aviation | Guillermo Coll

17Dec 2021 by Enriquecoll_1601 No Comments

The first airplanes

I barely keep samples of my first works, as I used to give them away as gifts: so many got lost while other mysteriously ‘vanished’. Sometimes I meet people I haven’t met before, people who own one of my works. If it happens, I’d rather not ask questions. I presume I made these side views of an outstanding Boeing 247 in 1987 or in 1988. I remember the drawings were meant to illustrate an issue of the magazine Modelismo & Historia, so I was bound to adjust to the page template and layout and I have to do my best so these drawings would be achieved as quickly as possible. Working with the labels was an industrious task; besides, I had to draw the same aircraft twice so both airplanes…

José Manuel Clavero

scale replicas

‘Clavero’, as we all name him, one of my life teachers. A much beloved and generous, methodical and quiet individual who has devoted to architecture scale models throughout his life and made some master works in several fields (historic modelling, model airplanes or cut paper toys). All his works are spread across the globe. To determine who is the best one seems really complicated, it is all relative, so many details to be taken into consideration -I understand that someone could achieve a particular outstanding master piece one day while the next day he just performs an average piece of work-. In any case, I’m clear that if Jose Manuel Clavero is not the best world’s modeller, he looks quite the best.

Scale Drawings

Aviation, scale replicas

SCALE DRAWINGS I have kept some scale drawings I made years ago. Most of them were used to illustrate different issues of the magazine Modelismo & Historia (modelling and history). I draw, nearly always, aircraft although there were cars, ships and military vehicles too. Sometimes I worked on polyester and a few times on film. Obviously I had fountain pens with 0.2-mm or 0.4-mm leads of several brands such as Rotring, Leroy, Mecanorma but I much preferred Faber-Castell ones. I was forced to be as careful as these were not cheap, I remember cleaning them which was a time-consuming task. A good set of curve templates, circles and ellipses was also mandatory along with a compass and a set of blades. To achieve gorgeous line drawings adhesive weave can be…