My Bookmarks

My Personal Bookmarks for Model building updated 11/29/09

I'm sure that everyone has to deal with the problem of finding exactly what they are looking for in their bookmarkfolders, and this is my solution. I'm organizing my bookmarks into a webpage to ease finding things. Not to be confused with my selected Links which show the major sites..

My Most Visited:

Armorama.com :: Military Scale Modeling Community (Has Major Forums)
Delbert's Scale Model Building Stash (my Personal site)
Fine Scale Modelinger (Has a Very busy Forum)
Hyperscale.com (another place with a busy Forum)
Tracklink.net (busy gallerys and nice forum focused on ground vehicles)
Aircraft Resouce Center (ARC) (a site focused on aircraft and products with a small forum)

Painting Reference and Paint Color Cross References:

Urban Fredriksson's Color Reference Charts - Part I hosted by IPMS Stockholm
Urban Fredriksson's Color Reference Charts - Part II these 2 links are a must have.
Humbrol Enamals Cross Reference Chart
Luftwaffe Interior Colors
RLM to FS Color List Chart good for german color translations also
WWII Allies painting reference for Figures. (Useful but use your own judgement)
WWII Axis painting reference for Figures. (Useful but use your own judgement)
The Ultimate Model Paint Cross Reference chart (you be the judge)

Airbrush References:

Choosing an airbrush gu ide (just some basic airbrush information)
Basics of Airbrushing
Don's airbrush Tips (some very interesting stuff here)
How to Airbrush.com (useful basics along with a lot of advanced stuff)

Some Usefull How To Article's

The Complete Future guide at Swanny;s Models (a must read)
Winter Whitewash Technique
Making Home Made Ground Cover
Basic's of Weathering

Armor Reference:

Prime Portal (hundreds of Walk arounds of armor, trucks planes, equipment ect.)l
Achtung Panzer (everything german WWII)
Glossary of German Military Terms
Olive Drab Military Information site (all about the U.S. Army in WWII)
Panzer Arcana (panzer odds and ends info )
Sherman Register (a very useful site about Shermans with lots of photos)
The Tank in WWII lots of B&W photos of Military equipment and data
Histroy of the GMC CCKW (WWII 2 1/2 ton trucks)
The Tiger Tank Musuem
Trucks Lend-Leased to Russia site also some russian WWII armor
AFV PixView lots and lots of photos from all countries all era's
Sherman M4 and M4A3 17 pounder in U.S. service
Jagdtiger lots of musuem photos of armor.

Aircraft Reference:

History in Illistrations (lots of aircraft color profile templates from all Era's)
The War Zone (a site with color profiles some reference and period photo's)e
Prime Portal (a Lot of high quality walk around photo sets for aircraft)
Wings Palette (1000's of small color templates of aircraft all era's)

General and Historical Reference:

Axis History Factbook
101st Airborne in WWII
U.S. Order of Battle ETO in WWII
Armored Formations Profiles, for major combatants
Battailian Organization in WWII for major combatants
Modeling the U.S. Army in WWII
Feldgrau.com research on the German armed forces 1918-1945
German Propaganda Poster archive

Other Model Community's:

IPMS stockholm.org (one of the best reference sites)
AFV Modeller Ezine most content requires subscription.
Cybermodeler Online
Internet Modeler Ezine (Free)
Swanny's Models, (how to articles, kit information, and reference)
WarWheels.net (where the armored cars go)

Modelbuilders Personal Sites:

WWII Models (with reference pics)
Wikingers panzermodels