Archive for Race Planes

1:72 “Maytag” P-51 Mustang by Paul Janicki

by Greg Drawbaugh
January 11th, 2012

Nice build of the Hasegawa P-51 in 1:72 scale by Paul Janicki.  Paul used the original Hasegawa kit from the 1970′s.  He removed the guns and filled the empty shell chutes on the wing undersides, then filled and smoothed over the rather coarse fabric rudder and elevators.  Not having any views of the cockpit, he left that to imagination and presumed it would have been made into a two seater but decided to create a ‘blanking plate behind the pilot seat and removed the head rest from that.  The brown paint used was by Life-Color French Chocolat acrylic glossed this with several light coats of Johnson’s Klear (‘Future).

The cockpit is a bit hypothetical, but without details of the many two-seat P-51 conversions, the area was a bit of guesswork.  Can anyone supply any good details and/or photos of a two-seat Mustang conversion?

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Bob Hoover “Rockwell” P-51D Released

by Greg Drawbaugh
October 16th, 2011

Mr. Hoover’s famous words “Gentlemen, You Have a Race” were uttered from this P-51 for many years at the National Air Races in Reno, Nevada.  Sponsored by North American Aviation, later known as Rockwell, this colorful P-51 was owned and flown by the “Pilot’s Pilot” R.A. “Bob” Hoover.

This set will letter one P-51 in the various versions of the Rockwell era markings on Mr. Hoover’s P-51D, and is available in 1:32, 1:48 and 1:72 scales.

Categories New Decal Release, Race Planes
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Race Planes Being Released

by Greg Drawbaugh
June 23rd, 2011

After far too long I have been digging through the stock of printed decals we acquired when we purchased the assets of Thrust Decals.  Yes, DRAW Decal purchased and owns all of the artwork and remaining stock of Thrust Decals from Gary McRory.  Time permitting, we will be adding the sets to the site, but please bear in mind stocks are very, very limited.  These Thrust decals were originally printed by DRAW Decal in our proprietary Digital Silk process.

As time and demand warrants, we will be re-releasing many of the former Thrust designs.  Prior to any ex-Thrust set being reprinted, each one will be checked and brought up to our current printing standards.  There are well over 200 pieces of unique artwork for race planes in this treasure trove we purchased, and we hope to introduce many of them into our line.  Please keep checking back to see which ones have been released.

Categories New Decal Release, Race Planes
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