After another successful visit to Telford and Scale ModelWorld 2015, it is time get back to work and relive the memories from the world’s largest scale model show. While I did take photos of my own, Radleigh Bushell has done much better than I was able to do and has posted them for all of us to enjoy. Click on the photo to see a beautiful collection of photos of many, many amazing models from this year’s big show in the UK.
About Draw Decal
Offering High Quality and Unique Aircraft Decals Since 1999!
How did we get our Name?
My father is a US Army-trained draftsman, and he always signed his drawings with the initials “DRAW.” Since we have to DRAW our decals, and DRAW is also the first four letters of my last name, it seemed to be a natural name for our company.
What is the idea behind DRAW Decal?
I produce airline decals that normally would not be popular enough to justify mass producing. Each decal is printed as demand warrants, one page at a time by a professional print house. This makes for slow production, but it allows us to individually inspect each decal and to also update the decal sets as the need arises. While these production sets are all currently available, they are only produced (i.e. printed) as they are ordered. I have no large pile of unsold, unpopular decals to contend with this way. Our decals are as close to custom-made as possible.
Who creates your art?
The art work for our decals is created by a group of artists, with each one contributing sets of their own unique design and preference. Currently, DRAW Decal offers decals designed by: Tim Bradley, Mike Egan, Norm Filer, Mike Jernfors, Jeff Thomsen and yours truly, Greg Drawbaugh. Each set is identified by whom designed it unless I was the one who designed it.
How do I do that?
Our decals are printed in our exclusive Next Generation DIGITAL Silk process using a large format digital printer that prints white ink. We do NOT sell ANY laser-printed decals. Laser printers are for printing instruction sheets, not printing decals.
We are made the switch to our latest Next Generation DIGITAL Silk process to provide what we believe to be among the highest quality decals in the industry. We also want to be able to provide subjects that just would not print well using any other process. Quality and value have always been our driving force, and we continue to push the limits of what our printer and artwork is capable of producing. We operate under a continual improvement process for all of our decals.
Do you run out of stock?
No, as I print decals only as they are ordered. This ensures that the decals are fresh and never out of stock. This also allows me to make corrections and additions to each set as they occur.
Once applied, these decals will look just like they were painted on, rather than just “stickers” applied over a paint job. Remember, the art of decaling is making it look like you did not use any decals!
Thanks for stopping by, and come back often to see what we have added.
WOW! Those are some fantastic photos of some very fantastically built models!
Great job to all involved.
Also, welcome back.
Tim
Fantastic collection, I’ll need to double my efforts. Shame be thy name. Thanks for posting these incredible pics
Those models are SO Good! …..some of the metallic paint is so good you believe it really is metal. One of my favorites is the Spitfire with engine visible and ammunition spread
out on the wing…fantastic!
Hi Greg,
Great to see you at Telford and your decals.
The subject s are so different from the mainstream. decal manufacturers.
Keep up the great work.
Regards and best wishes for 2016
Alf Small
Alf, Many thanks! We enjoy being different from the others, and I greatly appreciate your support.