Useful Garry's Mod Stuff

Due to the somewhat underlying competitive nature of the Garry's Mod scenebuilding scene, and legal concerns over the use of assets, I've always had a hard time finding decent resources on the workshop for my own builds that can actually stand a leg to what proper scenebuilders put out.

While this situation has signifcantly improved over the years, especially with the addition of Softlamps and the removal of the Facepunch Forum (moving a lot of stuff onto the workshop) it still could leave something to be desired.

Through my various searches to find properly good scenebuilding stuff, I have found some wonderful depositories of both models & tutorials that I haven't seen passed around or talked about much among wider crowds.

I feel the practice of gatekeeping this type of stuff is one of the worst things anyone could possibly do in terms of getting new creative minds into the hobby.

Please spread the word about these depositories to those who want to have access to high quality tutorials, models, and much more!

GENERAL DISCLAIMER: Please DO NOT go around expecting models to be handed out in places like discord servers. You will have to reasonably earn the trust of your fellow man due to many of these places unfortunately having their models end up in the wrong hands and causing serious copyright issues. Generally - Just act like a normal human being, don't flaunt to hard, and you'll likely get what your after.

Knockout Thread of recovered Facepunch Fourm models
VK Page of ComradeIvan
VK Page of Chaos Dark Prince & ZAR 21
SFMLab - Contains many SFM mods that may also work with GMod
GMod Database - An excellent archive of many scenebuilding tools/models
Simple Beginner-friendly guide to basic scenebuilding by NuclearPotato
garrysmods.org - The classic destination for old GMod addons
Source Art Colony - Discord server containing many veteran scenebuilders and many non-workshop model releases
Piggo's Simkas Kit-bash PSA