Showing posts with label John Balen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Balen. Show all posts

Friday, September 12, 2025

ZX 1069


ZX 1044-1092, Dick Venne (ZX13, pp. 32-33)

ZX 1093-1094, John Balen duals (ZX13, p. 33)

ZX 1095A, John Balen (ZX13, p. 33)

Monday, September 1, 2025

Some curiosities

I seem to have a rogue set of YA13 images, with some models swapped for other, readily identifiable sitters.



Larry Flynn appears as YA 1 in A.M.G.’s THOUSAND MODEL DIRECTORY. 



I’m not sure this is Larry. At a guess, I would say he is John Balen.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

More first impressions

Howard Olsen


AMG album/catalogue E introduced a fair number of models who became studio perennials — no fewer than nine men who would recur, two of whom would appear in albums of their own.


Louis Paul 

and Joe Bloomberg 



Angelo Noto and Joe Cuilla











Don McLeod


Frank Mead














John Balen



Ken Rashoff














Jerry Feniello






Thursday, February 29, 2024

Early AMG duals

The Kamp brothers were the earliest pair published by the Athletic Model Guild. Next came Gene Meyer and Pepper Gomez, followed by Forrester Millard and John Miller. (The first published trio was Millard, Miller, and Tom Thornburg in Miller’s D catalogue.)


Louis Paul and Joe Bloomberg come next, in Album E, along with Angelo Noto and Joe Cuilla. The E catalogue includes another trio: John Balen, Frank Mead, and Fred Servoss.


Considering Mizer’s fondness for groups, these first five album/catalogues get off to a slow start!


Gene Meyer

and Pepper Gomez

Forrester Millard

and John Miller

Louis Paul

and Joe Bloomberg


Angelo Noto

and Joe Cuilla











See also AMG A-Z and AMG Compound