While out looking for reference materials I happened upon this site, which has quite good reference photos (walk-around?) of vehicles as listed:

http://www.airfieldmodels.com/information_source/references/index.htm

Abrams
M88 Hercules
HUMMV
M997 Ambulance
M113
M109 Paladin

For the Rotor heads
Apache
Chinook
Blackhawk

Also found this site:

http://storm.webvis.net/omega4.html

Contains photos of:
Apache
Blackhawk
EA-6B Prowler
SAF V200 Commando
STEYR 1500
M48 ‘Armoured Vehicle Laying Bridge’
West German M88 Recovery
West German Marder IFV
Panther
Tiger1
King Tiger
Panzer IV
M42 Duster
Schwimmwagen

Hope this helps someone out who is looking for reference photos.

Thanks for sharing. A guy can never have too many reference sites to look at. I appreciate you thinking of us. :-)

Don't forget to submit links like this to the Web Directory! The submit a site link is right on the homepage near the directory list.

Cheers,
Jim

Thanks for the link to my site. That's pretty much all the photos I have. At the time I took most of them I wasn't thinking about model building (yeah... I'm gonna burn for doing that) so they were just general interest photos.

By the time I went to Kosovo I was very actively back into my building and had plans to do some dioramas and vignettes recounting some of my experiences. So I took more detailed photos of what was available while I was there.

Thanks again,

- Paul

CafeenMan (Paul)

Firstly welcome to the site! Secondly thanks for all the great photos, I will be building an M88 soon and that is how I came across your site. The photos on the HUMMV, M997 Ambulance, M113 and M109 Paladin were an unexpected bonus.

You really need to post the photos here at Armorama of the Bradley and the HUMMV dio you built, I think they are great!

Hi Paul

Welcome to Armorama! :-)

This is the neatest introduction I've seen; someone making their first post after spotting a link to their own site.

All the best

Rowan

For the ones interested in the vehicles who served in the Italian Army i'd like to submit you my site Cavalleria Italiana

In the section "Fototeca" > "Mezzi" you can find:

AB 41 Armoured car
L3/35 Light Tank
L6/40 Light Tank
M15/42 Medium Tank
M47 "Patton" Medium Tank
Semovente 75/18
Carro comando Semov.
T17E1 "Staghound" Armoured Car
Many of the "in action" pics have never been published, and all the rest is original material. More to come...

In the section "Modellismo", ordered by unit, you can find pics of 20+ models

I'm sorry the site at the moment is only in Italian...
Ciao

Thanks. I hope you don't have any questions about the M88 because I took pictures of it without even knowing what it was. I thought it would be a good reference for weathering. A soldier I worked with in had been a former tanker and he told me what it was, but no real details.

How do I post photos here and where do I post them?

Thanks again for the kind words. They are very much appreciated.

Hi!

I have put a lot of work into my site, so obviously it's important to me that people see it. I study my stats and hits to see what people are looking for and how they found my site so I can optimize the pages and keywords to get even more hits. I especially look for links from other sites and links in forums - just to see if anyone is saying my site stinks.

BTW - I went on a really bad spending spree a few years ago and have a closet full of kits that I'll probably never build. I've got them listed on my site and would be interested in selling or trading them. It's not that I don't want to build, but a lot of them I now realize I don't have an interest in building so I'd rather trade for kits I have more of an interest in.

Here's the link:

http://www.airfieldmodels.com/gallery/to_do_list.htm

Thanks again to everyone for the warm welcome here. Looks like a really nice site. I'll definitely add it to my links page.