This fighter-pilot started a few months ago, now i'm in the stage to finishing it. But need a few things to do it. Maybee some of you can give me any good links for: -fighter pilot clothes -US military uniforms -a foto of the hat-batch which is needed for the bump-Map Thanks in advance. At end it will be a freebie. SHARKEY

The breathing mask off my frogman's rebreather set might be a start for making his oxygen mask.

Thanks Anthony, but have first to finish the clothes, as you see he's a little naked. LOL. I wants to do a bomber-leatherjacket. Did you know, did pilots of the 50's have had breathing-masks ? SHARKEY

What period? For what airplane? For flight duty or on the ground? Things changed fast betwen the 30s and the 50s. And by the time they were USAF they were not wearing those kinds of clothes when flying IIRC, that is more USAAF. A useful source for modeling military guys are the line of books by Osprey. Something like their "Modeling WWII Figures" might help or have links to sources. Also look at something like "U.S. Military Combat Aircrew Individual Survival Equipment : Ww II to Present, a Reference Guide for the Collector" "A detailed study of United States Air Force, Army, Army Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aircrew survival equipment. Items covered are: survival vests, leggings, and chaps, life preservers, survival (ejection) seat and back pad kits, personal survival kits and first aid kits, etc. Tag and label information is provided for each item., over 170 b/w photographs, drawings, 8 1/2" x 11" A large library would be helpful, particuarly a university library.

Sharkey, I'm not sure if this site will have what you need, but it's to the USAF museum. I've also listed the main web site to the four major U.S. military branches for you. USAF museum: www.wpafb.af.mil/museum Air Force main site: www.af.mil Navy: www.navy.mil Marine Corps: www.usmc.mil Army: www.army.mil I know the navy site has a pdf on uniform regulations on their site. I found it through the site map. I didn't find one on the Air Force site, but I really didn't look that hard. Maybe you'll have more luck.

I've been trying to piece together a decent WWII GI. Cacheforce have one that has a shirt that would go nicely with the rest of the pilots uniform. It costs $9 for the figure, which kinda comes out expensive for the shirt. I also have the coolest pair of black combat boots on the HD at work. I've only seen a render but they were smart as hell. I've got a 3ds airforce medal ribbon badge thing here with a good texture that comes from here (ken@chemicalstudios.com http://www.chemicalstudios.com) and there are lots of good textures on the stuff at http://www.noxgeo.com/ww3d/ but mostly German. If you have any problems with these sites I can mail some stuff off to you, but given some of the messages lately I don't know if people are going to be pleased at saving the bandwith or mad at losing the advertiing revenue!!! Nuts! nicku@club-internet.fr

Attached Link: http://www.memphisbelle.com/panel.jpg

Hi Robert- You appear to be well started on a WW-2 Era pilot uniform. I will try to send you an email with a very accurate uniform of pilot and crewmen. Meanwhile, here are some other good historically accurate links... FOX

Attached Link: http://www.garciaaviation.com/insignia.html

If you scroll half-way down on this link from Garcia Aviation you can get a very good, accurate "AAF Officer's Cap Badge". You can use this for a maybe a bump-map too... Here's a link to more "Memphis Belle" photos. This is a fully restored B-17 that a pilot like you are creating would have flown... http://www.memphisbelle.com/bellegallery.html

Attached Link: http://www.plymouthshopping.co.uk/mall/eastmanleather/products/topsellers-1.stm

There are a number to choose from. The regular wear and lower altitude pilots usually wore the reddish-brown jackets made from goat or horsehide... High-Altitude Pilots and Crew wore the "USAAF Type B-3, Eastman, Seal Brown Horsehide Winter" jackets made with a sheepskin liner...

Attached Link: http://www.plymouthshopping.co.uk/mall/eastmanleather/topic/topic-9603-1.stm

Scroll down this page to: "USAAF Rough Wear Type B-5, Contract 17756" - a typical fighter pilot helmet for P-47, P-51 pilots for high altitude and cold weather... Also on this page are "USAAF Type B-2, Eastman" and "USAAF Rough Wear Type B-2, Contract 17756" hats which were worn mostly by enlisted-only crewmen on bombers, but some fighter pilots also wore them... American pilots also preferred to trade cigarettes and whiskey for British RAF gloves and goggles, as they were seen as having better quality than the U.S. mass-production issue...

Attached Link: http://www.heavybombers.com/aircraft.html

The B-24, B-17 and B-29 were the mostly widely used bombers of the U.S. Army Air Force. There are some great interior photos here of restored aircraft that have been put on display...

Attached Link: http://www.garciaaviation.com/flyingg.html

The "Authentic Pilot 50 Mission AAC Crush Cap" shown here was typical of what the hats looked like. Unlike the officer hats worn by other Army branches which had re-inforced liners to make them look perfect- the USAAF pilots had a "crush cap" version because they usually wore headsets over the hat... This was the 1940's version of "cool". Wearing a crush cap meant you were an aviation-guy, not subject to regular Army regulations, and even non-pilots went out of their way to have the "crush-cap" look. You could probably pick up more girls in nightclubs with this hat...

This is a funny thing, but the boots with the zygote santa for michael, he came with REALLY great military style boots

Santa is in the Air Force Reserve. How do you think he gets full U.S. Air Defense clearance every Christmas Eve?... BTW, Those are nice military boots...

Attached Link: http://www.geocities.com/poservue/Bomber-Crew.jpg

Here's the picture I was trying to email you...

How about this for a flight jacket. Its basically a the rain coat in an 'open' version that I think I downloaded from MORPHWORLD (I'll check when I locate the zip). It looked like it would make a flight jacket so I played around, truncated it and remapped it then stuck on some 'sheepskin' textures. You seem to have some modelling skills so I'm sure you can improve on my version but the raincoat looks like a good place to start. If you don't fancy doing it yourself, I'd be glad to do it and send you a copy - after I've checked the copyright ;-(

Then there's the boots that'll kick santa's ass! From hojer@swipnet.se in 3ds, but I'm trying to make them conformable (my first attempt) and they copyright says "do whatever the hell you want with them". Nice place this .se

Heya people, really much thanks to all of you for your help. Now i have enough sources to finish this pilot and also the USMC-Soldier. About the boots, both looks fantastic but the ones from DAZ where useless while i wants to post this character as a freebie. Angola, thanks for the suggestion of the boots, have forget that i had them on the harddrive. Would you do it the way as conforming clothes ? The jacket looks also very interesting as a addition to this. I'm shure Fox-Mulder would say it's a B3. A special thanks to Fox-Mulder, his links did show exactly what i'm looking for and gave me some new impressions what i can also add to the pilot. As soon as i have finished the jacket and the sunglasses i would post a new image. Thanks again to all. SHARKEY

one pair of conforming boots coming right up - right after I find the tutorial!