Meet the exceptional pin-up girls of MilitarySpot.com. Each month we will be posting new images from their photoshoots. Next » - Military Pin Ups - History of Pin Ups - Pin Up Gallery - Nose Art - MilitarySpot Pin Up Girl - Want to be a MilitarySpot.com Pin Up Model? … [Read more...]
Military Pin Up Artists
Pin-up art has been very popular and made a particular splash in World War Two. Sexy pin-up girls have been used famously as art work on military combat aircraft -- sometimes called "nose art", "bomber nose art", or "pin-up nose art". Gil Elvgren (1914-1980) It is largely believed that Gil Elvgren was and continues to be the best pin-up artist the world has ever known. From … [Read more...]
Military Pin Ups – Gil Elvgren
Gil Elvgren (1914-1980) It is largely believed that Gil Elvgren was, and continues to be, the best pin-up artist the world has ever known. From the mid 1930's through 1972, Elvgren produced over five hundred paintings of beautiful girls and women. Almost all of these works are oil on canvas, and fully developed finished works of art. Elvgren continually surpassed himself, … [Read more...]
Military Pin Ups – Nose Art
[ Email Your Nose Art Photos to pinups@militaryspot.com ] During World War II, and again in the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars, colorful images appeared on the nose sections of American military aircraft. Loved and hated, photographed and censored, the paintings known as nose art have been a controversial tradition. Although wildly painted squadron insignia was common in … [Read more...]
Military Pin Ups – History
A pin-up girl is a man's ideal of the "perfect woman." Men want to look at them and women want to look-like them. Pin-Up girls have been around since the 1890s but became most popular in the 1940s. Many "pin ups" were photographs of celebrities who were considered sex symbols. Pin-up girls represented everything an average woman aspired to and reflected a glamorous side of … [Read more...]