Sites like Parts of Star Wars are good for general info across a range of items. You'll find more prop-specific sites elsewhere. Best advice I can come up with is to bookmark those things in your web browser in indexed folders, which is what I do. There are some really good build threads or specific posts on this forum and some others that not only provide good reference and research, but just inspiration.
If you're struggling with your Google searches, try companion keywords like "diagram" or "plan" in image searches. Play around with it. A lot of Google results invariably lead back to message boards like this one, where you can follow breadcrumbs to more information.
I believe you are the same kresty from astromech.com. I like the wiki pages there as well. That would be a useful tool here.I know how to follow the breadcrumbs I just saw value to having a more organized index of pointers and so I wondered if anyone had done something like that. Seems like the answer is "no, nobody else thinks that would be very interesting, so nobody's bothered "
Agreed. Even though there are a ton of props that can be found here on build threads, most are dated or no longer have pictures that still show up. It would be good to have a wiki that can be updated as new info or parts are found. The separate franchises have their own forums so it would be easy to just put a wiki in the sticky for each forum.Yea, Astromech's wiki is kinda what I was thinking - that's restricted to droid-y stuff mostly though. Stickied posts are helpful too.
An RPF wiki might be really interesting, I sort of had not mentioned it because I was thinking that it might be unwieldy if *ALL* those prop things from everywhere were included... however I guess it could have a landing page for major franchises/topics, someone smart could probably figure out a structure to keep it from getting out of hand. I wonder if they'd considered something like that before?