paint information sources

[kerick]

I have a project underway and I'm at the usual stage where I stall out over painting. Does anyone know of a site that lists aircraft (and maybe armor) camo schemes including FS numbers? Given a number of hours I could research all the patterns and numbers but that just sucks the fun out of things. If there was already such a source it would save me a lot of time. If such a thing does not exist is there a good place to gather such info for the use of those that peruse this site?

[TallEng]

You could try http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_using.htm
That should give you a paint guide.
Otherwise try David Klaus's paint guide he did for the IPMS, I believe you could obtain
It from Hannants.
Regards
Keith

[kerick]

Stockholm has the color charts which is great. I was thinking of a library of paint schemes and patterns with color references to go with it.
For armor folks vodnick.net has some good info on his website.
The reason I ask is that I'm working on a whiff F-101C that has survived to serve in the near past. I can't decide if I want a F-15 style pattern or the Hill F-16 as applied to some Phantoms. Or possibly some thing else. If I had a place to go to and compare patterns and colors it might make this project move forward. I had something of the same problem with the Patton/Bradley build.
Maybe this is something I could start and others could contribute to as time goes on.

[Dizzyfugu]

One great and vast source of aircraft profiles and some paint schemes (sometimes with manufacturer references or FS numbers) is "Wings Palette" from Russia: http://wp.scn.ru/en/ There's also a section about colors and historic background. Handling of the page is tricky, though, takes some time to get used to it.

Another, more obscure one is http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/ which contains a lot of information - not 100% true, IMHO, but also a  good basis for legwork. Esp. impressive: the many German Luftwaffe schemes that were tested in the late 70ies.