I’m currently painting some of Wargames Foundry’s Plains Indians for a 7th Cavalry game. I found this site, with descriptions of symbols that the Native American warriors painted on their horses.
Painting Guides
British and Commonwealth Decorations
For you colonial gamers, here is a page with useful information on British and Commonwealth Orders and Decorations.
1889 Colonial Uniform Guides
This is an excellent resource for colonial wargamers. Warflag has a number of nice color plates of French, German and Italian colonial uniforms from 1889.
Pictoral History of Costume
Braun and Schneider’s “History of Costume” was published from 1861-1880 in Munich. This website has the translated text and the original color plates, with more than 500 costumes. This is a great miniatures painting guide, especially for the “contemporary” (i.e., 1880s) plates of peoples in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Painting A Velociraptor
Of course no one knows exactly what a dinosaur looked like, but Andrew Thompson will tell you how he painted a very nice looking one for his land that time forgot miniature wargame.