[Reference] Image Resources for Modelling/Skinning

[Masaq]

Just thought this might help a few folk from the community section:

Welcome to the Defence Image Database

It's a database of images owned and managed by the UK's Ministry of Defence. Free to access, all images copyrighted.


Updated post with resources posted below:

Weapons

Detailed close up medium/high res photos of many weapons
Link: Deactivated guns | world war 2 guns
Description: Detailed close up medium/high res photos of many weapons, mostly weapons out of service.

Large archive of many weapons
Link: Welcome to Modern Firearms & Ammunition site
Description: Often good for overview, but mainly low/medium res pictures


Weapon montages and attachment devices
Link: B&T Technology GmbH - Montage Heckler Koch Sig Sauer IGB Glock Bruegger Thomet Brügger Schalldämpfer Schalldaempfer ABC NBC Bruhn Newtech Swissarms Transarms Leader Frankonia RWS Sellier Bellot Wechsellauf Wechsellaeufe Wechselläufe Munition Gewehr P
Description: Large listing (with pictures) of montages on many weapon platforms



Vehicles

Prime Portal - The Military Enthusiast & Modeler's Reference Site
Link: Prime Portal - The Military Enthusiast & Modeler's Reference Site
Description: Lots of high res images of military equipment for both modeling and texturing reference.

Blueprint archive of various vehicles
Link: www.suurland.com
Description: Many blueprints of vehicles, both military and civilian.

Another blueprint archive of various vehicles
Link: The Blueprints - Reference Image Database - 24000+ blueprints online
Description: Many blueprints of vehicles, both military and civilian.



Various/Misc links

Australian Government, Department of Defence, Online Media Room
Link: Australian Government, Department of Defence, Online Media Room
Description: Various pictures of Australian military equipment and soldiers.

United Kingdoms armed forces pictures
Link: Welcome to the Defence Image Database
Description: Various pictures of UK military equipment and soldiers.

US Army pictures
Link: Army Images
Description: Various pictures of US Army equipment and soldiers.

[KP]

Generally, try the home page of whatever military you're looking for/uses the bit of kit you're making. Or the home page of the weapon manufacturer. Colt for the M16 and so on.

EDIT: And [R-MOD]Bob_Marley for weapon pictures.

[Z-trooper]

A few of the good old reference sites have died lately, but as I was searching for reference photos for a new weapon project I discovered an awesome site. Well 2 in fact.

This first one is nice high res close up shots of pretty much all details on a large selection of weapons. It seems that the site is more or less dedicated to weapons that has gone out of service.

Deactivated guns | world war 2 guns

Also I bumped into this here site:

B&T Technology GmbH - Montage Heckler Koch Sig Sauer IGB Glock Bruegger Thomet Brügger Schalldämpfer Schalldaempfer ABC NBC Bruhn Newtech Swissarms Transarms Leader Frankonia RWS Sellier Bellot Wechsellauf Wechsellaeufe Wechselläufe Munition Gewehr P

It has lots and lots of montages and equipment attachment stuff.. That way we can model the attachments much more accuratly instead of having to guesstimate all that much

I had a lot of good links on my old hdd before it died, sadly I cant post them now.

Although there are a few classics here mainly for vehicle blueprints:

The Blueprints - Reference Image Database - 24000+ blueprints online

and

www.suurland.com

It would be cool if we could make sort of an archive for modeling references here. If I get a lot of links I'll change this first post to a structured listing of links instead.

[Deicide]

Hi all,
Don't forget my site: Personal photo album gallery of DeicideNBF
More firearms and accessories incoming, stay tunned

[Z-trooper]

Hi all,
Don't forget my site: Personal photo album gallery of DeicideNBF
More firearms and accessories incoming, stay tunned

wow! simply wow! thank you good sir it will definitly come in handy for some of us

EDIT:

woah.. just had a good look around.. lots and lots of pics I couldnt find anywhere else.

you have made my life so much easier and will thus greatly improve the quality of some of these items you have there.

[tmnoobage]

Armour-Asia1

walkarounds on a load of Asian Vehicles

[Pte.Paynter]

Thank you for all the sites pretty much saved them all

Thank You.

Cheers.

[smee]

pretty good site with some nice links. for US land vehicles

www.wearesoldiers.org/landwarfaresystems.htm

[smee]

116 images op Herrick

Afghanistan

[nozumu]

Military aircraft picture

Most of Taiwan's military aircraft, and Japan, the United States and Canada, Germany

aviation.idv.tw

[Hauteclocque]

Hum, your link does not seem to work...

[Kenny]

I found this today whilst browsing
Personal photo album gallery of DeicideNBF
has lots of good reference pics good close ups but unfortunately not the best selection of weapons

[DankE_SPB]

several galleries with russian small arms, was created lately and seems like will be regularly updated
Ôîòî@Mail.Ru: Photo Shooter

[Conman51]

I have 2 different HMG ammo boxes from the us military. There's one that looks like a 50 cal box and one thta looks like it was just used to hold regular 556 ammo. If any one wants any specific angle pics for a ammo box just PM me.

[UberWazuSoldier]

If you can read Russian, or don't mind Google Translate:

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Google Translate: Google Translate

Massive selection of blueprints for aircraft (planes and helicopters), very very high resolution and detailed. I think you'd be hard pressed to find better, though the image formats can be obscure (1 bit bitmaps etc.)