diff --git a/glanceclient/tests/unit/v2/test_client_requests.py b/glanceclient/tests/unit/v2/test_client_requests.py
index d305a4e..2332619 100644
--- a/glanceclient/tests/unit/v2/test_client_requests.py
+++ b/glanceclient/tests/unit/v2/test_client_requests.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class ClientTestRequests(testutils.TestCase):
 
     def test_show_bad_image_schema(self):
         # if kernel_id or ramdisk_id are not uuids, verify we
-        # fail schema validation on 'show'
+        # don't fail due to schema validation
         self.requests = self.useFixture(rm_fixture.Fixture())
         self.requests.get('http://example.com/v2/schemas/image',
                           json=schema_fixture)
@@ -50,9 +50,5 @@ class ClientTestRequests(testutils.TestCase):
                           % image_show_fixture['id'],
                           json=image_show_fixture)
         gc = client.Client(2.2, "http://example.com/v2.1")
-        try:
-            gc.images.get(image_show_fixture['id'])
-            self.fail('Expected exception was not raised.')
-        except ValueError as e:
-            if 'ramdisk_id' not in str(e) and 'kernel_id' not in str(e):
-                self.fail('Expected exception message was not returned.')
+        img = gc.images.get(image_show_fixture['id'])
+        self.assertEqual(image_show_fixture['checksum'], img['checksum'])
diff --git a/glanceclient/v2/images.py b/glanceclient/v2/images.py
index 053cc64..5aa3e76 100644
--- a/glanceclient/v2/images.py
+++ b/glanceclient/v2/images.py
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class Controller(object):
         # NOTE(bcwaldon): remove 'self' for now until we have an elegant
         # way to pass it into the model constructor without conflict
         body.pop('self', None)
-        return self.model(**body)
+        return self.unvalidated_model(**body)
 
     def data(self, image_id, do_checksum=True):
         """Retrieve data of an image.
@@ -255,7 +255,8 @@ class Controller(object):
         :param remove_props: List of property names to remove
         :param \*\*kwargs: Image attribute names and their new values.
         """
-        image = self.get(image_id)
+        unvalidated_image = self.get(image_id)
+        image = self.model(**unvalidated_image)
         for (key, value) in kwargs.items():
             try:
                 setattr(image, key, value)