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A recent post in the modeling forum looking for sources of cardboard/paper buildings/terrain made me think of something I'd like to try: A References Page. Not a /Links/ page, which I already have (and normally points to other CBT sites), but a page with links to many of the references we all look for, and don't know where to find.

Since it would be a normal HTML page, it could be easily organized by type of information. And people could/should send me links to post, which I'd do.

Oh - and while CBT stuff is fine, it doesn't all have to be CBT stuff, as we are all interested in some (remotely)related stuff as well. Basically, people can post here any and all links that you think should be on such a page (or email me at rick@heavymetalpro.com), and I will make up the web page.

Subjects I'd like to see links for might include:

Space Information - 3D star maps, neat screenshots from space, spaceships.

Spacecraft - That neat site that has sizes of various ships, including I think some CBT ships.

Paper Cutouts - Buildings, 'Mechs,

Military Equipment - Tanks, artillery, bombs, ammo.

Map Supplies - Tools & supplies for making maps.

Miniatures - Useful info on assembling and painting minis.

Graphics - Interesting graphics sites, CBT-related or not, but mostly at least sci-fi, gaming or outer space related - basically stuff we can use.

CBT-Related Specific Info - Like faction lists, BV/Cost/equipment lists, "quirk" lists, etc.

Many other subjects which would be of general interest to people frequenting the forums or my web site.

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* There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. *

So, is there any kind of vetting process, or is it OK if we start running stuff up the flagpole to check for salutes?

Teemo

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"Three Shall be the Number of The Counting; And the Number of The Counting Shall be Three "

As I said above, please feel free to posts your links here (along with a brief description of what information is there), or email the information to me. I'll start compiling it, dividing it into categories, and when I have sufficient information and time, I'll make up the web page, and post information about here and elsewhere.

If anyone has multiple pieces of information, just post it something like:

Good cutout building information is here:

www.yoururlgoeshere2.com
www.anotherurl2.com

(Would you believe I had to add the "2" to both of those to keep them from showing "real" urls! )

Good info on military ammo:

www.AmmoRus.com

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* There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. *

Since everyone seems hesitant (or not interested), I'll start the ball rolling:

Cardstock PDF cutouts on Sarna, many specific to BattleTech:
http://sarna.net/files/index.php/media/cardstock/

Collection of printable buildings on PRI by Calis:
http://www.pryderockindustries.com/dl_b ... #Buildings

Germ's World, free wargaming resources including paper buildlings and vehicles:
http://www.germy.co.uk/index.htm

Lords of the Battlefield forum article with screenshots and downloads for CBT buildings:
http://www.lordsofthebattlefield.com/fo ... =cardstock

Japanese site with 1/300 (/very/ close to CBT scale) buildings to download:
http://dns1.rrr.gr.jp/paper_craft/tatemono.html

Large scale paper BattleMech models:
http://www.mechwarrior3.org/models/

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* There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. *

Well, I've been researching this very topic and have found quite a few useful sites for both Battletech and RPG scaled stuff. I don't have them sorted as such.....yet, but here they are, both free and commercial.

Card Models Forum

A veritable boatload of links to assorted stuff papermodel related

Battlemechs!!!!

Paperworlds Forum

Yet more related links

Still more links-Sci Fi

Stone's Edges **Commercial Site**

Star Wars Related Paper Models

Worldworks **Commercial Site** More RPG sized

Hehehe Heavy Gear!! Look under Goodies>Gaming Aids>Then under the various titles

More RPG Stuff...mainly Fantasy

Microtatix **Commercial Site**

Hope this helps. I've got some on paper minis too if that's of any interest.

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I have some websites, let me look over my favorites and get them posted...

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/mil-army.gif[/img]

That's the sprite!

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"He closes his eyes and remembers the night splattered with brightness, the sudden flare of erupting fuel, the mad chase as, supersonic, he bobbed and weaved among the hills and valleys of the Ozarks, the laws on his tail, burning for home …"

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/ http://www.fas.org/man/index.html

http://www.army.mil/fact_files_site/index.html

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact.asp

http://www.af.mil/factsheets/

http://www.hqmc.usmc.mil/factfile.nsf/A ... count=3000 *wonders if there are enough otaku present to justify posting some defintely not-related-to-BT links...*

Teemo

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"Three Shall be the Number of The Counting; And the Number of The Counting Shall be Three "

Modern Military Projects.
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/index.html
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/

Firearms.
http://world.guns.ru/main-e.htm

AeroSquadron/TWoBT. Updated last month.
http://www.twobt.de/1013.html

Robotech/pictures of the Unseen.
http://www.robotechresearch.com/links.htm

Doe's All The Worlds' Mecha Guide is gone . . .

