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.
painting guide
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.
World War II Vehicle Camouflage Guide
Mike Cooper has a web page with useful information on World War Two vehicle camouflage. IIt includes text descriptions, as well as a virtual “paint chip” gallery.
French Uniform Guide 1690 – 1900
Les Uniformes de l’Armee Francaise contains a series of marvelous images that will work very well as a painting guide.
British In Zululand Painting Guides
Duncan’s Colonial Modeling blog has a nice series of photos of British uniforms intended as a painting guide for the British in Zululand