![]() ![]() After the success of his images he is now taking his beauties and his frame out to help acknowledge the WWII veterans with photo ops with the girls and stories of their experiences in the war which he posts on the Warbird Pinup Girls website. “Maybe it was a happier time and keeping a little to the imagination makes things more sexy”, says Christian. They love the classy element about it with nothing gratuities or graphic about these portraits and girls that are actually smiling just like the pinups of the 40s. Christian says he’s finding that people are responding in a way he didn’t expect. WARBIRD PINUPGIRLS FULLIt’s not what you think they are finding that it’s the fact that they bring back a sense of class that seems absent in this media full of sexual imagery. They are some of the finest examples, but it is the beautiful pinup girls that have caused quite a stir. The work features some of the most exclusive vintage fighter planes on the east coast, including three P-51 Mustangs and other greats like a P-40 Warhawk and a F4U Corsair from the American Airpower Museum on Long Island. Christian began traveling to air show events and has become a phenomenon in the aviation community. He acquired 12 flying WWII fighter planes and 12 gorgeous models and put them together in a stunning 12x12 inch 2011 calendar. ![]() And representing Britain, we have the glorious de Havilland Mosquito bomber, built entirely from wood.With creative mind Christian Kieffer and his team of 1940s pinup experts, the pinup is back with the essence of a bygone era.Ĭhristian is a photographer with a passion for aviation and WWII aircraft. Plenty of bombers can be seen in the gallery, as well as the F4U Corsair with its magnificent folding wings. Some of them look like they belong in the post-war racing scene. But there's a bunch of shiny Mustangs with both the Rolls-Royce and the American-built engines. I won't pretend to know every airplane in this photo gallery because the last time I tried that it ended in a lengthy contradiction. Even though it has nothing to do with the automobiles we talk about every day, we think the old-fashioned glamor. Eventually, it all mixed together with hot rods, and the women began sporting more and more tattoos.īut we've found a Facebook page that takes things back to basics: one giant airplane, one hot lady, and one suggestive pose. Magazines also lost interest in suggestive poses that required months to paint when they could have the real deal. And refrigerators, cars, and bottles of Coca-Cola sold just fine using conventional print ads. Painting women with frills around their ankles on nuclear bumpers wasn't cool. So if I had a bomber to paint, I'd probably copy one of their beauties.Įventually, cameras replaced the endless hours of live mode studies. But I've always loved Gil Elvgren and Harry Ekman. Many people say that Alberto Varga is synonymous with pinups. The tradition stuck around through the Korean and Vietnam wars.Īnd then there's the artistic side of things. ![]() The artists, most of which were servicemen themselves, drew inspiration from stills of beautiful actresses, other art, and their own imagination. ![]()
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