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[url=http://www.hitbox.tv/hmpgoose]Goose - The Egyptian God of Frustration[/url]

"He closes his eyes and remembers the night splattered with brightness, the sudden flare of erupting fuel, the mad chase as, supersonic, he bobbed and weaved among the hills and valleys of the Ozarks, the laws on his tail, burning for home …"

http://www.desktopstarships.com/

This one has a ton of stuff...mechs, ships, artwork it's a really cool site.

I will add a couple of more once I get the chance too.

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

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A great source for non-BT mecha is

http://www.mahq.net

And the relative starship size page:

http://www.merzo.net/index.html

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"Peace through superior Firepower."
-"Arsenal of Freedom" Star Trek:TNG
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Deposed Archon in Exile.

And of course for people who don't want to slum around with the lesser services:

http://www.uscg.mil/datasheet/index.shtm

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Chicken go cluck-cluck, cow go moo. Piggie go oink-oink, how bout you?

I don't think the Department of Transportation counts as a 'service,' per se.

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It doesn't matter who signs the check. If "The Blue Book says you got to go out. It doesn't say a damn thing about coming back" doesn't count as service, I don't know what does.

Besides, the USCG now works for the Department of Homeland Security.

[Jerry]Not that there's anything wrong with that.[/Jerry]

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Chicken go cluck-cluck, cow go moo. Piggie go oink-oink, how bout you?

Here is another site, which I have posted before, Rick liked it last time...too bad we can't use the map style for BT...

Enjoy:

http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/map_terran.html

Also here are a couple more:

http://www.aliens111.com/

This one is for ideas and such, mostly to allow folks to get back ground ideas or plot lines or a good laugh or three...

Here is one on BSG, it does give a lot of background and is a good starting point for those looking for new ideas and such for BT or an alternate future or just something different:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/4590/

Here is one that cover space stations, it is an interesting look at things:

http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/sstation.html

Here is another that gives some more spaceship pictures and artwork:

http://www.lucock.u-net.com/

Here is another background setting idea site, it's an interesting read and one that leaves you wondering about somethings as well as laughing:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/vril/index.htm

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/mil-army.gif[/img]

Uhmm didn't them move the USCG over to Homeland Security?

And in wartime the USCG is counted...

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/mil-army.gif[/img]

HEre is a link page that has really cool stuff, hey Rick you may want to check out the map page link on this one!

http://www.lucock.u-net.com/techlink.htm

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/mil-army.gif[/img]

Just me tempering the 'uhh-rah-rah, puddlejumper' chant.

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"Sir, the Coast Guard is that hard nucleus about which the Navy forms in time of war!"
---Anonymous Swab

Howard V.L. Bloomfield, The Compact History of the United States Coast Guard, New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1966, (revised, 1968), p. 286

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Chicken go cluck-cluck, cow go moo. Piggie go oink-oink, how bout you?

Here are couple of more sites to check out:

http://www.loran.karoo.net/slammer/start.html

The above link will give you some interesting rules and sets of armys to play with.

Here is one about the Hammer's Slammers group:

http://www.david-drake.com/hswargame.html

Okay this one below is a basic war game page:

http://www.sierramadregames.com/index.p ... ducts_id=3

Here is one that should give you all something to have fun with:

http://www.rpg.net/sf/bestsf.html

Here is an oldie but a goodie:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Do ... lintro.htm

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/mil-army.gif[/img]

For peopel interested in custom hex paper there is this:
http://www.incompetech.com/beta/hexagon ... r/hex.html

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Chicken go cluck-cluck, cow go moo. Piggie go oink-oink, how bout you?

tro legends has moved twice since then

http://trl.dubrin.net/ is the current site

Thanks...the old site seems to still be up...

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/mil-army.gif[/img]

yeah, as is the lacasse incarnation of it... with no mention of it moving on the sites

Personally, I like http://www.globalsecurity.org for accurate (or more accurate than FAS.org, at any rate) information on military equipment used by many nations around the world.

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Starship Dimensions, all in proper scale:
http://www.merzo.net/

I think this was listed already: Online graph paper (including hex paper.:
http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/

Fairly large gallery, a few BattleTech designs, lot of stuff for custom BA designs Mechs and Vehicles.

http://cyberpunk.liber-mundi.org/index.php?lng=us

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quart ... wot_hp.htm

Here is a nice reference for you guys...

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quart ... morweb.htm

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/mil-army.gif[/img]

Uh... Geocities was shut down recently.

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I'm serious about being frivolous.

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Okay and what can I say? Yahoo shot themselves in the foot on that move. Guess I will have to Google for a new site that had the old info.

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Karagin-

Darkness is a friend of mine. Sometimes I have to beat it back, or it would overwhelm me. Shirley Meier

[url]http://karagin12.livejournal.com/[/url]

The Wookiee, he's not wearing any pants!

[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/mil-army.gif[/img]

*casts Revive Thread*
Found a few more for the star-gazers among us:

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

http://www.google.com/intl/en/earth/index.html
I know it says Google *Earth*, but you can also view Mars, the Moon and it has a planetarium mode, so...


Teemo

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