Red an Blu - Real life inspiration *great reference pictures*

[Nineaxis]

Here's some photos I took in Waco of things that were TF2-like:
http://flickr.com/photos/wfabry/sets/72157605962304547/

 

[Shadow Scythe]

I saw this and immediately thought "Payload map." All of the images in this thread are awesome and keep 'em coming. Makes me want to do more stuff with Hammer.

 

[laghlagh]

http://www.trikk.no/museum/ves_bilder_149_634.jpg
http://www.byarkivet.oslo.kommune.no/OBA/aktuelt_arkiv/images/Akerselva_1890.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...erselva_Parti_fra_Møllerfossene_18jun2005.jpg

 

[tovilovan]

http://vasternorrland.blogs.se/2008/01/15/fagervik~3581327

Some pics of a ruined factory some fifty metres from where I live in Fagervik north of Sundsvall, Sweden, UNTIL THE POLITICIANS DECIDED TO TEAR THESE MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS DOWN! Quite a perfect place for finding nice TF2 map ideas, right? But now there are only pictures of it.. =(

BTW I didn't take the pictures, so cred to the guy whose blog that is...

BTW2, thanx for making this thread, it has given me quite some inspiration! MORE!!

 

[slick50]

I spent 20 min on this picture.

Its not that great just was playing around.

 

[d3dxdll]

many thanks for pictures

 

[TheBladeRoden]

http://www.steaminthewoods.com/

for those alpine maps

 

[laghlagh]

http://www.steaminthewoods.com/

for those alpine maps

Wow that's good!

 

[Gadget]

I've posted this some weeks ago in another inspiration thread...I collected more than 400 images all about the wild west and mining theme. Here's a two picture summary and a download link for the whole package:

if you wanna download the package:

50 MB Zip with 422 images

I'm looking forward to see any of that stuff in maps.

 

[laghlagh]

hahaha

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

Pictures I took of a few buildings in my town, namely the old sugar mill and my family's farm's dichondra mill. There are some other buildings I should probably get shots of this week, before I head back to school.

http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l35/TheDarkestShadow_2006/TF2/inspiration/

 

[Fearlezz]

I found a group on flickr called "I love grain buildings". They got a bunch of pictures of grain elevators. Make sure to check them out!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/grain_elevators/

 

[Vander]

http://industrialdecay.blogspot.com/

Good place to find some dilapidated industry settings.

 

[Armadillo of Doom]

Dam, I may just have to sticky this thing again, lol.

 

[Kookies!]

I posted this in this thread, but I thought it would be good to include the links here also:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/

That site has a really random assortment of pictures. If you don't feel like searching through it, this page on that site has a cool collection of abandoned buildings and locations: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008...ed-places.html

I personally like the images on this page, I'm not sure how well they would translate into tf2 though: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/abandoned-tunnels.html

 

[laghlagh]

http://industrialdecay.blogspot.com/

Good place to find some dilapidated industry settings.

wow

EDIT: Oh, and some I found on my own:

http://www.gingerb.com/CNJ Laurel Run view 1 APR 5 1967.jpg

 

[Galago]

badass

agreed

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

Added a few more pictures I took before school started.

http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l35/TheDarkestShadow_2006/TF2/inspiration/

I think this is one of the better ones, just wish I could have gotten closer (it was muddy, and I wasn't in my SUV :-/)