A little help on something...
 

Hi everyone,

I am looking for a little help on something. I am looking for as many reference pictures of NATO & Warsaw Pact uniforms that I can get. I have some of the pictures from what looks like a uniform recognition book. But they aren't that great, and if anyone can help me find more pictures like that please point me in the direction of them...

A couple of the more popular torrent sites have almost the entire collection of Osprey books that cover the cold war currently up. A few months ago, I got over a dozen issues - just for Twilight purposes. Those are probably one of the best sources you'll ever find. Most issues have colored templates for displaying nothing but the uniforms.

Where can one find these sites of which you speak? I have a bunch of Osprey books but I foolishly unloaded most of my Cold War ones in the mid-'90s and most of them are now out of print and only available "new" at outrageous prices.

I use Vuze... and all the Osprey collections i've found so far are only upto WWII and shortly there after. Do you have any good links to the torrent files for the Warsaw Pact books?

Here is a link to a forum on military photos. It will take you some time to get around that thread so as I think there are something like 62 pages.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...=101350&page=4

Hmm... the torrents don't seem to be seeding any of the issues anymore. However, I do have some on rapidshare. I have few more in addition to these in case you are looking for more (or something specific), just let me know. Each issue here should have a few pages of templates on just their uniforms alone... including labels and details.

The Paras (1940-1984)
http://rapidshare.com/files/29820703/zxcvOES001.rar

The US Marine Corps since 1945
http://rapidshare.com/files/29823750/zxcvOES002.rar

US Army Special Forces 1952–84
http://rapidshare.com/files/29825570/zxcvOES004.rar

Soviet Bloc Elite Forces
http://rapidshare.com/files/29827544/zxcvOES005.rar

French Foreign Legion Paratroops
http://rapidshare.com/files/29832211/zxcvOES006.rar

Warsaw Pact Ground Forces
http://rapidshare.com/files/29840136/zxcvOES010.rar

Inside the Soviet Army
http://rapidshare.com/files/29845023/zxcvOES012.rar

US Army Rangers & LRRP Units 1942–87
http://rapidshare.com/files/29846436/zxcvOES013.rar

The British Army in the 1980s
http://rapidshare.com/files/29847400/zxcvOES014.rar

NATO Armies 1949–87
http://rapidshare.com/files/29853950/zxcvOES016.rar

Inside the US Army
http://rapidshare.com/files/29931273/zxcvOES020.rar

World Special Forces Insignia
http://rapidshare.com/files/29932652/zxcvOES022.rar

Tank War – Central Front NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
http://rapidshare.com/files/29935487/zxcvOES026.rar

US Army Airborne 1940–90
http://rapidshare.com/files/30335124/plokOES031.rar

The Royal Marines 1939–93
http://rapidshare.com/files/30371800/plokOES057.rar

Modern Soviet Combat Tanks
http://rapidshare.com/files/40099192/OVS037.rar

M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle
http://rapidshare.com/files/54046651/qwerva42.rar

I made this a while back for my own use, you might find it a bit useful:
http://sites.google.com/site/leonpoi...ome/uniforms-2

[edit] natehale1971, check your PM

Thank you so much. Now I can do the redraw of the 1st Edition Cover that i've been wanting to do for a while now. :D

That sounds awesome. Maybe it can be the cover for one of the DC groups version 1.5 releases. That would really feel like a rebirth of Version 1.

Really good idea.

Wow... I guess I will really have to do a good job on that picture then. :)

Anything less than absolute perfection will result in an appointment with a firing squad!

:firing:

:D

Is that a promise? If so stick figures will be done. :)

My v2.2 yellow book has won its retirement with honors… Probably this summer, the wonderful color, ultra-fast laser printer in the office will show some unusual behavior… A new cover art will be great. The strange gang of the cover of the yellow book was, by far, its weakest spot. ;)

agreed. the cover was a very strange choice, and I was never a fan.

Fuse, what program do you use/would you recommend for opening the RAR files?

Winrar
http://www.rarlab.com/

Rae,
Try WinRar...

http://www.rarlab.com/rar_archiver.htm

Jason

Winrar

x3

Make that x4

Something familiar I found somewhere...
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...ntitled-2_.jpg