Scale Drawings

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…
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Old Cards

Old Cards

Aviation, cards
Old Cards One of the very sources of my inspiration when painting aircraft is the style of old illustrations, as these, featured in front pages of magazines, old cards and postcards, are so full of charm. In fact they were painted photographs, which gave them a particular retro aesthetics.   See the pictures of these beautiful small albums published in Great Britain by Player’s Cigarettes at the very beginning of WWII. Someone was so lucky to find these gems (both are full), at a street market in Bilbao; then, a good friend of mine, Enrique, gave them to me.     
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