Roberto Flores is an artist in Pamplona, Spain, who likes to combine his art with his love of old Jeeps, and has done a number of illustrations for The CJ3B Page.
Brand new from Roberto for 2012 is this poster for the big El Guixaró military vehicles show, north of Barcelona, Spain in March.
And if you like these "Where's Waldo" style pictures, look for a high hood Jeep hidden in his giant illustration elsewhere on the web, showing life in the "good old days" (the 70's, 80's and 90's) done for a bread company.
Roberto tells the story of this recent piece: "A customer contacted me to draw a caricature to be printed on canvas and on a pillow (70K JPEG) for a stewardess retiring from Iberia airlines, as a gift from her co-workers. And because the customer also likes classic VW vehicles, he thought about the possibility of including one. The airplane in the background is the Airbus A-320 in which she travelled usually. And as a small personal touch, I couldn't resist adding a Willys jeep somewhere! In order to draw this one, I looked at Airport Jeeps of the 1960's on The CJ3B Page."
Another new 2011 creation is this very nice CJ-3B T-shirt (80K JPEG). There are still some available in Small and Medium sizes, for $18 plus $10 shipping for one or more. Contact Derek at redmond@queensu.ca.
Roberto's illustration from our September 2008 cover page shows a CJ-3B making eyes at a couple of cows bemused by the "horseface Jeep" (as they call it in Brazil.) This illustration is also available on a T-shirt or a pillow, and you can see his selection of other Jeep items in his online catalogue.
Roberto's Jeep art is inspired both by classic Jeeps and by Jeep modeling. Here's a great illustration of a Jeep modeler (certainly not Roberto himself) completing work on the Italeri Fire Jeep kit :
Roberto has done some nice military jeep models, including this WWII SAS (British Special Air Services Regiment) jeep, painted and weathered to look like it's seen plenty of combat. Reminds me of the Rat Patrol kit (120K JPEG) I had back in the sixties. Elsewhere on the web, see the Story of the SAS Jeep and The Rat Patrol.
Roberto also assembled and painted an older kit by Aoshima of a Mitsubishi CJ3B-J58 (50K JPEG).
This comic strip by Roberto was originally drawn for the Spanish modelling magazine Hobby World, issue 12, March 2001. The title "La Cuadrilla Masilla" translates from Spanish as "The Putty Group." Roberto says, "It's about the dogmatism -- on styles, ways of working, etc. -- on the miniatures scene. As you can see, I have depicted one of the characters at the wheel of a Spanish-made EBRO CJ-3B Jeep. Well, the driver is me...."
And as of 2007, Roberto is finally a CJ-3B owner himself -- a diesel-powered Willys Viasa built in Spain. We saw it when The CJ3B Page visited Spain in 2008.
In December 2010 he had the Jeep in the snow (80K JPEG).
Thanks to Roberto for the artwork he's done for us. For more Flores drawings, see About The CJ3B Page and the illustrations for a number of our cover pages. -- Derek Redmond
See also a CJ-3B Fire Engine in Roberto's Spanish comic book called Chiqui (230K JPEG). (And note that it's a story about the perils of internet access.)
Elsewhere on the web, see more of Roberto's artwork and models and his weblog The Jeeper Warehouse.
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