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After many decades celebrated pilot Clay Lacy sold his P-51D Mustang N64CL to aerobatic pilot Vicky Benzing who had it overhauled and renamed as "Plum Crazy", retaining its iconic orchid purple scheme. -
This set depicts the PBY-5A Catalina fire bomber used in the 1989 Steven Spielberg movie Always. The real aircraft was owned by Salfco, Inc. of Ephrata, WA. -
"Ole Yeller" is the long serving airshow and race control mount of the legend Bob Hoover. Our decal represents this historic Mustang as it appeared at Gathering of Mustangs and Legends in Columbus, Ohio during 2007. -
1994 Reno Unlimited Gold winner "Miss America", N991R has been a long-time racer, generally in a relatively stock configuration. It appeared in this version of the well known Miss America scheme at Oshkosh in 1998. The airframe, at this time, had a reduced span tailplane and wings with racing modifications to the wingtips. Our decal features double-struck opaque white ink. -
Bf-109 V14 D-ISLU was flown by famed World War I ace Ernst Udet, who was at the time chief of the Technischen Amt of the Reichluftfartministerium. D-ISLU was painted in a "Wine Red" color that Udet had popularized with all the aircraft he flew . This decal was originally released by Red Pegasus. We have updated the printing and it is now printed in our Next Generation DIGITAL Silk with double-struck white ink. -
Ford Motor Company built 199 Tri-Motors from 1926 through 1933. EAA's model 4-AT-E was number 146 off Ford's innovative assembly line and first flew on August 21, 1929. It was sold to Pitcairn Aviation's passenger division, Eastern Air Transport, whose paint scheme is replicated on Experimental Aircraft Association's Tri-Motor. This Ford Tri-Motor NC8407 is the flagship of EAA's Pioneer Airport, a part of the EAA Aviation Museum experience.The current 1:77 scale Revell kit is the old Monogram release, and depicts an 5-AT, and the actual EAA Trimotor is a 4-AT which the 1:72 scale Airfix kit depicts. If you are willing to call it close enough, this decal can be used on the Monogram / Revell kit. -
"Red Baron" is a highly modified P-51D Mustang which has a larger Rolls-Royce Griffin 57 engine and contra-rotating propellers installed in place of the stock Rolls-Royce Merlin. Prior to its modifications it was raced as "Miss R.J." and "Roto-Finish Special," winning Reno Gold in 1972. In 1974 it was sold to Ed Browning of Red Baron Flying Service who hired Lockheed Engineers Pete Law and Bruce Boland to make the modifications which transformed the "stock" P-51D into the RB-51 "Red Baron." "Red Baron" was the dominant player in the unlimited race field in the late 1970s, and at one point won four unlimited races in a row, a record which still stands. With Steve Hinton at the controls, Red Baron claimed the 3-kilometer piston-driven speed record of 499.018 mph in 1979 prior to its ultimate demise later in the 1979 Reno Unlimited race. The artwork for this decal was originally issued with the exceptional Fisher Models RB-51 kit. We have updated the printing to our latest Next Generation DIGITAL Silk standards including double-printing the white ink. -
In May 2013, United States Marine Corps squadron HMX-1 received its first Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey. The Osprey were acquired to replace the aging CH-46E Sea Knights that the squadron had used to support its Presidential Airlift mission. This decal provides the markings for these high-profile tiltrotors. All of the white decals are double-struck to ensure opacity, and we have also included the dark green wingwalks to replace the black ones in the kit decal. -
"Cripes A Mighty 3rd" is painted in tribute to Mustang top ace Major George E. Preddy of the 352nd Fighter Group. Kermit Weeks' P-51D "Cripes A Mighty 3rd", N921 was restored in the late 1990s to the highest possible standard. Our decal represents "Cripes A Mighty 3rd" as it appeared at the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends in 2007. -
The Bearcat was the second aircraft type the Blue Angels used, utilizing the F8F-1 between 1946 and 1950. As an "adversary " for the Blues, a T-6 was used until 1949, later replaced by this F8F-1 called "Beetle Bomb. " -
Set depicts the three F7F Tigercat fire bombers operated by Sis-Q Flying Service of Santa Rosa, California.
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.