Russkie PMC Team - for "InCountry"

"The Donovian PMC "HanaBarbara-Rus" [HBR] is well known for their technology driven focus and data driven operations. With a Fire Team to secure client property and a Drone Team to provide protective overwatch and gather intel, they are ready to serve client needs in a number of kinetic and data-driven solutions."

Finally getting back to this cool project, kicking my painting doldrums. I forget when I got these, exactly, but there are about 20 metals and another dozen or so resin. The overall theme is Russkies and 'Merka, with 6 Rangers and two teams of PMCs, v. 6 Wagners and 4 Alpha team, with another 4 Goons / PMCs of some sort.

Toss in the 16 Rangers and 12 Insurgents from the InCountry starter box, and it's about 50 models.  Somehow lost track of how much stuff it was!

Below the mostly metal Teams are going first.

After much internal debate, I mounted all the figs on 1" squares, facing the corner. This allows their 90 Fire Arcs to be easily observed. Altho not the fashion much anymore, I prefer the option to have primary, secondary and tertiary Fire Arcs as being a lot more realistic, and a decision for the gamer / leader. These came with plastic circles for skirmish gaming, but that leaves at best two 180 Fire Arcs, Front and Rear, which doesn't offer enough tactical decisions, IMHO.

And this is the team getting painted first - Russkie contractors. A fire team and a specialist team with a drone.

Next up, 6 Rangers, a fire team and SAWs. 

 In background... OCP!  AKA Skorpion and a lot of other similar patterns.

For the Russkies, a Chinese knock-off of German Flecktarn, in an Eastern Europe Woodland pattern.  I wanted them to look unique, since they are contractors.

To the light gray primer, I put patches of Vallejo Orange-Brown.

Then splotches of a light gray followed by a very dark grey... 

...using some battered dry brushes.

I usually keep hobby tools even if I don't know a future use for them, and these former dry brushes have found a new purpose - little splotches for Flecktarn.

I went with a solid color for the battle-rattle, and typical black for small arms. I want there to be a balance of camo and "plain" items. The red caps are just to provide something interesting to catch the eye and mark the team on table.

I figure as PMCs, they want to be able to identify their people. They are somewhere between cops and full blown tactical military personnel who take the field and 'disappear' into the landscape. More like a SWAT team as guards / data thieves.

Below is the final product. I highlighted some of the colors that I want to catch the eye after the wash of thinned down Devlan Mud  which I applied pretty liberally.  Will likely also protect these with "miracle dip" solution.

After the wash, I returned and 'brightened' the Vallejo "Orange-Brown" splotches with straight Game Color "Orange Fire" from the bottle.

To make them a bit more appealing to the eye, note that they have some bright touches here and there like their cap and cap badge, as well as the orange bits on the Flecktarn.  

The bases match my favorite table cloth, but will likely have some suitable shrubbery in the future, of an arid middle eastern flavor.  Just seems like that's a likely place for them to get employment...

Next up, psyched to knock out these 6 Rangers in OCP.  Got plans for how to do it, and looking for it to match my uniform pretty closely, if not exactly.

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