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Greetings all - As you may or may not be aware, I'm a huge comics fan - and that love started many years ago (70's and 80's) with the old British war comics such as Victor, Warlord and best of all - Battle! Each issue featured serialised stories from different characters in different theaters of war - and in Battle there were 2 of note - Charlie's War and of course... Johnny Red I'm not going to go too deep into the Johnny Red story - suffice to say, this isn't the first Johnny Red build on Britmodeler - however, mine will be a little different in terms of the source material. A few years ago, a very well known comic book writer, Garth Ennis (creator of 'Preacher' and 'The Boys' - both of which have been turned into successful TV shows) did a "reboot" of Johnny Red - aimed at a much older audience - here's a wee snippet: If you haven't picked up on the basic story - A British Pilot from a cam ship ends up in Russia with his Hurricane fighting the Germans with his adopted Squadron, the Falcons - and of course he's so amazing, they make him their leader - high adventure follows. If you were a Johnny Red fan, I couldn't recommend this book any higher - the story is great - a little more brutal than the original (but even the original was quite brutal) Most of the main characters are there - and the art by Keith Burns is just... gorgeous. The version of Johnny's Hurricane I'll be doing will be something like this: As you can see, it's a mk 1 painted with basic RAF brown green scheme - Garth Ennis posted about his book here on this site where he states: "(most casual readers won't worry too much about a Hurricat ending up re-engined as a Hurricane II, or a DSG/EDSG paint job becoming DE/DG, but we did)." So that's what I'm doing This is a project I've been gearing towards since my return to the hobby so I'm very excited to be actually getting started. The kit: Arma Hobby - Hurricane Mk1 - lovely little kit and maybe the best out there at this scale. I designed up some decals and got a fella in the US to print them - these are wet transfer - so the transfer film is removable once they have dried onto the model: As you can see - I have enough here for a full squadron - I did a bunch of different sizes so I can use them of different aircraft and at different scales - shout out to Johnny Red mega fan @Gazontipede for helping me out on the design for these - the decal sheet includes the serial numbers for Johnny's plane - plus falcon insignia for the old Battle comic version too - which looks quite different. I can email the PDF of this sheet to anyone who wants it - it will be up to you to get it printed - happy to pass on my printer guys details too if you don't want to print them yourself. PM me if with your email address and I'll fire it over to you. Gazontipede - I have your decal sheet here - I just need to pop it into the post for you! I started this build earlier this week but I'll leave it there for the moment - next up - starting the build If anyone wondered where I got my avatar from - look no further See you soon Chums! John