iModeler Photo Collections

New and historic photograph collections

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 [...]

PTO tribute

My iMod postings to tribute VJ Day. Thank you all who sacrificed! I too had more than I thought. KEEP IT FUN

My Pacific War builds

Thank you to Michael Woodgate for the good idea to post Pacific War builds. 1.) 1/48 p38 Lightening 2.) 1/700 USS Colorado 3.) 1/350 fm2 Wildcat 4.) USS West Virginia 5.) USS Baltimore 6.) J2m Jack 7.) IJN Suzuya Earlier today when I told [...]

On This Day 2 August 1990, Iraq invades Kuwait

I't s a nice sunny hot Thursday morning flying up the California coast to NAS Bremerton, Washington. Just left Moffet topping off the tanks for the final leg of the flight. Pilot, Lt Luis "Ball" Saenz,co-pilot Lt Cdr [...]