Jim's youngest brother John, standing beside an 8-foot wide model of a Klingon concept warship built by Jim W. Coleman. Here, the ship is being readied to move from Hell Paso, Texas to the Seattle area.
Photo of a model set Jim W. Coleman built and photographed in the back bedroom of a Phoenix-area apartment. Later, Jim rented warehouse space for larger sets. During the '80's and '90's, Jim perfected his prop and photography skills, producing some very nice material in that time. Now, it can all be done with computers but without the magic ...
Jim W. Coleman (yes, with a perm) poses beside a model set he built for a 'spatial FX' photo shoot. Those pictures are nothing short of incredible, and are forthcoming to this blog.
For years, Jim W. Coleman built scale models complete with lights and other effects. He filmed the sets, often producing studio-quality prop and photography work. This led to a career in forensic sciences early in adulthood which then led to his novels today. Here is a top-secret space shuttle facility that Jim replicated in a back bedroom.
This photo pictures an assembled AMT model kit of Star Trek's starship USS Enterprise. Jim built the model with lights and then photographed it against a backdrop to simulate stars and planets in space. The photography was done in the back bedroom of an apartment in Phoenix.
This photo, taken in 1983, was a special effects time exposure shot, a self-portrait of Jim W. Coleman, back when he was convinced that he had multiple personalities. Since then, he's realized that he's just nuts. The photo was a 30 second exposure taken with a Minolta X370.
