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Translation :
Daniel Serrano
I
was born the 19th January in 1978
in a town called Lleida and since I
was a kid I liked drawing, painting
and building things with Lego
pieces. In my profesional like I
work in the construction sector.
I
studied in Barcelona an engineer
career about roads, chanels and
ports and actually I work in a
construction company in Zaragoza.
It’s a job that I love because it’s
like building kits but a little
bigger.
I
started my modelling life when I was
13 years old, in the only
specialized shop in my town, called
Taleia, where I bought airplanes
kits and tanks in 1/72 scale. Soon
the association Taleia was found
with a great bunch of friends where
the most experienced ones taught the
new ones, that was my brother and
me, the youngest ones.
Other members where Joan Miquel
Masip, Oscar López, Josep Bernaus,
Javier Juarez, among others.
I
started with combat vehicles in 1/35
where Javier taught me to do color
washes and dry-brushing, that was a
revolution! Later I started to get
more interested in figures and Oscar
López showed me the basics with a
Beneito figure and I started to
learn the general light technique.
Since then I’ve been improving my
own technique reading magazines,
going to shows, asking the best
painters and painting with my
brother. We paint in the same table
and we’ve been sharing our
experiences since the beginning.
In
1995 I went to my first
international show, the
Euromilitaire at Folkestone. There I
found what was possible to achieve
with the painting watching figures
from Jesús Gamarra o Miguel Felipe
Carrascal, who I met there and now
are great friends.
In
1996 I went to the World Expo in
Paris where I was awarded with a
certificate in the beginners
category. There I discovered the
zenithal light concept thanks to the
great Raúl García Latorre. That show
supposed a change in my style that I
tried to perfect in a self-taught
way and with Joan Miquel Masip on
sunday’s afternoons.
That year I went back to
Euromilitaire getting a bronze medal
in the misc category with a JJ
Models tramper. Since then I’ve been
getting awards in every show I’ve
been.
I’ve been 7 times in Folkestone, 7
in the Aosta show, in the AMT one
since the 2nd edition, every year at
the Soldat de Plom in Girona and
León Rampante. I’ve also visited
other national shows as Alcalá de
Guadaira, Fuengirola, Burgos,
Zaragoza, Coruña; and other
international ones as Hyeres,
Kulmbach, Valley Forge, Chicago,
SCHAMS, and the World Expos of
Glasgow, Roma and Boston.
In
all those places I’ve met incredible
people, some of them are nowadays
great friends as Juan Carlos Ávila,
who I met in the McDonald’s at
Folkestone with the other people
from Galicia. Juan is also a
reference in the miniatures hobby. I
want to remark too Luís Esteban and
the kind duo Juan Miguel Fernández
and Luís Martín Espada, with whom
I’ve gone to the most number of
shows, being a funny trio.
We have a lot of
anecdotes of our trips to EEUU,
Aosta and Kulmbach that can’t be
told in public.
In
my table I paint without magnifying
glasses, I always use Winsor &
Newton series 7, 0 or 00 brushes.
The type of paint that I use is
basically acrylics from Vallejo but
if I want to get other effects I use
oils, printer’s inks or whatever
gets into my hands.
I
think this hobby helped me to meet
great people because the most part
of the people who paint figures are
wonderful people. I would like to
remark people like Pepe Gallardo and
the people from Malaga, Diego
Fernández Fortes, Román Navarro,
Víctor Castillo, Rodrigo Hernández
father and son, Luís Gómez Platón,
Iñigo Rodríguez, Pedro Abreu, Víctor
Acebal and a long et cetera.
I’ve had the chance to meet my great
international idols, some of them
great friends, like the Cannone
brothers, Mike Blank, Diego Ruina,
Gianfranco, Fabio Nunnari, Kostas
Kariotelis, Cristian Petit, Marion
Ebensperger y Bill Horan, where we
played a Spain – Italy in his ‘futbolin-table’.
The
invincible army won!
Lately there are a
great painters coming up like Miguel
Ángel Canarias, José Manuel
Palomares, Alfonso Prado, Samuel
Pérez,… that’s some fresh air to the
hobby that was getting stuck in the
last years.
I
paint 54mm, busts, 70mm, fantasy and
lately I’m getting more interested
in flat figures. In the last years
I’ve been sculpting some things, I
have a lot of transformations, 4
scratch-built figures and a vigente.
I
specially like painting fantasy
figures because it’s another way of
showing your art without rules. It
has been the dark side of the hobby,
not too well seen but lately it’s
getting bigger and better. Without a
doubt, the influcende of wargames is
notable and there are better
sculpted figures every month.
I
would like to say good bye
encouraging everyone to keep
fomenting the hobby and excuse me if
i didn’t mention some of you or if
someone gets annoyed because of my
words… see you in the next show!
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