modelling
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.
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Check it out!
If people want to add their own resources here it'd make a great little collection.
Nick
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Check it out!
If people want to add their own resources here it'd make a great little collection.
Nick
- nickblack423
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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
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
Sites on the web
Here are some aircraft profile plans sites that I have been using over the past several years:
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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
(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
- nickblack423
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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
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/
Nick
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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
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
http://www.globemaster.de/index.html
Here's a great overall site for research:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Thomas.Pil ... ation.html
-Mike G.
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Check out my real life RV-8 build here: RV-8 Builder Log
Recovering flight sim addict, constant lurker.
Check out my real life RV-8 build here: RV-8 Builder Log
Site with Russian Air to air and air to ground to air weapons, pics and line drawings.
http://www.wonderland.org.nz/
http://www.wonderland.org.nz/
- Superbuggz
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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
http://www.cybermodeler.com/index.shtml
- Superbuggz
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Any specific 3-views you're after Jake ??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
Ruud
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- nickblack423
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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
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/
http://www.abacuspub.com/adam/blog/
-Mike G.
Recovering flight sim addict, constant lurker.
Check out my real life RV-8 build here: RV-8 Builder Log
Recovering flight sim addict, constant lurker.
Check out my real life RV-8 build here: RV-8 Builder Log
Thanks to user "planejunky" for this link of aircraft fonts:
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/ ... -fonts-19/
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/ ... -fonts-19/
-Mike G.
Recovering flight sim addict, constant lurker.
Check out my real life RV-8 build here: RV-8 Builder Log
Recovering flight sim addict, constant lurker.
Check out my real life RV-8 build here: RV-8 Builder Log
Found this one today: http://uscockpits.com/
Has quite a few good shots of instrument panels that can be "pasted" to the panel part.
Has quite a few good shots of instrument panels that can be "pasted" to the panel part.