Okay, I'm just thinking out loud, so bear with me.

I was thinking it would be a great idea to form some sort of visual database consisting of WWII weapons and equipment so models and skins would more accurately represent the real thing. (Not just for Day Of Defeat.) I know you can pretty much find anything you want on Google, but nothing that has multiple angles of the same weapon, ammo belt, etc. I'm talking close-ups of the receiver, magazines, and ammo itself. Proper markings, descriptions of weapon operation, and several pictures displaying the bolt (or whatever action) in various stages of use so as to help animators. Rulers or some other standard form of measurement would be placed in each picture so size would be consistent.

I know a lot of people that play multiplayer first-person shooters (me included) also own many of the weapons featured in the games they play. Add a digital camera into the mix, and they can help out. It would be a quick, helpful source for anyone looking to make a mod. Any weapon could be added, whether it's your SIG P220, your Sharps Carbine, your M-16, or your French Chauchat.

Sounds like a good idea if you can get it started. :)

I hadn't planned on it. :D

It'd be cool, but I think you're overestimating the collective firepower of the community. :p I know I for one don't have any WW2 firearms, and I imagine most people here don't. In fact I only know of a handfull of people who do have any decent size collection, and most of those are fairly common weapons, like Thompsons, Garands, Nagants, etc. None of which are hard to find pictures of online. So maybe instead of a large database of rather numerous pictures of the same guns that are easy to find, but rather a request service, so that a modeller or skinner could request pictures of a particular weapon, or a specifc part of one. Then all those in that group go out to find whatever they can however they can.