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The Collings Foundation's A-36 Apache is painted as "Baby Carmen", an aircraft of the 526th FS, 86th FG which flew some 200 combat missions. -
Wiley Sanders’ “Jeannie Too” has flown for many years in an RAAF-type colour scheme. Our decal depicts the aircraft as it appeared at the Confederate Air Force Airshow 88 at Harlingen, Texas with race numbers applied over the fuselage roundels and a number of sponsor logos present. -
Long Beach, California based Catalina Flying Boats is a cargo and passenger airline operating between Long Beach and Catalina Island. Founded in 1984, Catalina operated Grumman Goose N69263 between 1984 and 1989. -
This Mustang reportedly saw combat service as "Miss Helen" of the 487th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group, coded HO-M and flown by Raymond Littge. "Miss Helen", G-BIXL was restored in the late 1980s and initially appeared in an anonymous 352nd FG scheme before being painted drab/pale grey as "Miss L" for the film "Memphis Belle". The aircraft remained in a drab/pale grey scheme for some time after filming before being refinished in silver and named as "Miss Helen", possibly its original World War II identity. Here is a link to a site for the real "Miss Helen." -
"Ferocious Frankie", until recently operated by the Old Flying Machine Company as G-BTCD, flies in the marks of Maj Wallace Hopkins, an ace of the 374th FS, 361st FG.
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.