aviation | Guillermo Coll

04Feb 2024 by kike_K No Comments

Aircraft in the Sierra de Guadarrama

Books

A fresh new book written by Michel Lozares, so interesting as the two previous publications focussing on the story and the wreckage of air crashes that had happened in Spain. A very entertaining and easy to read approach dealing with history and technic, the book is a sort of journey through time, fully illustrated which includes photographs, maps and a bunch of curiosities. I am glad I have met Michel, a man always going off the beaten path, with a positive and tireless mood, a man with so many projects in mind he is capable to achieve. The book 'Los Aviones de la Sierra de Guadarrama' is a limited edition which can only be purchased the Librería Gaudí

The first airplanes

Aviation, Illustration

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.

Tag: aviation