Links

Social Media:

Livery & Colour Research:

Colorserver: displays and compare US Federal Standard colours.
Wings Palette: provides pictures of aircraft liveries (Military & Civilian).
Vitaly V. Kuzmin’s blog: Vitaly posts many pictures of modern Russian military equipment.

Manufacturers & Suppliers:
My experiences with all of the following companies has been great: pleasant, efficient and customer focused.

AK Interactive make a range of paints and weathering products that are aimed at the military scale modeller.
AMMO make similar products to AK Interactive.
PicoArmor are the US supplier for Oddzial Osmy’s range of 3mm miniatures and are branching out into other ranges.
Vallejo make my preferred paints. I’ve had great success with their Model, Model Air and Primer ranges.
Brigade Models have a range of 2mm buildings (hidden under their ‘Aeronef’ range) that while a little small for 3mm models are still quite useable, particularly when grouped together into small villages or towns.
Dom’s Decals has a wide range of tiny roundels that are quite suitable for 3mm. These things really are tiny, the smallest sizes are 1-2mm across.
I-94 Enterprises also do a range of decals. Not quite as broad as Dom’s range, but there are still a number of very useful sheets.
Armorcast make a range of “cinematic effects” that are small metal castings in the shape of muzzle blasts, flames, smoke and more. These items can add a dynamic effect to your minis, but can come across as a bit cartoony.
Litko make (and will do custom creations) numerous markers and tokens. They have a number of generic tokens/markers as well as game specific ones.

Real World:
The following have uses beyond this site, and I’ve found quite useful.

Todoist is a todo list web application. I’ve got a pretty poor memory so this little guy helps me to both remember to do things, but also the right things that are more urgent. I like it’s features, there are others out there and I tried a couple (to be honest Todoist took a couple of tries before it integrated into life), but this one has stuck. It’s the first and last thing I tend to use at work as well and it also gets a fair bit of home and hobby use.
Gimp is image manipulating software with similar (if simpler) functionality to Adobe’s Photoshop. While not as feature rich, it does enough and I use GIMP for basic picture editing as well as creating some images from scratch.
Nikon is the brand of camera I use; it started with a little D40 and a couple of cheapish lenses that lasted us about 7 years. The D40 still goes and gets brought out sometimes, but some new lenses highlighted the lack of features on the old body so a new D7100 joined us. Now this body, with two good prime lenses (105mm macro, 24mm wide angle), creates most of the images posted on the blog.

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