Javier Escudero

Javier Escudero

Guillermo Coll, Illustration, scale replicas
Javier Escudero When I first met Javier I was only twenty-one years old. It could be said that he adopted me. He has always been generous and so really patient, he is the one who has taught me more, the one who has mostly influenced me. He was a sort of magician and he still is a holder of so many and so strange knowledges. I remember the first time I paid a visit at his place, a penthouse with a large terrace located in one of the best districts in Madrid, full of books, paintings and scale models… That place soon became my refuge so I used to come on any pretext, just to talk about how things were going, to seek advice.  In this cosy place I was…
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Hikawa Maru

Hikawa Maru

scale replicas, vessel
HIKAWA MARU Recently I had the chance of building a model featuring the Hikawa Maru in scale 1/350. This vessel for both passengers and charge was completed in 1929, survived WWII with no major damages and nowadays has been turned into a floating museum and a floating hotel, kept in perfect condition and docked in the Japanese harbour of Yokohama. It is really a much beautiful plastic kit sold by Hasegawa, it has been assembled with no further detail. As Fate would have it, I travelled in a boat no much older than that Hikawa Maru, the Begoña, when I was six years old. We crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) to Vigo, stopping at La Guaira (Venezuela) and at the Canary Islands. The journey lasted seventeen…
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