Fotos of old modelguns legally usable for Airsoft/modelgun-history article?

Hi everyone!

I started writing on an article on modelgun/airsoft-history for our airsoft forums.
While I expect most people there to be not that interested in modelguns, the history of modelguns and airsoftguns are intertwined so tightly, that it doesn't make sense to treat them seperately.
At this point, I'd like to thank smootik for his great modelgun history threads here in the forums!

It already is a rather lengthy article at the moment and it is in desperate need of being brightened up a bit - in other words: I need fotos of modelguns that I can legally use in the article
Now I know, that I could just link to fotos mentioning the original author, but I'd rather have fotos saved to my own harddrive / server and use those. That way, they won't be lost, should the original author delete them.
The article is in german at the moment, but I will write a translation once I'm done to post it in non-german forums, too.

So here's my request: Do you guys have gallerys of modelguns that you would give permission to use?
You'd be credited in the fotos and in the text of course.
It'd be great to get fotos of some old stuff (or even REALLY old stuff ), but of course I won't complain about fotos of newer / new modelguns either!

Can you help me out here?

Hi Pydracor
Feel free to use any from my archive here : http://plugfirecapgunsuk.com/PhotoAlbumsPro
Just as you mentioned... give us a credit where used

Note it will take a while to load as lots there!!

Hey Pydracor! I don't have much old model guns, but I have tons of photos, and as long as there's no money involved, it'd be my pleasure to help. I could list all of my models and you'd just have to let me know what you need.
Here's a pic of almost all of my model and airsoft guns:

Since then I added a HWS S&W M19 kit, a KSC Auto Nine Reissue and also a Marushin all metal Automag.

Thanks a ton for your permission guys, this is awesome!

Wow, now that's a seriously extensive gallery JohnnyV! Are these all the guns you have sold over the years? Very impressive!

And that collection of handguns is nothing to sneeze at either cosmitron! Will contact you soon to ask for a list

Hi, just some of them

Pydracor wrote:

Hi everyone!

I started writing on an article on modelgun/airsoft-history for our airsoft forums.
While I expect most people there to be not that interested in modelguns, the history of modelguns and airsoftguns are intertwined so tightly, that it doesn't make sense to treat them seperately.
At this point, I'd like to thank smootik for his great modelgun history threads here in the forums!

It already is a rather lengthy article at the moment and it is in desperate need of being brightened up a bit - in other words: I need fotos of modelguns that I can legally use in the article
Now I know, that I could just link to fotos mentioning the original author, but I'd rather have fotos saved to my own harddrive / server and use those. That way, they won't be lost, should the original author delete them.
The article is in german at the moment, but I will write a translation once I'm done to post it in non-german forums, too.

So here's my request: Do you guys have gallerys of modelguns that you would give permission to use?
You'd be credited in the fotos and in the text of course.
It'd be great to get fotos of some old stuff (or even REALLY old stuff ), but of course I won't complain about fotos of newer / new modelguns either!

Can you help me out here?

you have my go signal, i have new photos and will post some soon. thanks for spreading the news.

Since I had to update all the pics on this forum for some reason, I went through all my tumblr pages so I can share them here. Makes it easier!
Tanaka M29 part 1
Tanaka M29 part 2
Kokusai M29 part 1
Kokusai M29 part 2
Marushin M586 model kit part 1
Marushin M586 model kit part 2
Kokusai Python 357 part 1
Kokusai Python 357 part 2
HWS M19 model kit part 1
HWS M19 model kit part 2
HWS M19 model kit part 3
Kokusai M29 Metal part 1
Kokusai M29 Metal part 2
Kokusai M10 1978 Metal
Tanaka M1917 part 1
Tanaka M1917 part 2
Kokusai M19 Metal part 1
Kokusai M19 Metal part 2
Kokusai M19 Metal part 3
Tanaka M29 Counterbored
Washan Beretta M1934
Marushin Amt Automag Metal

+ Airsoft:
Marushin Automag
Beretta and Taurus
WE-Tech Tokarev TT33
KSC Auto Nine
Umarex P38

+ Extra Pictures:
Model Gun collection
More photos
Studio Photos

Thanks for your support guys!

Just browsed through your threads, mcsurgeon, some very interesting fotos there! Especially the MGC targeting system and the MGC68 with the US document... 1969, so they imported those MGC68s VERY quickly to the US

Awesome collection and some extremely high quality fotos, cosmitron, thank you! You could use many of those pictures on the box of the gun or in an ad!