iModeler Photo Collections

New and historic photograph collections

My 2020 Builds

Quite a mixed bag for the year. Mainly aircraft, some What Ifs and conversions and a single wheeled vehicle. All are 1/72 except for two of the airliners and the C-17A

2020: A Year in Review/Memoriam

It is 6PM on the last day of 2020 in So California, USA. It is Thursday, 9PM in New York and already most of the world it is 2021. 2020 started out with nothing unusual situation normal. It is an election year, the Super Bowl teams are [...]

2021, a new year, a new decade, hopefully good for everyone, my models finished last year.

1/72 aircraft not in order MiG 17 = MiG GB; AH 1G, Spitfire 8 = Teeth & Fangs GB; Sikorsky HRS 1 = Korea GB; Fokker F7 = iModeler movies GB; DH 100, DH 112 = de Havilland 100 GB; B 47 G, Northrop Delta, Bristol Beaufighter = RAAF; 1/12 [...]

My Completions for the Year: The Class of 2020

This past year has been a very tough year for everyone. People being furloughed, or losing their jobs due to this pandemic. A lot of us found that we had a whole lot of free time on our hands. Not that is a great thing these days, but [...]

There is only one surviving Heinkel 219 Uhu

back then a wreck off the coast of Denmark was raised It was brought to the Garrison Museum in Aalborg, where some attempt was initiated to salvage the parts. Sadly the focus was on iron, and to avoid that rusting further the parts was [...]

Miscellaneous

Here are a few miscellaneous aircraft photos from my collection that I’ve been adding to for over 30 years.

A-7 Corsair II

These A-7s belonged to the Colorado Air Guard’s 140 TFG and Oklahoma’s 138 TFG. A-7s were the first live aircraft I worked on as an “ Airframe Repair Specialist”, as the Air Force liked to call people like me. The aircraft with [...]

F-100 Super Sabre pictures

A beautiful member of the Century series of fighters. Except for the Thunderbird aircraft, these are all Air Guard airplanes.

My Photo collection

I started collecting photographs of aircraft in the 1980s when I was in the military. at the time I had access to hundreds of old Negatives snd also a fully equipped darkroom. Since then I just get them when I happen to come across [...]

PTO Models

Here are some but not all of my PTO models. My main interest from WW2 was the PTO so I have built a number of them. 1/700 Academy USS Enterprise 1/48 Hasegawa Air-A-Cutie P-39D 1/72 Airfix B-25B Doolittle Raider Hari Kari-er 1/48 Tamiya [...]